Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-05-24
May "a, 1917
BRIEFS.

Saturday, June I'd, will be memorial day
in Shepherdstown.
Ivory wall plaster and security cement
al Hodges elevators.
Wheat is down TO 50 04 bushel today,
and corn is up to Sl.70.
No more corns after using Owens &
Mliler'S corn cure-l5 cents.
Remember the big sale is still in full
progress atthe Hotel Rumsey store room.
Butter has dropped three cents pound
this week and is y cents today. Eggs
are 80 cents dozen.
BuTpee's seedS-if we don't have
what you want, let us have your order.
Prompt mail service. Owens & Miller.
The cheapest and the best line of up
to-date stationery on sale at Owens &
Miller'S Look at their window display.
Paris green. Bordeaux mixture, ar
senate OF lead and all other necessities
for spraying at Owen & Miller's. Fresh
supply.
A meeting OF the Village Improvement
Society will be held at the home OF Miss
Annie Licklider Saturday evening at 7
O'Clock.
For the best greaSeleSs cold cream
Owens & Mil er'S at Is cents jar is far
superior TO any other cold cream. You
will like it.
Palm Beach and flannel suits cleaned,
also straw and Panama hats cleaned and
bleached. Leave orders at Owens & Mil
ler'S. Prompt service.
Twenty nine cents buys ladies' wash
skirts, values 10 $3.50. All styles and
sizes. HurrY Only $50 TO sell at 29c.
Hotel RumSey store room.
If your liver is not working just right
take bottle of Owens & Miller's liver
salts and see how much you benefit by
H. Money back ii it fails.
{. q. Morgret is in town this week for
couple OF days working in Elmwood
Cemetery. interested in those unmark-
ed graves, inquire at the cemetery.
The ladies OF the Methodist Church will
hold an exchange at M. b. Bakers store
on Saturday, June I'd. Cakes, pies, rolls,
candies and other good things will be sold.
Henry Dorsey, who was student al
Cornell University, has been appointed
county agent for Berkeley county. He
succeeds d. p. Branson, who was called
10 the COlOrs.
Marriage licenses were issued by Coun-
ty Clerk Johnson last week 10 William E.
Wilmington and Ethel May Grubbs, OF
Ripon, and TO William Sheldon GeaIy
and Martha Mae Welsh, both OF Bakerton.
Maryland officers have been instructed
by the fish and game warden 10 get after
persons who have been catching bass in
the Potomac river out OF season, and
sharp lookout will be kept for violatorS OF
the law
The commencement week exercises OF
Storer College at Harper's Ferry begin
this Thursday evening at O'Clock and
continue until next Thursday, when the
commencement proper will be held at
go a. m.
The three-year old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. M. Martin, living near
Brownsville, Washington county, Md,
died a lew days ago from eating the heads
IRON some birthstone matches that she
had gotten hold Of.
Owing 10 pressure OF other matters,
the time Tor the regular monthly meeting
OF the Pack Horse Ford Chapter OF he ID
A. r. has been changed 10 "Wednesday
evening, May 3Oth. at 80 o'clock. at thl
home OF Mrs. q. w. Banks.
A special meeting OF The town council
will be held next Tuesday evening at s
o'clock, when persons who desire the
usual licenses for conducting hotels, res
taurants, boarding houses, drug stores,
ETC., should put in their applications.
Hog cholera has broken out on three
farms within three miles OF Charles Town.
Several hogs have already died and a
number of others are sick. Efforts are
being made 10 check the disease by the
use OF anti-cholera Serum.-AdpOcate.
The house and lot and the personal
property OF Frederick Young, colored, de-
ceased, will be sold at public sale by W,
Il. Staley, administrator. on Saturday
May 10Th, at 2 O'Clock p. m. The per-
sonal property consists OF household fur
uIture, etc.
The Shepherdslown baseball team will
play The iirst game OF the season here on
The old grounds this Thursday afternoon
al 4 O'Clock, with the Berryville team OPP
posing us. Myers and Shipley will be
our battery. Give the boys boost and
biz crowd
Dan Mckinney, colored character OF
Shepherdstown, was arrested in Sharps
burg on the charge OF being drunk and
disorcerly, and was taken TO Jail in Ha-
gerstown. The officers will investigate
a report that he bought his liquor in
Shalpsburg on Sunday.
For sale cheap, TO quick buyer. faml-
ly driving horse and buggy and harness.
Buggy is as good as. new and has two SETS
otwheels. rubber and steeltir Inquire
orc. @. Morgret at Elmwood Cemetery,
or inquire care OF Hancock Marble and
Granite Works Hancock, Md.
The second uniform examination Tor
tins year will be held at Shepherdstown
on Thursday and Friday, June 7th and 9Th.
II is hoped that arrangements may De