Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-10-26
LITTLE LOCALS.

day afternoon at $50 O'Clock. Tho
people generally are invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gibson will be
pleased to see their friends and pa
irons Friday evening, October the
twenty-Seventh, TO celebrate the twenty
MIN anniversary of their wedding,
from eight to eleven O'Clock.
On account of lack OF space, caused
BY unusually heavy advertising, the
Register is obliged to omit several in
terestlng special artic'-I and commun-
lcations this week. We hope to get
them in next week, pper.
The Washington lnty Fish and
Game Association csdav received a
shipment of $1,000 ,oung bass from
the State Conserv ION Commission
and they were all placed in the Po-
tomac river near Williamsport.
Miss Ella M. Kelsey, teacher in the
public school, hurt herself quite badly
last Sunday night AS she was leay-
ing ner home she tri-~Ni and fell heav-
lily upon her shoulde iniuring herself
so painfully that she lad to have sur
gical attention. Fortunately no bones
were broken but she has not been able
to resume teaching this week.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has
restored most of the trains that had
been taken off temporarily because of
the strike OF its shop men, and its
former satisfactory schedule is in ef-
feet once more. Train No. II, running
through from Baltimore to Parkers-
burg, and which is Of such service to
West Virginia people, is on its old
schedule again. See notice in another
column.
Miss Mary Titcomb, librarian at the
Hagerstown Public library, was in
Shepherdstown last Friday evening in
conference with the Woman's Club of
this place concerning the establish
ment of library here. The woman's
Club will inauguate a library, and
hopes to have it started within a few
weeks, following the suggestions made
by Miss Titcomb. A drive for books
VIII be pade early in November, and il
is hoped that the people will give
hearty support to the project
The Jefferson County Sunday School
convention convenes in the Lutheran
Church in Shepherdstown this Thurs
day afternoon at l.30 o'clock There
Will be a session tonight at 73O and
again Friday morning at $50. Lunch
will be served to the delegates and
visitors Friday at noon, and the final
session will be held Friday after
noon, beginning at 2 o'clock. The
people generally are cordially invited
to attend all the meetings of the con-
vention.
The regular meeting of the wo-
mans club will be held Friday eve
ming at 7.30. There will be no pro-
gram, but short business meeting.
All members are urged to be present.
November the 4th the woman's club
Will hold soup in the club room.
The club expects to serve soup every
Saturday through the winter. How
ever, they will not serve on dates that
other organizations or churches wish
to do so, if they are notified a few
days before hand.
The community building committee
is arranging for a Halloween party
to be given in the community build
ing next Tuesday night and the peo-
pie generally are invited to ATTEND.
The small fee Of IS cents will be
charged at the door. 1t is desired that
those who attend will come masked |
and in costume. Last year the Hal |
lowe'en party was very enjoyable in |
deed, and it is hoped that next Tues |
days will be still more pleasant. 1t
beats running around the streets all to |
pieces.
A force of men under the supervis-
ion of u. S. Martin is building the |
sewer from the corner of High and
Princess streets to the boys dormtory.
The work is being done by the State,
though the town will have the prvi-
lege of connecting with the sewer.
This reminds us that our town ought to
take steps toward the installation Of
sewerage system. It is understood
that legislation will be necessary fot
this purpose, and we hope that our
member-elect Of the Legislature, who
is also mayor of our town, will have
authority from our city fathers to make
the necessary provisions for sewerage.
A really delightful entertainment
was given in the college auditorium
Monday evening, when the Crawford
Adams Company rendered very
pleasing programme. Our people
have seldom had the privilege of hear
ing a violinist as good as Crawford
Adams, who is not only an artist who
skillfuly interprets the very highest
class of music, but is clever enough
to adapt himself to the entertainment
Of a miscellaneous Audience. He has
remarkable repertoire, and plays
everything from "Thc Arkansaw Trav-
eler" to the most difficult classical
slections. We hope that he will re-
turn to epherdstown. Miss Sybil
Gould was his accompanist, and in this
role she was as clever as she was ac>
ceptablc as a soloist The reader,
Miss Elinor Stearns, gave pleasing