Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-08-16
BRIEFS.
New moon on Friday.


coal al Hodges elevators.
For Sale-Two good milk COWS. Apply
10 W. {. Moler. near Uvila.
For few days we can supply cabbage
al 500 per hundred pounds. Benz.
HaIlzel
Reduced prices on all mems, women's
and children'S Oxfords and slippers at
Hodges.
Keep the date OF NJ X. Bowers big
sale OF live stock in your mind Friday,
August 30th.
he river is as muddy as a duck pond
this week and there will be no bass fish
ing tor some time.
Our local dealers are paying 81 % a
bushel tor wheat today. Corn has drop
ped from 10 buShel last week 10 81. 90.
Fair catalogues are ready for distribution
and may be secured at stores about town
or Calling upon the secretary, J. d. Null
doom.
Lost, several weeks ago, black and tan
male hound dog. Reward for imiorma-
ton or II returned 10 Ernest Jones, near
town.
The Sunday school OF the Southern
Methodist Church will hold IFS annual
picnic at Morgan'S Grove next Wednes-
day, August 22d.
DR.. J b. Chamberlain, optometnst, OF
MartnSourg, will be al the Hotel RumSey,
in ShepherdStown, on Wednesday, Au-
gust 22d. Eyes examined and glasses
fitted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hammond, OF
RoSemont, announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Lydia Kirk, to Mr.. Nelson
Taylor Snyder, IT,, of West Virginia.
Alexandria VA Gazette.
The annual supper and festival of Mt.
Wesley M. E. Church, OF Scrabble, will
be held Saturday night, August 18th, at
d. Harry Writings home al Billmyer'S
Mill. Everybody is invited.
All persons desiring tents for the 1917
fair are asked to notify the secretary at
once. Tents will be held for last years
patrons until August 18th. After that
date, first come first served.
The Beiryville horse show has been
called OIL. AT meeting OF the directors
on Tuesday il was decided not 10 hold
the show this year on account OF the
prevalence OF iniantile paralysis in adjoin-
ing counties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller with
Mrs. Molle Folk and other friends motor
ed 10 the Boy Scouts camp near North
Mountain last Sunday and took the
youngsters a generous supply OF good
things 10 eat.
J. r Kbler and c. A. Kibler, merchants
al DuifeldS and Bdkerton, were in Bali |
more this week purchasing their TALL and |
winter stock ofmerchandlSe. They espec-
tally invite the public 10 inspect lneir |
new selections.
The board OF health OF Jefferson county |
has issued strict quarantine regulations |
against those sections OF Virginia in which |
iniantile paralysis has appeared, and |
every effort will be made 10 prevent The |
disease from being carried here.
Mrs. Maryanna Daniels was paralyzed |
few days ago at the home OF her daugh- |
Ter, Mrs. MillaTd jenkins, near Bardane,
TINS county,. She is quite seriously al |
leCIed. Mrs. Daniels Is The mother OF |
Mrs. H. E. Mundey, OF Shepherdstown.
The ladies' OF the Southern Methodist
Church OF Uvilla will hold their annual |
harvest home at that place on Thursday, |
August Both. Dinner and supper will be
served at IS cents, and refreshments will |
-. be sold at the usual prices. Everybody |
invited.
Major Henry d. Hatfield, former Gov
ernor of West Virginia, representing the
medical section OF the Council OF NatIona
Defense, will address the physicians o.
Jefferson county and the public IN general |
Al the courthouse in Charles Town on |
Friday evening, August oath.
Men from the Baldwin Detective |
Agency are guarding the Norfolk q Wes-
tern Railway bridge at ShepheroStO"n
since the departure OF the soldiers OF lhe |
Fourth Maryland Regiment. 1t is SAID |
that detachment OF colored soldiers VIII |
be sent here shortly TO watch the bridge /
There were several very lively thunder
storms in this neighboThood Tuesday and |
Wednesday. Heavy showers OF rain fell
and the lightning and thunder were I'M
usually sharp Tuesday night bolt OF
lightning Struck the chimney on Mrs.
Mollie Folks dwelling on Washington
street, but the damage was Slight.
The large barn on the B. W. Ropp farm
IN Berkeley county was struck by light
nlng last Saturday afternoon, and lire
was caused which destroyed the barn and
lis contents. All OF the wheat, hay, tdrnl-
ing implements, harness, etc that were
in the barn were consumed, ana lhfee
horses and two colts were burned 10
Ceath. The loss is placed al about o,UUO,
partly covered by insurance.
The management OF the ShepherdStown
Opera House has arranged 10 repeat Mary |
fIcklord, in The Poor Little Rich Glrl,
next Monday. This is one OF the best
plays that Mary Pickford has appeared
N up 10 this time. The theme is Spen-
did, and the stage settings and phOtog-
Taphy excellent. The story aoounds in
heart interest, and keeps the audience
interested from the very beginning 10 the
end.
Thomas l.. Campbell, aged q years, a
freight brakeman on the Norfolk & West
ern Railway. met an awful death Tuesday
nigh; At Speima7'S Crossing between
SnerheTdStCWn and HagerStown. In
some way he iel under his train, No. IS,
and several cars passed over him. Both
legs and enc ann we're cut off and he was
Otherwise Tulli ted. His body was
/ ken to hi, .uner home at Grove Hill,
Va, tnr 6unal.
The ladies -ij I'D missionary society
OF the l.. CsSr:o7,1r Church OF Kearneys-
yJ.c AL. ioi- d SUI per Friday evening.
August 2lSi, al the home OF p. Kear-
ioll al thai place. A delicious supper OF
fried chicken, country ham and other |
seaSonabIe good things will be served |
on The lawn for 50 cents. beginning at 6 |
O'Clock, and refreshments will be sold at |
The usual prices. Everybody invited 10 |
attend and enjoy genuine good country |
supper.
The vacancy in the office OF postmaster
al ShenherdstoMn. caused by the death |