Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-03-02
LITTLE LOCALS.

The wheat market has huctuated 4
good deal the past week, but the price
today is Sl.S7, the same rs last Thurs
day. Corn is 81 cents bushel, q
gain OF three cents a pound the past
week,
Miss Addie r. Ireland is having =
comfortable dwelling house built on the
lot she purchased last year adjoining
the Episcopal rectory. The old stable
has been transformed by Maddox Bros
contractors, and will make a very de-
sirable home.
IL you are not now a subscriber TO
the Register, consider this an invita-
tion to enroll upon our substitution
list The paper will be sent to any ad-
dress one year for a dollar and a-half,
SIX months for seventy-fve cents, or
four months for fifty cents.
AS II. l.. Lyme was driving to town
last Saturday in his Ford runabout d
dog ran under the wheel of the car as
Mr.. Lyme was passing a wagon loaded
with hay, and the car was forced into
ditch, where il upset. Mr.. Lyne es-
capped without injury, but the car was
damaged good deal
There are three applicants for the
position of postmaster in Shepherds
town, those who took the civil SER
vice examination being A. S. Lucas,
the present postmaster; G.. S. Musser.
publisher of the independents; and Har-
ry ). White, school teacher. All arc
Republicans except Mr.. Lucas.
DR.. Norris, the veterinarian, made a
thorough test of ChaS. ID. Billmyers
fine herd of Jersey cattle recently, and
OF the twenty animals examined not
one showed any reaction whatever
all came clear with no trace or suspic-
ion Mr.. Billmyer has a splendid herd
OF Jerseys of the highest type.
Word has been received here that
the play selected for the Swarthmord
Chautauqua the coming season is "Turu
to the Right" This is one of thu
popular plays of recent years, having
had run of 443 nights in New York
and 3l9 successive performances m
Chicago. 1t is expected that ShepI
herdstown's Chautauqua will be held
June 18th to 18th.
Attorneys Harold w. Houston and
Thomas G. Townsend, of Charleston.
who will defend the indicted coal
miners from Logan county when their
trial comes up in the Jefferson Circuit
Court in April, we're in Charles Town
the past week consulting with lanes
M. Mason, Jr., of the local bar, who
has been retained as additional coun-
sci for the miners.
The farm of the late Adam B. Moler.
near Bakerton, containing as acres
was sold at public sale last Saturday
in Shepherdstown by DR.. S. T. Knott,
administrator. There were a number
of persons interested in the place, and n
was finally knocked down TO Adam
thompson, OF Brunswick, Md, at a bid
OF $3.50 per acre. This is regarded
as very good price for the property.
The people are cordially invited and
urged to attend the mass meeting 10 be
held in the courthouse in Charles
Town Saturday night of this week at
$50 O'Clock under the auspices OF the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation for left
erson county. The principal address
will be delivered by Mrs. Izetta level
Brown and there will be short speeches
by others, besides special music. The
people generarally are requested 10
honor Mr. Wilson by attending this
meeting Saturday night.
j. Frank VanMetre, of Berkeley
county, was in town on Tuesday and
called at the Register Office. He has
an awful bump on his forehead and
remarkably black eye fringed with
blue and purple. 1t looks as il il
might have been done with frying
pan or rolling pin. He declares, how
ever, that he got his injuries while
chopping wood. His axe caught in a
clothes line and instead Of coming
down on the wedge was diverted and
tstruck him on the head. He has had
rather hard time Of it explaining the
accident to his friends, who shake their
heads doubtfully when he tells them
the facts.
John Fl. Snyder and his son Herman,
OF Shenandoah Junction, were in town
on Monday and called at the Register
office. They had with them a peculiar
little pet, young piney squirrel that
was quite tame and playful. When the
squirrel was not much larger than al
mouse it was rescued from a dog that
caught it last October, and Mr.. Snyder
and his family cared for il and fed it
until it is now almost full grown. II
knows its friends and is quite com
tent to snuggle up warmly in Mr.. Sny-
der's pockets or climb about over his
shoulders just as though he we're q
hickory tree. II feeds on walnuts,
hickory nuts and similar good things,
and is altogether an interesting littlo
creature.
"Red" Clover, said to be a resident
Of Kearneysville, was picked I'D by
Officer Jacques on the streets Wednes-
day afternoon after complaint had been