Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-09-27
BRIEFS.

Thoroughbred Collie pups for sale
Apply 10 ]. c. Bitner, KearneySville.
Winchester phone.
Miss Mary Shipley has taken the place
OF night operator in the ShepherdSiown
telephone exchange.
Largest supply OF stationery and school
supplies on sale at Owens & Miller'S.
Also Parker fountain pens.
\ meeting of the Village Improvement
Society will be held at the home OF Miss
Annie Licklder Saturday evening at
O'Clock.
Pure. fresh CASTLE soap at Owens &
Mlller'S. Now is your chance 10 get Ia
bar for > cents. Also &c and lOc cakes
on sale.
John S. Altrend. Jr., of Charles Town,
has gone 10 Baltimore, where ne has
gotten a position on the Baltimore Even
ing News.
A fall festival is TO be held in Charles
Town again this year. The dates agreed
upon are Thursday and Friday, October
18th and 10Th.
The weather has been ideal this week
crisp, and invigoTating, yet mellow and
COmiortaole-juSt right for the closing
days OF September.
Very glad you recommended Owens
& Miller'S dyspepsia tablets, as ! can eat
most anything al any time. And they
are only p cents box.
New corn will be coming into market
now IN few days. The dealers predict
that II Will sell Tor $l.l0 TO 81 % ouShel.
Old corn is still selling at Sl.S5.
Squirrels are more plentiful in this
section this tall than they have been for
many years, and our local gunnerS have
been shooting good many OF them.
a meeting of Pack Horse Ford Chapter
OF the ID. A. K. Will be held next Mon
day evening al 100 O'Clock at their usual
meeting place. All members are urged
10 attend.
The great HagerStown fair will be held
October OH TO 18th, and the managers
announce an unusually good list OF at
fractions. The falr IS 10 be bigger and
better than ever.
James c. Shanholtzer. who graduated
from Shepherd College last Jnue, has
been appointed 10 clerkshlp i'll the
quarteImaSter'S department in Washing
ton at a SALARY OF 81 600 year.
DO you want good, healthy stock ?
Then use the CalSlno stock iced for COWS,
hogs and horses. Sold by Owens *
MIXERS only. The only good stock food
that has good oiSintectant in It.
The usual annual meeting OF the Shop
OF ~
Society will be held Sunday evening,
October l4th, al o'clock. in the college
auditorium. Further notice will be given.
Bowman VanMetre has had his wheat
crop thrGShed by Elmer Sutton. From
80 acres ne got ST bushels, an average
OF D l-2 bushels. Inns is the largest
average yield from this farm in many
years.
William Blackiord, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
W Blacktord, OF Shenandoah juno
uOn, who recently enlisted in the army,
has been sent TO the great training camp
al 4atueSburg, Mississippi.
Mrs. II. NJ. Turner has been suffering
intensely the past week from an injected
hand, and had 10 undergo an operation
on Tuesday Tor relief. J. w. Ware, Jr.,
has also been afflicted IN similar way.
!. n. Zinn has brought from MeSSrs.
Miller. Conrad and Shirley their farm
near Charles Town, along The Norfolk
q Western Rallway,lfor which he pays
them $4,000 cash. This was formerly
the J.. E. Wyatt farm.
George Meade Bowers, son OF Con-
gresham Geo. NJ. Bowers, OF Martins
Durg, has enlisted IN the ambulance SER
vice OF the United States Army. After
course OF training at Allentown, Pa, he
expects to 60 10 France.
Mrs. !. S. Myers will have sale Of
personal property at her former home IN
ShepherdStown on Saturday, October
18th, when she will sell stoves, Oed
room sets, dining room furniture, etc
Further notice next week.
For Sale-That end OF the paper mill
building erected in 1870, consisting OF
stone building, with Shlngle roof, concrete
floor, 30 feet long, 70 feet wide, about
20 feet high 10 the square. Will receive
BIDS for same up TO October lSt. Ad
dress K. L. Reinhart, Box lS9, Hunting
ton. w. Va.
!. S. FeeSer, well-known farmer OF
Jefferson county, has bought from J. A.
Knode the latterS residence in Ransom,
TINS county, paying $500 for it. Mr..
Feeser will quit farming next spring and
move into his new home. ID. A. Os-
bourn, now OF Lexington, Va, has sold
his residence at Shenandoah Junction TO
Carl White for 81 200.
The biggest sale OF pears in the Eastern
Panhandle was recently conSummated,
when Theodore F. lmbach, OF Martins
burg, purchased the entire crop OF
KIeIfer pears from the Becker estate, near
Harper's Ferry. The crop is estimated
al 5000 barrels OF unusually good trult.
Mr. lmbach reSold the pears 10 New
York dealers, who will try 10 ship them
10 Europe.
Our Jefferson county women are moi
slacnerS Their work during the canning
season and for the Red Cross was proof
OF II II any were needed We now have
other proof that their patriotism is 100
per cent pure. They are actually pick
ing apples in earnest. Girls from the
Cha!leS own High School and from ST.
midas Hall nave oeen picking apples IN
Mcdonald Brothers orchard at Media
tor some time. This week the plckers
there were reinforced by four young
ladies' iron Corn ctlcut. one OF them be-
~ g.8jJtlc 81 The School OF Horhcul-
iuc. Cornell University.
Z Il. DAVIS isn' Favorable 10 the black
b'rds ~E.ch have been feeding through
U.t..ls 81 ctiUu Oy tne million. He show
eu us al ear OF corn the other day from
which they had stripped about four-fitthS
OF the grain, and he says that they have
done d considerable amount OF damage
10 his corn patch. Other farmers say
that the vast numbers or these birds have
proven destructive IN various ways.
There are so many of them this year that
they have hard work finding enough to
eat. We thought they had LETT here a