Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-03-20
BRIEFS.

sale next Wednesday, March Iotn.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Licklider, in Parkersburg, fine daugh-
ter.
According to the almanac, winter
ends and spring begins tomorrow, Fri
day.
Mumps have invaded Shepherdstown.
For further particulars, see Holmes
Reinhart.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Ham,
mond, near Bardane, last Saturday,
twin daughters. Later one of the little
girls died.
The ladies' aid society of the Re-
formed Church will hold an exchange
in Miss Ellen WelshanS'S store-room on
Saturday, March 10th.
The Shepherdstown Plumbing, Heat
ing and Timing Company has contract
ed 10 install q new bathroom outfit in
the Lutheran parsonage.
The ladies of the Kearneysville
Presbyterian Church took in almost SIS
at their supper last Friday night. 1t
was a mighty good supper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Carter wish TO
thank their neighbors and the ladies of
the Red Cross who were so kind to
them during their recent illness.
William Luria has moved from Pros.
pect avenue into the Chas. S. Miller
property, formerly known as the Vir-
ginia House, on Washington street.
You know-that Walls guarantee is
worth something. When you buy at
his big stock sale at Charles Town on
March oath you know what you are
getting.
The hog market is exceeding even
dred head of hogs are to be sold at
w. A. Daniels sale next Wednesday,
March Goth.
During the past month there have
been twenty-one cases of smallpox in
Washington county, Nd. There are
said 10 be at least dozen cases in Ha-
gerStown at present.
On Saturday, March 10Th, M R.
Moler will have auction at his store in
the Masonic building. He will sell
china and glassware, shoes, notions
and general merchandise.
Mrs. Mamie McSherry's sale near
Leetown last week was very salts
factory one. The proceeds amounted
to S5,971SS, considerably more than
Mrs McSherry had calculated on.
Frank ]. Dobbin has the work of in
stalling the plumbing, pipe fitting and
tank fixtures OF the new ice plant at
WilliamSport, Md. The machinery is
that which was moved from the old
plant in ShepherdStown.
The ladies aid Socieey of Mt Wesley
Church at Scrabble will hold chicken
and waffle supper Wednesday, March
10th, from 5 to 10 p, m, at the home
Of Mrs. James H. Staley, ar that place.
The public is cordially invited.
John Alder, who has been working in
Martinsburg, met with painful acct
dent on Tuesday. While lacking up an
automobile that he was painting the
machine fell upon him and broke his
collar bone. He was brought to his
home in ShepherdStown, where he will
recuperate.
"MadenS All FCrlorn," a comedy in
three acts, will be given in the old col
lege hall on Friday evening, Marcn 2lst,
ar D. m, by the young folks Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Admis-
sion, Is cents at the door. Come and
enjoy pleasant evening and help
good cause.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel o. Knott, o.
Washington, spent the past week Wit
their relatives in this section, prior tc
going to California, where they viii
make their future home. Mr. Knott,
who formerly resided in this vicinity
was married recently to Mrs. Estell"
NanHOTn, of Washington.
A syndicate of Berkeley county mel
are reported TO have leased a tract O.
land containing a mari bed on the farm
of Packet Brothers, three miles west
of Charles Town. The mari bed will
be developed and lime-marl from il will
be put on the market. This will make
the second development of the kind in
the county-Advocate
Last Monday night some wretched
thief, without regard for the law or the
gospel, robbed the clothes line at the
Southern Methodist parsonage and
stole most OF the underclothes of the
family of Rev. ]. H. Haley that were
drying in the pleasant breeze. While
it is true that spring begins on Friday,
the parSon and his family were not
quite ready TO discard their winter
wear, though Mr.. Haley is thankful that
he is to go a hundred miles or more
southwark 70 Conference next week.
The patrons of the Shepherdstown
Opera House will be interested to
know that Little Miss Hoover" star
ring dainty Marguerite Clark, which
will be shown here on Friday night, is
from the pen of Maria Thompson Da-
yies and taken from her book, "The
Golden Bird" Miss Davies is cousin
Of Mrs. George W. Billmyer, of this
place Miss Davies is recognized as
one of the leading playwriters of the
present day, many of her productions
having shown at the local opera house
during the past several years
Navigation will be resumed on the
chesapeake q ONO Lanai Wltnln the
next week, in all probability. General
Manager Nicholson had conference
On Tuesday with the Sharpsburg boat
luea, and offered them 90 cents a ton
Tor boating coal from Cumberland to
Georgetown. While this is 20 cents
a ton less than last years rate, the
1oa.mcl sem willing TO accept it, and
INST Oi them Will start out next week.
Some little hope was held out that there
might possibly be an increase in the
rate if conditions were favorable.
Mrs. Humphrey Wiltshire was fatal
" injured in runaway accident near
Peacher's Mill some days ago. With
a boy helping her she was moving
some furniture from sale near Ba-
kerton, using two-horse team for the
work. Approaching the railroad near
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