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

" VIII open Monaay, SEPTEMBER 18th.
Dances will be held in the commu.
nifty building in Shepherdstown on
Monday and Thursday nights during
fair week. The proceeds are 10 be
devoted TO the improvement OF The
building.
Rev. and Mrs. l. d. worman, Miss
M. c. keplinger and Miss Katherine
Mckee leave today for Strssburg, Va,
where they will attend the annusi con-
vention Of the Woman's Missionary
Society of the Lutheran Synod Of Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. Bette Boyer has been appoint
ed matron of the boys dormitory for
Shepherd College-the building long
known as the Entler Hotel. II is hoped
TO have the building ready for occu-
pancy some time in November.
A shirt manufacturer Of Baltimore
has established a branch factory az
Shenandoah Junction in one of Mr..
| Aglionby's buildings. Fifteen ma.
chimes have been set UP, and if more
help can be secured additional ma
chimes will be installed.
! Mr.. Edwin McGarry, of Shenandoah
Junction, has been appointed as a men,
bcr of the faculty Of the West Virginia
/ University at Morganuwn and will be-
gin his work there in September. He
will be associated with Dean Callahan
in the department Of history.
Note the big improvement in the
shack At Shenandoah Junction used as
a railroad station. The stove has been
taken out and several new boards have
been nailed on a closet. Reckon they
must be getting ready to install steam
heat for the benefit Of the reaches.
Mrs. L. NJ. Bell has sub-rented her
| home-thc Licklidcr house on Main
street-iu Mrs. |. V. Johnson for the
winter, furnished. Mrs. Bell will 60
TO Cumberland, where her son, Cecil
Bell, has an excellent position with
the KellySpringfeld Tire Company.
Mrs. Honora McGarry and Miss
Ethel McGarry, esteemed residents Of
Shenandoah Junction, left last week
for California, and expect 10 make
their future home in that State. Miss
Ethel will teach in the public shoots.
Mrs. McGarry was before her mar
riage a resident OF California, and
has two brothers, a sister and two sons
there.
Chas ]. Miller's peach orchards
west OF town have very little fruit this
year because Of the unfavorable weather
last spring, but he has gathered a few
bushels OF the most magnificent peach
es ever seen in this section. There are
only few on each tree, but these have
attained size and coloring and flavor
that are beyond anything We have ever
known.
VIM. T. McOuilkin, west Of Shep-
herdstown, will start this week to
pick the Grimes Golden apples in his
splendid young orchard, which is just
coming into bearing. The freeze last
spring affected his trees as those OF
other fruit growers. but he will have
from 100 to $50 barrels of Grimes
Coldens. They are bringing from
$500 to $3.50 per barrel.
There have been several social events
here the past week. On Tuesday
Mrs. Robert Gibson gave bridge party
as a compliment to Mrs. Pauline
Dougherty, who is visiting Mrs. M. H.
Crawford; yesterday Mrs. n. p. Schley
entertained number of her friends
who were invited 10 meet Mrs. Frank S.
Muzzey, of Philadelphia, who is
spending few weeks at Rockland; and
yesterday afternoon Mrs. J. L. Wei
shans entertained some of her friends
at bridge party.
William Kelly, aged 40, was almost
instantly killed at the Nessle lime
sbne quarries, in Berkeley county.
Tuesday afternoon when he made d.
rect contact with the electrical wire
supplying power - the drill which he
was operating. He was trying to rem
edy the overhea.ed condition OF the
machinery. A fellow-workman stand
ing close By was knocked unconscious
BY the wire also. but will recover.
Kelly died before physicians could
reach him. He leaves family.
Mrs. Beulah Neel Johnston, of
Leesburg, Va, writes the Register a
pleasant letter in renewing her sub
scription, and warns the editors hear,
by her compliments to our paper We
take the liberty of quoting from her
gracious note, as follows: "The Reg
lister is longtime friend Of mine-i
look forward TO its weekly visit with
great pleasure. My little boy says,
never disturb mother or ask for any
thing while she is reading the Shep-
herdstown Register, because che is
deaf to everything And so il isl
am perfectly abterbed, FOR il is all so
good"
A plague Of groundhogs is causing
considerable annoyance to farmers in
this section, especially in the country
north OF town. 1t is said that in some
cases they are the occasion Of loss in
the cornfields by eating the stalks of
and then consuming the corn In the
ear. Ii is only OF late years that
groundhogs have appeared in this Sec