Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-09
BRIEFS.


Butter is IS cents pound today and
eggs are 80 cents dozen.
See DIN c. Mckee if you want your
sheep sheared satisfactorily.
Just received a full line of garden
tools. The Licklider Corporation.
The play Down by the Sea" will be
given on May 22d for the benefit of the
Red Cross.
A word TO the wise: You can get the
varnish called Kyanize at Owens &
Miller'S-all colors.
LOST-A large old-fashioned breast
pin, with purple stone. Reward if re-
turned to Mrs. Davis Billmyer.
Clear up that bad blood with ten
cent box of Owens & Miller's Sulphur
and cream of tartar lozenges.
Still a good assortment of Crossett
shoes for men, prices half to three
fourths of present values, at Hodges.
n. T. Licklder has bought from the
National Highway Garage a nifty little
Ford roadster which he will use for
business and pleasure.
Use phosphate on your corn, increase
your yield and shorten time of maturity
on hand at Hodges Shepherdstown
and Kearneysville elevators.
c. Harry Whiting, of Billmyer's Mill,
has bought from the Neel Motor Com
pany, OF Martinsburg, a handsome new
ive-passenger Hupmobile touring car.
c. W. Keller writes us from Detroit
that all Michigan is now dry, and he
sends us some pathetic verses written
by their local poets concerning the arid
ity of the city on the lake.
Prof. T. Harrison Miller has sold TO
Richard Cash lis house and lot at the
corner of Washington street and the
Halltown turnpike, formerly the old
toll-gate property. The price was $500
cash.
The Red Cross Club of Shenandoah
Junction will hold patriotic rally on
Friday evening of this week, May 10th.
The Berkeley County Agricultural
Quartette will have charge of the ex-
erciseS.
J. F. W, Wilmington, who has been
assistant agent for the B. & o. Rail-
road and express agent at Kearneys-
vile for number of years, has resign
ed, as he expects 10 be called in the
army draft in the near future.
Last Monday morning eight cars of
a freight train on the Norfolk & West
ern Railway jumped the track at Mon
del's, north of ShepherdStown, piling
up in an ugly wreck. Traffic was
blocked on the road until late in the
evening.
The government is diverling a good
deal OF freight that formerly went south
through Washington TO the Cumberland
Valley and Norfolk & Western Railways.
There is some talk otdou0Ie- tracking the
roads composing this route when condl-
lions become more favorable.
For those unmarked graves, see c. |
G. Morgret, salesman for the Hancock |
Marble and Granite Works, in Shep-
herdstown, about May 18th to 10Th
Any dates you wish cut, leave with
M Suzanne o+ EI,,vooJ Co,,,o.o-,. =, -
my time will be limited this trip. No
advance in price at this time will be
made for lettering, but please have
ready what you wish done.
by decision rendered by the u ).
Circuit Court OF Appeals in Rcnmon,
last week, Judge A. u. Dayton, OF the l.
5. District Court in MartinsOurg, has been
reversed in the case of Charles Harper VS..
Joseph w. Harper, A jury in Judg
Dyton's court severalmonths ago return
I'd a verdict against Jos. W. Harper Tor
s. 500 damages for the alleged alienation
OF the affections OF the plaintiffs wife
The verdict was entered as the judgment
OF the court and the defendants counsel
appealed 10 the o. S. Circuit Court.
Maurice E. Miller, formerly of Shep-
herdStown, now manager of the extern
sive plant of the Fairmont Printing and
Publishing Company, has had practical
evidence of the appreciation of the COM
pany he serves. At a recent meeting
of the directors of the company he was
given a block of stock worth 81 900 as
a present and as token of their regard. |
Mr.. Miller, who is son of Mrs. Julia
Miller, of this place, is a graduate of
the Register Office, and naturally has
made good in his larger field of use
fulness.
Two large bank barns are to be
erected in the Rippon neighborhood
this summer One of them will be built
on the Locke farm, owned by Thos. J.
West. and the other one by DR.. Howard
OSbourn. The frame material is being
cut from the farms on which the i'm
provements are TO be made The barns
will each be about 40 by 80 feet and
Will be Substantial Improvements to
that section OF the county The new
Earn on Dr. OSbourn's farm will take
the place of a smaller one destroyed by
fire las: Summer-Advocate
Miss Margaret Shugart, of Harper's
Ferry, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Shugart, is making record as a war
worker in Hopewell, Va, where she is
instructor in home economies for the
local food administrator and also one
of the public speakers of the organiza-
ton. Miss Shugart. who was formerly
a student az Shepherd College, has