Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-03-29
LITTLE LOCALS.

US the new address please mention also
the old address.
H. Pinkney Schley has commenced
work on his new dwelling house on the
corner Of High and Duke streets. He will
not have TO haul stone for his foundations
the place selected for his cellar is a
solid bed of rock that requires great
deal of blasting.
Former Senator Charles ]. Faulkner
has bought the farm of the late Decatur
Hedges, along the Hedgesville road,
about three miles west OF Martinsburg,
paying $2l 100 for it. The place contains
over 200 acres and Is said to be one OF
the most productive farms in Berkeley
county.
Wheat has reached the two dollar
MARYLAND still keeps going right and up
ward. Today il is quoted in our local
markets at 81 03 bushel, the highest
price in this generation. Corn is higher,
probably, than it has ever been in this
country, dealers offering the enormous
price OF ST. IL bushel today.
Pork was mighty high at Miles W..
Starts sale on Tuesday. A sow and
eleven pigs were bid up TO SIG so, Butler
Jones being the purchaser. Before the
sale was over Edward Hammersia offer
ed Mr.. Jones s. so for his bargain, which
was accepted, and Mr.. Hammersla drove
the $40 hog and her brood TO her new
home.
Shepherd College began its spring term
on Tuesday with considerable number
of new students. The enrolment is now
about 14O. and good many more STU
dents will be added after the uniform ex-
animation, for which they are remaining
at home. The new dormitory has been
opened for the girl students, and some
twenty OF them are enjoying this most
delightful home.
The Pack Horse Ford Chapter Of the
National Society OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution will hold its regular
monthly meeting at 100 Monday evening,
April 2, at the home OF Mrs. E. Hess
Reinhart, with Miss Julia Reinhart, Mrs.
James S. Phillips and Mrs. Charles w.
Andrews as hostesses. Important bust
ness matters are TO be discussed, and a
large attendance is desired.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Dudley d.
Pendleton, OF Pittsburg, fine son, James
Lake Pendleton. From the tone OF his
fathers letter we imagine that our good
friend is just a bit proud OF this latest
addition to his family. We rejoice also.
for Mr.. Pendleton says that both Dudley
Digges, Jr., and James Lake shall be
brought up TO appreciate the Register and
share the family regard for the aSsocia-
tions OF old Shepherdstown.
Adam Link, formerly OF Duffields, this
county, who as a member OF the Second
West Virginia Regiment has been on duty
on the Mexican border the past year, is
home again, the regiment having been
mustered out OF service in Huntington
last Saturday. Mr.. Link was a member
OF the MartinSburg company. The prob
ability is that the Second Regiment will
soon be called out again, as President
Wilson is ordering into the federal ser
vice the national guards OF most of the
States.
Morris K. Hendricks, who has moved
from the Lucas farm south OF town to the
residence on New street which he bought
and improved some time ago, has pur-
chased two additional properties on New
street. He has bought from J. c. Fultz
the owelling-house adjoining his own
home on the west, paying 81. 100 cash for
if, and he has also purchased from Mrs.
Jonathan Butts for 5000 cash one of the
houses in the stone row. Mr.. Hendricks
is having both properties improved by
papering, painting, etc.
William L. Kerfoot, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Kerfoot, OF Hagerstown, who
was so badly scalded last week in rail-
road accident in the yards in that city,
died from his injuries last Saturday night.
He was fireman on the Norfolk & West
ern Railway, and was hurt when his en-
CINE ran into draft OF freight cars. AT
first il was hoped that he might recover,
but his whole body was scalded and he
had also inhaled steam, and his life could
not be saved. He was an estimable
young man, 3 years old, and had been
married only four months.
There was disastrous freight wreck
on the B. & o. Railroad a mile or two
west of Harper's Ferry yesterday after
noon, when eight cars loaded with wheat
and corn were demolished and their con-
tents scattered all over the tracks. Both
tracks were torn up, and as the trouble
occurred in the narrow pass between the
cliffs and the river, the wreckers could
not work TO advantage. All traffic was
held up for many hours, and passenger
trains were detoured from Harper's Ferry
to Charles Town, thence by the N. & w.
Railway to Shenandoah Junction. The
accident was caused by the breaking OF
an arch bar on loaded Car OF coke. At
the same time there was another freight
wreck near Kearneysville.
A real treat is promised the people of
the community for next Tuesday, April
Sd. when Henry Oldys, of Silver Spring,
MI, will give his talk in the Shepherd
College auditorium on birds and bird life.
Mr.. OIdys is a famous naturalist and an
authority on birds, and his lecture is said
to be very delightful. He initiates the
calls and songs OF the various birds and
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