Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-03-27

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do the rest.
Mrs. John Snyder met with pain
full accident few days ago at her HON,
in the east end of town., She 90
her foot caught in a board and fell
breaking her collarbone. DR.. Burwel
and DR.. Horace Banks gave her sur
gical attention.
J. Lester Miller, of Chillicothe, Ohio
writes us to renew his subscription t
the Register, and says that his wife
has been very sick in hospital in Co
lumbuS for the past several weeks, witt
liberated stomach. She is now i'm
proving rapidly, however.
An orchard of IS acres will be plant
ed out this spring on the land of thu
Green Hill Orchard Company, now
owned by the Jefferson Cooperagt
Company, three miles northeast Of
Charles Town. Stark Delicious anc
summer varieties were selected for the
new orchard.
Six makes of tractors-Moline, Case
International, Lacrosse and Fordson-
will give a blowing demonstration or
Herman Huyett's farm in field along
the Charles Town and Rippon pike, or
Saturday, March %, from 10 a. m. TO :
p. m. In case of rain, date postponed
to Wednesday, April I'd.
The Register has gotten in some I'M
usually nice paper at moderate price
moderate for these days-and wewill
be glad to furnish stationery for any
one who needs it, either in ruled letter
heads or paper for typewriters. We
have two especially desirable brands OF
writing paper just now.
L. D. Getzendanner, of Charles
Town, has become the owner of the
fine residence formerly the property of
his mother adjoining the Charles Town
Inn, through a purchase from his sis
tiers, Mrs. John P. BriscOe and Miss
Phoebe Getzendanner. He will move
into the property this spring.
After April 1st there will be fed
eral revenue tax on telephone calls
when the toll is more than IA cents.
On messages from IA cents to so cents
the tax will be 5 cents, and from so
cents upward the tax will be 10 cents.
The former law placed tax of cents
on all calls of IS cents or over.
One day last week while Mrs. VIM.
G. Rothe was temporarily absent from
her home in Baltimore thieves entered
the house and stole almost everything
thy could lay their hands on, includ-
ing clothing, shoes, two OvercoatS and
a number of other articles. Mrs. Rothe
was formerly Miss Grace Hill, ofShep-
herdStown.
We are sorry TO learn of the affection
of scarlet fever that prevails in the
home of Hon. J. P. Kearfott at Kear-
neysville. His little grandson, John
Fontaine, was first attacked by the
disease, and now his daughter-in-laW,
Mrs. Mamie Kearfott, and his grand
daughter, Mrs. Robert Fontaine, are
sick with the same trouble.
Howard Ellwood, who lives near the
B. & o. Railroad in the vicinity of
is again the victim OF
He has been taken i'll
with the smallpox, and is in his home
with his four little children liable to
the disease Mr.. Ellwood'S wife and
one child died from the influenza last
fall, and now this additional affection
has come upon him.
The pleasant weather this week has
caused town and country folks TO stir
around among the yards and gardens,
looking after the flowers and getting
ready to plant spring vegetables. Red
birds and bluebirdS and larkS and rob?
ms and song SparrOws are singing their
sweetest these mornings, violets are
blooming profuSely and spring flowers
in general are perking up.
In sending her subscription for an
other year, Mrs. J. H. Leblanc, one of
our appreciative readers in Cumber-
land. writes us: CAS- we grow older, the
months seem to pass very swiftly, so
here it is time again for me to renew
my subscription to the Register. 1t is
a faithful messenger which brings me
news of friends in both Jefferson and
Berkeley counties, and | cannot do
without it."
Three divorces were granted at the
recent term of the Jefferson Circuit
Court. ]. H. Foster was given a
divorce from his wife, Stephia Long
Foster, and he was awarded the custody
of their children Thos. B. Miskim-
mon was granted a divorce from his
wife, Josephine Miskimmon; and Dora
r. Morrison was granted a divorce
from her husband, William Earl Nor
rison. Several other divorce cases
are pending in court.
A very material improvement has
been made TO the public road about
mile west OF ShepherdStown. For a
great many years nasty little hill at
narrow place on a curve in the road
leading to Martinsburg has been a
dangerous and disagreeable thing, and
this has now been eliminated. the
roadway has been changed straight
ened and graded and as soon as it
has been worn down a bit it will be
a 10Y to travellers. The work was done
under the supervision of VIM. T. Nc
Qulkin and he has made good Job of
it.
The real estate of the late Mrs. E. P
Anderson, consisting of farm of 100
acres, and a detached tract of wood
land, near Marvin Chapel, was sold in
Berryvlle at public auction on Satur-
day. The prices obtained set new
high record fer farming land in Clarke
county. Prof. James Galloway, an in
structor in the IT, S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md, and a native of that
part of Clarke, bought the farm at bid
of S166 per acre. The timber land, an
1S-acre tract, was sold to Morris
Brothers and William E. Reed at $751;
so an acre.
Samuel B. Shearer, formerly in bus
mess in Charles Town, was convicted
on all counts in the Indictment against
him in the u. S. District Court at Scran-
ton. Pa, recently for aiding and abet-
ting the wrecking of national bank at
Lemaster, Pa. Shearer with several
associates promoted a trolley line in
Fulton county, Pa, using the banks