Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-07-14
LITTLE LOCALS.

Gerardstown district in Berkeley
county will on August I'd vote on the
question Of issuing bonds to the
amount of $4,000 for the erection OF
school buildings at Gerardstown and
Shanghai.
Harry A. Downs has resigned as at
torney for the corporation of Mar
tinsburg. He has changed his resi-
dence from that city to Shepherdstown
and felt that he could not give the Of
flee the attention it should have.
Miss Mildred Phillips, daughter of
Mrs. Oscar NJ. Phillips. and Mr.. Darrell
K. Koonce, assistant postmaster in the
Charles Town, poStoffice, were married
last Saturday at the home of the bride,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
C. c. Sydnor, pastor of the Presby-
terrain Church.
Mr.. Harold A. Rice, Of Berkeley
Springs, and Miss Beatrice Wilt, of
Elkins, were married in the latter
place few days ago. They will re-
side in Redwood, W. Va. Mr.. Rice is
a graduate of Shepherd College, class
of 1914, and both he and his vito
are graduates of the West Virginia
University.
AT meeting Of the retail merchants
bureau Of the Chamber of Commerce
of MartlnS5urg yesterday a resolution
was passed unanimously favoring the
new State ROAD by way Of Burke street
to Winebrenncr'S Cross Road, thence
to Charles Town by such route as may
be favored blythe majority of Jefferson
county residents and designated by the
State Highway Commission.
The last barrel Of whisky has been
taken from the warehouses of the Han
nisvillc distillery at Martinsburg, ~
S5S barrels having been safely trans
ported to Baltimore the past couple of
weeks. The old distillery will be turn
ed over TO the National Food Products
Company, which will work up apples
into various forms. Five or six feder-
al employees lose soft places as a re-
suit of the closing of the distillery.
Withrow Legge, of this place, waa
complimented very highly this week
when the State Commander of the
American Legion offered him the ap-
pointment as West Virginia represent
alive to visit France in August and be
a guest of the French government in
imposing ceremonies which will be
participated in by soldiers of the World
War. Mr.. Legge is not able to accept
the appointment, as much as he ap-
preCiatcS the honor, which was volun-
tarily rendered him.
An interesting meeting of the
Sharpsburg Community Club was held
last Friday evening 1t Ferry Hill
Farm, the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Kyd Bcckenhaugh. There was a large
attendance. G. Z. Wolcott, a specialist
in dairy hustantry of the Maryland
University, made an address, and
there was a boys Jersey judging con-
test Miss Susan Garberson, Wash
ington cOlnty's new domestic science
expert, also spoke. The literary and
musical programme was rendered by
II. l.. Snyder, VIM. b. Snyder and Miss
Rachel Snyder, of Shepherdstown.
The burglar with whom G. d. Soul
ly had such an exciting conflict at his
home in PittSburG several months ago,
and who shot Mir. Scully in the knee,
was sentenced last week by Judge Mar
shall IN PittSNurg to term of from l6
10 10 years in the pententiary. The
man, who went by the name of Michael
Norton, alias Edward Burke, was ar
rested some time after the affair with
Mr. Scully, and proved to be an escaped
convict from illinois. He was
thorough going villain. and admitted to
having participated in more than thirty
robberitS during the past six months.
including the burglarizing of stores,
holding Up automobile parties, etc. The
man will he returned to the Illinois
pcntentiary when he has finished his
term in Pennsylvania.