Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-22
LITTLE LOCALS.

daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. |. M Rush
celebrated her sixth birthday tuesday
evening, when a number of her youth.
ful friends gathered on the lawn AZ her
nome on Main street and enjoyed a
pleasant little party.
Short rate crop insurance costs very
little, and some times is badly needed
Let us protect your crop and live stock
Charies Town Real Estate and Insur.
anee agency, second floor Sadler
BLOCK, Charles Town, W. Va. Once
phone OK, residence phone 2Ol-2S.
The Palm Hotel at Charles Town.
which has been closed since last Ianu-
airy, Is TO be reopened and will be ready
lot business by August LIST. The
Motel has been leased by Henry W.
weiss, VINO has managed the Hotel
oonner at Harper's Ferry for the past
year or two.
L. X. Lefever, local agent for the
Metropolitan Life Insurance COMPANY.
has been awarded a handsome medal
by his company in recognition of his
services. Mr.. Lefever has been in the
service of the Metropolitan for the
past ten years, and is Justly proud of
the medal.-Advocate.
The Presbyterian reunion will he
held at Pen-Mar next Thursday. July
18TH. The Norfolk g. Western Rail
way VIII operate a special excursion
tram, leaving ShepherdStown at $50
a. m, and returning leave Pen-Mar al
P: m. Fare for the round trip will be
Sl.2O, plus war tax.
Last Sunday the Norfolk & Western
Baltimore to the Luray Caverns,
taking the train from the Western
Maryland Railroad at Hagerstown.
There were thirteen big coaches.
crowded to the doors, pulled bv two
locomotives. The train passed through
Shepherdstown fairly flying.
Why raise a crop of wheat or hay
and run the risk of losing it BY fire
or lightning, when the cost of a
SPECIAL CROP POLICY issued in
one of the oldest and largest com
panies in the world" fully protecting
you is so small? Phone or use our re-
turn postal card and we will put yCur
policy in force at once. Washington.
Alexander and Cooke. los. H. Trout,
sub-agent.
Last Saturday Walter w. Winters.
who has wireless outfit al his home
IN ShepherdStown, was interested in
Catching messages from the airplaneS
that are making a flight from New
York to Alaska, describing the prog
ress of their journey through the air.
Mr.. Winters gets news from all over
the world at his wireless station, and
each evening at o'clock gets the time
from the Eiffel tower at Paris.
The appalling statement is made
by the Hagerstown Mail that 20 per
cent of the population of that COM
munity are afflicted with evil diseases.
According TO statistics given out BY the
State clinic, about 5000 cases of
venereal diseases are now Being sreat-
ed by the clinic, and it is said that many
more are being treated by family
physicians. DR.. Wroth is in charge Of
the situation, which is REGARDED as a
serious menace to the health of the
people of that section of the State.
Miss. Bessie L. Pick, aged Is years,
was arrested a few days ago on the
charge of embezzling nearly $4,000
from the Baltimore agency of the Ma
tonal Life Insurance Company of Yer
mont, where she was employed as
cashier. She confessed that she stole
the money at the solicitation Of Frank
D. Schultz, her lover. also of Baltil
more, and that he got most of it.
Schultz was arrested for receiving the
stolen money, and will in addition have
to answer to the federal authorities on
the charge of violating the white slave
act, as he is alleged to have taken Miss
Pick to Charles Town and spent sew
eral DAYS with her there
Widening and enlarging the con-
crete bridge over the run at Halltown
is part of the improvement now be-
ing made on the Harper's Ferry pike.
The forms have been set fer the ad-
ditional concrete work on the bridge,
and in few days the latter will be
will enable travellers entering or
emerging from . the Shepherdstown
road to turn without negotiating the
sharp angle that has made the inter-
section of the two roads there famous.
The curve at the turn will be rounded
and not so sharp as was the old turn
Advocate.
A strange young man who said his
name is ]. G. Johnson made brief
visit to Charles Town last week. trav-
cling on motorcycle. His visit COM
passed less than "a hours, yet it was
long enough to convince some Of our
good people that he sa man Of "tak-
ing" ways. He spent the night at
boarding house where several regular
boarders make their home, and paid
for his meals and lodging in advance.
The morning after his arrival he went
to the second floor of the house. and
finding a suitcase there, proceeded to
make it useful to himself, although it
was the property of one of the other
boarders. Two suits of clothing. one