Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-08-25
SHARPSBURG NEWS

TWO children spent the mas, NE and
.ce nome OF Mr.. Pofenberper,s at
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ceoreo pa
berger near the Dunkard ebr. rGnen-
The Clinton Houser far, ,
IN Hagerstown last week j. sold
the courthouse, Edgar Line ION, iIont OF
ne X. ID. Fisher farm. he;Do '.hdht on
CHASER of the rs acres at S3s .ne pur-
Mr. Line will get possession -, ,S acre.
IN time % put in a whea, III ."'S tall
Houser and family will wy. Mrs.
farm next spring. ''e the
J0"yI d. nimes, OF Roanoke. and ~.
son, VIM. d. Hines and wife Of Of NM MS
Hnsourg, were visitors with Wii, ;"I-
Noin and MISS Annie Hines 'h
mrs. Martha Lakin SnayeIv is -.
ing the one-story building of be- nav
,eenGe remodeled. The report l. rs.
Office o'e " LOT an
Sunday being an ideal dav ,,,,.
visitors from far and near cam noa ~
WISH the battlefield and National Cerro
tery' we saw the Registers edi.o-:
and son and wife among the nu,obeu
Raleigh Sherman is snenJ;nn
couple of weeks at Atlantic Cit ia
mother remained here at the old hons ms
place. YIN hume
Eugene Wilhelm, janitor at the NH
Tic school buildings, has been busy thi,
week cleaning up and getting raaJ,'
TOT the opening of the school Septem,.
Der 9th. 'p'e'l-
Old Bess, the black driving mare
owned by R. F. Delaney for the nas,
81 years, died last week at the ono
OF IS years. She was real active un-
| ri few weeks ago.
Rev. B. r. Carnahan and wife ..
Mt. Pleasant, Md, spent several dave
with Mr.. and Mrs. Houston Carnahan
here.
Prof. Houck, so-called, that gave an
entertainment in the Red Mems hail
last Friday night, as lecturer and
humorist, left an unpaid board bill of
S. at the Nicodemus House. He left
during the night.
Miss Kathleen Atkins and Lillian
Johnson, of Roanoke, are visiting Miss
lohnson's uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
Johnson. Miss Atkins is cousin of
Miss Johsnon.
Grove McGraw has been spending
couple of weeks with his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Shpley, near
Shepherdstown.
The hog cholera is raging in our
town and vicinity. Many new cases
are reported. VIM Easterdav at Por.
terstown lost over $500 worth-every-
hog on his place and some fine large
ones. Edward Lewis, on the Myers
mill farm, lost between 80 and 40.
young and old, and Poor old Ierry
Summers, the old colored man living
at Bloody Lane, lost both of his, ana
they were nice ones.
A sum of money was contributed bv
the Hull bus line and number of per-
sons of this town and vicinity BY
George Snavely acting as treasurer
who hired Edgar Hammond, former
road builder, and he has made many
improvements to the road between
SharpsburC and Keedysville. The
road had gotten so bad it was unsafe TO
drive car over, and the Hagers-
Sown road, II any driven car hit all the
holes he would have to make many
trips over to do so, but still il is TO be
rebuilt in the near future. and we have
heard this same story for months.
Norman Thomas, who has been in
bus,rsss at Polo, Illinois, has sold his
business out and came back TO Mary
'Hnd again, stopping with his pa
rents near town, where his wife and
child have been for some weeks at
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Thomas. She
has been troubled very much with
rheumatism
Mrs. M. F. Weller and little niece.
81 Baltimore, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Snyder at the National Gene
terry. Mrs. Weller is a sister of Mrs
Snvder's sister.
Mrs. Vim. L. Miller, of Fairmont, w.
Va. is here spending several weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. T.
PoiUy.
Several more victims of the death
trap on the east end Of Richardson
avenue near the Boonsboro pike. where
me Thundergust bridge is on the
avenue. which has an unnecessary
Nump that cant be seen until YOU get
m Ton OF it, and the steep grade causes
re driver to have on much speed
"h;ch throws passengers in the rear OF
= car against the ton in MANY cases
tniurine them.
The rnad surveyors are painting our
own red this week, getting ready for
ne building Of the new road in the
sweet by and bv
Prof G. L. Martzollf and wife,
ana Misses Gable and Bloom. of
'nlo University. also were visitors
70 the battlefield and town and were
me guests of Miss Annie S. Hines
FRANK II. Delaney and wife, who
some time back bought grocery store
IN Hagerstown, have sold out and
nave been visiting their father and sis
'er, Mrs Aggie Nicodemus, in this
place.
delegation of Ohio's prominent
REPRESENTATIVES, came UP from Wash
'reton Sunday in regard to the re.
moval to another point, but from what