Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-06-13
Thursday,
BRIEFS.

Four varieties of late cabbage plants
for sale. Apply to W. R. Miller.
Corn is $3.50 bushel today and
wheat SIP, Butter is IS cents a
pound and gegs are 81 cents dozen.
For Sale-A good Underwood type
writer, No. 4, in excellent order. Will
be sold cheap. Apply TO Lamont Pyles.
Secondhand copyrighted books for
sale, most of them as good as new, your
choice at your price. Owens Drug
Store.
S. c. Payne has sold his farm of 222
acres near Hedgesville, Berkeley coun-
~, TO Dr. Fox, of Ohio, who will devel-
op the property as a fruit farm.
Most every one is talking of the
merit of Owens kidney pills, the best
that money can buy-50 pills for 40
cents. An cid formula that gives re-
suits.
Don't forget that little bill that you
owe the old firm of Owens & Miller, as
Mr.. Miller leaves this week for the
Army Medical School, and all old &C
counts must be settled. Please.
All member of the Alumni Associa-
ton desiring TO contribute to the Shep-
herd College student loan fund should
send their contributions at once TO
Walter NJ. Duke, chairman of the COM
mttee.
FOR Sale-An old-established gener-
al merchandise business with good
trade. Reason for selling, owner wants
10 take up government work. lnquirerS
will please address Lock Box l47, Shep-
herdStown, W. Va.
]. K. Show has given up his place
WIN EXpreSsman James +. Barnhart
ana Will take the position at the pas
Senger station vacated by J. K. Wy
song, who will go 10 the freight station,
succeeding Harry Robinson.
Three young men of WilliamSport
were arrested and fined last week for
DatnIng IN the canal al that place. 1t
doesn't seem right 10 punish Inem for
cleaning up after the long, hard winter
through which they had passed.
Let us write your crop insurance.
We issue a SPECIAL Crop Policy at a
very low cost. Your interests will be
secure with uS-40 years experience In
x Cooke, Jos. II. Trout, Sub-agent.
Lawrence Ambrose, the plumber who
has been employed the past year by w..
>. HaIneS X Co., IN this place, has gwen
up his 100 and returned 10 his home at
berkeley Springs. He expects to go
into the Army or Navy in short time
Miss Genevieve Pittman, of Charles
Town, who graduated from Shepherd
College last year, and who has been
teaching at haoletown, has gone to
" Washington, where she has gotten a
place IN one of the government depart
mentS.
A lawn party for the benefit of the
Leetown ked Cross will be held on
Wednesday evening, June 18th, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. d. L. Roger, near
Leetown. lcecream, cake and other
refreshments will be served. Every
body invited. II the weather should
DC untavOrable, the party will be held
thursday night
". A. Higgs the head of the Jeffer
son Gooperage Company and president
o. the Jefferson Bank and Trust Com
pany at Charles Town, has bought
"Maplehurst," the beautiful home OF
the late George K. Vending, posses
SION 10 be given ar once. "MaplehurSt"
Is situated IN the western suburbs OF
Charles Town and contains about 10
or Is acres.
Young Leslie Mcdonald, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Mcdonald, OF Berkeley
county, has again broken his leg. lhlS
Is the twentieth time in his youthful
existence that the boy has experienced
a break of this kind, either OF the arm
or leg, because of the peculiar brittle
ness OF his bones. DR.. Tonkln is at
tending the unfortunate lad. His case
attracts widespread attention among the
medical fraternity.
The newspapers of Waynesboro, Pa,
are beginning 10 complain of conditions
In that town since il has become the re-
sort of the boozerS from Virginia and
West Virginia and the buns from Ha-
gerstown. The safety and decency OF
the community is seriously menaced by
the crowds OF rough characters and
drunken men who now congregate
there. 1t is strange that such degrade
ton is permitted simply that a few sa-
loon-keeperS may grow rich of OF the
rotten stuff they dispense.
lanes Matheny, a former resident OF
Jefferson county, has been arrested by
federal authorities in Akron, Ohio, on
a charge of white slavery, and is being
held there pending the arrival OF
warrant issued by United States Com
missioner Harry A. Downs, of Martins
burg. The warrant charges Matheny
with having transported Mrs. Emma
Weaver, OF ClarkSburg, W. Va, from
that city 10 Akron, Ohio. Matheny will
be brought back to ClarkSburg Tor a
hearing.
The colored people of Shepherds
town will hold public meeting IN the
town hall on the evening OF June 2lSt.
Dean William PickenS, OF Morgan Col
lege, Baltimore, a well-known and elo-
quent speaker, will make the principal
address. The public is invited.
John A. McDonough, 81 years old, a
veteran of the SpaniSh-American War,
died in Charles Town last Sunday. He
was a brother of Charles McDonough,
who served in MoSby's Rangers and
WHO was killed in the streets OF Middle
burg, Va.
A subscriber of the Register in the
far-away Hawaiian Islands, Mr.. II. A.
Noler. OF Eleele, Kauai, renewS his sub
scnpu0n tmS week and writes us as
.oiows: enclosed you will find postof-
lace money order as payment for one
more year tor Register. Am surprised
YOU nave not again advanced rates, as
e,et tuIIg, ana particularly here, has
gone sCaung, though in many instance
without reason and no remedy except TO
lick the Kaiser" which we Americans
sincerely hope may soon be the case
| pass at least one pleasant evening
each week reading the Register"
The lawn party at Mrs. David Lem.
ems last Saturday for the purpose Of
raising money for purchasing materials