Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-01-03
BRIEFS.

Town.
Corn has jumped up to 81 so bushel.
Wheat remains at SIP.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Templin Lickli-
der, in Norfolk, Va, a fine son.
Shipping fat hogs. calves and cattle al
Bardane January 9Th. c. F. Wall.
Eggs are quoted at S. cents a dozen
today and butter is 40 cents pound.
Get prices on spring phosphates al
Hodges. Will be scarce and higher later
on.
For Ssle-An excellent double heater
base burner, good as new. Apply at M.
K. Moler's.
The Village Improvement Society will
meet at the council room Tuesday after
noon, January Sth, at 2 80.
Washington, Alexander & Cooke, the
insurance agents, have our thanks for a
large and handsome calendar.
John Cook and Happy HINES were ar
rested in Charles Town last week on the
charge OF selling liquor illegally.
We appreciated remembrance from
our California friends. Mr. and Mrs. w.
M. Barr, OF Sanger. who sent us nice
Christmas box OF raisins and figs.
Mrs. Hibernis Billmyer has bought
from VIM, B Rutherford his dwelling
house al the eastern end OF town, along
the lower pike, paying s. 500 for il
Little Cora Belle Burnett, daughter OF
MI. and Mrs. Clarence Burnett, was
taken 10 the hospital in Charles Town
again on Tuesday for further treatment.
J. K. Show and his family h We moved
into the dwelling on East Main
sueetrecentlY purchased from H c. Rey-
nolds. The property has been very
much improved
The stork, for the first time in ten
years, visited the home OF John A. Fra
ley at Moler's Cross Roads on Deem
Der 18th and left them a fine daughter
weighing 9 IL pounds.
COL w. w. Cockrane has purchased
in Chicago ram and sixteen ewes of the
very finest Oxford breeding stock, and
will make a specially Of thoroughbred
sheep raising on his farm in Berkeley
county.
During the holidays three mail sacks
that had been left in the Norfolk & West
ern Railway station at Charles Town
were cut open and robbed. The first
class mail was taken and parcel post
packages tempered with
Mr.. s. o. Knott wishes to thank all
those who extended such great kindness
to him in his recent trouble occasioned
by the death of his wife. He appreciates
TO the fullest extent the many evidences
OF sympathy and thoughttulness.
Walter Mcdonald. who has been farm
ing the Hall farm OF Mrs Magruder west
OF town for more than thirty years, will
have sale on March 7th. He will move
to the little place on the Shepherd pike
that he bought from Jacob M. Hiedwohl.
Miss Jennie NJ Hill, one of the Regis
ter'S most devoted friends, celebrated her
77th birthday recently, and one of her
pleasures on that occasion was the bring
ing OF another new subscriber TO this pa
per. We hope that Miss Jennie may
live 10 be at least hundred.
Mrs. Fonrose Shipley. who has con-
Quoted the Rumsey Hotel in Shepherds
town for The past several years, has con-
Guided TO give up the hotel business and
will retire the first of April. We under
stand that the hotel has not yet been
leased, but is open for proposals from re-
sponsible parties.
The crossing OF The little stream on the
Martinburg road near George w. Cross's
home has peen in very bad condition
the past month, and many automobiles
have gotten stuck there. Mr.. Cross has
helped TO haul seven or eight out OF the
stream the last few weeks. Our road
men should have concrete bridge put
there.
q. w. Myers has bought from his
brother, Newton w. Myers, the latter'S
half interest in the farm owned by him
and his father, southeast OF Shepherds
town @. W. Myers has been farming
this place for some years past, his father
making his home with him. The farm
contains 100 acres OF excellent land, well
improved.
The holiday season just passed was
the most quiet we have ever known IT.
Shepherdstown. The war clouds that
hang so threateningly have caused such
depression that few persons have felt III
joyous mood, for almost every home IN
the community is affected by the absence
OF loved ones or the prospect that the
nextJdraft will call some one who yet
remains.
E. L Go,dSborough has received
letter from Timothy S. ScaDlon, OF the
State Roads Commission, promising that
the schedule a Class A roads as outlined
Tor Jefferson county will not be definitely
adopted until Inc commission has sent a
man here 10 go over the roads and confer
with those who are opposing the sug-
gesled schedule. The people OF Shep-
herdstown district have been contenGing
tor this and are now awaiting The coming
OF this road man.
Owing 10 continued illness, the recep-
ton 10 have been given by Regent Mrs.
Robert Gibson on January 7th to the