Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-01-16
Ihs Shepherdstulun 8egist.r.
Thursday, January l6, 1918
BRIEFS.
Full moon tonight!

odds and ends, at Schley's.
Butter is sc cents pound today an
eggs are So cents a dozen.
Kirkland Mckee Is helping out a;
salesman in Owens drug store.
Wheat is up to S2.25 busllel in our
local markets and corn is Sl4S.
Need medicine of any kind, or pre-
Scriptions filled? Go to Owens drug
store.
Mile Jenkins, colored woman Of
this place, died last Sunday from the
influenza.
Some nice York Imperial apples for
sale. Price a dollar a bushel. Apply
10 c. F. Daniel.
For all your regular and special
needs in drugs and sundrieS, go &c
Owens drug store.
A comfortable seven-room dwelling
house in Shepherdstown. Apply &c
Morris X. Hendricks.
There are several cases of smallpox
in Brunswick, Md. One of the victim
is b. *. .. engineer.
Children'S stockings, real good value
special low price, 20 and 25 cents.
worth 30 and IS cents, at Schley's.
John Fox, aged II years, son OF
Humphrey Fox, died Tuesday AT his
home near Leetown from influenza.
At Owens drug store you will find all
SeaSonable remedies for coughs anC
colds and other ailments in general.
A league TO enforce the prohibition
laws has been organized in Winchester
and bootlegging will be stopped if pos
Sible
Miss Blanche Young, of Charles
Town, has been appointed superinten-
dent of the City Hospital in Martins
burg.
Attend the community meeting to be
held in Shepherdstown Saturday of thi:
week at ? o'clock under the auspices o.
the county farm bureau.
Fourteen business men of Berkeley
Springs were indicted by the grand
jury OF Morgan county last week for
selling cigarettes 10 minors.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Duke expects to move
from this place to her old home at He'd
geSville in the near future. She will
dispose of her personal property here.
William Jones and the family OF But
Ter Fraley, who live on the Carl Lick
lider farm near Uvilla, were all sick
with the influenza, but are now better
Willim P. Miller, a well-known resi-
dent of Swan Pond, in Berkeley county.
is in the City Hospital in Martinsburg.
where he was operated upon last Fri
day
For Rent-The comfortable living
roms in the Licklider store building on
Main street are offered for rent from
January LIST. Apply to Miss Annie
Licklider.
Mr.. Rolla Ray Sabine, OF Washing
ton, and Miss Ada Lamp, OF Martins
burg, were married at the Presbyterian
manse in the latter place TUESDAY
Rev. F. NJ. Woods.
If you have been borrowing the
Register, borrow il no more. Come il
and subscribe for yourself. The paper
will be sent to any address one year
for Sl.5O or six months for Is cents.
The family of the late Vim. w. Myers
wish 10 thank the friends and neigh
bors who were so kind and helpful dur
ing the illness and at the death OF Mr.
Myers. Their kindness is greatly ap
preciated.
Mr.. Charles R. Owens, the popular
proprietor Of Owens drug store, ha.
been on the sick list the past week, b.
is now on the road to recovery Hi
friends have greatly missed him from
his accustomed place.
Hon. George NJ. Bowers, Our repre-
sentative in Congress from this dis
trict, was a member of the congressiOn-
al delegation appointed by Speaker
Clarke to attend Colonel Roosevelt'>
funeral al Oyster Bay last week.
Miss Virginia DALEY, OF this place
has taken charge of The public school
a, Fairmont, on the east side Of the
Shenandoah rivei This echo u r id not
t-ea UenCd the past fail, as he truS-
iecS ere unable to secure teacher.
Our good old friend Vim. M. Rice, OF
Falling Waters, sends us a check TO pay
for his Register up to 1921. He says
that the flu is very bad in that section
In some cases entire families are down
with it and there have been many
deaths.
Andrew Curtis, a respected color
ed man who for many years worked
for G. w. D. Folk in the Swan Pond
reighborhood, died a few days ago in
Harrisburg, Pa, where he had lived for
the past two years. He was about Dc
years old
The Register prints the biggest ano
the best sale bills in this section and
an advertisement will reach the PEG
pie OF Jefferson and Berkeley counties
and neghboring communities when
is printed in our paper. Let Us
your work for you.
Superintendent Martin Of the Ligh
and Wafer Company says that the
electric current will be off Friday an,
Saturday OF this week between
m. and D. m. in order that necessary
repairs may be made to the lines be-
tween Shepherdstown and Martins
burg.
Carrie Chaplin in his million-dollal
picture, Shoulder Arms" will be the
attraction c. the opera house in Shep-
her. Town Friday of this week. This
j. SAID to be one of the funniest
pictures ever shown on the screen, and
everybody ought to go see it and have
good laugh.
Plans are being matured to raise
$4,000 for the benefit of the Martins
burg Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. Ward McLanahan, superinten-
dent OF the Blair Limestone Company's
plant, has been put in charge OF the
campaign. Mr.. McLanahan is live