Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-09-25
LITTLE LOCALS.

Generals Offlce in Washington Cit,
and will enter upon her duties there a
once. She got the place through tn
civil service commission Mrs. Byerl
will spend the fall and winter witt
friends in Virginia and West Virginia
Marriage licenses were issued las
week by County Clerk Johnson a
follows: Antonio Dargalo, a native o
Italy, now resident of Millville, ant
Grace May Longerbeam, of Bolivar
John Thornton Ball, of Canandaigua
New York, and Julia Freeman, OF Har
per's Ferry; Daniel Mckinney and Har
riet Campbell, both OF Shepherdstown
Miss Lena Brilliant, of Washington
D. c., formerly Of this place and {
| graduate of Shepherd College in the
class of 1915, has accepted an appoint
ment as critic teacher at Marshall Col
| !ege, Huntington, w. Va, for the com
ing year. Miss Brilliant has beer
employed as senior accountant in the
u. S. Fuel Administration at Wash.
ington for the past two years.
Manager S. Porter House, of the
Martinsburg Fruit Exchange, an.
nounced on Monday that he had sold
1000 barrels of Ben Davis apples
pack 2A inches up, at S5.25 a barrel
(. o. b. shipping point. This price nets
the grower $500 barrel. He also
sold eight carloads of bulk Yorks,
hail pitted, "a inches up, at $3.50 pei
hundredweight +. o. b. shipping point
These are regarded as very fine prices.
Miss Catherine Freese. of Louisa,
Kentucky, has taken up her duties as
head of the music department of Shep-
herd College, and already has num-
Der of pupils in both piano and voice.
Miss Freese is accomplished in vocal
and instrumental music, and has a
well-deServed reputation as a teacher
in these branches. 1t is believed that
she will make great success of the
music department of Shepherd COL
lege.
Another big orchard deal was con-
summated in Berkeley county the past
week. H. S. Cushwa, Mrs. P. W..
Letter and Miss Anna Bell Deatrick. of
Martinsburg, sold to Attorney E. l..
Lutrell for parties he represented
their orchard in Back Creek Valley for
100000. The property contains 1872
acres, $50 OF which are planted in
bearing trees. There are ten thou
sand of the apple trees, including Yorks,
Bens, Grimes Golden, Jonathans and
WineSaps.
Butler Henshaw Moler, one of our
Jefferson county soldier boys, is at his
home near Bakerton, having been dis
charged from the Walter Reed Hos
pital in Washington. Butler says that
he is feeling fine, though somewhat
tired of hospital life. He was trans
ferred from one hospital to another I'M
til he had graced about seven of them
with his presence. He has now had
enough Of the life and hopes to enjoy
the glories of the fall season in old
Jefferson.
Rhe National Hig,wly Garage is
showing a good deal of enterprise in its
rebuilding operations. 1t has started
work on the new and bigger garage,
workmen having commenced TO eXca-
vate for the foundations yesterday.
Bricks and lumber and other materials
are being assembled upon the site,
and a short time, if favorable condi-
tons shall prevail, it is hoped that one
of the biggest and best garages in the
State will be erected.
Tuesday morning the local north
bound passenger train of the Norfolk
& Western railway struck an auto
mobile at a crossing just this side OF
Boyce, Va, in which were Vim. +. An
derson and John w. Knight, two we'll
known plumbers of Winchester. The
curtains were drawn and they failed
10 observe the train, which hurled their
car down an embankment. Both men
were terribly injured. They were
taken to Charles Town on the train
and given attention at the hospital, but
both were dead by II o'clock.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register for another year Chas. Q.
Hiser writes us from Romney, this
State, as follows: "We enjoy reading
the Register very much-it is letter
each week for both of us. | am now
employed in the school for the blind
in Romney. The school is progress
ing nicely, and since the new law has
been in force the attendance is much
larger. This class of unfortunates GER
tainly needs education, and in most
cases | find them willing and eager
to learn. like the work very much"
An interesting rumor is printed in
the daily papers of Tuesday, to the
effect that General John J. Pershing,
the hero of the great war, is engaged
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Boyd, of Hagerstown, widow OF
Col. Carl Boyd, of the U. S. Army.
Colonel Boyd was member OF Cen
eral Pershing's staff and died in
France about a year ago from pneu-
monia while acting as his aide-de-
camp. Mrs. Boyd and her daughter
spent last week in Washington as guests
of General Pershing at the Hotel Shore
ham.
The funeral service of David Lemen
was held at his late home last Fri
day afternoon, being conducted by his
pastor, Rev. Charles Ghiselin, OF the
PRESBYTERIAN Church. The service
was very simple, consisting OF reading
of the Scripture, prayer, and the sing
ing of HYMNS by Vim. B. Snyder. The
pallbearers were Samuel j. Hodges,
Edward L. Reinhart, 7. B. Line, Arthur
Pierce, Geo. M. Beltzhoover, .Jr., Geo.
w. Billmyer and Holland Price. The
BODY was laid to rest in Elmwood Gem
etery. The grave was covered with
flowers of greatest beauty.
Congressman Joseph B. Thompson,
of Oklahoma, died from heart trouble
last Thursday evening on train No. |
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He
boarded the train at Washington for
a trip home, and soon. after leaving
Union station he was taken i'll. He
died when the train was near Harper's
Ferry. The body was taken from the
train at Martinsburg and prepared for
burial, and later was sent to Oklahoma
on a special train accompanied by
congressional delegation Mr.. Thomp-