Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
LITTLE LOCALS.

Ioyed sumptuous repast.
]. M. Miley, Of the Standard Oil
Company at Charles Town, was run
down by an automobile in that place
one night last week and severely hurt.
No bones were broken, but he was
badly bruised and shaken UP.
David Welshans, of the Swan Pond
neighborhood, received a compound
fracture of his right arm near the
wrist last Friday by coming in con-
tact with fodder shredder. He was
taken to the City Hospital in Martins
burg for treatment.
Word comes this morning that the
Shepherd College basketball team last
night defeated Allegany High School
at Cumberland by the score OF II to
IS. This is a mighty good start for
the present tour of our boys, for Al
legany has been counted as one OF
the strongest teams they are to meet
this trip.
Clarence Richard, the eleven-year-
old boy whose skin had turned black
because OF some peculiar disease
died at his home near Willamsport,
Md, last Sunday. Physicians finally
decided that his disease was homo
lytllc StreptococuS, a malady that is
very rare in this country.
An interesting meeting of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and their guests was held last Monday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Geo. NJ.
Knott in commemoration Of the birth
day OF General Robert E. Lee A
Z nIpnCtnu -
held and then refreshments were
served.
Mrs. A. S. Brilliant, of Washing
ton, formerly of Shepherdstown. an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Ella Mason, to Mr.. Webster
Hrentiss True. he wedding will take
place in the early summer. Mr.. True
is the son of the late Frederick w
True and Mrs. Louise p. True, of
Washington
Charles, Oliver and William Manuel,
or Shenandoah Junction, who had
been accused of stealing lumber from
a raj road car at Shenandoah Iunc-
ton, had their triaal in the United
| states Court at ParkerSburg the first
OF the week. The jury returned a
verdict OF not guilty and the men were
released from custody.
s. A. Hays, of ParkershIlrg, internal
revenue collector for West Virginia
announces that a new method of dis
Scfninatlng information about the in
come taxes VIII be adopted in this dis
trict AT once. This involves the es-
!aollShng of information bureaus at
farNerSburg, ClarkSburg Wheeling.
Huntington, Charleston and Elkins.
"A chief will be placed in charge of
cach with seven deputies reporting
10 him.
On the charge of having withdrawn
FUNDS from his bank for use in private
business transactions, Henry f.
MIngert, president of the First Ma
tlonal Bank of Hagerstown, was taken
oetore Judge Rose in the United States
Court at Baltimore last week and
he!d in $4,000 bail for a further
hearing. No crime is alleged against
Mr. Wlngert, who is one of the lead
ing residents OF Hagerstown, but his
action was irregular, it is said, and not
IN strict conformity with the bank
ing laws.
mere Is noticeable scarcity of
calendars this year. The exceedingly
nigh prices have had the effect of cut
ing down production, ard firms that
used to scatter them lavishlv have
provided none At all. los. II. Trout
came to the rescue of the Register Of
nee with a couple of needed insur-
/ ance calendars, and the Moore Realty
and Insurance Company also sent us
one. There is general complaint thai
mere are not enough calendars TO 90
around this year.
ne weather has been anything but
pleasant this week. A snow storm
started the week Monday morning
covering the grounds to the depth of a
couple OF inches. Then came rain and
S!eet, making the pavements slipperv
all over town. This Thursday morn
ing it has been sleeting again. and il
5 scarcely safe TO walk in the streets.
much less on the sidewalks. Older
folKs don't like it very much. but
Wnat good time the Youngsters are
'aFing with their slcds,
bad freight wreck occurred last
Saturday night on the Norfolk &
Western Railway about a hundred
yards south OF Bovce station. when y
doubie-header train buckled in the
middle. Sixteen freight cars were
lammsd into a heap, destroying a lot of
valuable merchandise. Three car
roads OF Ford automobiles were
smashed. Fortunately no person was
hurt. passenger trains No | and ,
were detoured, being run over the B.
q y. valley Branch from Charles
own 10 Winchester and Strasburg
ana thence by the Southern Railway
10 RIverton-and vice versa.
Inc plant of the Cumberland Val.
ley Fruit Products Company at Mar
tInSburg, the principal owners OF
winch were 7. !. and !. NJ. Kistlcr
was sold on Monday last to the
Shenandoah Valley Apple, Cider and
Vinegar COrnoratinn Of Mir,hn..n.