Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-21
LITTLE LOCALS.

piOpSllS.
In Charles Town last week Happy
Hines, famous colored bootlegger. eot
salty dose from Justice Shcetz upon
being convicted of selling liquor ille-
gally. He drew a sentence of four
months in Jail and fine of $500.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Miller, IT., of
Uvilla, went to Baltimore the first of the
week, where Mrs. Miller will submit to
a surgical operation for an enlarged
gland IN the thraot. Her many friends
hope that she may come through the
ordeal safely.
Mrs. Charles Waldeck has been ex-
tremely i'll at her home in McKeesport
the past week, following the birth of a
Soni Her mother, Mrs. Samuel
Swain, and her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Joseph Waldeck, are with her. Latest
news is that she is somewhat better.
Mrs. H. C. Getzendanner, of Charles
Town, has been appointed chairman for
Jefferson county of the Woman's Ma
tional Liberty Loan Committee, and is
actively at work arranging for the
women OF the community to do their
share toward making the next liberty
loan a success.
Locher Miller, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
CHARLES Miller, of the Kearneysville
neighborhoOd, was operated upon for
an acute case of appendicitis last
Sunday in the hospital at Charles Town
by DR.. Venning and DR.. Burwell. He
stood the operation we'll and is now
getting along firStrate.
MesSrS. James, Frank and Lewis
Shepherd have sold their farm in Ter
rapln Neck, formerly known as the
Wild Shepherd farm, to Page Cline, of
Bunker Hill Berkeley county, for
$500 This farm, which is at present
tenanted by ]. Reynolds Foutz. contains
200 acres, $40 acres of which is cleared
land.
We are sorry TO learn of the serious
illness of Mr.. c. w. Boyer at his home
near Bunker Hill, Berkeley county.
He is suffering from acute kidney
trouble. His daughters, Mrs. David
Lemen, of Shepherdstown, and Mrs.
Breadon Conklyn, of Greenville, Ohio,
were summoned to his bedside the first
of the week.
Mrs. Luther Wiltshire, who had been
terribly burned at her home at Mill
vile by an explosion of coaoil while
she was kindling a fire, died from the
result of her injuries. Mrs. Wiltshire,
whose maiden name was Nicewarner, is
81 kyrh Ar hte 81.
dren.
The voters of Hagerstown will vote
March 18th upon the proposition as to
whether or not the city shall purchase
and operate the water system, now
owned by q private company, at the
price of 81 ,l5O,000 The price is con-
Sidered a fair one both TO the owners
and to the city. Sentiment seems to
favor the purchase, but as the Hag
Mail is for it the voters may reject it,
Jack Snyder, Willis Crowl and Will
mer Miller left on Tuesday for Golum-
bus, Ohio, where they will get three
Ford touring cars for the National
Highway Garage and drive them back
overland. 1t is practically impossible
now to get automobiles by railroad
freight Last week the Shepherds
town Garage brought several Buick
cars from Columbus by the overland
route.
Mr.. Charles Peer, prosperous young
farmer of Jefferson county, and Miss
Edith B. Carper, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vim. E. Carper, were married re-
Gently at the parsonage of the NJ. E.
Church South in Charles Town by Rev.
F. A. Tyler They will reside on the
farm recently bought by the groom and
his brother along the Ridge road, south
of Shepherdstown, formerly known as
the Butler farm
State Auditor John S. Darst is send
ing out 10 the various counties the
amounts due them from the taxes paid
,bl state by the public service Corpor-
atoms. Jefferson county's share OF
Ills money is S3S, 1853. 10, Berkeley gets
,S,g1S.5I, and Morgan SS3,24778. OF
The ~3.1u4, $4,000 thus distributed, Ka-
naVha county gets the largest slice,
sz92, oC5.54; Pendleton county receives
lie least sum, S11.2l.
MATS. r. E. Waid, who was formerly
Miss Florence Licklider, of Shepherds
.oWn, submitted to an extremely Sc
~.ouS operation in ParkerSburg, her
present home, last Monday, and her
friends here will be glad to know that
che endured the ordeal better than was
expected. Her father, Mr.. E. I. Lick
lider, vino went to Parkersburg to be
with her, returned home this morning
and says that she is getting along nice
ly.
A conference of the Potomac Divi-
sion OF the Red Cross will be held in
HagerStown next Monday and Tuesday,
March 18th and 10th. The heads of
the several bureaus will be present and
speakers of prominence will deliver ad-
dresses. All those interested in the
Red Cross work are especially urged TO
attend. Potomac Division includes the
Red Cross chapters of Virginia, West
Virginia, Maryland and the District of
Columbia.
The canal boatmen are demanding
an increase in the rate for hauling coal
10 IS cents a tOn-the present rate be-
ing so cents. The Canal Towage Com
pany offers 57I3 cents. Tweu,y-eight
Sharpsburg boaumen at a recent meet
ing concluded to hold ont for the IS
cents, but whether or not they will give
up their boats rather than take less
money is a question. Their demands
seem to be reasonable enough, for even
at the IS cent rate they will be long
time getting rich.
A communicating under the au
spices of those interested in Red Cross
work will be held Friday evening of this
week at $50 o'clock in the social room
of the Methodist Church at Moler'S
Cross Roads. Short addresses will be
made by Prof J. D. Muldoon, Rev.
Absalom Knox and II. L. Snyder, and
there will be other features of interest
on the programme. Everybody is cor
daily invited to attend this meeting,
which is free to all 1t is hoped that
there will be large audience present.