Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-31
LITTLE LOCALS.

town.
Ben Whiting, Van Perry William
and John Staley, three colored soldier
from Shepherdstown, have been dis
charged from the army and have re
turned to their homes here. The,
were all in France the past year.
Owens is on the Job 100 per cent
Many thanks for patronage while alb
sent and remember this store is Away:
at your service. For drug service Oh
any little matter to be attended to cal
1o-k. Owens Drug Store will do the
rest.
| The date for the Jefferson County
Sunday School Convention has beer
fixed for October 80 and 81 in Charles
Town, with the Southern Methodist
Sunday School as host State Secre.
tary W. A. Snow and Mrs. Snow ex-
pect to be present.
| The bus line that had been opera.
ting for the past month or two between
Charles Town, Shepherdstown and
Martinsburg has been discontinued, as
it is said that it didn't pay. The &C.
commodations were not such as to
make travel attractive.
The Shepherdstown and Kearneys-
vile Reformed congregation and Sun
day schools will picnic at Morgan's
Grove on Thursday, August 7th. All
members and friends are cordially in
vited to this gathering for pleasure.
Come prepared to JOY and enjoy.
Some people have TO knock to let the
other fellow know that they are alive
but the Aeolian Vocation talking ma
| chimes is a silent salesman. On sale
at Owens Drug Store also the Victor
talking machine and records. All the
late Victor, Emerson and Aeolian
| records.
The Shepherdstown baseball team
last Thursday journeyed to Berryville
and defeated the Virginians by the
score of II to IL. The game was
loosely played all around, and every
body found pleasure in whacking the
ball. What the game lacked in science,
however. was made UP in fun on the
part of the rooters.
The lines of the Jefferson County
Telephone Company have been put in
good order by R. L. Spohn, our local
trouble man, and experts who have
been working on the cables leading
TO the exchange here. The Harper's
Ferry lines have also been put in first
rate condition. A considerable num-
Der Of new phones have been installed
the past month.
Hotel Conner at Harper's Ferry has
been leased to Henry Weiss, an ex-
perienced hotel man from Baltimore.
I. M. Conner, the owner Of the prop
erty, who has been conducting the no.
tel, found that his duties as postmaster
require all of his ats !..on making it
necessary for him to give up the hotel
business. The transfer OF the license
to the new landlord was made last
week.
AT the request of States Attorney
John T. Porterield, DR.. w. H. Long,
the spectacle vendor who had borrowed
$50 from Miss Kate Hill with mining
stock of doubtful value as security,
was arrested in Greencastle, Pa, last
week on the charge Of obtaining money
under false pretenses. He agreed to
refund the money, and he was released
from custody when the amount was
made good.
John Ed. Schley is home from
France, where he was with the Amerl-
can Army the past year. He had a
variety of duties while he was in the
service, and got to see a great deal OF
Europe, including the famous Monte
Carlo resort, where he was stationed
for a time. Mr.. Schley will 60 to
Pittsburg and resume the work in
which he was engaged when he enter
ed the army.
Sergeant H. Stuart Criswell, who
has been in the army for more than
a year and was in France for eleven
months, has been discharged from the
service and is again at his home IN
Shepherd stown. He was in the en-
gineers' branch and was engaged in
construction work while he was in
France He had an uncomfortable
trip home on leaky old tub OF ship,
but is thangful to be back once more
after his long absence.
The Cavalier property on Shenan-
doah street, Harper's Ferry, bought
some time ago by the Bank of Harper's
Ferry, has been remodeled and i'm
proved so as to provide excellent ac-
commodations for the bank, including
a directors room and other facilities.
Handsome new furniture has also been
installed. |. S. Glass has bought from
| the Riddle heirs the vacant lot opposite
| the bank building, and he will build
upon it new garage. He paid $1,000
for the lot.
The popular union picnic to be held
by Sharpsburg organizations will take
| place this year on Saturday, August
| 9th, in the Poffenberger woods, near
| the Dunkard Church. The committee
| in charge of the arrangements is COM
posed OF c. L. Mongan, c. B. Roulette
| and ]. II. Drenner. Addresses will be
made by Attorney-General Albert G.
| Richie and Hon. Robert E. Lee, OF
Baltimore. Amusements of various
sorts will be provided, and good time
| is promised the visitors.
The Middleway correspondent of the
Charles Town Advocate writes: The
| friends of Lieut.. r. L. Bates are
| grieved over the critical state OF his
health. At present he is confined at
the Fort McHenry hospital, where he
is being treated by specialists for ner-
vouS trouble. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. 6. Bates, have been with him
and returned home the first of the week
when his brother, Tom Bates, went to
Lutherville, Md, his home, to remain
with his family until his recovery.
Jerry Phillips is again at his home
in Shepherdstown, having been honor
ably discharged from the army He
was among the first of our Shepherds
town boys to go into the service, as ne
volunteered and joined the 4th Mary
land Regiment when detachment
from that organization came here early
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