Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-05-22
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buShel and corn ar Sl.6S.
Saturday, May 5lst, will be observed
as memorial day in Charles Town.
There's a lot of locust bloom this
Sprlng-Sign of big corn crop.
Shepherd College commencement
will take place Friday, June 10th.
The public schools of Shepherds
town district will end the term on Fri.
day of this week.
Just minute-lf you want a build
ing or garden lot, attend Walls lot sale
in Charles Town May 24th
For a real refreshing drink, try a
glass of Liggett'S rangeade-always
cold and ready to serve For sale at
Owens fountain only.
Henry Shepherd has bought an In
ternational tractor which he will use
in the farming operations and other
work at Bellevue, near town.
Are you out of stationery, if so the
largest and best assortment of sta
t!onery in town may be found at Owens
Drug Store. Prices to please you.
James Grantham, Mrs. Georgia
Willis, Miss Margaret Gilbert and Mrs
James Tabb have been named as the
Middleway committee for the Salvation
Army drive.
Arthur E. TruSSell, of Kearneysville,
killed big grounding at his home near
that place a few days ago. Cashier
Jos. II. Trout wanted to have a barbe-
cue with it, but nobody would promise
to eat grounding.
Governor John ]. Cornwell is ex-
Pected to attend the Shepherd College
commencement on June GOTH He has
written to President ThoS. c. Miller
that he is making his arrangements TO
be present if possible.
The closing exercises of the Shep-
herdS,own Graded School will be held
Friday morning at 10 o'clock Patrons
ani friends of the school are cordially
invited to attend, as a pleasing per-
Torrance will be rendered.
Engineers of the Maryland State
Road Commission have been eXamin-
ing the turnpike between BoonSboro
and Shepherdstown the past week, pre-
paratory TO making the specifications
for the proposed new State road.
Shepherd College won its sixth con-
Secutive baseball game Monday after
noon, when il defeated the team from
the HagerStown High School by the
score of 10 ,. The visitors had no
pep apparently, and hardly got a
lOok-in.
Mrs. Ida H. Neill is confined to her
room and is under the care of nurse
because Of the painful effects of
fall some days ago. She fell in her
room and remained unconscious for
some hours before she was found. Her
face and shoulder were badly bruised
and she has been suffering from the
shock
While the month of May has not
been a particularly pleasant one be-
cause of so much rainy and cloudy
weather and unSeasonably cool tenn
perature, the growing wheat has been
thriving and gives promise of large
Weld. 1t is now coming out in head,
and looks houriShing in every section
of the county.
Undertaken R. S. NJ. Hoffman went
to PiGua, Ohio, on Monday 10 get the
new automobile hearse which will re-
place the machine that was destroyed
in a railroad accident in Shepherds
town several months ago. Jack Sny-
der. of the National Highway Garage,
went along with him to drive the hearSe
back to Shepherdstown.
In the United States Court at Wheel
ing last week Harry Cummings, o.
Harper'S Ferry, was sentenced b.
Judge DAYTON to serve four months
in the Charles Town Jail for bring
ing liquor into the State unlawfully.
Thornton Clark, of Bakerton, known as
Good Time Charlie drew a sentence
of thirty days for bootlegging.
Shepherdstown will probably have
fine baseball team this summer
Brandy" Myers still has his good righG
arm in working order, K. D. Shlpiey
and Elkins Shipley are back from the
army and on the job again, and other
frst-clasS players are interested and
available. Yesterday the town. team
had a game with Shepherd College and
won bv the score of five to one
There was a remarkable attempt at
thievery last Thursday at Shenandoah
Junction, when an unknown thief tried
10 steal a hive of bees belonging to
c. G. Tapscott. He seized the hive
and was making off with it, bees and
all, when Operator Cross saw him and
yelled at him. He stumbled and drop
ped a part of the hive but kept on,
until Mr.. Cross took a couple of shots
at him, when he abandoned his spoils
and disappeared in the bushes.
Elma Gertrude Penwell, the IA
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fonrose Penwell, of Manning'S School
House, this county, was drowned in
tub of water last Friday. Mrs. Pen
we'll went TO the field to bring the cows
in, leaving the child in chair. When
she returned she found the baby toat-
ing in a tub full Of water that was on
the porch outside. 1t is supposed that
the child got down from the chair
and climbed up the side of the tub and
fell in.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert T. Moler gave
q pleasant dinner party Tuesday even
ING at their comfortable farm nome
near Bakerton, to which the editor OF
the REGISTER and Sergeant VIM. b.
SNYDER we're invited. Among the
guests were three returned soldiers,
sorg.an. Snyder, Butler Moler and
Clarence Eaton. 1t was interesting TO
note Row tic boys appreciated the good
country fare and home cooking that
Mrs. Moler had provided. They
agreed that she could beat Uncle Sam
and his cooks.
Memorial day at Antietam National
Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Md, next Fri
day. May Both, promises to be very
interesting event, and several address,
es will be made by distinguished