Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-06-30
LITTLE LOCALS.

months Tor one dollar. Send us your
name and your money and We will 10
the rest.
The Woman's Club has decided In
employ play supervisor and stor,
teller for the children of Shepherds
town, for term of six weeks. Sev.
eral young women are under consider
alton for this work, and a selection
will be made shortly.
There we're Gipsies in town on
Tuesday father and mother and n
swarm of children, ali of them wearing
picturesque il nor immaculate cos
tunes. They travelled by automobils.
which leads us TO ask, Dc the Gipsles
trade automobiles nowadays as they
used to trade horses?
Our corporation officials have had n
force Of men engaged in good work
the past wcek-cleaning out the gut
tiers and drains along the streets and
removing the weeds and trash in GEN
cral IL is money well spent, for
with the cutters unohStructcd the
streets will not be washed when the
rains come.
An interesting programme will nc
rendered this Thursday evening at the
chapel exercises in the Shepherd Col
lcgc auditorium at 7SO o'clock. The
devotional service will be conducted
by MIR. Gchric, Of the Episcopal Church,
and Mrs. w. II. S. White will give a
number Of readings. The public gen
orally are cordially invited to be pres
ent.
The weather has been intensely hot
the past week, and man and beast have
suffered. There have numerous thun-
der storms, but most OF them have
seemed TO 20 either to the north or south
of us, and we have had only light
sprnkles Of rain. a good rain is
greatly needed in this section for the
growing corn, the vegetable gardens
and crops generally.
George Frcemans baby buzzard is
not doing SO we'll and gives indica-
tions Of approaching dissolution. Max
thinks that the meat which they feed
il is too fresh-its constitution re-
quires food a bit "higher" than any
found a couple OF eggs in the buzz
Yards cage the other day, but he
thinks somebody put up a Joke on him
or the buzzard.
Kearncysville is having building
boom. Z. l.. Stanley and force Of
workmen are making good Roadway
on the new dwelling house of Arthur
f. Trussell. and the new barn on the
Misses Mclntirc's place, to replace
tle structure recently destroyed by
fire is rapidly approaching completion.
Mrs. Stewart, of Martinsburg, is max
ing arrangements for the erection 81
a new barn on her place just east
of Kearneysville.
Mr.. Matthew Page Andrews, of Bal
timorc and Shepherdstown, has sent
us copy Of his new book, "American
History and Government" intended for
junior high schools. II is, Of course,
a retclling Of the story Of our American
development. but il is done in Mr.. An
drew's distinctively original way that
makes il exceptionally interesting and
II is book that should be
warmly welcomed in junior high
schools. Of which West Virginia is
getting so many.
Fhe Pons- -Winnecke comet turned
out to be mighty poor entertainer
a common piker, in short. Instead Of
furnishing us with a nice display of
celstial fireworks and giving us a thrill
as we lodged its meteOrs, il turned
tail-with a tail 100000 miles long
and made off through space so rapidly
that even the astronomical sharps with
their best telescopes failed TO get more
than a hazy view OF il. There wasn't
a single shooting star and at its bright
est the comet didn't make as much
show as lightning bug.
One Of our town merchants informs
us that the Register was In error last
week in saying that bread was nine
cents a loaf in Shepherdstown. The
stores are all selling it at eight cents
a loaf, the price having been reduced
one cent some weeks ago. The ba-
kers charge seven cents loaf and the
merchants charge eight-a moderate
enough profit for the merchant, Of
But the bakers have been too
high, and that the objections of tho
have had weight is shown by
the fact that the wholesale price has
been reduced, effective July lst. The
Caskey company, of Martinsburg, which
sells most of the bread in this Sec
ton, announces that it will hereafter
sell a 12-ounce loaf for 6 cents and an
1S-ounce loaf for 9 cents. Retail
prices will be one cent higher.
The Register is gratfied to an
nounce 10 its readers that Rev. DR.
Charles Scanlon, General Secretary
of the Board of Temperance and Moral
Welfare Of the Presbyterian Churcn
in the United States, of Pittsburg, has
agreed to write occasional articles for
this paper, under the general title Of
" "Jottings BY the Way" They will be
based upon the experience and o5-
servation of DR.. Scanlon, whose work
has taken him into every State in the
Inion and a number NJ foreign cOlirl-