Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-11-25
LITTLE LOCALS.


appointed postmaster at Hagerstown BY
President Wilson, succeeding John r
sweeney, who died a week or two ago
Inc salary is $500 wear. The
question is, Will a Republican Senate
confirm the appointment?
There has been a great slump in the
price OF hogs, and in Chicago on Tues,
aay there was a decline of dollar
hundredweight, bringing the price
down to about $40 a hundredweight.
ms is big drop from the peak price
laSt year, when on July SlStthey reach
ca >IS.oo. There is a great plenty of
nogS In the country, $4,000 being Of
tered for sale on Tuesday in the ten
principal markets of the country.
The sale of Jersey cattle by the
Misses Mclntire at Kearneysville last
thursday was quite a successful one,
me cattle bringing excellent prices.
Eleven of the cattle brought $1,000
One COW sold at $3.50 and a calf at
SIS, while three cows sold al over $500
each. Two heifers, one eleven months
old and one nine months sold for $500
Tor the pair. The bull, Buckeye" sold
for S262.
County Engineer Hendricks Is con.
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III which the road making machinery
will be housed from the winter
weather. Our county has lost many
thousands of dollars by having its en-
gneS and crushers and other ma.
chlnery left to the elements through the
winter and at other times when not
in use. The new building will be 80
BY $50 feet in size and will be fire
proof.
The apple season is about ended in
this section, the last carloads being
shipped this week BY Z. l.. Colds
Borough. II. G. Lampe is also send
ing out the last of his crop. The Mar
tinSburg Fruit Exchange has cleaned ur
is shipments, having sold 2S5 car
leads this season. The profits have
not been as good this year as had been
'lopcd for by the growers. Labor ano
barrels and freights have been higher
known, while prices have not been up
. fair proportion.
Turkeys have been selling in this
nelghborhood the past week at 35 to
43 cents pound. live weigh The
supply has been about equal to the dc
mand, probably because the demand
has been very limited at these high
prices. Great quantities of turkeys
used to be raised in this section, but
Tor the past ten years il has been very
difficult to keep them alive TO maturity.
Some disease as yet unknown has
killed them off until most persons have
become discouraged in their efforts tc
raise flock.
H. P. White, agent of the State
Roads Commission, was in Jefferson
county recently checking up delinquent
automobile licenses. He reports that
he found number Of cars running
with only one license tag, which is not
in compliance with the law-every car
must have a license tag both on the
front and rear. G. M. Kearns, the new
traffic officer, has been instructed to
have the regulations concerning auto.
mobiles more strictly enforced The
new license year begins the first OF
January, instead of the first of July, as
formerly, and blanks will be sent out
the first of December.
Fashion demands heavy woolen
stockings this season, but West Vir-
gnia girls, with their delicate peach
blow skin, cannot endure the irrita-
ton of the scratchy wool, for fashion
demands that the stockings this winter
must be of the heavy, scratchy sort af-
fected by golfers However, there has
been found a way out of the difficulty.
The girls first draw on stockings of
flmy silk, mere cobwebby things, and
then draw the woolen stockings on over
them. The silk stockings are rolled
down to a point just below the knee
cap and the good old voolens are rolled
down to about the point where shoe
tops used to come in the days when a
o. Ir1 h.oL st,
apology.
To supply dwellings for their employ
ees, the Keystone Limestone Company
at Millville has awarded contract for
the construction of Ten frame dwell
ing. of six rooms each to the Halltown
Building and Lumber Co. Each dwell
ing is to have a cellar under the entire
building, with a laundry equipment in
part Of it. Each house will have a bath
room, electric light, and a ppeless fur
mace. The same lumber company is
building an attractive home of ten rooms
at Halltown for Philip Nelson, the man
ager Of the Halltown Paper Board Com
pany. The new dwelling is being erec-
ted on the north side of the railroai and
west of the Eyster residence there A
roadway to it will be made from the pike
just east of the public school bulling
Being an interested spectator during
the hearing of Dora Thomas, a Charles
Town ncgress, which was held Monday
afternoon before u. S. Commissioner
II. A. Downs, resulted in George
Staley, a colored resident of the same
iown, heinC arrested and held to await
the action Of a federal grand Jury. Th-
/ inpmas womanS house was raiued
several weeks ago by prohibition Of
fcers, who secured eleven quarts of
pure red whiskey, all bottled in bond
/ The woman was placed under arrest
and her trial set for Monday. When