Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-23
BRIEFS.

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Ship
ley, daughter.
Experienced farm hand wanted. APP
ply TO H. w. Potts. s.
Dress ginghams, cretonnes and staple
dry goods at Hodges.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles John
son, of ShepherdStown, 9K pound
daughter
Just received fresh supply of Blach-
ford's calf meal. Good TO the last drop.
w. n. Lemen s. Son.
Butter is 30 cents a pound and eggs
are IS cents a dozen today. Corn is
Sl.65 a buShel and wheat SIP.
1t is said that some little children who
do not realize the wrong they are doing
have been soliciting funds ostepsibly
for the Red Cross but in reality for
candy and icecream.
Mrs. G. w. RumrickhouSe was called
10 Baltimore the first of the week by
telegram announcing the death of her
little grandson, the child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Emmons.
Mrs. Anna Parke Ayler Jones,
formerly a Duffields belle, has three
sons in the Army, Navy and Aviation
Corps and two daughters in the War
and Agricultural Departments in Wash
ingto9.
The ladies of Elk Branch Church will
hold a supper on the lawn of the church
Friday evening, May 3lst. Chicken,
country ham and other good things will
be provided and icecream and cake will
be sold.
The May term Of the jefferson Cir
cult Court began in Charles Town on
Tuesday, Judge ]. M. Woods presiding.
No grand jury was called for this term.
The petit jury is summoned for next
Tuesday.
The play Down By the Sea" was
given in the town hall last night to
large audience, and as a part of the
proceeds are for the benefit of the Red
Cross it is hoped that this fund will
get good boost.
Saturday of this week will be OBJ
served as Confederate memorial day in
Charles Town with the usual exercises.
n parade will move at 100 in the af-
noon, after which there will be
speaking in the courthouse.
c. W. Whitmer has been appointed
rural mail carrier from Shenandoah
Junction to succeed Ira ]. Mcnamara,
VINO was called TO the colorS. Mr..
Mcnamara had to leave his bride of
two weeks in order to answer Uncle
SANS call.
We have been requested to say that
no war tax is required TO be paid on
entertainments or festivals given for
charitable or religious objects, and that
Red Cross benefits such as are being
held in this section are also exempted
from the tax.
We call especial attention to the list
OF attractions to be shown at the opera
house the ensuing week. Every picture
Will De above the average and Manager
MuSSer presents programme that
cannot be eXcelled by any picture house
IN this country.
A festival for the benefit of the Red
Cross will be held at Oak Grove school
house, west of town, Tuesday night,
May 18th, which the upblic generally
should be unfavorable on Tuesday the
festival will be held the following night.
The ladies of the Red Cross at Shen-
andoah Junction will hold another one
OF their patriotic meetings on Friday
night. Hon. A. c. Nadenbousch and
Hon. W. H. Thomas, of MartinSburg,
will deliver addresses. David c. Full
ton, of Charles Town, will have charge
OF the music.
SharpSburg is making preparations
for an interesting time on memorial day
at Antietam National Cemetery. Among
the speakers who are expected TO be
present are Congressman Edward c.
Little, of Kansas, Hon. William T. Page,
author of the American creed, and Col
Clarence Miller, of Minnesota.
Harry e Mundey, who is employed
in the manufacture of munitions in
Delaware, has been at his old home here
the past week. He expects soon TO be
called into service, unless he shall be
exempted because of the work he is
doing or can get mistake in his pa
perS corrected.
AT the annual conclave of the Grand
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West Virginia at Huntington last week
Frank W. VanHorn, of Martinsburg,
was elected captain-general and Bishop
W. L. Gravatt, of Charleston, grand
prelate. Grafton was chosen as the
place for the 1919 meeting.
r. w. Dunaway; a Charles Town mer-
chant, has been appointed county mer-
chant representative under the food
administration. His work will be to
distribute literature bearing on the food
conservation question among the mer-
chants of the county, and to urge them
to display food substitutes in their
show windows.
You had better see c. C. Morgret
about those unmarked graves at Elm
wood Cemetery this week and about
those dates you want cut All work
will be done promptly in turn. Bring
your orders and leave them with Mr.
Swayne. No advance in price this trip
For new work see me or address care
of Hancock Marble and Granite Works,
Hancock. Md. c. G. Morgret.
County Clerk Chas. A. Johnson, of
the county committee of defense, asks
us TO announce the following appoint
menJS of sub-chairmen in addition to
those published in the Register last
week: Patriotic Sons of America, Bak-
troh, Roy HOffmaSter; United Com
mercial Travellers Association, Shep-
her1S.CwA, Edward T.. Moler; Modern
Noc5mcI q america, Shepherdstown,
H. J. hamrick.
We take pleasure in announcing that
Evard L. Magruder has been elected
mayor of the thriving little city of Ok
ford Junction, Iowa. Mr. Magruder,
who is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. L.
Magruder, of Kearneysville, and grad
uate of Shepherd College, has been
practCing law in Oxford Junction for
some years past, and is highly regarded
there. We congratulate him and hope