Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-10
LITTLE LOCALS.

and was sent to Camp Mills. He will
be home in few days
Young Zombro, who was so badly
hurt in the automobile accident at
kearneysville last week, is getting
better. He has regained conscious
ness. and there is hope now that he
VIII recover. He is still in the Kings
Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg.
The Washington County Agri-
cultural Association has appointed a
committee, with State Senator Harvey
). Bomberger as chairman, to urge
the State Roads Commission to con-
Struct side roads along the State roads,
to be used exclusively for horse-drawn
vehicles.
The Jefferson Cooperage Company
of Charles Town, has just leased for
term of five years the Aglionby build
ing formerly used as the ice factory
IN ShepherdstowH near the freight
station, for making and storing barrels
in anticipation of the demand for the
fall apple crop.
We are thankful to know that the
Potomac Power Company is at last in
Stalling the electrical switches in the
transformer house at ShepherdStown,
for which we have been pleading so
long. This should eliminate a good |
deal of trouble with our electric light |
and power service.
Its announced that the State Roads |
Commission of Maryland will spend |
100000 in the construction of new
roads this year. Among the new roads |
now under construction is the three |
and a-half miles between Knoxville |
and Harper's Ferry, which was con-
tracted for at the enormous price Of
S97,65S.77.
Harry White, who has been in the |
army for the past year or more, has
been honorably discharged and is
again at his home in this place. He
was at Camp Sheridan and at Fort
OglethoTpe most of the time. He did
not get across TO the other side, as the
armiStice was signed just about the
time his unit was ready to sail.
The Pack Horse Ford Chapter of the
D. A. r. held an appropriate patriotic
service on the nth of july in front of
the old college building, presided over
by the regent, Mrs. Virginia Harrison.
The chief feature OF the exercises was
able and eloquent address delivered
by Rev S. L. Flickinge:, VINO spoke
concerning the great problems that
now confront our country and the
world in general.
The Norfolk & Western Railway ran
a big Mallet type locomotive over this
division last Sunday, passing north
through ShepherdStown about noon
with a freight train of 400 tons. The
engine is one of the large compounds
and is the first one ever run over this |
division with a load Thr c..,;ne sue
ceSSfully hauled the tonnage which |
amount two engines have been haul
ing. The n. & w. has three of this
type Of engine in use. The haul was
an experiment, which proved sue
ceSSful.
Agents of the French and Belgian
governments are said to be buying |
heifers and COWS in the Shenandoah
Valley for the restocking of the de-
vaStated sections of those countries.
Large shipments already have been
made and the purchase of live stock
of good quality will continue, it is
said, for some time, HOlSteinS and
DurhamS being preferred. Prices
have been ranging from $50 to 500 for
heifers and from 500 to SIPS for
cows Out of Us head examined a
week or two ago, only one was reject
ed
County Engineer James K. Hen
bricks has begun the work of repairing
the main road from Shepherdstown to
Charles Town by way of DuffieldS,
which had gotten into wretched condi-
ton at this end of the line. He will
first have the road scraped and graded
and the bitches opened up, and later
hopes to put on a good coating of stone
that will make more permanent road
bed. Mr.. Hendricks promises to have
at least one good road between Shep-
herdStown and Charles Town this Year,
that by way of Duffields, for the first
work.
1t is believed that the wheat crop
of Jefferson county will be only about
two-thirds of what was estimated
month or two ago. The rust or Scab
that appeared couple of weeks before
harvest played havoc with the bright
prospects of the spring, and in some
cases the yield is only about half OF
what was expected. There is plenty
of straw-much more than usual-but
the heads are small and the grains
Shirveled TO a considerable extent.
The crops that have been threshed so
far are yielding from twelve to twenty
bushels per acre, and the quality is
not extra. The dealers are warning
against threShing the wheat if it is
damp, as government inspection is
very strict.
Several important orchard sales
have been made in Frederick county,
Virginia, the past week. S. L. Lupton,
one of the largest fruit growers in that
section, has sold his home orchard of
$50 acres in bearing apple trees and 90
acres of farming land, and his half in
tereSt in the 70-acre Baker orchard,
owned jointly by himself and c. c.
Tyler, of Washington, to Fred A.
Robinson for 100000, which includes
the personal property and equipment
on the two places. 1t is said that Mr..
Robinson bought the orchards for the
Pittsburg syndicate which has been
buying extensively in this section. Mr..
Tyler, it is announced, has also soldhis
half interest in the Baker orchard to
Harry F. Byrd, Of Winchester.
The fatal accident at Kearneysville
last Wednesday night has again d.
rected attention to the extremely
dangerous crossing at that place. The
helper engines that continually sneak
along the tracks there, running back
ward and showing only a dull little
oil light, visible for few yards, are
a menace to travellers, and have been
the cause of many accidents in re-
cent wears. The Kearnevsyille cross