Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-11-08
BRIEFS.

al IlOuRSS
Butter is 35 cents pound and eggs are
43 cents dozen.
Boat-load Of Georges Creek run-of-
mine coal at Hodges.
For Sale-Kieffer pears, price so cents
buShel. d. s. Rentch.
Local hunters are shooting a good
many rabbits these days.
You can eat when you want and what
you like you use Owens & Miller's dys-
pepSia tablets.
A troop OF Boy Scouts has been organ
lied in Charles Town, with Rev. Waller
{. Scott as ScoutmaSter.
Goodbye, Mr.. Corn, and farewell 10
you, Mr.. Buniou. Owens & Miller's
corn remover did it-l5 cents.
The cheapest and best semi-paste paint
al Owens & Miller's. Ask for quotations.
Money back if not as represented.
All members OF the Order of Golden
Links are requested TO meet this Friday
night at 100 O'Clock in their lodge room.
The County Court has been in session
routine business has been transacted so
far.
The Red Cross Society at a meeting
Tuesday night made especial donation OF
5000 Tor the benefit of the Armenian
sufferers.
II is said that postoifice win be estab-
llShed at DuftieldS in the near future.
haf
deprived OF its poStoffice.
For sale at real bargain, one OF the
most comfortable dwelling houses in
ShepherdStown. Modern improvements.
Apply TO the Register office.
In renewing his subscription TO the
Register up TO 1910, our friend w. b.
RuSe, OF Argonia, Kansas, writes us
I'VE can't do withou. the Register"
mo Trespasslng" signs for sale at the
Register office at 1--WE cents each. You
may have your name added to mo
TreSpaSSing" notice in the Register for
Is cents.
Will Shipley, of Berryville, son of Mr..
and Mrs. FonroSe Shipley, OF Shepherds
town, has been taken to a sanitarium
near Salem, Va. He is very ill with tu-
beGculoSlS.
DR.. ]. B. Chamberlain, optometrlSt, OF
MartinSburg, will be at the Hotel Rumsey
on Wednesday, November 18th. from 10
a. m. TO 4 p. m. Eyes examined and
glasses fitted.
A farmers institute will be held al
Ripon, this county, on Friday, November
sd. The instructors will be K. b. Dust
man, w. K. Legge, and Miss Kathryn
Alger, OF Morgantown.
The National Highway Garage has
sold 10 Forrest J. Buckles. near Halltown;
a handsome new OldSmobile roadster
an eight cylinder Car that is powerful and
most pleasing in appearance.
My | certainly do wish that had ia
ken those double strength nux vomica
and iron compound tablets sooner. Feel
bully The best medicine ever used.
Sold only by Owens & Miller.
A very important meeting of the Village
Improvement Society will be held in the
council room on Tuesday afternoon next
al 800. The annual election OF officers
will be held and dues for the ensuing year
collected.
S. F. Lemen and Olin Mckee have
formed partnership for conducting the
meat business under the name OF Mckee
& Company. They are at Mr.. Lemen's
ola stand in the Cookus building on
Main street.
Roswald Dean, a colored man, was ar
rested in Hagerstown last week for speak
ing in diSloyal terms against the United
States Government. He was placed IN
solitary confinement until his case can
be investigated.
A bond issue OF $4,000 for rect i'm
provements and TO pay Tor municipal
building was voted down by the Gill
zens OF Ransom last Thursday. The vote
was IS for and % against-the necessary
two-thirds being lacking.
B. d. Buxton, of Harper's Ferry, who
has been a subscriber 10 tn Register Tor
MANY wears, renews his subscription
again and SAYS: 81 cannot do without the
old Register. have been taking II Tor
long time and look .oIHard 10 its weekly
visits with great deal OF pleasure.
The ladies' OF Shepherdstown and vi
cinity are more busy than usual this week
sewing for the Red Cross and making
hospital supplies. Prof. Thomas L.
Miller has turned over 10 them the large
room in the college building used as The
domestic art department, and here from
twenty to thirty OF them have daily been
faShioning articles.
Fire insurance is about the only thing
that has not advanced in cost. We
would urge you TO protect yourself fully
by carving sufficient TO cover the value
OF YOUR property Let us write you an
additional policy TO protect you during
the winter months, when pretty much
everything is subject 10 one fire. Wash
ington, Alexander & Cooke.
The Tri.Concert Company OF Waynes-
boro, Pa, will give performance in the
college auditorium on Thursday evening,
November 18th, at 8 O'Clock. Tn: pro-
pramme is an excellent one, including
vocal and instrumental music and read
ings, also a short play. The proceeds
are for the benefit OF the Reformed
Church Admission p cents. No re-
served seals.
AT meeting of Pack Horse Ford
CHAPTER OF the ID. A. K. last Monday
night arrangements were made by which
The members will busy themselves knit
ting sweaters iCI men in the army camps
and trenches. II was agreed that hrst OF
all The reeos oil The men from Shepherds
town and vISiHily shall be met, not for
getting the colored men, and if there IS
a,u p'u, oil S"edtsrs they will be sent
where they will do the most good. The
COST OF the wool has been partly provided
for by contributions and from other
sources.
Mr.. VIM. H. Martin, from north OF
town. was among our callers on TUESDAY.
He has been houSed up the past week or
two on account OF an accident that mlght
have been very serious. Mr.. MarIin,
who is in his S7th year. but young Tor MS
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