Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26
LITTLE LOCALS.

DR.. Horace Banks, of this place
has been made a member of the stat,
OF the Kings Daughters Hospital in
Martinseurg, and his patients who
need surgical operations will be cared
for there
One year ago yesterday the National
Highway Garage was DESTROYED by
hre. The enterprise of the pro.
prietors is shown by the fact that to.
day they are at home in one Of the
largest and best garages in all this
section.
Although an all-day rain interfered
with the lawn fete held in Charles
Town last Friday for the benefit Of the
hospital and the affair had 10 be held
indoors, the financial returns seem not
to have been seriously affected. More
than 81 200 was realized.
c. ]. Miller's peach orchards west of
town are the center of attraction this
week, as several varieties of peaches
are now at their best. Folks drive
TO the orchards from every section OF
Jefferson county and from Berkeley
and help themselves to the fruit. paw
ing dollar a basket or two dollars a
buShel.
We are asked TO say that first
premium of rs cents and a second
premium Of so cents will be given for
the best ounce Jelly, plum iellv,
damson jelly, damson preserve and ap-
pie preserve exhibited at the Morean's
Grove fair next week. These articles
were overlooked in making out the
premium list and are not printed in
the fair book.
S. w. Lightner, who has been
cashier of the Bank of Harper's Ferry
since its organization more than TWEEN
y-two years ago, has resigned because
of failing health, and his place has
been taken by J. G. Newcomer r.
J. Burleigh is president of the bank.
A. A. Lamon, of the Bakerton neigh
borhood, has been elected a director
of the bank.
Cassaway Cross, former resident
OF Harper's Ferry, and in years gone by
an active politician and devoted adj
herent of the late Henry C. Davis, has
retired from active work after more
than thirty years service in the in
ternal revenue service of the govern.
spent in Baltimore and Pittsburg. He
has been put on the retired list anG
has located at his old home in
Harper's Ferry.
Arch T. Stanley has been working
on the town clock for the past several
weeks, cleaning il up and making ad-
justmentS so as to get IL in hrst-class
running order. The fine old clock has
been responding to the treatment in
excellent style, and keeps good time
and strikes the hours in silvery tones
with its oldtime regularity. BY the
time he gets through with il Mr.. STAN
ley is sure that the clock will do its
full duty-providing il is wound reg
ularly.
Michael H. Neville, rural mail car
rier on Route No. 5 out of Martins
burg for nearly eighteen years, made
his last trip on Friday, when he retired
from the service in accordance With the
ruling of the Postoffice Department I'M
der the new law that provides for tho
pensioning OF government employees.
MIR. Neville, who is rs years Of age
made his first trip on October I. 1902,
and has given good service since that
time, seldom missing a day. He gets
pension of S36.25 a month.
A negro named Ollie Arnett vas ar
rested last Thursday night charged
with criminal assault upon Mrs.
Charles Kiester at the four-mile
north Of Martinsburg The
husband of the woman IS said to have
furnished homemade wine to a party
Of negroes, and the assault was the Sc
quel. The negro was taken to the
penitentiary at Moundsville to prevent
possible trouble. Chas. W. Brown,
who was in Jail for numbering his wife,
was also taken to the penitentiary for
Probably the largest individual crop
Of commercial apples raised this fall
in Virginia will be produced BY the
trees on the fruit farms Of State Sena-
tor Harry F. Byrd, of Winchester, the
output being conservatively estimated
at 10000 barrels. Senator Byrd has
$4,000 trees, OF which
10000 are bearing fruit. He and his
brother, Thomas B. Byrd. have $4,000
trees in Shenandoah
and they are preparing q to
market about 5000 bushels Of peaches
from their farm in that county.
]. M. Small, on the Williamsport
pike, reports having picked up 1874
sparrows either dead or half-dead
from the effects of the electrical and
rain storm on Wednesday night, all
Of them having been injured while
seeking shelter in a big cherry tree
near his home. He picked up 1874 Of
them himself; and two big cats had
eaten their fill of the birds before Mr..
Small arrived. The assumption is that
the birds either were stunned by the
lightning or were half drowned by the
wash Of the water.-Martnsbur
World.
Empty whiskey barrels. it is said.
have lately played a part in furnish