Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-08-28
BRIEFS.
Boswell's hams are fine.

rived today.
Butter is so cents a pound today.
Eggs are A cents dozen.
Boswell has received another ship
ment of those good cigars.
have for sale a secondhand Ford
touring car. Henry Shepherd.
Highest country prices paid for
country produce at BoswelPs.
Shepherd College will reopen for the
fall term Wednesday, September 10th.
The tax rate for Martinsburg has
been fixed at II cents on the hundred
dollars.
Mrs. Robert Gibson spent last week
with Mrs. Sallie Horn in Berkeley
Springs.
For Sale-Ford coupe, 1918 model,
used but very little. Apply to DR.. A.
D. Baker, Keedysville, Md.
The county Sunday school conven-
ton for Berkeley county is being held
this Thursday and Friday.
The Chautauqua entertainment be-
gins in Charles Town on Saturday and
will continue through next week.
Remember the store that is always
at your service is 15K. Owens Drue
Store Anything we can do for you 2
Thank you.
The week before the fair Walls will
sell big roasts of beef at wholesale
price Send in your order and get
prices. c. F. Wall. Charles Town.
Miss Mary Bowen Grantham and
Miss Beulah Engle have been ap-
pointed teachers for the Middleway
public school for the ensuing year.
For Sale-A carload of Montana
yearling ewes and a car of open-wool
West Virginia ewes, three and four
years old. Also some bucks. c. F.
Wall
Hog cholera is prevalent in the Ba-
residents of that section have sustain
ed serious losses by the death Of their
porkers.
The Shepherdstown Garage will give
for the best decorated Buick car in the
parade ar Morgan's Grove fair next
week a new tire and for the second best
an inner tube.
The ice-house will be closed after
II o'clock, noon, during the four days
of Morgan's Grove Fair. Those who
get ice at the ice-house call before that
time. w. H. Knode.
Mrs. Kate Keesecker and Miss Bet
tie KeeSecker, whose home was dam
aged by the fire of Monday night, have
rented one of Morris K Hendricks'S
houses on New street and moved into
il.
The daylight saving law is gone for
good and all. Both houses passed the
bill for the repeal over the Presidents
veto, and when the next change comes
in October the old time will stay with
US.
How is you best girl these days?
Fine, because have been sending her
fresh chocolates from Owens Drug
Store where they have the Johnston,
Norris and Cuth's chocolates and bon
bons.
The entries in the ladies department
will open Monday at O'Clock and
close Tuesday at | o'clock. The an
nouncement in the catalogue giving
different hours from the above is in
correct.
You can't read your tombstone when
you are dead, but you can smoke La
Marca cigar-On Saturdays only 7
cents. Owens Drug Store, where the
largest line of smokers requisites can
be had.
That enterprising firm, the Licklider
Corporation, has opened branch
warehouse in Charles Town for the
sale of fertilizers and is doing con-
siderable business with the farmers
of that section.
The Chevrolet automobile that was
stolen from John w. Twins garage II
Charles Town last week was located
in Portsmouth, Va, where il had been
taken by the thief. Policeman James
A. Smith left for Portsmouth to inveSti,
gate the case and bring the car back.
Ellsworth R. Roulette, Of Hagers-
town, a native of Sharpsburg district,
is a candidate for the Republican nom-
inaton for States attorney for Wash
ington county. He is a graduate Of
Shepherd College, class Of 1911, and
is young man of high character and
ability.
The barracks on the farm owned by
the heirs Of the late M. E. Trussell
near Leetown was struck by lightning
last week and totally destroyed by the
fire that resulted. About seventeen
tons of hay and a stack of straw were
also destroyed. There was an in
surance Of $1,000 on the building and
contents.
There was a fatal accident last
Monday afternoon at the Kelly Island
ouarries southeast of Martinsburg.
While some men were trying to get q
stick of dynamite from hole in which
it had failed to 90 off it suddenly ex7
ploded, instantly killing John A.
Chrisman, assistant foreman, and i'm
juring his brother-in-law, Bernard
TinSman, and foreigner named
George HarSulic.
The Morgans Grove fair to be held
September I'd to 5th bids fair to be
one of the largest and best exhibitions
that has ever been held in this vicinity.
The association has secured the Smith
Greater Shows for this occasion. The
shows will be given both day and night.
Among the many attractions we men,
tioa are the animal show, the Tango
Dip, the Ferris wheel, the whip, min
Strel shows, etc. The company has
is own train, numbering Is cars. The
grounds will be brilliantly illuminated
at night, as the Smith COMPANY car
ries its own dynamo. Come and pass
a pleasant time with pleasant people
in pleasant way.
A very bad break in the c. & o.
canal occurred last Thursday night on
the four-mile level between Shepherds
town and Williamsport, and navigation
on this section of the canal has since
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