Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-10-11
LITTLE LOCALS.

was knocked down to him for SO, OTIS.
What will probably be the final meet.
ing OF the Community Club will be helc
Friday morning of this week al 30 o. clocl
at the home OF Mrs. Robert Gibson, wher
the new government pack for peache:
Will be demonstrated. All who are in.
terested are invited TO be present.
Robert Moran, of Harrisburg. Pa. {
former student of Shepherd College, ha:
been called TO army service and is now
IN The training camp near Petersburg. Hi:
wife, who was formerly Miss Alice Show
OF this place, has returned here to the
home OF her parents, Mr. and Mrs. c.
w. Show.
The board OF directors OF the Bank o.
Charles Town on Tuesday ordered thai
$1,000 be added TO the banks surplus
making its total surplus $4,000, which
makes il equal TO its capital stock. Al
the same meeting the banks semi annual
dividend was increased from five TO six
per cent.-AdpOcate.
The Potomac river is as low as il
usually gets at this place, and lodges OIL
rock above and below town are exposed
now that seldom show above the water
The low stage OF the river is seriously
interfering with navigation on the upper
levels OF the canal, as there is hardly
sufficient water TO keep the boats moving.
State Road Commissioner A. D. Will
liams has named E. L. Miller, now coun-
ty engineer for Morgan county, as road
supervisor for Jefferson, Berkeley and
Morgan counties under the new law.
The people OF Shepherdstown district,
having been so thoroughly bunkoed by
the State Road Department and Mr.. Will
liamS, are not greatly interested in further
proceedings.
Our good friend George M. Knott, oil
Moler's Cross Roads, has our hearty
thanks for a generous bag OF old-time
Summer-red apples, which are now so
scarce in this section. Since his youthful
days the editor has had a weakness for
these summer-red S-indeed, he may
as we'll confess that in times past he has
broken several of the commandments in
or3er to get them. Those that Mr..
Knott brought US are just as good as those
that were so luscious forty odd years ago.
Postmaster J. c. Reinhart has been
instructed that hereafter he will draw his
postal supplies from Wheeling, this State,
an order having been issued by the Post
office Department that the largest city in
each State is TO be the distributing centre
for all the offices in such State. This is
conservation with a vengeance. Under
the ruling the supplies will be shipped
some 400 miles TO Wheeling, then back
10 Shepherdstown, about 300 miles. A
present they are sent from Washington,
distance OF 6S miles.
The West Virginia Supreme Court Of
Appeals has allowed an appeal in the
case OF A. o. Davis VS.. the Jefferson
County Telephone Company from the
action OF the Jefferson Circuit Court in
ordering the removal of the poles and
wires OF the defendant company from
right OF way through Mr., Davis farm near
Charles Town. The late B. F. Ramey,
who had the right OF way for travel
through Mr.. Davis farm, used such right
for a telephone line, TO which Mr.. Davis
objected.
This new war tax, which went into
effect last Saturday, is terrible thing.
Instead of paying nickel for a five cent
pack OF cigarettes, you now have TO pay
six cents, and twelve cents for dime
pack; flve-cent cigars are now six cents,
and five cent plugs Of chewing tobacco
are also advanced cent in price. The
Hagerstown Mail is in terrible distress
because a ten cent drink OF whiSkeY has
been advanced to fifteen cents, while the
fifteen-cent kind has gone 10 twenty.
Beer is up tive cents bottle, also, and
whiskey by the quart goes up at least
fifty cents. The tax adds $40 10 each
barrel of beer and $2.l0 TO each gallon OF
whiskey, and of course this is passed on
to the consumer. The government tax
on whiskey is now $500 gallon.
Mrs. Sallie Billmyer, an aged and high
ly-esteemed lady residing at VancleveS-
vile, had narrow escape from asphyxi-
alton last Sunday afternoon, and still feels
the results OF her experience. Mrs. Bill
myer, who is sister OF Jacob Rush, oil
Shepherdstown, resides alone, and was
overcome by gas escaping from a coal
stove, presumably early in the afternoon.
r. Seaton Miller and other relatives OF
Mrs. Billmyer went TO her home on a
visit in the afternoon, and finding the
house closed, forced an entrance, finding
the aged lady lying unconscious on a
couch. and the room filled with coal gas.
DIR. Evers was summoned, but despite
every effort to revive her, Mrs. Bilmyer
remained in an unconscious state until
early Monday morning, when she recov-
cred consciousness Only the timely ar
rival OF Mr.. Miller saved Mrs. Bilmyer
from certain death.
The Charles Town Advocate says thai
William White saw sureenough mon
key in a thicket OF wild grapes near Hall
town few days ago. When he called
another man 10 come and observe the
monkey-probably he didn't believe his
own eyes-the creature climbed up a tree
and from safe perch made faces at the
men. Then If SLID down TO the ground
and disappeared in the bushes. his is
undoubtedly the monkey that escaped
from the carnival at the Morgan'S Grove