Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-02-07

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For Sale Some nice Black Twig pick
ed apples, at dollar bushel. Apply
to C. F. Daniels.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, OF
Greensburg, Berkeley county. fine son.
weighing ten pounds.
The Village Improvement Society will
meet in the council room next Tuesday
afternoon at 2 30 o'clock
Wheat today is 81 II bushel and corn
81 TO- Butter is 40 cents pound and
eggs are So cents dozen.
Do you want to save money on pure
ivory Pyrallin? Then 60 to Owens
s Miller's and see their assortment.
The stork left fine daughter at the
home OF Prof. and Mrs. w. M. Duke this
week, and son for Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
VanMetre.
Charles F. Byers, attorney-in-iact for
Jacob L jenkins. will have sale OF live
stock and farming implements east of
Shepherdstown on March g.
James S. Rightstine and family request
us 10 express their thanks 10 the friends
who were so kind to them il their be-
reavement occaSioned by the death OF
Mrs Rghtstne.
The Charles Town Spirit says that A.
S Allen, OF that place is in the General
Hospital in Baltimore, where he recently
was operated upon for the removal OF
cataracts on his eyes.
Martinsburg is putting on real city airs
The council has just placed an order for
a combination automobile fire engine,
pump and hose truck 10 cost $40 900, and
will build new fire-house for it.
Edward LinthicIm, B. & o. con-
ductor, OF Martinsourg. was fatally in
jured by the cars in Cumberland on Mon
day, dying soon afterward. He was 81
years old and leaves wife and two chill
dreu.
1--WE are very busy in this one-time
quiet, staid old town, now the military
centre OF the Middle West, yet | always
take time 10 read and enjoy the Register.
Good luck to BILL. Lester Miller,
Chillicothe, Ohio.
February 10, II, II and Is have been
fixed as the dates for collecting for the
Salvation Army War Fund w. F. Alex
ander, OF Charles Town. has been select
ed as treasurer for Jefferson county, and
subscriptions may &c gwen 10 him.
10 L. Walper has rented 200 acres OF
his rerrapin Neck farm 10 his sons Golden
and Leo, and they will run the place here
after. Mr. Walper keeps so acres and
Will devote his time TO herd OF COWS,
shipping the cream to Washington City.
Col. Simon J. Murphy. of Claymont,
this county, is reported seriously i'll at
his winter home near Los Angeles, CALI
fornia. Members OF his family who were
spending the Writer in the East were
summoned to his bedside the first OF the
week. Advocate.
K. H. FRASER, formerly OF this county,
who bought farm of 248 acres near
Poolesvlle, Md, three years ago, has
sold it TO ]. E. Thompson, OF Tazewel
county, Va. The transaction yielded him
a handsome profit Mr. FraSier paid $ll,-
600 for the place and sold il for SIT 900.
Two MartinSburg men will have to an
swer &c both the State and federal courts
Tor violating the liquor laws. "Mev'
Hess was caught on the road with seven
quarts in his taxicab and Harold RuSSler
is charged with having brought in n:teen
quarts of HagerStown nose paint.
In sending his subscription 10 the Reg
lister, E. q. Fisher, OF Roanoke, Va,
writes US: I'VE have welcomed the
Register in our home for 81 years, and
the advanced price will not bar 1t, and !
expect 10 remain a subscriber. | wish
you prosperous year for the paper
Thank you, good friend.
w. Alexander, of Charles Town,
chairman OF the Jefferson County War
Savings Committee, has announced his
intention Of offering five dollar prize TO
the boy or girl OF the schools Of this
county who writes the best essay on
Thrift, in connection with the W. 5. ).
campaign now being waged.
There's always something wrong
With millions OF tons of ice available Tor
making iCecream, our confsctioners cant
get any sugar, and so everybody must 90
without icecream. And though we are
encouraged TO save meat and use all the
fish and oysters we can, the bays and
rivers are tightly frozen up and we can
get absolutely none OF the sea foods
An estmable lady near ShepherdStowE
started for town Tuesday morning with
four GCzcn nice. fresh eggs in a basket.
The sleigh in which she was driving uD-
set in a snow dnit and every darned egg
in the baskei-Ne quote her exact words
IVES Ercf,n We do not know how
ne ADVICE vii, he received, but we
venture The sucEes ton that she hard boil
'em next llme Ecicie she leaves home.
{, u. 8ay.r, prosecuting attorney OF
M.rgan county, and editor OF the Berke-
lev Springs Post before The plant OF that
paper was destroyed by fire, has entered
suit against the Berkeley Springs News
N. S. D. Pendleton. publisher, for S25,-
COO damages, for libel. Recently the
News published communication In
which the patriotism Of Mr. Bayer is al
legged 10 have been questioned and III