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

S 'lSSS 4 ErdIltNlns 4 .
vance this week and is quoted this
So cents.
Richard L. Spohn has been kent
ouSy this week repairing Telephone
trouble, Many telephones were put
OUT OF commission BY the storms the
hrSt Of the week. Mir. Spohn injured
one OF his hands yesterday by running
a piece of wire into it at the wrist.
Mrs. Lottie Schneider, OF tine Shep-
heid college faculty, has been en-
gagged by the State Department OF
EducatIon 10 conduct the teachers
institute at Charleston the last week
In August, and the FIRST week in Sep
TENDER she will do similar work IN
Grant county.
A song and piano recital will ~.
gwen in the college auditorium FRIDAY
evening of this week at s O'Clock nv
Mrs. Charlotte Pendleton Coldshorourh
and Mrs. Louise We.Shans Conrad
This will be an entertainment hat
lovers of good music will especially
enjoy. No admission will be cbarred
is cordially invited to at.
tend.
Roger Chaplain, of the Vancleves-
vile neighborhood, was severely hurt
few days ago by falling across A big
rock. In jumping over a fence his
foot caught on the top board and he
was thrown violently upon the rock.
He was very sick for a time. Thos.
J. Chaplain, his father, has been suf-
fering from an infected hand the past
week.
1t took two crowded trains TO carry
the eXcurSioniSts 10 the Luray Caverns
on Tuesday. At Shepherdstown alone
IA tickets were sold. 1t is singular
that with the people yearning for ex-
cursions OF this sort, and holding out
easy money 10 the railroad, the pas
senger department of the n. & w.
stupldly refuses to accept it and al
lows only one excursion a year.
Out of consideration for the public
during the hot weather, the American
Legion will give the comedy, can Early
Bird two nights instead of one, as
advertised in last weeks paper. This
means that on the nights of July 10Th
and goth, Tuesday and Wednesday, a:
3 O'Clock, in the old college hall, there
will be presented to the public one Of
the best amateur performances that
has been given in this vicinity for
some time.
Charles Reubenstein, the New York
lad who lost an arm and practically
both feet near Engle's some weeks ago.
when he attempted to lump fast
Baltimore & Ohio freight, was dis
charged from the hospital in Martins
burg last week, where he had been
under treatment. Young Reubenstein
not only recovered from his terrible
injuries but passed through an attack
of lockjaw. He was sent home 10
New York.
At meeting Of the town council Mon7
day night it was decided to spend about
$3.50 in putting the north end of Prin-
cess street, better known as 1.-The river
hill" in good order The roadway will
be ditched and graded, crushed stone
will be put on it and then a coating of
oil and asphalt will be applied. The
hill has been in poor condition for many
years much to the disgust of MOTORISTS
who enter town by this route, and we
hope that it may now be put in really
good order.
A lis pendens notice has been filed
in the county clerks Office by c. F.
Wall, giving public warning that he
has or will institute a suit against
the Northern Virginia Power Company
to compel the specific performance Of
an option reserved in a deed from the
Charles Town Light and Power Com
pany to the plaintiff. The deed where
in the reservation was made is dated
October 20, 1902, and it is alleged gave
the plaintiff the option of purchasing
the old power-house of the Charles
Town Company, only recently sold by
the Northern Virginia Company to
Chas. P. Weller-Advocate.
At a meeting Of the Chamber of
Commerce last Thursday evening thir-
ty-seven paid-up members were report
ed. and the list is still growing. A
constitution and bylaws was adopted.
and various matters of interest con-
corning the organization we're dis
cuSsed. E. L. Goldsborough presided
and J. Strider Moler was secretary. A
committee was appointed to nominate
board of directors, consisting Of
twenty members, and this committee
will report at a meeting to be held this
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the
council room. Everybody interested
in the organization is urged to attend.
Last Friday afternoon a painful &C
cident befell Blackford Hopkins, the
four year-old son ,f Mr.. and Mrs.
A. D. Hopkins, who live OF the cement
mill farm on the Maryland side of The
river mile east Of Shcpherdstown.
While hay was being placed in the
NOW of the barn the child's hand was
caught in the tackle AMI the flesh was
gouged out of the palm. At first it
was feared that the hand had been torn
OF, but forturate!; this proved not to
be the case. D: Horace Banks was