Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-12-26
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after the holiday recess will be on Mon
day, January 9th. 1t is hoped by that
time the influenza will have run its
course and that teachers and pupils
will all be ready to start in with their
work.
The Register will take its annua
rest next week, and no paper will there
fore be issued from this office the CON-
ing Thursday. We will keep our
fee open, however. for the transactio
of ordinary business, and will be GLAD
to have the Registers friends call
straighten up accounts.
Secretary Baker has directed that
each soldier honorably discharged be
furnished with two scarlet chevrons to
be worn on the left sleeve as recogni
ton OF his service to the country. The
chevrons will be of the same size ant
shape as those prescribed for service
abroad.
w. F. Clabaugh, who last spring
moved from this county to Alexandria,
Pa, where he had charge of a lime
works, has come back to his old home
at Engle's, where he will be superin-
tendent OF the plant OF the Southern
Limestone Company. Their friends
here are glad to have Mr.. Clabaugh ana
MS family return to Jefferson county.
The family of VIM. ]. Knott has been
IN aHllctlon the past week or two. Mrs.
Knott and ther daughter kenna have
both been i'll with the influenza, and
their married daughter, Mrs. McGarrN
Snyder, who was at home, haS'alSo been
Ill with the, disease. Inc latter's in
rant daughter, Katherine Knott Snyder
aged three months, died from the in
nuenZa on Sunday last. We learn this
morning that Mr. Snyder haS hlso been
taken with the flu.
Our friend Charles A. Johnson, o.
Charles Town, clerk OF the County
Court of Jefferson county, in renewing
MS subscription to the Register, writes
US: There is no doubt about it, vol
edit and publish splendid paper. We
enjoy it at home, along with the letters
from Bill, and with you and yours
will rejoice when he is with us agai
safe and sound in good old Jefferson
county. We wish you the compliments
of the season and many returns"
Miss Gertrude Muldoon is home fol
the holidays from Grafton, W. Va.
where she has been teaching in the
public school, Miss Glenna Carper.
who teaches with her, was taken il!
with the flu the day before she was It
start for home, and had to remain there
instead OF enjoying Christmas with. hel
family. Miss Muldoons respite was
short, for the day after she got home
she too was taken i'll and has since been
confined to her home with the flu.
Miss Catherine V. Billmyer, years
ago one OF ShepnerdSt0wn 5 most
estimable residents, but wl.o has
lived in Anchorage, Kentucky, for a
long while, in renewing her subscrip-
ton to the Register writes us: The
local news is still of great interest to
me, though naturally my acquaintance
and friends in the old home town are
now but few" Miss Billmyer has been
taking the Register regularly ever since.
the present editor has had it in charge,
now more than thirty-six years.
The official figures show that from
May /, 1918, to December 10, 1918,
there were 2ll arrests in HagerStown
for drunkenness. During the same
period in 1917, when the saloons were
operating, there were 332 arrests Tor
the same offense. Chief of Police
Barber made the additional enlighten-
ing statement that now every person
found drunk is arrested, whereas last
year any well-known person caught on
the street in drunken condition was
given every opportunity to get home
in some cases being kindly assisted by
the policemen.
Yesterday was perhaps the most
quiet Christmas our town mas ever
known. A large number of our PEG.
nave been sick with the influenza, and
nose who have escaped it have been
more or less depressed and by nc
means IN the mood for merrymaklng
me usual Christmas entertainments
we're abandoned, there have been nc
parties such as are generally held in
holiday times. and aside from quiet
family gatherings the week is yer.
dull and lifeleSs one. Perhaps we can
all celebrate with special fervor next
Christmas.
Bids submitted for the material in the
old Jail building in Charles Town were
unsatisfactory to the county court ana
were rejected, as were the bids for tear
ing down the building and clearing th'
site. Two bids for the building were
submitted, one from H. P. Whitmore
for $3.50 and the other from Z. ID. Jonn-
son for S555. There were also two oios
for tearing down the building and re-
moving the material. One of these was
presented by J. L. Pearson for 81, lou;
the other by L. O. Hale for S7OO. Inc
county will employ workmen to tear l,
down and will sell the material Tor wnat
il can get.
Last Sunday-the Sunday befo
Christmas-was an unusually depreS3
ing day. Very early in the morning II
began to rain, and the downpour con
tinued all day. The rain and the TACT
that so many persons were sick KEPT
almost everybody indoors and the
churches and Sunday schools were al
most without congregations. The
morning mail failed to bring the usual
supplies of Sunday papers, and this was
a hard blow, for no better day for read
ing a big newspaper could be imagined
The rain stopped before dark, but al.
most everybody was ready to 90 to bed
by that time. !
AS may be seen by advertisement in
another column, the Shepherdstown
Light and Water Company has made ap'
plication to the Public SeTyice Com
mission for permission to increase Its
rates. There's nothing left for the
company but higher rates if it is t.
continue in business. Its own expenses
for labor and supplies have increase
greatly and the low rates that hav
prevailed are not now sufficient to meet
expenses. So an increase is an aoso
I,,ta oacaco;f,, We understand that q