Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-12-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

the Register, give us your name and n
dollar and a-half and receive the paper
durinG 1921. Every family in the COM
munty ought TO read the RegiSter-its
own copy, OF course.
W. II. Crowl, north of town, furnish
ed the large and beautiful cedar tree
that will be used as community
Christmas tree in MartinSburg this
year. II was cut along the river above
town and is an especially fine speci-
men.
II is singular that the people of
Berkeley county tolerate the sort of
road they have between Martinsburg
and ShepherdStown. The Jefferson
county end is bad enough-but, oh,
that stretch near Winebrenner's Cross
Roads!
A baseball association was organ
lzed in Charles Town on Monday, and
II is proposed to have a good team for
the season of 1921. Henry Weiss.
proprietor of the Palm Hotel, was
elected manager and treasurer Shep-
herdsnwn will be ready to give them
interesting games next summer.
Last week thieves stole a barrel of
cider from Butler Ronemous' home on
Sandy Ridge, south of town. They
played the same sort of trick last year,
and Mr., Ronemous no longer regards
il as a Joke. He offers a reward of ten
dollars for information that Will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the robbers.
Winter set in on Tuesday, according
TO the almanac, but the weather was
not as cold as il had been a few davs
earlier Wednesday morning opened
IN very cloudy, and rain began to
fall carly in the afternoon. There's
no' much prospect of white Christ
mas from the present outlook.
The Register has added 20 its sub
Scription list the past week a number pf
new names those of persons whose
friends are sending them the paper az
"a Christmas present If you haven't
yet made UP your mind as to what YOU
can do for a friend here or away from
home, give years subscription to the
Register
The ShepherdStown postoffice this
week has had the characteristics of a
freight station, an express Office and a
roStottice. Postmaster Lucas ami his
assistants have been pretty nearly
swamPcd with parcel post packages
of all sizes and shapes. One evening
between thirty and forty bushel
baskets OF apples were mailed.
A young orchard of 80 acres planted
out last spring by Rouss Brothers on
their farm near Kabletown was found
on inspection a few days ago no have
in nt,lx ,
rivaled record jn orchard experience
James K Mason, the orchard manager
says he never knew Of young orchard
losing such small number of trees.
Daniel Willard has been reelected
president of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road. We think that he should not
have been chosen again for this import
ant Office, for he can neither see or
hear. That is, he is too blind to see
the wretched shack that serves as a
station at Shenandoah Junction and
he is too deaf TO hear the continual
complaints Of the travellers who are
forced to use it.
We still have at the Register Office
two or three copies of Matthew Page
Andrews book, "Women Of the South
in War Time," which we will let go to
those who first ask for them. The price
is $3.50. This is volume that will be
priced by the people of this community
generally, as i. has number Of refer
ences to Shepherdstown and Shep-
herdstown people during the Civil War.
The, book will make an especially de-
sirable Christmas present.
The Alsatia basketball team of Ha-
gerstown played all around the Shep-
herdstown quint in the firemen's hall
here last Monday night, winning by the
score Of AZ to II. The Alsatas are
the best team that has ever played in
shepherds own. and they gave a re.
markable exhibition Of real classy bas-
ketoall. Our team was entirely out
classed and never had a chance with
the experts from over the river. Legge
was the star OF the home team and
scored most of our eleven points.
DR.. J. o. Knott, now Of Washing
ton, ID. c., who has been director and
lecturer for the past season with the
Radcliffe Chautauqua, has accepted an
offer from Chautauqua and Lyceum
bureau Of Cincinnati, Ohio, and is en-
gagged for every day in the incoming
year. For the most of the time DR.,
Knott will do purely lecture work on
moral, religious and patriotic themes,
The bureau with which he is identified
IS composed largely of ministers. The
salary to be paid, it is understood, is
quite liberal one, and the bureau en-
cages to retain DR.. Knott for five years
If he will remain so long with it,
Folks from the West Virginia Uni
versity who came 10 their homes in
the Eastern Panhandle had hard
time of it the past week because of
poor railroading on the B. & o. Rail-
road. Those who tried to make con-
nections at Connellsvile failed on
Saturday and Sunday, and were strand
ed there for hours. Saturday those
who sought to come by wav Of Grafton
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