Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-10-06
LITTLE LOCALS.

Col, Stuart w. Walker, of Martins
burg, who has not been we'll for some
time past, has been under treatment
recently in a hospital in Baltimore,
where he submitted 10 a minor opera
tion.
E. V. Hull, Of Hagerstown, has been
granted permission TO operate an auto
mobile bus line between Hagerstown
and Cumberland, and he will start il
this week. Mr.. Hull operates a num-
Der of bus lines in Maryland.
There was a disastrous break in
wheat and corn the past week. Wheat
made a net loss of eight cents a bushel
and Is quoted in the local market
today at Sl06. Corn is now As cents
a bushci, net loss Of FIVE cents in the
week.
Albert Champion, of Sharpsburg, a
! deputy sheriff of Washington county,
has been appointed assistant game war
den for Maryland. He will begin his
duties at once and will watch for Of
tenders in the southern section of
Washington county.
Henry Shepherd will have a big sale
OF valuable live stock, including reg
lstered cattle and hogs, and a desirable
line OF farming implements, at his Will
lowdale Farm, near Shepherdstown, on
| Thursday November Sd. See adver-
tisement elsewhere in this paper.
The two poplar trees in front of the
Jefferson County Telephone Building
on Main street were chopped down
yesterday. They were I Bit scraggy
| and had perhaps outlived their useful
ness. Still, trees are trees, and We
hope that the company will have q
handsomer variety planted in their
place.
Don't fail TO attend the first football
game, Saturday, October Sth, at 230
o'clock, on Miller field. At this time
the Frederick cadets will meet the
strong Shepherd College eleven. Coach
Legge promises that q good game will
take place and wants all lovers of the
sport on hand to help cheer the boys
on 10 victory. Admission to this ex-
hibition will be 35 cents.
Last Sunday six trains pf excursion
lists passed through Shepherds,own
over the Norfolk & Western Railway
bound for the Luray Caverns They
hauled a total of 1852 passengers, who
were from Philadelphia, Lancaster and
other points on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. The coming Sunday the Penn
| sylvania and the NJ & w. expect to
carry fully 5000 excursionists to Lu-
ray.
George w. Smith. who was hurt
some time ago by being accidentally
thorwn from a Norfolk & Western
train at Shenandoah Junction, has
brought suit against the company for
$4,000 damages. Smith, who was a
brakeman on the N. & w. Railway, al
leges that he was thrown from the
train when another train, on which
were faulty brakes, drifted into the
one upon which he was working.
John H. Miller, who comes here
| from Harrisburg. Pa, has taken
charge of the Model Bakery on Main
street, which he recently purchased
from G. w. Freeman, and is now con-
ducting the business at the old stand
Mr.. Miller will continue the manu-
! facture and sale Of icecream and CON
duct the restaurant and sell confec-
/ tionery, cakes, etc. He asks for q
share of the public patronage and we
hope that he NAV prosper.
Miss Hazel Martin, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. H. Martin, north Of
town, who is teaching in a mission
school in Patrick county, Va, has had
a trying experience the past week.
She spent several days in hospital
in Stuart, Va, where she had her
tonsils taken out and adenods re-
moved. She has gotten over the oper-
alton all right, according to word re-
celved by her parents, aid expected
10 resume her work yesterday.
There was a bad automobile acci-
dent last Sunday night between Har-
rer's Ferry and Brunswick, when the
cars OF w. A. Daniel, of Charles Town.
and George F. Baer, from near Bur
kittsvllle, Md, came in collision. The
Baer machine was overturned and
Miss Rosa Cooper, of Harper's Ferry,
was rather badly hurt. She was taken
to her home, where DR.. Ransom gave
her surgical attention. Miss Fannie
Champion, Of Knoxville, and Miss Adie
Cooper and a Miss Attebell, OF Har-
per's Ferry, other occupants OF the
Baer car, were slightly hurt. The
Iodu Is very narrow at mis- place, and
It is wonder that accidents are not
more frequent.
DR.. ]. o. Knott has just been en-
gagged by the Swarthmore Chautauoua
bureau for the summer Of 1922. DR..
Knott says: "Of all the Chautauoua
bureaus, none of them has finer rec
ORD than the Swarthmore. The direc-
tor, DR.. Paul Pearson. recently elect
cd president Of the International Ly-
ceum and Chautauoua Association, is
a man of vision and lovable personal
Ity ! am happy to connect with his
Organlzatlon and thus be kept ON the