Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-10-24
BRIEFS.

tube patch-at the National Highway
Garage.
For walls and ceilings use Muresco
the superior finish, sold by The Lick
lider Corporation.
Let us sell you your fodder Irvine
now. Ii may be higher later. The
Licklider Corporation.
LET the Register come on. We all
enjoy reading it very much. w. II.
Knode, Richmond, Va.
We have just received a car Of Can't
Sag gates. Call and get yours now.
The Licklider Corporation.
Yes, Owens liver salts has kept my
system in fine condition, and their liver
pills are just what you are looking for.
No patent medicine.
Phineas Marshall, who is now en-
ployed on the B. & o. Railroad, has
moved his family and his household
goods to MartinSburg.
Its great, that Tarco Mentho Cough
Syrup, sold by Owens drug store.
Everyone is complimenting its merits.
Your money back if it fails.
Ladies, Owens drug store has on
hand another supply of their quinine
hair tonic and Rose Almond lotion, also
the famous Peroxide Cream.
Two colored soldiers from Jefferson
county have died from the influenza:
James Thornton, at Camp Upton, N
y, and George Carr, at Camp Grant,
Illinois.
We have for sale one used s h. p. In
ternational engine on truck. This en-
CINE is good as new and is bargain
and guaranteed. The Licklider Cor
pOratiOn.
James Elmer Webb, Jefferson coun-
" soldier from Millville, died last week
from the influenza in military hos
pital in Quebec, Canada. He was q
years old.
The barber shops have been closed
in ShepherdStown because of the infu
enza. Some fine crops of whiskers are
being raised by various and sundry of
our citizens.
Sunday night at midnight the clocks
will be turned back one hour and we
will recover the hour we lost last spring.
Best of all, We can sleep little later in
the morning.
The National Highway Garage has
installed fine gasoline pump on Prin-
cess street. This makes three pumps
now in uSe-one on Princess, one on
Washington street, and one inside.
Word has been received that Thomas
H. VanMetre, son of Mr.. and Mrs
ThoS. T. VanMetre, has arrived safely |
overseas. He is a member of the ThirC |
Casual Company, Engineers Replace
ment Troops.
Owens drug store has the reputation
of keeping one of the best equipped
drug stocks in the county and they have |
proven their worth during this epidemic. |
Yours for service any hour day or night. |
Owens drug store. Both phones.
A brief session of the Jefferson Cir
cult Court was held in Charles Town |
last week. Col. Forrest w. Brown pre-
sided, in the absence of Judge !. NJ |
Woods, who is i'll at his home in Mar |
tinSburg. Court adjourned until Oc-
tober 10Th.
The influenza has been an unwel-
come visitor in the home OF Mr.. and |
Mrs. 10 L. Walper in Terrapin Neck. |
Their sons Williams and Leo and their |
daughter lmogene have all been sick. |
but we are glad to say that they are now |
much better.
David Folk, of this place, and Curtis |
Simpson, from west of town, who en- |
listed in the Navy last summer, and who |
have since been on the waiting list, 60,
their orders on Monday and left or
Tuesday for Norfolk, where they re |
ported for duty.
Mr.. Garfield, the Federal Fuel Ad |
miniStrator, has announced that auto |
mobiles may again be run on Sundays
as there is now a sufficient supply
gasoline on hand. Not many cars wer |
out last Sunday, however, as the rainy |
day and the depression caused by tn
widespread influenza effectually stop
ped joy riding.
The stork has been kind to Mr.. and
Mrs. ChaS. w. Pearson at Blueheld |
leaving with them another Son-maNnP
three nice boys in row. Mrs. Pear |
son was formerly Miss Mary Pendleton
of Shepherdstown. A daughter has
been born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Nc
Donald, of Rocky Marsh, in hoSpita
in Martinsburg.
Sam Miller, our enterprising shoe
maker, has closed his shop here and has
gone to Baltimore, where he will work
for a contractor who has big job oil
repairing soldiers shoes for the gov
eminent. He expects to return to
Shepherdstown later on. He will be
missed here, for he was competent
and reliable shoe repairer.
A dirigible balloon or airship passed
over Berkeley and Jefferson counties
on Tuesday and was observed with
great interest by many persons. 1t was
a sausage shaped sort of an atfair VIII
a car suspended from the balloon part.
Ii was a new sort of airShlp recently
finished in Akron, Ohio, and was on It's
way from that city to Washington. Ii
landed safely in Washington tuesday.
Mrs. !. E. Rentch, of Baltimore
formerly of this place, has received q
letter from her son, Lieutenant Jack
Fairall, who is in the American air ser
vice in France. in which he says tina
he is getting along very we'll indeed
The SQUADRON 10 which he belongs ma
Teen cited BY the general commanding
the corps for its excellent work-th'
first observation squadron to get clta.
ron. We are sorry to learn that Mr.
ca;cn has been very i'll from hear
trouble.
Shepherdstown presented a strange
anoearance last Saturday night. By
order of the health authorities all stores
close at 6 O'Clock and no public meeting
places are open. Main street was dull
- Jo-t Instead of the usual bright