Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-09-09
LITTLE LOCALS.

e., az S'opPSu In Town for
his friends VI
mrs. Robert Gibson gave very
oeIghtful card party and luncheon
Yesterday as a compliment 10 her
daughters, Mrs. Mitchell and MRS
ireaoweii, who are visiting her. Some
tnirty-hve or forty guests were enter-
tanned most agreeably.
Sugar continues to drop in tbe
wholesale markets and is being sold in
some stores as low as II cents a
pound. The price in Shepherdstown
ranges from 10 to % cents. II is pre.
aicted that it will get as low as IL
cents pound at retail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Morrison enter.
tanned at their home south OF town Mr.
and Mrs. John Hillsman, of lynch.
burg, Va, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben William
son and their daughter Eleanor, Of
Berkeley county, and Mr.. and Mrs.
I. N. Whiting, of Shepherdstown.
Early last Sunday morning Norfolk
& western passenger train No. 2 ran
into herd OF cattle belonging to c
r; Wall at Ramey's crossing west of
Charles Town and plowed right
through them. Nine steers were killed
outright and three others were Grip
pied
Congressman Geo. M. Bowers was
among the visitors at Morgan's Grove
fair last Thursday and enjoyed the da,
among his friends in this section. An
effort was made to have him serve as a
Judge at the baby show, but he was too
willy to be caught in such net-women
have a vote now!
G. d. Carter, one OF Bakerton,s most
enterprsing residents, has erected a
business building at that place and
Will open general merchandise store
within the next week or two. Bakerton
is live little town and as the lime
works are now running at full blast,
business is very brisk.
The board of education of Shep
herdstown district has purchased the
Randolph Campbell house and two
acres of ground at Skeetersville, mile
east of Duffields, paying $3.50 for the
property 1t is intended to erect there
a new school-house for the colored
children OF the Duffields neighborhood
The Shepherdstown Graded School
began its fall session Tuesday with an
enrolment Of BIS. Principal Gee T.
Knode is in charge and teaches the
ninth grade, added this year. while
Mrs. Clyde Grubbs takes the eighth
grade. Miss Frances Daley, new
appointee, will teach the seventh
grade.
Prof. Wilson H. S. White, the new
president of Shepherd College, brought
his family here from Morgantown last
week, and they are now getting settled
in the cottage adjacent to the dormi-
tory, which they will occupy for the
present Prof. Miller moved out last
week, and will ship his goods to Nor
| gantown.
Captain w. r. Snodgrass, Of Mar
tinsburg, who has been for many years
a passenger conductor on the Cum
berland Valley Railroad, and a popular
and efficient officer, retired from ac-
tive service the lst of September. He
will be missed by the travelling pub
| lie, who always found him to be q
courteous and kindhearted gentleman.
The boatmen on the c. & o. Canal
last week struck for an increase for
hauling coal over that waterway. as it
is believed that the 40 per cent in
crease on freight allowed the rail-
roads will also apply to canal trans
portation. After being out two days
the canal managers allowed the boat
men an increase Of Ave cents a ton
on coal hauled to Georgetown, which
will amount to FIVE or six dollars more
for each round trip.
Miss Katheryn Beethoven. who for
the past couple of years has been with
the music department of the Flora
Mcdonald School in North Carolina,
has been appointed to have charge OF
the instrumental music department OF
the State Normal School at Fairmont,
w. Va, and leaves on Friday to as
sumo the duties OF her new place,
Miss Beltzhoover is thoroughly we'll
qualified to fill this position, as she
has studied in some Of the best music
Conservatives in the United States.
Shepherd College State Normal
School will begin its fall session next
Wednesday, September 18th, when 1t Is
expected that there will be full corps
of teachers on hand. President White
and Profs. Kenamond and Muldoon are
all away this week engaged in institute
work in various counties tributary to
Shepherd College. Ii is not anticipated
that the attendance at the coming
session will be so very large, as the
condition requiring one year OF high
school before entering the normal will
cut out a considerable number who
would otherwise enroll.
There was an exciting episode at
Harper's Ferry early last Friday morn
ing. AS a big truck from Winchester,
On which wac loaded an electric pump
that was being taken to Baltimore for
repairs, was descending the long hill
leading into Harper's Ferry the driver
lost control, and in trying to make the
turn at Shenandoah street the truck
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