Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-01-17
LITTLE LOCALS.

expressed desire TO study French in the
evenings, Prof. Walter M. Duke offers to
teach class free OF charge il a sufficient
number will enroll. Those who wish to
Join are asked to meet him at Shepherd
College Friday evening of this week at
7 o'clock.
Judge and Mrs. Frank Beckwith, OF
Charles Town, have announced the ap-
preaching marriage OF their daughter,
Miss Betty Morton Beckwith, to Lieut..
Paul MacKie, who is stationed at Camp
Meade. The wedding will take place in
Zion Protestant Episcopal Church, Charles
Town, January Goth
The drug store OF DR.. w. E. Dittmyer
at Harper's Ferry was robbed again last
Friday night. The thief got in by break
ing the glass panel of the front door, and
got away with money and goods to the
value OF about $500. This store has been
burglarized number of times during the
past few years.
The progressive people OF the Shen-
andoah Junction neighborhood will have
public meeting at that place Friday
night OF this week at 100 o'clock The
programme will consist Of the singing Of
patriotic songs, short addresses by several
persons, and other entertaining features.
Everybody is invited to attend. All free.
Rev. DR.. Lewis G. M. Miller, men,
Der of the faculty OF the Lutheran Theo-
logical Seminary at Columbia, S. c.,
was paralyzed Monday and is reported
critically i'll, according to messages re-
ceived in Winchester by his daughter,
Mrs. Stewart Bell. DR.. Miller is known
in Shepherdstown as an able Lutheran
minister.
Mr.. Norval Clark Fun. the enterprSing
young merchant OF Leetown, and MISS
Mary Bruce Grubbs, OF Sandy Ridge. near
Shepherdstown, were married on January
I'd at Summit Point by Rev. w. M.
Compton. We offer our sincere good
wishes to Mr.. and Mrs Fun and hope
that they may live long and be happy
and prosperous always.
A colored man by the name OF Alfred
Page, who seems to be an especially bad
actor, OF BerryvIlle, was arrested in tia-
Jerstown few days ago and taken back
10 Virginia 10 answer for number OF
robberies. He had stolen horse and a
lot OF chickens from one man, buggy
and harness from another, and had robbed
store at Gaylord. Nearly all OF the
plumber was recovered.
While travelling along the Rocky Marsh
road on his mail route last Saturday, Ben
F Hartzell narrowly escaped a bad ac-
cident. He attempted to 20 around
snow drift, when his Ford runabout turn
ed over on its side. Fortunately it did
not 60 all the way over, and as help
came along soon the machine was righted.
The motor in the Car kept right on run
ming until Mr.. Hartzell shut it off.
John Cook, a Charles Town negro
who has long been suspected Of being
ringleader in a gang that has been de-
family violating the liquor laws in
Charles Town, and who has been tried
several times for selling liquor illeg'
ally, was found guilty by Justice Sheetz
last week, after trial, and was SEN
fenced to pay a fine Of 500 and serve
two months in Jail. II is hoped that
this will have a salutary effect on the
bootleggers in Charles Town.
Shepherd College State Normal
School has started in on its winter term
under favorable circumstances and the
work is going along satisfactorily in all
branches. The enrolment is AS, about
thirds of the students being young
women-the war has called good
many Of the young men from school
work. Shepherd College is third in
rank OF numbers among the normal
schools of the State. The new dormi-
tory is full almost to its capacity, and
the girls are enjoying this delightful
home to the fullest extent.
William Campbell, of the revenue
department. was in Shepherdstown last
night. preliminary 10 an official visit here
in connection with the income tax
business He has left al both OF the banks
and at the postofiice some literature
which will be OF service TO the people,
and those interested may obtain informa-
ton al these places. Mr.. Campbell will
try 10 have an expert from Washington
with him in this county. and they will
probably be engaged here next week.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register for another year our old friend,
w. Harry Merchent, OF Roanoke, Va,
formerly OF this place, writes US a most
pleasant letter, in which he says: al
find no fault with your raising the sub
scripIon price OF the paper. for know
OF the many advances along all lines.
could not do without the old Register. |
began TO read it forty years ago, and have
read il most OF the time ever since. wish
you and yours prosperous year, and !
hope that our boys who are out in some
cold camp tonight will be returned 10 US
with honor and victory, having done their
duty for home and country and God"
Here's an interesting story which the
Charles Town Advocate printed in its
issue OF Saturday last: Folks about
Bardane have been puzzled and mystified
over the behavior OF a sink hole in a
field on the farm of Mrs. Annetta russell,
near that place. Since the cold weather
set in month ago, a column of steam
has been coming from it. Nothing OF the
kind has ever been noted there before,
although the hole has been in existence
for wears. There has been no investiga-