Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-28
LITTLE locals.

offices in the postofice building. Mr.
Campbell is an assistant u. S. district
attorney for the northern district oil
West Virginia.
A new schedule on the Norfolk 6
Western Railway went into effect last
Sunday. No. l3, the morning train
from the east, is changed from $50 to
SOC a. m, and No. 81, the local evening
train, is changed from $50 to SGT .. m
All the other passenger trains remain
as on the old schedule.
j. w. Griffith, living just west OF
town, has been sick for several weeks
past and unable to attend to his farm
work. Tuesday and Wednesday num-
Der of mis- friends and neighbors as.
sembled at his place and worked vigor-
ously shocking corn, and it has now
nearly all been safely cribbed.
No more women workers will be seni
to Europe by the Red Cross for the
present, according to instructions re
Gently issued from national headquar.
tiers. Inc recent call for canteen work
ers TO 60 abroad has been cancelled
ed Tor this service have been notined
tnat they will not be needed, just now
at least, TOR service overseas.
The city council of Winchester has
adopted a resolution requesting the
state Corporation Commission OF NIr-
gina TO Seno an expert TO this section
10 investigate the condition OF the plant
or the Nortnern Virginia Power CON-
pany. Inc industries depending on this
company Tor electric current have been
having serious trouble because OF ire
quent Dreakdowns and poor service.
James Bayles, residing on the east
size OF the Shenandoah river near MT.
Hammond, died from influenza. lie
naa partially recovered from the attack
wnen MS physician warned MN to re-
main in bed tor three or TOUR days
longer. Without waiting for the re
CURED period TO elapSe, the patient ven
>tured out OF bed and died instantly from
heart failure. Mr. BayleS leaves a WI
dow and several small children.
Hog cholera is inflicting serious
losses on the farmers OF tue county.
lhe disease has been specially damag-
ing in the section south OF Charles
Town, where hogs have been lost by
Simon Barr, W. II. kSSler and Chester
Roper. AT Shenandoah Junction, Luth-
er Boyd has lost swine TO the value OF
900O. In most of the herds attacked by
the disease anti-cholera lnocculatlon
was reSorted to, but not until the hogs
became sick.
The death of Calvin White, ten years
old, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Turner White
OF Charles Town, was especially dis
tressing. Three weeks before his death
ne was struck on the ankle with an
apple thrown by a companion IN play.
Blood poisoning developed from the In
Jury. Two successive operations were
performed for his relief without achiev'
ing the desired end, and the little tel
low succumbed to the attack. Surviv'
ing are his parents, three broIherS ana
two sisters.
Leo Ronemous, of Charles Town, who
mas been employed in the State Depart
ment at Washington helping wan the
important code work OF the government
mas been selected as one OF the ceoe
men VINO will accompany PreSiaenl
wilson TO France when ne attends the
great peace conference. This is a com
pllment and privilege, tor out OF more
tnan hundred code men only hVe nave
oen chosen for the trip ABROAD. MT
konemous was formerly a telegraph
operator in Charles Town.
A. r. Selby, of ShepherdstoWn, VINO
RECENTLY sold TO G. N. Whiting his IN
terest IN the Whiting Milling Company
OF ms place, has associated nilhsSL
with several Maryland mlllers IN the
purcnase~of the large flour mill OF BOW
man BROS, at Germantown, Mont
eomery county, Md. Those with Mr,
Selpy IN the deal are Herbert A. Kline.
OF MT. Airy; S. P. Kline, OF benevoia !;
ana VIM T.. X. Geeting, of KeedysWllle'
these gentlemen will operate the mill at
Germantown, and the hrm VIII Dc
known as the Liberty Milling Company,
A great many folks are butchering
their hogs, and the spicy pudding ana
sausage and the Succulent sparerlo ana
backbone are relieving the troubles OF
nose who have been paying the hign
prices demanded for fresh meats OF
every sort. But alas! those happy
DAYS when the editor was the recipient
of generous messes of pudding ana
sausage and other "fresh" seem to nave
peparted forever and he never even gets
a smell at such stuff in these latter
years. Where is the fellow who is al
ways saying that old ways and old times
are the best?
The will of the late B. w. Kanode,
former resident Of Rippon, has oeen
filed for probate in the office OF tne
county clerk. 1t was executed and wit
messed March Is, 1918, and directs tina
the bulk of his estate shall be divided
equally among four OF his chlloren
William H., John c. and J. Alonza Ma
node, and Mrs. Ellen R. Beachley. Al
advances made to any of the above
benefciarieS are to be deducted iron
their respective shares in the estate
The testator's son, John G. Kanode, Of
Rippon, is named executor without
bond.
The budget amendment to the IVES
Virginia State Constitution, ratified ol
the voters in the last election, Will Dc
come effective as soon as the ratiiica
ton has been officially proclaimed oN
the Governor and will become opera
tive for the making of approximation
by the next Legislature, which meet:
in January. Governor Cornwell ma:
announced that as soon as the officia
returns from THE election have beer
certified to him by the Secretary o
State he will issue his proclamation
He will then call upon the State Boar'
of Control to secure special reports
from all the requirements for the mex
two years and embody these in repor
| TO the State Board of Public Works.
Superintendent u. S. Martin. with TIT
able assistance of Jack Phillips, tn
expert lineman, has about completes
| the repairs to the electric light lines II
| Shepherdstown, and the system is nov