Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-02
LITTLE LOCALS.

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further information.
Oscar B. Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Jones, of Duffields, was taken
to the hospital in Charles Town last
Saturday and operated upon for very
severe case of appendicitis by DR.. Ven
ming. He stood the operation fairly
well and is now slowly improving.
New Jefferson County phones have
recently been installed at Bakerton in
Rice's Garage and P S. Millard's store;
in the residence of Robert Bane near
town; and at the ice plant of w. H.
Knode and the residences of Mrs. Anna
Grove, Charles B. Mcdonald and Rob-
ert Maddox in Shepherdstown.
James D. Butler, son of DR.. and Mrs.
M. S. Butler, of Hedgesville, left on
Monday for Charleston, w. Va, where
he has gotten position in the big
government powder works~now being
established near that city. Young
Butler attended Shepherd College for
several weeks past, having quit the
Hedgesville High School because he
was required to study German.
It's apple-blossom time in the Shen-
andoah Valley now, and our beautiful
country is as fair as the garden of the
Lord. Our orchards are beautiful be-
yond description, the trees being almost
solid masses of bloom. If you would
have a glimpse of fairyland, take a
drive through Jefferson county right
now and see the orchards and the trees
and flowers and green fields of wheat
and grass.
Eloquent showers ofrain the past week
have seriously interfered with spring
blowing, already much delayed. and the
farmers are getting anxious about corn
planting The sun is bright today, how
ever, and perhaps the ground will now
dry off and soon be ready for working
The weather has been fine for the grow
ing wheat and grass and these crops are
ilourshing Last night there was Slight
frost, but we think that it did no material
damage.
There's another good bill for the COM
ing week at the opera house. This
Thursday afternoon and tonight alice
in Wonderland" will be shown. Next
Monday night one of the popular New
York productions, Elsie Ferguson in
"Rose of the World" will be special
attraction, and on May 9th Mae Marsh
will be here in most enjoyable story,
"Polly of the Circus" Read advertise
ment in another column for the other
good things. "The Blue Bird" will be
here May 20 and 2l.
The West Virginia Supreme Court OF
Appeals decided an interesting case
from Jefferson county this week, when
it reversed the lower court in the case
of A. o. Davis VS.. the Jefferson Coun-
ty Telephone Company. The effect Of
the decision is to give the company the
right to occupy private road for its
lines for the benefit of patron who
has a right of way over the said road.
This seems to have been an entirely
new question in the courts, and sup
ports the contention Of the telephone
company in full.
!. c. Fuliz has been appointed as
sistant postmaster for ShepherdStown by
Postmaster A. ). Lucas, and began his
work Yesterday. Mr.. Fultz is a Re-
publican, but he will guarantee to give
out the mail along Democratic lines. He'
was in charge OF the poStotlice all the
limc~H. Z Mundey was postmaster, and
was A most competent and obliging man.
HIS work was entirely satisfactory 10 the
patrons OF the office, and we have no
DOUBT that he will please the people ow
lust as he did then. He has been as
slstant postmaster at Harper's Ferry for
the past couple OF years, but resigned
there to come back home.
Miss Kathryn Beethoven, of Shep-
herdstown, who is studying the piano.
forte at the New England Conservatory
of Music, Boston, made an appearance
last Saturday afternoon at one of the re-
citals which have been held regularly
each week for more than half a century
past at Americas Oldest and largest
conservatory and which gives opportu-
mites for public performance under
actual concert conditions to the more
advanced students. With Mr.. Ramon
Corpus, young man from the Philip
pine Islands, and Miss Genevieve Highel,
of indianapolis, Miss Beethoven gave
an interesting Interpretation of the last
movement Of the Mozart Pianoforte
Trio in G major.
There was a lively episode in Berke-
ley county yesterday, when officers ar
rested a bootlegger and got possession
of 16S quarts of liquor that he was
hauling from somewhere in Mary
land" The man arrested was Louis
Hettenhouser, a somewhat notorious
character, who with two other men who
are also to be taken in charge had been
over the river and loaded wagon with
booze at a saloon on the last night that
the stuff was sold. II is said that the
liquor was intended for some Martins
burg men, but the fellows lost their
wav and found themselves at North
Mountain early in the morning. The
contents of their wagon being plainly
manifested, offers were notified and
went to the scene and took Hetten-
houser and the liquor in charge, his two
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