Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-12-25

<1.5o gets the Register a year.
Sal-vet for sale BY A. 5, cambridge
& Co
Butter is worth IS cents a round
today.
Wheat is quoted at $3.50 bushel
today and corn is Sl.S5.
AS the days begin to lengthen, the
cold begins 10 strengthen.
A new Barrel of batteries just in at
the National Highway Garage.
White sewing machines now in
stock and for sale By A. S. cambridge
& Co.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Garland
Moore, of Martinsburg. last Saturday,
daughter.
The Register will be sent one year
to any address for Sl.50. Six months
for rs cents.
Hassler Shock Absorbers will make
your Ford ride like big car. Ma
tional Highway Garage.
The Red Mems order OF Sharps-
burg will hold fair in their hall at
that place during the holidays.
We have a few measuring sticks for
gasoline and will be glad TO give you
one. National Highway Garage.
The newspaper publishers Of New
York have advanced the price of their
Sunday editions TO ten cents copy.
Buy rubber coil-box protector
from the National Highway Garage,
and you cana forget to worry when 1t
il raining.
There is an epidemic Of diphtheria
In Martinsburg, and several children
have died from the disease during the
past week or two.
The Misses Higgins have bought
from William Rau, Jr., the Conway
property in Harper's Ferry where they
have their millinery store.
There's still good deal of corn un-
husked in the fields in this county
farmers for various reasons having |
been unable TO get il in the crib.
George Douglas, a well-known col
ored man of this place, returned
soldier, was married last week to Miss
Harriet Hamilton. colored, Of Berke-
ley county.
Butler Moler and sisters ask us to
express their thanks to the friends ano /
neighbors for the kindness and sympa
thy expressed td hem during the i'll
ness and at the heath of their mother.
Hardly any turkeys were sold in
this neighborhood the past week. The |
few that were on the market sold at
40 cents a pound and upward. A lin
tied number of turkeys were shipped
here from other sections.
Postofice officials say that the
Christmas mail was 25 per cent great
er this year than ever before known
in the history of our country. And
yet il was handled expeditiously and
accurately and with but trifling loss.
While the coasting was good the
past week the children have been
using the public streets for shedding
This is extremely dangerous in these
days of automobile traffic, and the
youngsters should at least be kept on
Of Main street.
There was =. bad wreck on the Nor
folk & Western Railway last Thursday |
night at Walton, west of Roanoke, when
the Memphis special crashed into the
rear end of ColumhgSbl rfolk train
Five passengeT' el2N' nd eleven
Others were - ----.,ss.,., 49,.
Homer G. Mcdonald, of Schell, w
Va, in renewing his subscription
sends the compliments of the season
for the Register and its editor. He
saws that there is l8 inches Of snow in
that section of West Virginia, and las
Thursday the thermometer showed Il
degrees below zero.
Last Wednesday Mr.. and Mrs. c. M
Speck, of Berkeley county, gave din
ner in celebration of the birthday oil
Mrs. Speck's mother. The dining
room was tastefully decorated and 70
candles eraced the cake. The dinner
was Just such as Mrs. Speck is famous
for, and the guests enjoyed the &C.
casion thoroughly.
The holders of whiskey, which can
not now be sold in this country, are
busy shipping 1t out Of the United
States before January 16, for after
that date il cannot be handled at all.
One ship sailed from New York day |
or two ago with 10000 quarts on
board, valued at about 81 100000. Ii
will be sent to Cuba.
Figures made public in Martins
burg a few days ago show that the ap-
pie crop of Berkeley county this year
amounted to 205,948 barrels, the
value of which was something over ST.
100000. The crop was decidedly be-
low the average in quality and guam
tity, being only about two-hfths OF a
.pnrmal crop in quantity.
i MS. Geo. S. Eyster has sold her
Handsome home on East Washington
Street, Charles Town, to Lyman LIN
Eon. retired business man OF Albany
New York, who will occupy the prop
erty with his family next spring. Inc
price paid was Sl2,500. Mrs. Eyster
has bought the Holmes house on South
Mildrtd street, occupied by George
Palmoaum, for $1,000.
We have had good Christmas
weather this week--pretty cold, bui
clear AMI bracing. The snow that fel
last week remained with us except /
where it Just wore out from traffic !
Sunday night and Monday nights |
there were heavy mists, and the fol-
lowing mornings the whole country |
looked like fairyland, every tree and
shrub and bush being beautifully out
Z lined in frosty lace that glittered in |
the mor3ins s;in like the jewels OF
a princess.
The Swiss Bell Ringers will give an |
entertainment in the Charles Town |
Ooera House on the evening of Janu-
arv ID for the benefit of the Jefferson
County Red Cross. This will un-
an,,h4edl,, he O very nleaSinp nerfOrm-