Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-08-18
LITTLE LOCALS.

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Inc women tell fortunes in the same
old way, but the occupation of the men,
morse trading, Is not tiourishing one
IN these days OF automobiles. They
have a lot of horses with them, but
trading is dull.
Andrew b. Burnett, of Winebren-
ner's Cross Rosds, has decided To move
10 Colorado with his family, and will
sell his household effects on Wednes-
day, August SlSt leaving for the West
week or two later. Mrs. Burnett's
health has not been good for some time
past, and they are going TO Colorado
In the hope that change may benefit
her.
Daniel G. Shipley's famous old
beagle hound, Joe, is dead He acted
In a peculiar way the first of the week,
ana Mr.. SIMPLIFY, who thinks that the
dog was poisoned. had him killed. Joc
has probably chased more rabbits than
any other dog in this neighhorhood, for
he was in great demand by hunters in
the fall of the year and was always
ready for this form OF sport.
We are sorry to note that Mr.. Paul
Davis, of Sharpsburg district, former
ly OF ShepherdStown, on the advice of
his physician has gone to the sani-
tarium at Sabillasville, Md, to take
treatment for a throat affection thar
has been annoying him for some time.
Inc latest report is that his condition
is encouraging and il is hoped that he
vii! soon be able to get back home.
A good many persons in this district
n h.
cents in the road tax for this year, in
creasing the rate from fifteen cents to
twenty-five cents. They say that most
OF the money collected for road pur-
poses is wasted on temporary and futile
repairs, and that our roads are con-
tinually getting worse-W,hy collect
money from the farmers in these times
OF depression when no permanent good
results
To enforce a claim for debt alleged
to be due it, the Kearneysville Cream
cry Company has entered suit against
the Wise Brothers, in the operation Of
the creamery at Kearneysville. A
iispendens notice of the institution OF
the suit was filed in the Office of the
circuit clerk last week. According TO
this notice the creamery COMPANY
seeks to attach and sell certain real
estate near Kearneysville for the dis
charge Of the plaintiffs claim.
william Luria, who has been en-
gagged in the Junk business in Shep-
herdstown for five or six years past,
will move from this place to Martins
burg, where he will conduct a room-
ing house. The junk business, he
says, is practically dead all through
this section Of the country. The ex-
tortionate railroad rates have been
the principal factor in killing it. On
many articles which could formerly be
disposed OF at profit the freight rates
are now as much as the price OF the
goods. Mr.. Luria will have sale of his
household effects here on Friday,
August 26th. He has lot of stuff TO
sell, as may be seen by advertisement
elsewhere in this paper.
The six miles OF road from Keedys-
vile to the Potomac river at Shep-
herdstown, for which residents of
Sharpsburg have been making a
strenuous fight to have improved, will
soon be built, according to a letter
received from the State Roads Com
mission. Work will shortly begin, il
was stated. J. c. Grice, Ellsworth,
Roulette and Clayton Poffenberger,
representing the Sharpsburg Com
munity Club, and 200 residents appear
ed before the county commissioners
Tuesday relative to the building
Of the unfinished road. The county
commissioners took UP the proposition
with the State Roads Commission.
The Middleway correspondent OF the
Charles Town Advocate reports the fol-
lowing: All of us have heard of mar
velous freaks performed bv lightning,
but the following report by Mrs. Cole
man Lyme is the most wonderful that
has ever come to our knowledge. A
Few days ago she went into her garden
to look at some eggs that were about
due to hatch. She found that the
lightning had struck small pear tree
and had run down the fence a short
distance into the nest. In the nest was
sitting the skeleton Of the hen in the
exact position in which she had set
upon the nest, the bones as clean as
though they had been scraped, the
feathers fuffed neatly back, but none
OF them had even been scorched. The
eggs had not been cracked, but on
close inspection a small hole was
found in the end Of each and the inside
OF the shell burned out clean as a pin.
County Superintendent of Schools I.
N. Bonham, Of Summit Point, was
among our callers on Tuesday. He
was here making arrangements for the
Jefferson county teachers institute,
which begins in Shepherdspwn next
Monday morning, August 22d, and will
continue for five days. The regular
instructors for the institute will be
Superintendent n. B. Work, OF the CITY
schools OF Lancaster, Pa, and Miss