Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-05-13
LITTLE LOCALS.

f"O"~ company, are being removed
ana placed on poles owned by the pow
II company. Some years ago the two
IoHlpanleS used each others poles in
diScr!mInaieiy, IT being found that A
saving OF poles could be effected in
Inat way. When the telephone officials
were convinced that they were riskinp
injury TO the people using teIe,
phones IN having electric wires on
poles 10 which telephone wires were
connected, all their wires were remoy-
cd from poseS owned by the power
company. Power wires remained on
telephone poles till this time. The
work OF removing them has been start
co IN Charles Town. and will be con-
tinucd until the power COMPANY carries
all OF its wires on its own poles.
lhe Advocate that there will
De Twelve new cases on the ChanCerN
docket of the Jefferson Circuit Court
al the term beginning next week. The
Titles are; Sadie J, Taylor vs.. Thomas
}. Taylor; >. |. Knott, trustee, vs.. Hell
en- Myers and others; Shirley Iohn-
son VS.. Virginia Johnson; Alice H.
Smith VS.. Jno. A. Smith; Helen Downs
vs.. Howard Lee Downs: Ella Miski-
mon vs.. Mary j. Barrett; Charles f.
Blue vs.. G. W Blue and others. lanes
\. Grub, admr., vs.. Joseph A. Ketz-
ner, admr. Harriet E. thornton
guardian vs.. John Thomas Thornton
and others; Mary Nirr'-', Gibson VS..
Henry Harrison Gibson; Adam H..
Knight, guardian, VS.. Fannie Stuart and
others.
Miss Pendleton and Miss McCloud
announce the opening of The Little
Green Tea House in Shepherdstown
on May 18th, and from that date they
will serve lunSheonS and dinners TO
automobile parties and others who NAV
wish for good things to eat and a
peasant place TO rest and enjoy an
hour or two. Tea and other refresh
mentS will be served also, and our
town and neighoOring folks are invited
TO drop in. The ladies have also ar
ranged to carry on lending library,
Robert Gibson having discontinued
ibis line, and will have a nice col
lection of popular and recent novels
and other books at a modest price.
They have several hundred books on
hand now.
The weather was fine for farm work
all the past week, until Yesterday even
ing the clouds gathered and steady
rain began. A great deal of rain fel'
asst night, and it is still coming down
gently this morning. Some farmers
have managed to get a part of their
corn crop planted, but most of them
are still considerably behind with this
work. The weather has continued TO
be unseasonahly cool.
Some fine specimens of Mississippi
catfish have been taken from the Po-
iomac river in this vicinity the past
week. That new Washington county
fish law has not been violated. how
ever. The fish were captured only
after they had jumped out of the river
and chased our citizens far above low
water mark and tried to horn them.
There's no law against killing fish in
self-defense.
Wheat is still $500 a bushel, and a
good deal of it has been hauled to the
elevators the past week by farmers who
think this is about the top of the
bit of wheat in this section-Messrs.
Gilbert and Ernest Hendricks have B.
900 bushels and other farmers have
smaller amounts. Corn is quoted to-
day at $3.50.
Jefferson and Berkeley counties each
has one member of the graduating
class at the State University at Nor
gantown this year William Daniel
Hines, of Shepherdstown, is the Ief-
ferson county graduate, while Miss
Helen Elizabeth Msh, of Bunker Hill,
is the Berkeley representative. Both
graduate with the bachelor of arts
degree.
w. H. Somers, chief of the State
bureau of markets, after an eXamna-
ton of the Berkeley county apple
orchards, gives it as his opinion that a
crop of fully 100000 barrels may be
expected in that county this year, or
double last years yield. This will
mean about 5000 carloads.
Governor John ]. Cornwell has is
sued a proclamation setting aside next
week, May II to p, as American Le-
gion Week, and calls upon the people
to lend aid to the American Legion in
its drive for new members.
Charles w. Ostenton, a well-known
lawyer of FAYETTEVILLE, has been tenn
porarily appointed as national Demo
cratic committeeman for West Virginia
to succeed the late Col. John T. Nc.
GraW.
The Wild Shepherd farm of 200 acres
in Terrapin Neck, north of Shepherds
town, which has been in litigation for
years, has been purchased by Reuben
Fine, a Martinsburg lawyer, fer So.
COS.
The turnpike between Martnsburg
and Winchester has been closed to
through travel for an indefinite time
while the contractors are converting il
into a irst-casS highway.
The students of the West Virginia
University won their thirst strike and
the soft drink dispensers have reduced
prices in accordance with the students