Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-07
BRIEFS.

Eggs are 80 cents a dozen today, and
butter is 40 cents pound.
Seed oats, spring phosphate, cement
and wall plaster at Hodges elevators.
A meeting OF the Village Improvement
Society will be held next Tuesday al 2 30
o'c OK in the council room.
THE Register is greatly appreciated,
for il is always interesting. Mrs. r.
D. Lamar, Riverside. California.
For Sale-Extra fine seed potatoes,
Irish Cobbler and Mccormick varieties
Apply TO A. S, Miller, Jr., Uvilla. W. Va.
Miss Lou D. Mann will have her open
ing OF new spring millinery and Other. at
trsctive goods on Friday and Saturday OF
next week.
We offer Irish Cohber potatoes for
plantiOg, tree OF disease. at 81 50 per
buShel Get your onions sets before
they are all sold Benz. hartzell.
You can eat what you want and when
YOU want if you use Owen & Miller's
digestive tablets. Only Is cents.
DR. ]. b. Chamberlain, opt )metrist, will
be aI lnr Hotel Rumsey IN ShepherdStown
on Wednesday, March 18th, from 10 a.
m. 10 5p. IN. Eyes examined and glasses
fitted
Two men from the vicinity OF Charles
Town we're arrested IN HagerStown last
week for being drunk and diSorderly at
the Norfolk & Western station Both
were tined.
Uncle" David Mckinney. an aged
colored man who formerly lived IN this
vicinity. died recently at his home IN
HarpeG's Ferry. HIS body was brought
here tor burial.
Iohn |. coy, who occupied the WySong
farm near ShepherdStown, has moved his
family TO Charles Town. Mr.. Eoy has
been a rural mail carrier Tor the Charles
Town Office since last tall.
Lost, probably on the street in Shep-
herdstown, gold hunting case watch
Owners name and a date inscribed IN
back OF case. A suitable reward Will be
given II returned TO the Register Office.
Assessor T. o. Link, of Duffields,
will furnish tags for dog owners in
Shepherdstown and Harper'S Ferry
districts who may wish them.All dogs
must be licensed, or are subject 10
death.
N. S. ]. Strider has sold his property
at Uvilla to Homer F. Ambrose for
$4,000. The place comprises Fl acres
of land, upon which are a dwelling
house and store, barn and other neces-
saTy buildings.
DR.. James H. Oliver, a well-known
physician of Berkeley county who has
been practicing in the Greensburg
neighborhood, has bought a residence
in MartinSburg and will move TO that
city and make his home.
Packette Brothers have sold a por-
ton of their farm with Improvements
on it four miles out the Middleway pike
to J. NJ. Funk, from near ZOar. The
portion contains about so acres. Mr..
Funk will move there on April |.
In the circuit court in Hagerstown
last Thursday Max A. Boyer was &C
Quilted of the murder of Theodore
Wade, whom he caught in his home
after his wife, a few weeks ago. The
jury was only few moments reaching
a decision.
TGN. j. w. w dlCt WIN 10 an ouintN hi
poultry raiser with professional skull,
reports thtt during the Is days OF Febru-
AIRY his SO hens land 440 eggs. He keeps
s. { White OrpIngIonS, aud uses no
prepared flodS. How many can beat
TINS record
The weather has been mild and pleasant
this week, and under the influence OF
showers and sunshine the grass IS grow
10y green and the wheat is growing nicely
The frost has come out OF the ground anC |
DR.. Banks says that he has the impulse
10 plant cabbage and potatoes.
The body OF John J. Casey, who h.c |
been missing from MartinSburg SAGE |
February 10Th, was found in the IusCdiuf
creek in that city last Sunday morning |
He had evidently fallen into the stream
and drowned. Casey, who was So years |
old, had been employed by Lord Brothers, |
cattle buyers.
The Red Cross has appointed a COM
mltee 10 arrange Tor meeting 10 con-
sider the Armenian relief matter, and a |
public meeting will De held IN the Shep-
herd College auditorium on March I'm, |
when a speaker from another SectiOH VIII |
ceiiver an address Further notice Will |
be given next week.
a delegation of citizens of Sharps- |
burg. KeedySville and BoOnSbOro has |
been in Annapolis this week in an eff
fort TO induce the Maryland Road Com |
mission to take over the turnpike be- |
tween Boonsboro and the bridge across |
the river at ShepherdStown and make |
this highway State road.
The annual corporation election Tor |
ShepherdStown will be held next Mon
oav, March 18th, in the council chamber
On King street Only those persons VIII
he allowed 10 vote whose taxes were
naid on or before March lSt. There will
be but one ticket in the field, the present
council alone having flied notice OF can
did CIV in accordance with The corporation
ordinance
The ownership of the Halltown Paper
Board Company has changed hands,
the Consolidated Manufacturing Cor
poration, of Toledo, Ohio, having be-
come the owner of all the stock IN the
companv. The new owners Will COM
plete the improvements now under way
and will probably install box factory
also. Frank s. Harrison will continue
Is manager of the Halltown plant.
4, is hoped that the Chesapeake
OHIO canal can be gotten ready TO have
the wafer turned in by the 18th OF this
noah. so thai navigation may De re.
sumed as quickly as possible, and coal
hurried TO Washington City to relieve
conditions there. The boatmen have
been holding meetings with view TO
pressing their claims for increased
pay, but We have heard al no increase
being granted. 1t is said that the
lock-tenders will have their salaries |
raised from SIS a month to $50.
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