Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
LITTLE LOCALS.

for travel.
The summer term Of Shepherd College
State Normal School opened on Monday
with an enrolment OF forty, with quite a
number yet to be added. The teachers
for the term are Profs. w. M. Duke, A.
D. Kenamond and Miss Ella May Turner.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has
filed application with the Public Service
Commission for permission 10 discontinue
trains Nos. 81 and SO. on its Shenandoah
Valley division, which crosses Jefferson
county. A protest against the application
also was filed by Jefferson county citizens.
Mr. Floyd B. Matthias, who has been
principal of the Shepherdstown Graded
School for the past couple OF years. has
resigned his place, and has joined the
army, in the quartermaster's department.
He has heen ordered to report to Wash
ington, and will be assigned to active
duty.
The oil for holding down the dust on
the streets has arrived and the barrels
have been distributed about the town,
and as soon as weather conditions permit
the oil will be applied. However we
have not been annoyed very much by
the dust the past two weeks, thanks to
the frequent rains.
The outlook for a good wheat crop
grows better each day, and there is
continued Improvement. Although the
straw is not heavy. the heads are large
and well developed, and after all we may
have fair yield. The corn is now
growing nicely, and may soon recover
from the poor start il got.
10 L. Walper has sold 100 carloads of
lumber from his place in Terrapin Neck
TO be used by the pulp mills at Piedmont.
The wood is now being hauled from the
woods to cars in town by an automobile
truck, which makes three or four trips a
day. The lumber used is beech, poplar,
white walnut. maple and other soft woods
that can be utilized for pulp-making.
II seems 10 be settled that the great
army training camp which it was proposed
TO locate in Jefferson county will not be
established in this section. The cost Of
our highly improved and cultivated farm
lands made the expense prohibitive.
The camp will in all probability be located
at Admiral, MI, about half way between
Washington and Baltimore, where the
land is OF comparatively little value for
agricultural purposes.
DR.. Allen w. Porterfield and his wife,
OF Berkeley county, arrived in New York
on Tuesday from Norway and Sweden,
where they spent the past nine months
and where DR.. Porterfield was studying
the languages of those countries. They
made the trip in Norwegian vessel and
were in continual apprehension for fear
OF submarines. DR.. Porterfield, who is a
graduate ofShepherd College, is professor
OF German in Columbia University.
AT d meeting OF the town council on
Tuesday evening several ordinances were
passed, and are published elsewhere in
this issue. Among them is one regulating
the speed OF automobiles, with the max
imum speed OF twelve miles an hour. Also
the use OF muller cut -outs is absolutely
prohibited. For some time past the noise
and clatter OF the cut-out has been very
annoying in Shepherdstown, and it will
be welcome relief TO have this nuisance
stopped. 1t is the intention OF The au-
thontieS to see that these ordinances are
strictly observed
West Virginia's total enrolment Of
male citizens between the ages OF Fl and
30 inclusive. registered last week under
the federal selective service law for mill
tary duty, is 127,4l0. The government
estimate was 1925. AS soon as the
returns were completed Governor Corn
well sent telegram 10 Washington con-
veying the desired information. OF the
total number OF registrations los, $50 were
white, ofwhich 65, TIC claimed exemption;
IL ,872 were negroes, of which 6,307 in
Dictated exemption 1858 were residents
of alien birth and 1908 alien enemies
were found in the State. OF the total
registration Sc per cent indicated exemp-
ton.
The officials of'the water company have
about decided to abandon the second well
which was being drilled near the ice
plant. The we'll was bored TO depth Of
$50 feet, and fairly good stream OF water
was struck. A sample is being analysed
by chemists, and il is feared that the water
is impure. In a recent pumping test it is
said that the well would not give fifty
gallons a minute, which is not enough
water for the system. Just where to turn
for water is question which is bothering
the officials. One plan is TO drill we'll
near the tank on the hill west OF town,
and another is to use water from the river
and have filters The latter proposition
would prove very expensive, however.
and is not very likely to be adopted. We
hope that something definite will be done
in the near future.
Red Cross Week, June 18th TO June
oath, has just been proclaimed by the
President of the United States and a
supreme effort is TO be made throughout
the whole country TO raise relief fund
CT at least 100000. The Red Cross
work depends entirely upon voluntary
subscriptions, and 1t will take heroic
measures to raise the amounted needed.
Every man, woman and child can help.
II does not involve going to the front,
but means work at home, and above all,
the contribution nj each 0ne'S mite is