Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-08-11
BRIEFS.

II 30. .Uo,erly. see Ernest D. Jones.
r..chers' institute for Jefferson
mt begins August I'D in Shep-
herdstown.
uO- sale-A willard steel range, in
- condition. Apply 10 Marvin
Knott at Uvil'a,
4, addition 25 by 80 feet is being
,r;i, TO the public school building at
RippOn, this county.
The Reformed Sunday school and
.o.Sreeation had a delightful picnic
Tmesday at the fair grounds.
Wheat has advanced in price the
49,, week and is quoted today at S1.l0
bushel. Corn is 60 cents.
II is expected that West Virginia
University will open in September with
:, enrolment of $500 students.
Wanted, a comfortable little home
n Shepherdstown, house Of four to
s;y rooms with garden. Apply to ].
strider Moler.
The Potomac river is still too cloudy
N fish for bass, but it is clearing up
and should be fit for sport by the first
of the week.
There are FIVE or six cases of typhoid
fever in Martinsburg, but il IS not an
tcipated that there will be anything
like an epidemic.
For Sale-Two good work horses
and one family driving mare. Apply
TO E. L. Goldsborough, Shepherd
town. Phone l0-K.
Its the Laun-Dry-Ette Electric
Washer that has no wringer. The
agea; for Jefferson county is A. |.
Crandstaf, Charles Town.
George DevonShire, well-known
colored man of town, has bought
fve-passenger Chevrolet automobile
and will run il as taxicab.
Charles Towns horse show will b.
held Wednesday and Thursday of next
week, August 18th and 18th. 1t
promises TO be a big success.
The ladies of St. Peters Catholic
Church at Harper's Ferry will have
a biz lawn party there on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday Of this week.
1t pays to keep good breeding stock.
For stock ewes and rams, of real quail
iy, see W. c. RELY & Son, Charles
Town. w. Va. Telephone 2l5-13.
The Lutheran harvest home supper
will be held this Thursday evening"
beginning at 5 o'clock. A fine supper
Of chicken, country ham, ETC., will be
served for so cents.
Quite a number of Shepherdstown
boys went to Washington last Sunday,
taking advantage of the excursion
rates to that city and enjoying the
League baseball game.
The annual harvest home supper OF
the Uvilla M. E. Church will be served
in the hall at Uvilla on Thursday,
August 18th, from to o'clock. Re-
treShments will be served in the grove.
Everybody invited.
We have some good 2-year-old west
ern ewes for sale at farm near Lee
town. They have real quality and are
priced to sell. See these ewes before
buying. w. c. RELY & Son, Charles
Town, w. Va, Telephone 2l5-13.
The ladies of the Methodist Church
OF Middleway will hold a festival at
tnat place Thursday night, August
!o'n, for the purpose OF raising money
Tor new lights in the church. Re-
treshments Of all sorts will be served.
Everybody invited.
Last Saturday while G. c. Kackle,
vas digging a post-hole on Walter
Cations farm he found a sterling silver
cuH button two feet under ground. II
had on it the initial c. He is curious
10 know who may have lost it-this
Item may cause the owner to tell about
il.
Inc operation that was to have been
Performed last Saturday on little Jack
montgomery at Johns Hopkins Hos
pNal, Baltimore, was not done. An
exploratory operation indicated that
.ne hoped-for relief would not be OBJ
famed, while the danger Of fatal re-
sun was too great to render the major
operation advisable.
r.. Last Thursday the body of William
;aMzgerald Jones, Of Martinsburg, was
.Nerreo with military honprs in Airing
T 1Th national Cemetery, Washington.
nne young man, who was % years old,
WIS son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
.ones' He died in France from pneu-
mohia on November 8, 1918, Just three
Ways before the armistice was signed.
Inc supper and lawn fete held b,
Me boy Scouts in front Of the old COL
we building last Saturday evening
vas quite a success. A nice little
,u'a was realized, and the boys ere
" Ge congratulated for their splendid
III, SGIh' The people cannot patronize
~,.s organization too much, as il is q
soIlhy institution, which has the
america OF tomorrow in its making.
The United State Harness Comoanv