Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-03-13
BRIEFS.

SioShS VIII NC SET FORWARD an hour on
March 30th.
Get our price on spring Fertilizer
and remember it's time to place your
order with some one. The Lickiider
Corporation.
The place to get your dairy cows
Will be at Johnson and Stones auction
sale on Wednesday, March 70, 1919.
on the horse show grounds, Charles
Town.
Buy your tires of the National High
way Garage. A large stock will be
disposed of at the old price-that is,
without the 5 per cent war tax. Get
'em now.
Make your plans now to attend John
son and Stones big live stock sale on
the horse show grounds at Charles
Town, Jefferson county, w. Va, on
Wednesday, March 10, 1919. Sale rain
or shine.
Memorial services in memory of the
late Prof Walter M. Duke will be held
Friday morning at 10 O'Clock in, the
Shepherd College auditorium. The
people Of the community in general are
invited to attend the exercises.
The Community Club of Shenandoah
Junction will have an interesting meet
ing Friday as compliment to the re-
turned soldiers from that neighbor-
hood. Lieutenant Cleon S. Osbourn
and others will make short talks.
Hon. VIM. Campbell, of the internal
revenue service, has been in Shepherds
town yesterday and today assisting the
people of this section in the making
out of their income tax returns. He
has been kept busy every moment
OF his time here.
Elmer Erickson has setteld with the
Norfolk & Western Railway in the sum
of $1,000 for the killing of his daughter,
Marguerite Erickson, and his step
daughter, Hazel Meade, who were run
down by passenger train at the Main
street crossing in Berryville, Va, a
few weeks ago.
The Washington County Fish Protec-
tive Association was organized last
week in Hagerstown with N. Bruce
Armstrong as president; A. V. Polack
Wce-president; and Frank L. Bentz
Secretary-treasurer. The object is to
protect game fish and restock the public
streams.
The local Red Cross very earnestly
desires more help in its sewing room,
and appeals to the women of the COM
munity for assistance. The general
organization wants a million garments
a month for the suffering people in
Europe. Good, clean secondhand
clothing is also needed, besides new
articles and knitted goods.
Our friend R. H. Rogers asks us to
remind the people of Jefferson and OF
Berkeley counties that at his stand on
West King street, Martinshurg, he IS
ready to do all sorts of buggy and car
riage repairing, including the finest
sort of painting. When R. II Rogers
& Son do a job of work you can count
on it being done right. See advertise
ment elsewhere in this paper.
A mass meeting will be held in the
old town hall Friday evening of this
week at o'clock, when an address will
be delivered by Dean William Pickens,
of Morgan College, Baltimore, one or
the most eloquent young colored men of
this country. Everybody invited, both
white and colored. Admission will be
free, but a collection will be taken up.
Don't fail to hear this gifted speaker.
Thornton Clark, a Bakerton negro
who rejoiced in the appellation OF
Good Time Charlie" was arrested last
week by federal officers on the Charge
of bootlegging, and after hearing be-
fore Commissioner Downs in Martins
burg was jailed to await trial the
United States Court in Wheeling, next
May. When Judge Dayton gets
through with him his good time will he
over for while.
Owing to the flu of last fall, the State
homes are over-crowded with orphan
children. The trustees are anxious to
place these children in farm homes, so
they will grow up TO be useful men and
women. AS help is so scarce, people
should be glad to give these unfortunate
children a helping hand. Anyone in
tereSted can call on Mrs. D. L. Magru-
der, near Kearneysville, who will give
any information necessary.
Miss Sallie and Allen Byers have
moved from the Thos. H. Byers farm
above Scrabble, which was their nome
for many years, to the w. Seibert Myers
farm, east of Scrabble. Garland ID.
Byers and his family will move into the
Gano property along the MartinSburg
road, near Swan Ponh. The Byers
farm was purchased some months ago
by H. Frank Needy, and it will be farm
ed the coming year by Kirk Locke.
JIM. Williams, a farmer of Frederick
county, Va, has lost nearly all of flock
of 65 inc sheep, as we'll as many lambs,
as result of raid made by mad
bulldog. Nine days after the attack
many of the sheep were found biting
each other, paving, bleating, biting the
stalls and attacking the young lambs,
and it has been found necessary 10 Kill
most of the flock. Three cattle were
also bitten by the dog, which was kill
ed before it got off the premises.
One of our local boys, Vim. B.
Daniels, has been making a wonderful
record in the life insurance business.
In the month of February he wrote
S5S,000 of business in Jefferson coun-
ty and Washington county Md. He is
district manager of the Reliance Life
Insurance company of Pittsburg, one of
the fastest growing companies in the
United States, and writes maximum
perfect protection at minimum cost"
Mr. Daniels will, be glad to submit a
contract to anyone interested, if same
will drop him card either to Charles
Town or Hagerstown.
Governor CornwelI has appointed
Frank S. Harrison as chairman to or
ganize a committee from Jefferson
county to raise our share Of the fund
promised by the government for the
relief of the starving millions of Ar
menians and Syrians left destitute by
the barbarities of the Turks in the world