Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
LITTLE LOCALS.

UP the work and is now busy With pre-
partitions for the next fair, which vii
be held September z, 3, a and 5.
A patriotic service will ne held Fri
day morning, July 4th, at go O'Clock
in front of the old college building oil
Main street, under the auspices o
Pack Horse Ford Chapter OF the d. A
r. The exercises will be brief but in
tereSting, and will include a short ad
dress by Rev. S. L. Flickinger.
The State automobile department ha!
sent out notice that old West Virgini;
automobile licenses will be good unit
July 10th, as it was impossible to is
sue all licenses that were applied fol
by July LIST. The licenses that arr
now being issued will be good from Jul,
|, 1919, TO December 80, 1920.
A new dwelling-house is beinl
erected on the farm Of the late NJ. M
Stanley near Kearneysvilla, taking
the place Of the house that was bull
nearly a hundred years ago. Wher
the old building was torn down a bricl
was found having the date 1923 upor
it. This makes the age of the ole
house at least 90 years.
The Pomona Orchard in Berkele,
county, owned by James Hoge and hi:
son, Of Leesburg, Va, and Mr.. wilkins
of Washington, has been sold to DR.
H. G. Tonkin, ]. w. Gatrell and the
Rothwell Company for $4,000. Pc,
mona Orchard is the old Clohan home
place, and contains 1Sl acres, of which
about 100 acres are in fruit.
Traffic Officer Willis Crowl a few
days ago arrested the driver of the
dead animal truck from Martinsbure
for operating without a proper IL
cenSe. The manager claimed that his
Pennsylvania license was good in this
State, but his contention was not good,
and yesterday Magistrate R. q. Miller
fined him $40 and costs, which he paid.
Shepherdstown is evidently on a
regular airplane route from north TO
south. Every few days one of the
flyers may be seen passing over town,
following the general course of the
Potomac river and evidently using the
Harper's Ferry gap as landmark. AS
a rule they fly very high. An airplane
is to be in Martinsburg Friday if con-
ditionS are favorable.
Ovens drug store has just received
a new lot of attractive postcards of
interesting places in and about Shep-
herdStown, including the RumSey
monument, Shepherd College, the old
college building, the Lutheran Church,
the river bridge, the Main street of
the town, and so on. The pictures are
from recent photographs and are nice
ly printed in sepia tints.
A good many automobiles loaded
with liquor passed over the bridges at
Shepherdstown, Harper's Ferry and
Williamsport Saturday and Monday
nights, loaded to the gunwaies with
liquor purchased in Maryland and
The federal authorities
who are supposed to look after vio-
lators of the law absolutely laid down
on their job and not single arress
was made.
During the past ten days the Ma
tional Highway Garage has sold and
delivered Ford touring cars to c. ].
Miller, Kearneysville; c. M. Haines,
Bakerton; N. T. Snyder, Shenandoah
Junction; R. C. Ringgold, Charles
Cook, c. D. Scully and H. S. knode,
Shepherdstown. The firm has num-
Der Of orders ahead, as the Ford works
are unable TO turn out enough cars to
supply the tremendous demand.
Hugh Ferguson, young colored
man who formerly lived in the kear-
neysville neighborhoOd, was tried at
Springs last week for Grim
inal assault upon Mrs. Ernest thinner
man, a young married woman of Nor
gan county. The jury only took six
teen minutes to bring in a verdict OF
guilty, and Judge Woods sentenced
Ferguson to be put to death in the
electric chair on August 9th at the
in Moundsville. There
was absolutely no doubt as to the
mans guilt.
A member of the army recruiting
party on canvassing duty will be in
ShepherdStown the balance OF this
week for the purpose of accepting ap-
plicants for all branches of the SER
vce-infantry, cavalry, artillery, en-
gineering corps, medical corps, air
service, etc. Men who desire to enlist
NAV choose where they want to serve
in this country, France, Philippine
Islands, Alaska, Hawaii, Panama
Canal, or any other of our possessions.
No enlistments for the American En-
peditionary Forces will be received al
ter midnight of July 9Th.
Noble S. Ewing, of Lanark, Illinois,
formerly of this vicinity, sends us his
for two years in advance,
and says: 81 could not do without your
paper. | surely enjoyed Bills letters
from France" Mr.. Ewing writes that
he is one of the proprietors OF the
"Auto Inn and Blacksmith Shop" in
Lanark, and so far this spring they
have sold seventeen Dodge cars, with
ten orders ahead. He asks us to give
his regards to all of his old friends
in this section. We are sorry to learn
that his wife has been sick in bed TOR
the past eight weeks with Brlghts
disease.
The Norfolk & Western Railway is
good to Charles B. Mcdonald. For
years he has been going out to Shenan-
doah Junction on the morning train
and spending the whole oay at the
water tanks as pump man, coming in
on the night train, which is seldom on
time. Now the company allows him to
return home on the noon local freight,
and he puts in the balance OF his day at
the .Shepherdstown tank, getting OH
betimes in the evening. The pipe line
from the tank here, leading to the
station, has developed leak, and
about half mile of it may have to be
uncovered to locate the trouble. Mr.
Mcdonald has started to make I'M
provements at his park around the
tank, and hopes eventually to have II
restored to its former beauty.
A good game of ball may be expect
ed in Shepherdstown on Friday AFTER
noon of this week at 3 o'clock on Miller
field. when our local team will play
the Marist College men from wash