Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-12-08
LITTLE LOCALS.

- aild thS CITY HlaINCtS are uncertain. |.
The price in Shepherdstown this morn
ing is IS cer dozen. Butter is
80 cents pound.
On another page of the Register this
week we reprint a very striking poem
from the pen Of Mrs. Edwin s. Jarrett.
OF Wild Goose Farm. II was published
in a recent issue of the Sunday New
York Tines. and has been most favor
ably commented upon.
A Scriprs-Booth automobile belong
ing to Samuel Thompson, of Harers-
town, was. completely DESTROYED by fire
Tuesday evening on McComas Avenue,
be ween Antietam Station and Sharps-
burg. II is said that the car back-fired
and thus started blaze that could no,
be quenched
MIR. Oscar Lucas, a former resident
OF Charles Town and well-known in
this county, and Miss Mildred Magraw,
OF Baltimore, we're married recently in
that city at ST. AIMS Catholic House
BY Rev Father Lawler Mr.. Lucas
has position with the Baltimore Bar
gain House.
Last Sunday was an awful day 70,
railroad travellers at Shenandoah Junc-
ton. They either had to remain in the
wretched shack used as a station or
else stand out in the elements. n the
b. * .. high officia had been COM
PEELED TO make a choice, wonder what
they Wou d have done?
Postmaster A. S. Lucas has moved
with his family into the dive ling-house
on New street that he recently pur-
chased from ~. ]. l. Triplett He
has had the house reprinted ard re-
papered and other improvements have
been made thai have converted il into
most comfortable home
Edward Domer, who lives on DIR.
Crawford's farm, south of town, car.
r!es of the palm for raising big hogs
On this side of the river He killed
tour last week that aggregated 1865
pounds, net weight. The largest
weighed 500, and the others 40I, 39s
and 800 pounds. The three latter
were only ten months old
The A. ID. Goetz Harness Factory n.
Ransom will enlarge its operations az
the opening Of the new year For tho
past year or more work in the factory
has been confined almost entirely 10
collar making, only few operators be-
ing employed. Beginning abour Ian
uary lst. production will be resumed
in other departments of the factory.
The funeral of the late Geo. w
Cross was he at his home on Rocky
Marsh last Friday afternoon, the SER
vice being conducted by Rev. las. n
Ha'ev. The interment was in Elmwood
Cemetery, Sheoherdstown. Manv
friends from Jefferson and Berkeley
counties attended the funeral, testify
ing to the high esteem in which Mr..
Cross was held.
Our friend Melvin L. Ronemous, OF
Newport News, Va, in sending his sub
scrlption writes us: "This is nv thir-
ty-secnd year as a subscriber to the
Register, that grant old paper that
brings me the news from my old home
county" Mr.. Ronemous has been
away from this section for many years.
but he still retains his affection for the
scenes Of his boyhood days.
Mrs. w. C. Link, who recentIy NOV.
ed from Martinsburg to her future
home in Princeton, N. J. had her house.
hold goods transported the entire dis
tance by automobile truck. II cost
less to have il done this way than she
could have il carried by railroad
isn't 1t stupid OF the railroads to con-
tinue to charge such exorbitant rates
that thev drive business awav from
tNem The above incident is onrv one
OF many, ye' the railroads seem 10
learn nothing from such examples.
An item in the Martnsbure Journal
IS to the effect that former Senator
Chas. j. Faulkner, president of the
Chamber Of Commerce, will use his
influence directly with President Daniel
Willard for the construction Of a new
station at Martinsburg. We hone that
our Mart'nsburP friends will succeed
IN this mater, for dear knows that
new station is needed there. But
what about Shenandoah Junction and
the wretched shack that passengers
travelling over the Baltimore & Ohio
and Norfolk & Western railroads have
10 use? IL IS an indictabIe nuisance
TOT which somebody ought TO be held
responsible. and should be included in
the very first programme OF improve
ments-if such a programme sbaI,
ever be started.
In the R"rtelev Circuit Court last
week Judge Woods gave severe sen.
tences to two moonshiners. G. w
horner, OF the Gerardstown neiphbor.
hood, who was found guilty OF ooer-
atinR an i''epaI still. was fined S3nn arI
sentenced 10 two wears in the State
renitentlary. Henry Kees, convicted
OF aidino and abe't'ne violation os
the proh'h'tion statutes and havino
an interest in moonshine still. was
hned 5000 and sent 10 the penite ntiarv
for one year. II rpoks as II such sen-
fences &c ''"ce viii have some e@oc,
in restricting the operations of moon.
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