Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-11-17
LITTLE LOCALS.

in Martinsburg next Tuesday before
Referee Wilbur II. Thomas. Mr..
Whittington's liabilities are placed at
S4,257.
The Beta Delta Pi Sorority was en-.
tertained last Monday afternoon by
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Knott, at which
time her engagement to DR.. Make
Gregg Hoffman, of Bunker Hill, W.
Va, was announced. The wedding
will take pace in. December.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Long, who have
been living in Oxford, Md, for the past
several years. have sold their property
there and have returned to Shepherds
town, where they will make their home,
They are occupying a part OF Miss
Amanda Miller's house on Washington
street.
Mrs. Lucy Kittredge, much re-
spected colored woman Of this place,
wife Of Nelson Kittredge, died last
Sunday night, after long illness from
tuberculosis. She was a good woman
and her faithful and efficient service
had won for her the regard Of many
friends. both white and colored.
Thanksgiving day is almost here, but
il will be celebrated this year without
turkey. We have never known time
when these fowls were so scarce. There
are practically none on the market in
this section, and hardly any in ad-
joining counties. II is said that the
few that are being sold range in price
from 40 to 50 cents, live weight.
Here's a real fish story from the
Webster Republican-wonder il Br'er
White expects us TO believe il: "One
Of the finest fish taken from k
river in. long time was killed by
Cecil Hawkins, opposite the Hawkins
fishing camp near Sutton, a few nights
ago. !, was a blue pike measuring
feet and 10 inches and weighing twen-
ty pounds"
Butchering time is here, and those
who are so fortunate as to have pork
ers are now converting them into bacon
and pudding and sausage. The hog
cholera made serious inoads upon the
hogs in this neighborhood. 10 l..
Walper, north of town, lost every hog
he had on the place, and J. w. Ware,
Jr, Of the same section, has but one
left
Arnold Cogle, II years old, son Of
John Cogle, accidentally shot and kill
ed himself last Thursday afternoon
The young man was hunting near Sill
yer Grove, on the east side OF the
Shenandoah river, when his gun was
accidentally discharged, causing his
death in short time. Willie Ever
hart, little 10y who was with him,
saw the occurrence and ran back home
to tell about il. Young Cogle had
worked at the MiIlvile quarries.
Now that the leaves are about all
down, would ii not be good idea to
clean our streets before winter sets
in? We suggest that our town
authorities appoint day when each
householder shall sweep the street in
front of his premises and the cor
poration have the dirt hauled away.
Our streets have been in better order
the past summer than We have ever
known them. 1t would be gratifying
to have them kept clean through the
coming winter.
Five-cent bread is in sight-at least
it is in other places. D. Lee Staley,
manager Of the Peoples Bakery in Ha-
selling bread at 5 and cents a loaf
and made a corresponding reduction
in the price of rolls and cakes. We
hope that the bakers who supply Shep-
herdstown with bread may see the light
and come down in their prices. With
wheat at a dollar bushel there is no
excuse for keeping bread at exorbitant
prices.
A visit to Benjamin~HartzeI's green
houses just now is we'll worth while,
for his crysanthemums are in full
bloom and present beautiful sight
Mr. Hartzell has been experimenting
in the growing OF crysanthemums for
several years, and he is now attaining
success. Some OF the flowers are mag
nificent, and he should be proud that
ne Is the producer OF such beauty.
He sells the "mums" at home and in
adjacent towns and a'so ships some
70 Washington.
Prof. J. ID. /Muldoon, Mr.. Nat T.
Frame and Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown
represented West Virginia at a very in.
teresting convention in New Or leans
last week-the conference OF the Amer
lean Country Life Association. There
was a large gathering, representing
every section of the United States, with
an especially strong Southern group
Prof. Muldoon and Mrs. Brown while
in New Orleans called upon Colonel
Thomson, former resident of Summit
Point, this bounty.
M. M. jenkins has moved his family
from the Uvilla neighborhood 70
Charles Town, occupying the Southern
Methodist parsonage which he recently
purchased-though we do not under
stand that he intends to enter the min
istry. Mr.. jenkins is running a cash.
and-carry store in Charles Town and
his business is growing nicely. Mr..
jenkins is making plans to overcome
the disadvantage caused by exorbitani
freight rates, and will run truck be-