Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-09-04
LITTLE LOCALS.

will be asked to report on their trip.
Manager v. St. c. Montieth, of tn
Potomac Power Company, who has bee
in charge Of the business, at Martins
burg, has been promoted and will b
located in Hagerstown with more i'm
portant duties. He will be succeede
at Martinsburg by Mr.. Price, Of Frost
burg.
The Bunker Hill Orchard Compan
OF Berkeley county has sold its prop
erty to w. w. Downey, F. L. Downe,
and DR.. E. B. Lefevre, for a price some
where between $4,000 and 100000
The orchard contains l03 acres OF 81,
and seven year old trees and there ar,
% acres not planted. The place wa
formerly known as the Busey farm.
The hog cholera is still playing havo,
in various sections of the county. There
have been serious losses in Shepherds
town and vicinity, and scores Of fine
porkers have died in the Bakertor
neighborhood. The disease has nov
invaded the Duffields section. Many
persons have sold their hogs, rather
than run the risk Of having them die.
Excavation for five large new dwell
ings for workers at the Keystone quar-
ries at Millville has been completed
All Of them will front on the Millville
and Halltown road. Two of them viii
have Is rooms each, while three will
be double houses of ten rooms each
The Halltown Paper Board Company
has the contract for the buildings
Advocate.
E. E. Cooke, w. A. Higgs, and A. S.
Allen Of Charles Town, have just sold
1000 barrels Of Grimes Golden apples
from their orchard in Berkeley county
at $3.50 per barrel I. o. b. Martinsburg.
This is one OF the best sales that has
been made this season. These gentlemen
will have a good crop Of Yorks, Bens
and Winesaps from the balance of
their orchard.
The Supervising Architect Of the
Treasury Department has advertised
for bids for the erection Of the new
government building at Charles Town,
on the site where the old Jail stood.
The Jail building was torn down last
winter and the location has been ready
for several months. The amount ap-
propriated by Congress several years
ago was $4,000.
The estate of the late Marshall Nc
Cormick, the Berryville lawyer,
amounted to $4,000. The real estate
brought $4,000 and the personal prop
erty and life insurance, the latter being
taken over by the heirs at assessed
value, brought $4,000. Eighty-hve
acres of land east of the railroad at
Berryville brought S172.50 an acre,
and 81 acres west Of the wildwood pike
sold for S194 an acre. The home prop
erty in Berryville brought $1,000.
C. Amos Kibler, tie ea;e,prisine
at Duffields, has bought from
the Melvin heirs the lot in Duffields,
the buildings on which were burned a
few months ago, paying 81 500 for 1t.
He will erect a substantial business
structure upon it, and has already be-
gun the work Mr.. KILLERS store was
burned out when the building was con-
sumed and he has been using the old
Wysong building. He hopes to be back
in his former location before so long.
The Morgan's Grove Fair began on
Tuesday and has been blessed with the
best of weather up to the time We go
to press. There are not as many eX-
hibitS as usual, though the ladies' de-
partment has very attractive display.
good money premiums were
offered, few persons seem willing to
take the trouble to make an exhibit.
good sized crowds are in
attendance and those who are there
are enjoying themselves just as usual,
for Morgan's Grove fair has always
been popular.
D. Raleigh Houser, who for a num-
Der of years has been the efficient
of the Washington
Building Lime Company's plant at Ba-
.;erton, this county, has been obliged
TO give up his work temporarily on &C
count of a breakdown in his health.
Waiter ]. Flanagan. who has been in
charge of the Standard Lime and Stone
works at Strasburg, Va,
for some time past, has been placed in
charge of the Bakerton plant. Mr..
Houser has many friends throughout
his section, and We join with them in
the hope that he may soon be fully
restored to health.
1t is reported that two barrels OF
en- route on the B. & y. Kali
road for foreign export were rolled out
Of a freight car recently-one at
Engle's, this county, and one at Sandy
Hook The agents Of the railroad
were notified of the loss, and found
the liquor and took it 10 their reSpec-
tive stations and locked it up. A few
nights afterward the station at Keller's
was forcibly broken open and the bar
rel of liquor was loaded on a motor
truck and carried off by unknown per-
sons. We haven't heard of the fate OF
the other barrel. Five barrels Of
whiskey were also stolen from this
train at Keyser.
We had a fine game of ball Monday af-
ternoon with the team from Middle
town, Md. Both the local boys and the
visitors put up fast, snappy game, in
which there was some brilliant playing,
including two clever double plays.
The breaks went against the visitors,
and Shepherdstown won by the score
of to 2. 1t was one of the best games
we have had here this year. A num-
Der of rooters from Middletown came
along with the baseball team and there
was joyous repartee between the local
fans and the visitors.
Mr.. c. w. Whitmer, of the Duff
fields neighborhood, was among the
callers at the Register Office the past
week
The county court of Monongalia coun'
ty will be asked by the city OF Nor
gantown either to take over the i'm
provement and maintenance of class
"a" roads within the corporate limits
of Morgantown or to remove the levy
of IS cents for class "a" roads recent
ly laid by the county court as it ap
plies to the tax payers Of Morgantown
Mayor Charles T. Hickman expresses
the belief that the county court can
not make the class "a" levy in the cit!
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