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

abandoned. This is quite agreeabl,
to public sentiment, We are sure, fol
very few persons have any desire II
see litigation over the election or tht
i'll feeling that would be engendered
The newly-elected town officers viii
take their seats the first part of April
in accordance with custom.
R. S. NJ. Hoffman, the local funera
director, has contracted for a hand.
some new automobile hearse to replace
the one that was wrecked in railroad
accident in Shepherdstown some weeks
ago. He will get il from the same com.
pany from which he bought his first
hearse. The damaged machine has
been sent to the factory, and the COM
pany will make an adjustment after il
has been examined and tested.
The law requiring eggs to be sold by
weight instead >of by the dozen has
been suspended, for the very good rea-
son that it is impracticable in its opera
ton. 1t was soon found that our deal
ers could not buy them by weight and
then ship them out of the State to points
where they had to be sold by the dozen.
1t was fool law, anyhow, and the
solon who originated it must have been
hard up for something to think about.
]. F. Morgan, Of the Public Service
Commission, and Mr.. R. o. Nuzum, Of
fetal stenographer, were in Shepherds
town on Monday in regard to the ap-
plication of the light and water COM
pany for an increase in rates. Those
who are opposed to the increase failed
to make an appearance, except Mayor
Waldeck, and nothing new was develop
ed. We are very firmly Of the opinion
that the company should be allowed an
increase, for it cannot make expenses
under the present rates.
An organized drive for funds for
Armenian and Syrian Relief is to be
made in West Virginia next week, and
Jefferson county's work will be in
charge of a committee composed Of
Frank s. Harrison, chairman; E. E.
Cooke, secretary; M. o. Rouss, w. F.
Alexander, Milton Burr, ]. D. Muldoon,
H. L. Snyder; James Grantham, F.
Y w. Brown, Eugene Bready, c. J. Car
ter, P S. Willard, G. L. Haines, G. A.
Johnson and P. P. Nelson. 1t is hoped
that there will be liberal response for
this worthy object.
The services of Hon. William Camp
bell, of the internal revenue depart
ment, were very acceptable to the peo-
pie of this community Wednesday and
Thursday of last week in the tedious
work of making out their income tax
returns. Every moment of Mr.. Camp
BELLS time was taken up while he was
here, but with skill and courtesy
he devoted himself to the work in hand
and got through with it very satsfac-
torily. A considerable number of per-
sons from this community will pay the
income tax, some individuals being Ii
able for as much as seven or eight
hundred dollars.
DR.. E. M. CARROT, Of Sharpsburg,
who some months ago sold his farm
east of ShepherdStown, formerly known
as the Blackford place, to ]. K. Hop
kinS, and who has since been practlc-
ing medicine in SharpSburg, has yield
ed again to the lure of the land and has
bought himself another farm. He pur-
chased from Caleb Long the farm of
123 acres along the road between
SharpSburg and Keedysville, at price
said to be around $50 an acre. The
fine brick mansion on this place was
used as headquarters by General Nc
Clellan during the battle of Antietam
in September, 1862.
Shepherdstown has a case of small
pox-Sent here in a rather unneigh-
borly way from Hagerstown, where the
disease has prevailed for some time
past. The victim is Mrs. Virgie Lewis,
who came here i'll last Friday from
HagerStown and went to the home of
her mother, Mrs. Fannie Leggett, on
Washington street. A physician was
called in and found the symptoms very
suspicious, and by Monday morning
lie case was readily diagnosed as
smallpox. The house in which she is
staying was at once quarantined, and it
is hoped that there may be no spread
of the obnoxious disease.
Charles M. Ronemous, a well-known
farmer of the Uvilla neighborhood, was
taken to the hospital in Charles Town
last Thursday and on Friday had one
of his legs ampulated below the knee,
the operation being successfully per-
formed by DR.. Horace Banks, assisted
by DR.. Burwell, of Shepherdstown.
For the past year or more Mr.. Rome
nous has been disabled by diseased
ankle Joint, the trouble having been
diagnosed as a tubercular affection.
Treatment did no good, and he steadily
grew worse, until he finally decided to
have the diseased member amputated.
He stood the operation very well, and
we Join with his friends in the hope
that he may now be restored to health.
One of the most important orchard
deals yet consummated in Berkeley
county has just taken place. Con-
gresham George M. Bowers and a
group of other capitalists and fruit
men have purchased from John IA.
Miller, the most extensive grower OF
apples in this State, his 2o7-acre orch
ard in Arden district, for which they
pay S125,000 or a little over S435 an
acre. This tract, which does not in
cludc Mr.. Miller's home orchard near
Gerardstown, has 200 acres of bearing
apple trees and 81 acres in trees set
out three years ago. The principal
varieties are Yorks, Bens, Grimes Col
den and Stayman Winesaps. 1t is
said that Mr.. Miller got $4,000 net
profit from the tract last year. The
orchard that he retains contains about
100 acres of fine trees.
Impressive and appropriate me-
mortal exercises in respect to the
memory of the late Prof. Walter NJ.
Duke we're held last Friday morning
at Shepherd College, of whose faculty
he had been member for a number
Of years. President Thos. c. Miller
presided at the service. Brief but ap-
propriate addresses were made oy Rev.
DR.. Charles Ghiselin, Rev. ]. w. Ware,
Rev. ]. H. Haley, Prof. A. D. Kenamond
and H. L. Snyder, in which they spoke
feelingly of the life and character and
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