Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-11-30
LITTLE LOCALS.

The house and lot of ]. W. Wysong,
ST. WIS not sold at public sale last
Saturday, as advertised. IL was with
drawn NJ bid OF $500.
J p, Keeney, chief engineer at the
Millyille plant of the Northern Vir-
Glnia Power Company for the past
year has resigned. His resignation
VIII become effective January lst
MI and Mrs, Vim. ]. Foutz, from
north OF town, have the thanks of the
editor for fine, large pumpkin.
Danger of a pumpkin pie famine is
now happily averted for the balance of
the winter.
Ford drivers operating cars in
Maryland will have to replace the
green-visored headlights with more ef-
iectve anti-glare lenses or subject
themselves To arrest and fines. The
ruling is effective January lst.
Mr and Mrs. Lewis Twyman. of
Miami, Florida announce the birth OF
daughter, Jean Ably, who arrived
November 10th, weighing seven
pounds. Mrs. Twyman was formerly
Miss Edith Mofett, of Shepherdstown.
The second annual conference of the
young people of the Sunday schools
OF the eastern section of West Virginia
will NC held at Piedmont December 6,
9 and 10. A very interesting program
has been prepared. and il is hoped that
there will be large attendance and an
enthusiastic meeting.
The new and handsome quarters in
the market-house building in Martins
burg to be used as drug store by DR..
Worthing and Edward l.. Reinhart
have been completed and the fixtures
are being placed this week. This will
he one OF the finest drug stores in Mar
tnsburg.
The price of potatoes has fallen to
iS cents bushel in some of the large
producing districts of Michigan. The
crop is very large, and this, with
scarcity of cars and high freight rates
caused the tumble in price. Potatoes
are selling in Shepherdstown from rs
cents to dollar bushel.
The County Court offers reward
OF SIS for information that will lead
10 the arrest and conviction of the thief
or thieves who twice broke into and
robbed the dwelling-house of Mrs
Cavalier at Harper's Ferry. II is to
be hoped that the wanton rascals will
be caught and properly punished.
A. L. Sullivan, chief of the Bureau
OF Food and Drugs of the Maryland
State Health Department, says salacyl-
is acid is under the ban to keep cider
sweet. But there will be no hinder
ance TO those who want to keep their
cider sweet. Six ounces OF benzoate
soda to the barrel will do the trick, ac-
cording to Mr.. Sullivan. And its use
is authorized by law.
A meeting Of the fruit growers OF
Jefferson county will be held at the
courthouse Friday afternoon, Decem-
Der lst, at the call of w. F. Alexander,
secretary of the County Fruit Grow
ers' Association. One of the interest
ing subjects that will engage the at
tention of the meeting is the next an
nual meeting of the State Horticul-
tural Society. II is proposed that the
annual meeting shall be held in
Charles Town in February.
Work has been started on the new
wooden bridge across the canal at the
end Of the bridge opposite Shepherds
town. 1t is said that the new struc-
ture will be a one-way bridge and on
the same level and line as the old
one. II is a pity that wider bridge
could not be erected at this point and
an effort made to line the two bridges
and road UP little straighter. One
section Of the old bridge was taken
down intact and placed across the lock
a few feet above the old site, so that
there will be no interruption to traf-
hc.
There was real snow storm, the
first Of the season, last Friday even
ing. A gray-black cloud rolled up out
of the west about o'clock, and for a
quarter Of an hour or so there was a
real blizzard. The ground was soon
white with the snow, but it was gone
by the next day. Fierce gales that
prevailed Thursday and Friday scat
tered fodder all over the fields. Mon
and Tuesday the skies we're overcast
and hurries of snow were frequently
in evidence. Yesterday the sun was
out all day and the high winds of the
past week abated.
J. w. Ware, Jr., who lives north Of |
town, has had a flock OF guineas that |
have been so wild that he could not |
get close enough to count them. The |
high winds and cold weather OF last |
week evidently didn't suit them, for |
they came Of their own accord and |
took refuge from the elements in the !
barn. Whereupon Mr.. Ware closed all |
exits and proceeded to the arduous
task Of catching the fowls, for he fig !
ured that it might be long time be- |
fore he could get them all together
again. Then along came the poultry !
buyer and bought the entire flock num-
bering forty, and thus endeth the story. |
The editor is in Morgantownthis week |
himself at the meeing Of State |
editors, and we know that he is hay- |
ing a good time. incidentally the con-