Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-04-19


on Route B from Charles Town, has
handed in his resignation. He is the
fifth automobile mail carrier in Jefferson
county to resign since the service was
started last July. The men find the work
too strenuous for the amount of money
they can make out Of it.
Roy Myers. our best local baseball
pitcher, left the first of the week for Nor
folk, where he joined the Norfolk team oil
the Virginia League. We hope that
Brandy" will make good in the fast
company he has gotten into, though his
departure leaves Shepherdtown rather
bad off for pitchers this summer.
At a meeting OF the Jefferson County
Court on Monday plans and specifications
forthe proposed new county jail at Charles
Town were adopted, the architects being
A. B. Mullet & Co., OF Washington. De-
tails will be published later. The court
decided to take under Amusement the
matter OF federal and State aid for our
county roads.
The music department Of Shepherd
College rendered a very pleasing pro-
gramme last Friday evening under the
direction of Miss Maggie Merrells, in
charge of the music department. Miss
Meuells has trained two good choruses,
the girls glee club and the boys glee
club, and they sang to the delight of the
audience, which encored them heartily.
The piano playing was also greatly ap-
preciated.
Cold weather Friday, Saturday and
Sunday again caused some anxiety TO
fruit growers, as there were heavy frosts
for several nights. 1t is believed, how
ever, that no damage TO amount to any
thing was done. Apples are still all right,
and peaches, plums. cherries and pears
still have more than enough good buds
left. The trees of the smaller fruits are
masses OF bloom and present beautiful
sight, with the promise of abundant yield.
Farmers and other persons in this sec
ton will plant great many more pota-
toes this year than usual, and the average
will probably be trebled or quadrupled.
The State and national authorities urge
the planting of large crops OF potatoes
this year as matter of public spirit. and
at the same time as an encouragement
the belief is expressed that the price will
continue very high for the next year or
two, at least. A number Of persons in
our neighborhood will also plant navy
beans, crop that is not usually grown
here.
There was big freight wreck on the
Norfolk & Western Railway at Benton
vile Monday evening, when second So,
a ouble-header, had a smash-up. Eigh-
teen loaded freight cars were derailed and
demolished, completely tying up traffic
until about noon on Tuesday. All trains
were late, the through passenger trains
being detoured by the Chesapeake &
Western and the Southern Railroads from
Elkton to Riverton, while the locals trans
ferred their passengers. II was one OF
the worst wrecks the N. & w. has had
on this division for long time, but fortu-
nately no one was hurt.
The wheat market has been wild the
past week. Thursday it jumped twelve
cents bushel, Friday it went up six
cents more, Saturday three cents and
Monday ten cents, reaching the highest
price in almost fifty years, being quoted
in our local markets at $2.52 a bushel.
Tuesday there was drop OF seven cents,
and yesterday there was another rise OF 8
cents, the price this morning in Shep-
herdstown being $751; bushel. Corn
has also been going up right along, and
the price today is $l.45 cents. the highest
ever known in this country. A dozen or
mere farmers in this vicinity still have
their wheat crop, or part of il, being
10 sell on such rapidly rising
market.
The Adamantine Clay Products CON-
pany, which has been operating a brick
making plant at North Mountain, Berkeley
county, has gone into voluntary bank
ruptcy. The company has had an excel
lent plant, but misfortunes from time to
time prevented it from getting on pay
ing basis. A fire some months ago par
tally destroyed the plant. and the high
cost OF materials made rebuilding oper-
atoms impracticable. After discussing
the situation the directors finally decided
to give up the struggle, and bankruptcy
papers were filed with Deputy U. S.
Clerk Nadenbousch in Martinsburg.
The statement filed shows that the COM
pany owes approximately 1871 900, not
including interest, while the assets, &C
cording to the Martinsburg, are placed at
somewhere between SIS, 900 and $50. 900.
There is some talk Of recognizing the
company.
Miss Eleanor Potts has gone to Wash
iugton and is taking a postgraduate
course in the National Service School,
where young women are fitting Them
selves for war service, More than 500
girls and young women have enrolled,
and for twenty days will live under rigid
army discipline, sleeping in army tents.
Daily instruction is given by army officers
and doctors and nurses of the army Red
Cross service. The official outfit is /: one
khaki coat ami skirt; one army flannel
blouse, field campaign hat. blue necktie,
blue hat cord, high-laced tan boots. Per-
sonal baggage is limited to one suitcase
and handbag. The encampment, which