Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-28
LITTLE LOCALS.

DON'T depend on your neighbours paper
any longer.
The spring meeting of the Potomac
valley Round Table, which had been
announced for April 5th and 9th at
Martinsburg, has been deferred a week,
and will be held April 18th and 18th.
The spring has brought very large
number of robins back to this section
from their winter quarters in the South.
Some persons think that there are more
than for anumber of years. The robins
ly and companionable and ever inter-
eSting
Fruit growers report that UP to the
present time the apple and peach buds
are still in good condition. A great
| deal of damage has been done young
trees, however, by the rabbits, which
during the past winter gnawed the
bark from the trees as high as they
could reach.
ArmiStead S. Lucas, Shepherdstown's
new postmaster, will probably take
charge next Monday, April LIST. His
commission has been signed and his
bond filed, and he expects to be ready
TO assume his duties at the beginning
OF the new quarter. Mr.. Lucas has
not yet definitely decided as to his as
sistants in the postoffice.
Miss Ellen Welshans, one of Shep-
herdStown'S most highly regarded resi-
dents, went to the hospital in Charles
| Town on Tuesday, where she submit
ted to an operation for the removal Of
cyst, or growth Of some sort, that
was causing her concern. Miss Ellen's
many friends hope that she will soon
be home again entirely recovered.
Don't forget to advance your watches
and clocks one hour Saturday night or
Sunday morning, in accordance with
the new law enacted by Congress. The
change of time goes into effect March
3lst at ? a. m, and all the people are
| expected to conform TO the new re-
| quirementS. 1t may be bit awkward at
| first, but we have no doubt that it will
prove a benefit when We all get used
to it.
c. 0. Wilmington, who went to Flori-
da from this county two and a-half years
ago with his family, has found out what
We all really know-that there are not
many sections quite as desirable as
good old Jefferson. Having given
Florida fair trial, Mr.. Wilmington
admits that Jefferson is hard to beat,
and so he returned bag and baggage
yesterday and is for the present in the
Kearneysville neighborhood.
The water rates of the Shepherds
town Light and Water Company may be
found in another column of the Regis
| Ter this week. This announcement
means that in very short time We will
nave what we have long desired and
needed in this town-a good supply of
water. The plant is now almost COM
| Dleted, and in a week or two, If there
are no unforeseen obstacles, water will
be flowing through the mains The
people generally are anXiouSly waiting
| for the turning on of the water. And,
oh, if we could only have sewerage
| SYSTEM
The corn-testing operations are be-
ing continued at Shepherd College, and
| Miss Violet cambridge, who is in charge
| of the work, asks us to say that 1t is
hoped every farmer in the county will
| avail himself of this opportunity to
| nave his seed corn tested without cost.
The work is exceedingly important this
| wear. Every farmer who has had corn
tested at Shepherd College has been
so impressed with the necessity of such
testing and the benefits to be derived
| that he is keeping up the work at his
| ID pla seed as
IS shown to be all right.
Last Saturday a woman who was
selling a book in Shepherdstown, the
| propriety of which caused some doubt,
was questioned rather closely by Town
| Sergeant Shlpley, and she became very
muca incensed. When Sergeant Ship
| lev told her she would have TO appear
oelore Mayor Waldeck and took her
% the council room she hauled OH and
struck him in the face. He Locked ner
up, but mayor Waldeck later decided
20 release her and she took the tirSt
rain out of town, expressing very Wig
| orous opinions about the community.
| She was the third woman book agent TO
| &c called to account in one week
| which indicates that this class OF ped
dlers is becoming something of anuI-
llers is becoming something OF a null
| .ng TO do with strangers who are trying
10 sell books about which there is a
question-politely but quickly show
them the door.
Rev. C. H. Hockey, formerly of Shep-
herdstown, now of Newark, n. J., where
he is actively engaged in the Anti-Sa-
! loon League work of New Jersey, has
written us an interesting letter telling
Us of the activities of his sons. Keller,
who is a captain in the United States
| Marine Corps, has been stationed at
| liverpool in England for some time
| past. assisting in the reception and d.
| rection of the American forces. Harry
IS completing his course in the Y. ,.
Naval Academy at Annapolis, and eX-
poets to graduate in June, when ne VIII
90 into active service in the Navy.
Ordean had intended to 60 TO oxford,
England, to take up his Rhodes Scholar
shin studies, but the war changed his
CLANS and he is now teaching in col
iege. expecting to be called to the colors
before very long. Walter is at Gettys-
burg College and Perry is enjoying the
benefit of a scholarship in a college at
Cornwall, New York. Rev. and Mrs.
| Rockey, being alone, have been board
ing in Newark the past winter
s. Walter Stouffer, member OF the
MARYLAND Legislature from Washing
ron county, sends us a copy OF joint
resolution that has been introduced IN
Inc House providing for the appoint
ment of committee of the Legisla-
lure TO act with a committee to be ap-
pointed by the Legislature Of west vlr-
einia and inquire into the Feasibility
method and cost of taking over the four
bridges across the Potomac river con,
| =. C.o+ae OF MARYLAND and