Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-05
LITTLE LOCALS.

N''S@"eHl ELSEWHERE IN this pa
! per.
Martinsburg was making arrange
| tnehts lot concert By the United
States Marine Band Of Washington.
he band agreed to come for II GOO
Tor one night, with an extra $500 for
an afternoon concert. Negotiations
suddenly failed.
Wheat has jumped I'D and down the
past week in spectacular fashion. the
result being a net loss of 20 cents a
oushel. Our local dealers are today
offering S2.25 a bushel Corn has al
so suffered a decline of is cents \
'ushel, the price today being Sl.4S.
Mrs. Gilbert Hendricks, of the
Shenandoah Junction neighborhood,
was taken very ill with acute ap
pendicitis last Saturday, and was bur
ried to hospital in Martinsburp,
where she was operated upon. The
operation was successfully performed
and she is getting along very well.
The Rumsey Hotel property in this
place. owned by E. H. Reinhart and
the estate of Nj. B. Baker, was offered
at public sale last Saturday, but was
not sold, being withdrawn at bid of
$4,000. The property will be offered
privately, and prospective purchasers
may consult Mr. Reinhart, of this
place, or Henry S. Baker, of Washing
ton, administrator.
]. G. McKown, of Martinsburg. and
E, Blair Pancake, of Cumberland, have
bought the entire peach crops from
group of orchards on the west sid
OF the mountain near ROmney for
sum said to be in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The crop it is estimated. will
make about 100 cars, and the ship
ment OF the fruit will continue through
the entire season.
A delegation of Hagerstown folks
went to Baltimore on TUESDAY to
present arguments for the pardon of
Bruce McCleary, who brutally murder
ed woman in that city eight years
ago. He was sentenced to life i'm
prIsonment and has served seven
years. Some of the most prominent
men of Hagerstown, including those
who knew most about the murder, are
opposed to the pardon. The pardon
board on Tuesday. after hearing state
ments from McCleary's friends, de-
clined to recommend a pardon.
The weather has been perfectly de-
lightful all this week The days have
been bright and pleasant and the nights
cool and comfortable. Farmers have
about finished making hay, and the
heavy crop has been housed in the
best of condition, with practically none
damaged by rain. Fine showers last
Sunday afternoon were very beneficial
to the growing corn, and another good
rain or two will see this crop pretty |
safe. All vegetation is growing lux
uriantly and garden truck is very
abundant
1--WE have a good wheat crop that is !
averaging from 20 to 30 bushels of
fine quality about here" writes George |
c. Rissler, former Jeffersonian now
living at Buckner, Mo. The outlook |
for a yield of wheat in that county as
late as May was do discouraging that
one of his neighbors offered to sell his
crop to another neighbor for $500. if |
the latter would agree to harvest and
thresh it. The offer was declined. |
The owner last week threshed the crop
and sold it for S6,337O7, exactly S.
537O7 more than he had offered to
take for it in May-Charles Town Ad- |
vocate.
The State Department of Public
Safety will in the future enforce the |
automobile license laws of West Vir-
ginia, according to announcement made |
by G. P. Fortney, State Road Commits
sioner. Arrangements have been made
between the two departments where
by the State police will add this to their
duties. The road commission est-
mates that at present large number
of owners Of cars are escaping the pay
ment of the required taxes and that
by vigorous steps to break up the
practice at least $1,000 monthly will be
added to the income of the DEPART
ment.
Congressman George M. Bowers, A.
G. Nadenbousch, Harry H. Rutherford,
Wilbur H. Thomas and Emory Thomas,
of Martinsburg, have purchased the
orchard owned by Rev. DR.. John A.
Kern, about one mile west of Winches-
ter and adjoining the Henry orchard.
The plant contains about 60 acres OF
bearing trees and it is estimated that
it will yield at least 5000 barrels this
year. All equipment was included in
the deal. The purchase price was said
to be $4,000. These gentlemen re-
Gently purchased the Henry orchard.
Rev. DR.. Kern is professor of political
economy, moral philosophy and
Biblical literature at Randolph Macon
College, Ashland, Va.
John w. Branson, well-known
colored man of Shepherdstown, better
known as "Uncle Wickie," died at his
home in this place last Saturday, aged
81 years. He was good man, and
many friends, both white and colored,
will miss him." Uncle Wickie" in slave
times belonged to the family Of the
late Levi Moler, south Of town. grand
father of Edward T. Moler. and was
well brought up. All his life he
was a polite. quiet. ell-behaved man,