Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-10-13
LITTLE LOCALS.

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have rented the Baylor Reinhart house.
on Church street. They expect to Re
comfortably located in their new home
by the last of the week
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Major Jonu Porter Lucas, a native
of Kearneysvile, who has been COM
mandant at the University of Michi-
gan, at Ann Arbor, for the school year
, le20-2l, has been transferred to Fort
Sill, Oklahoma.
More than 10000 automobile
licenses had been issued by the State
Road Commission on October I. ac-
cording TO figures announced by C.. f.
Mccoy, chief Of the automobile regis.
tration divison. This number is 22,-
600 more tnan were issued in this
State last year at this time.
Mr C. Mason Conklyn who has
been a resident Of Missouri for the
past eight or nine years, living most
of the time in Shelby and Cooper coun-
ties, has returned to Jefferson county.
He is now with his brother, Mr.. G. c.
Conklyn, at Mordington. His friends
are delighted that he has come back
to his native county.-Advocate
Mrs. Lucie Beltzhoover Ollie has
accepted the position OF Assistant in
Voice to Prof. Louis Black, head Of
The Music Department, of West Nir-
ginia University, at Morgantown. Mrs.
Ollie is an accomplished musician.
and, no doubt, will be verv great
help TO Prof Black. Mrs. Ollie is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Geo. M.
Beltzhoover, in this place.
Middleway may soon have electric
lights. The town has been canvasseo
by men in the employ of the Northern
Virginia Power Company, to ascertain
| approximately how much current could
be sold there. If given sufficient en-
couragement, the company will extend
line from the Alba-Marl Lime plant
two miles out the pike on to Middle
way.
Walter McCann, colored, of this place,
was very severely injured while at
work in the stone quarries, at Blairtpn,
on Saturday. A large boulder was in
some manner displaced from an en-
bankment, falling on the victims left
leg and foot. His leg was badly splint.
| cred and foot crushed, making il
| necessary for his removal to the Kings
| Daughters hospital, in Martinsburg,
| For treatment.
Col. w. w. Cochrane, who has a fine
sausage plant in Berkeley county, has
| closed a contract with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to supply dining
cars along the entire system with his
famous Berkeley county product His
plant has started at work, making now
ton a day Of this edible product. So
far Colonel Cochrane has contracted
with numerous big hotels and great
railroad lines for an output OF e2 tons
of sausages, more than the packing
houses have been supplying hereto
fore. In every large city OF the coun-
try the leading hotels and restaurants
specialize on these choice Berkeley
! county sausages.
A freight wreck that cost the B. &
Q. Railroad Company many thousand q
dollars, besides interruption to traffic,
occurred at Peacher's Mill, two mile s
west OF Harper's Ferry last Thursday
morning. A broken wheel on a car ia
freight train number ~, cast-bound,
caused the car to leave the track. This
| IN turn, threw three other cars of The
rails. One Of the derai,ed cars swept
the west-bound track clear of rails ani
ties for distance OF IS yards, ard
threw the debris down an embank-
4 a.
truck and deposited on the westjouni
right Of way. Both tracks were block
ed for several hours.
At the meeting of the West Vir.
ginia organization OF the Daughters o!
the American Revolution in Hunting
ton last week Mrs. Robert ]. Reed. OF
Wheeling, was elected Regent for the
ensuing term; Mrs. w. G. Conoway. OF
Fairway, was elected vice ce-regent; Mrs.
Roy Lough, Morgantpwn, recording Sec
retary; Mrs. Letta Snodgrass, Buck
hannon, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Charles r. Conner. Huntington, treas
! urcr; Mrs. l.. II. Harrison, Charleston.
CHAPLAIN; Mrs. Robert Myers, Point
| Pleasant, registrar; Miss Rachel Sny-
der, Shepherdstown. librarian; Mrs.
Stuart w. Walker, Martinsburg. hie.
torian; Mrs. John Mccullough, Point
Pleasant. hororary historian. Clarks-
burg was selected as the convention
CITY for 1922.
| u. s. Martin. superintendent OF the
Shephcrdstown Light and Water Com
pany, recently bought a curious instru-
, ment known in plain language as a leak
detector. This contrivance, which op-
! crates by means OF electric batteries.
can tell where there is leak in n
water pipe without fte necessity Of dig
ging open the bitches and exposing
the pipe line. Mr.. Martin has recentIv
used the Instrument, and discovered