Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-08-29
BRIEFS.

For sale, ten pigs, eight weeks old.
Marvin Knott, near Uvilla.
The Winchester fair will be held
This wear as usual-September 10th TO
18th.
\ farmers institute will be held at
Shenandoah Junction Friday OF this
week,
The colored people of Jefferson county
Will hold horse show in Charles Town
on September Sth.
On and after September LIST the price
Of milk will be increased 10 eight
cents a quart. Vim. H. Knode.
Owens Drug Store is getting mail
orders for their quinine hair tonic
right along which proves that it is the
best.
Born TO Prof and Mrs. c. ]. Dry
fuse. in Philadelphia, a fine daughter.
Mrs DryfuSe was formerly Miss Alice
Banks, Of Shepherdstown.
Carroll R. Jones, Of Clarke county
Va, has bought the Reuben jenkins
farm of about 90 acres near Bakerton
He paid $50 an acre for it.
DO YOU know that Owens drug store
mas full line of Eastman Kodak films
AMI the latest Victrola records? Let
Is serve you in these two lines.
If YOU don't send her Norris ex-
cuiSiJe candies the other fellow will
Fresh shipment at Owens drug store,
also lOhnSton'S Chocolates lust arrived
I. D. VanMetre, the Kearneysville
caryman, has received his carload of
registered Guernsey COWS from Wis
conSIn. He now has forty pedigreed
COWS.
Lost, on the road between Shenan-
10ah Junction and Moler's Cross Roads,
. diamond ring. A liberal reward will
e given if LETT at the Register. Office
in good order.
The survivors of the famous Confed-
crate battalion commanded during the
Civil War by Colonel John S. Mosby
Will mold their annual reunion ar Front
Royal on September sd.
For sale this week, a car of heavy
ooned Virginia ewes, car of Montana
yearllngS, exceptionally good. Two
carloads of those good ST. Paul steers.
{. F. Wall, Charles Town, W. Va.
Miss Bertha Baker will have sale OF
household goods in Shepherdstown on
Saturday, September It'll, ar the home
oi Lawrence Jones, on King street ex-
tended. Advertisement next week
On and after September lst | will
have 10 charge eight cents quart for
milk, and if the prices of feed con-
unue 10 soar this rate will have TO be
further increased. 5. F. LEMEN.
Thomas W. Clevenger, formerly Of
this county, had the misfortune to lose
his crop OF wheat in a barn fire near
Catoctin, Nd, recently. The fire was
caused by lightning. He had no in
surance.
Van B. Wilson has sold his farm of
loo acres, north of Halltown; along the
SnepherdStOwn pike, 10 7. William
NARROW, who has been farming near
Charles Town. The price paid was
$50 an acre.
For Sale-Four heavy draft mare
colts TWO years old, and one yearling
heavy draft colt; two COWS, three
bulls and two heifers; two sows and
fourteen pigs. Apply 10 R. A. Hammond
near kearneySvllle.
The Bible class Of Marvin Chapel
Will hold a festival Friday evening OF
this week, beginning al o'clock, at
the home of J. A. Hendricks, west OF
Shepherdstown. Soup, icecream and
vii r. SRrVPH
Owens'drug store closes at 10 a. II
Sundays for the day. Prescriptions
and drug needs attended TO promptly
by calling 35-K. Show your patriotism
by thinking of that little want (unless
some one is sick before the above
hour.
Some farmers in the neighborhood
have begun 10 cut of corn. That
which was planted early is maturing
nicely. There will be tolerably fai
crop of corn this year, though there are
some fields that will make very poor
yield.
Miss Bertha Baker, of this place
who has been reappointed to a position
in the public school at Harper's Fer
~, will remove from ShepherdStown
TO that town this week. She will take
with her Mrs. Baker, her grandmother
and J. Vim. Jones, her stepfather, and
Will keep house there.
At midnight on August 31st all the
toll-gates on the famous Valley Turn
pike, from Winchester TO Staunton,
Will be removed, this road having
passed into the control of the State.
10 become a part of the State highway
system. The tolls have been very
high on this pike, and travellers will
rejoice at having free road.
The teachers institute for Berkeley
county is in session this week in Mar
tinsburg. Among the Jefferson county
teachers in attendance are Misses Sarah
Folk, Ruth Knott, Catharine Williams,
Mamie Williams, Jennie Tavenner
Mildred Banks, Julia Hill. The in
structOrS for the institute are. Prof. ].
Frank Marsh, Of Charleston, Prof. L
W Burns, of Grafton, and Prof. G. c
Bailey, of York, Pa.
Each dav at noon in ShepherdStown a
call to prayer is made. At II o'clock
the bell of the Episcopal Church is
rung for a few moments, and every
person in the community is asked 10
stop from work or conversation and
oae7 g PRAYER Tor our men in the Army
aa5 sa.y, in camp or abroad on duty
arI tnc righteous cause they repre-
sent. Ii.is is & beautiful idea-let US
all rev5reatly observe it. .
lAc JEFFERSON County Sunday School
Coa"ea.on will hold its annual session
at Bakerton on Thursday and Friday
September 10th and 9th, in the
Southern Methodist Church. The
convention was TO have been held al
Kabletown, but as the church there has
not yet been completed, change in the
place had 10 be made. An interesting
programme will be prepared and fur.