Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-06-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

tne Register? III YOU are not consider
TINS an invitation 10 subscribe for il.
II VIII be sent TO your address a wear
Tor sl.eo, or six months for rs cents.
DR.. W. E. Perry. wen.known
physician OF Halltown for many years
past, mas bought home az Bolivar
Heights, Harper'S Ferry, and has
moved to that place with his family.
On another page Of the Register this
week may be found an interesting
story concerning the harness scandal
under investigation by the government.
and which is OF local interest because
the factory at Charles Town is con.
cerned.
Persons who have to change cars n
Shenandoah Junction have been en-.
toying the delightful days and pleasant
nights of the past week. They don't
nave TO sit in the shack used for n sta
ton there, and are thus enabled 10 avoid
the unsanitary bugs that have pre-.
empted the hut
movement has been naugurated
TO organize chamber of commerce
TOT Shepherdstown, and signatures
are being taken for this purpose at
Gioson's drug store. II is hoped that
an organization may b. affected nj n
meeting TO be held in the council
chamber Friday night.
Mr.. Zeph Bane, one of the oldes,
residents OF the county, making his
home with his son-in-law and daueb-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Brown.
four miles west Of Charles Town is suf
tering with whooping cough with all tho
| SNmntnmc thot un,.1I
years OF age when attacked by the dis
case. Mr.. Bane, who will be 81 wears
old in September next. is willing 10 bear
the whooping cough. just so he doesn't
get infantile paralysis.
The National Biscuit Company has
made a reduction in the price of its
cakes amounting in some instances 10
fifteen cents pound. The bakers who
supply this community with bread have
made reduction Of about cent a
pound, though everybody knows that
the greatly reduced price of flour ought
to impel them to real reduction. The
price in Shepherdstown is Q cents a
loaf, though one store sells il at 8 cents.
Mrs Mary Ollie Emory, of Morgan,
Town, who has been visiting the family
Of Mr.. Geo. M. Beltzhoover in Shep
herdstown Tor the past month or two,
has returned home Mrs. Emory has
Just been appointed by Governor Nor
gan to be an inspector for the Bureau
OF Labor by State Labor Commissioned
q. y. Daugherty. Her work will prin-
clpally be inspection Of manufacturing
plants and mercantile establishments
where women are employed.
There was series of sharp storms
last Friday evening and night, with
fierce lightning and thunder and heavy
showers of rain. Feather beds are
going out Of fashion, and in such
storms as these it Is hard to ind a safe
refuge from the lightning. One OF
the bolts of lightning struck the top
Of the water tank that supplies the
town with water and slightly damaged
il. There was a rumor that lightning
had struck the big iron bridge Of the
Norfolk & Western Railway, but in
spection showed that no damage had
been done.
Last Sunday was an ideal June day,
but it looked like September Morn to
William Bell, garage man of Hancock,
who happened to get UP early to attend
to scme work. He saw figure calm
ly strolling about the street, and call
ing Constable Barnhart and securing
blanket or two they took into custody
Margaret Ranch, seventeen-vcar-O
girl. II appeared that Margaret. who
,, lives about four miles from Hancock
had come to town without having
brought any clothes along. Except for
being trifle chilly, she was entirely
unconcerned, and it seemed to make
f,a- ,t..st II,
clothes or not. Her father was COM
municated with and took her back home
I He said she was weak minded.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register, Mr.. II. A. Moler, former
Jefferson county boy, writes us as fol-
lows from Eleele, Kanai, Hawaiian
Islands: Enclosed find money order
for renewal Of Register, which hope
/ will continue to come regularly. ] was
very much interested in reading of
, your travels in Florida. but to SEQ
Gods own countries" come TO South
ern California, then after due time con-
tinue on to Hawaii, and ! am sure you
will have enough OF interest to write
to cause the Florida trip to seem like
going to an adjoining county. Ny
prophecy one year ago as to conditions
here seems not to materialize. Owing
to low price of sugar and scarcity of
labor, it strains ones optimistic views
as to the future in these islands.
Best wishes for yourself and Register.
A. c. Kinsell, one of Scrabble's
prominent residents, was in Shep-
herdstown on Monday, and in con-
versation with Register reporter
, said that all was quiet along the
Potomac. Scrabble. however. is with
out mayor, magistrate or police force
at present AS is well known, the
city lies partly in Berkeley and partly
in Jefferson counties, the town run
being the dividing line. The populace
cannot agree on a division Of the
Offices, each side of the line insisting