Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-29
LITTLE LOCALS.

cling in 4 big automobile \ Gipsv
doesn't seem TO be of the right strain
It he doesn't have horse 10 trade.
The corporation authorities are inn
proving high street grading ami
ditchng it and putting down cruShc1
stone. IL has been a long time since
High street has had any attention
given 10 IL to amount TO ANYTHING.
Robert Gibson, our progressive drug
glSt, has expanded his soda fountain
service SO that he is in a position to
serve any kind of plain or fancy soda
or Sunde any one may desire. He will
use the wcll-known Vortex Sanitary
Service.
Ernest r. Shirley thrcshed the first
crop of wheat for this season on Tues
day-that of c. Z. Griffith on the
Freel Daniels farm, east of town The
crop averaged thirteen bushels TO the
acre, though the quality of the grain
was very indifferent.
Wheat harvest is over in this section,
and threshing of wheat will begin this
week. As was stated last week, the
crop is very disappointing both as 10
quality and quantity, though the heavy
straw had given promise of an excel
! lent yield. While some fields seem 10
be fairly good, others will yield only
/ from five 10 ten bushels to the acre
Kirkland S Mckee, of Shepherds
town, who had been announced as a
candidate for county superintendent of
! schools for Jefferson county, has with
drawn from the contest, having decid-
ed to accept an advantageous Sffer to
teach IN the western part of the State.
I This leaves |. N. Bonham, the incum-
bent, and J. r. Ware, both Of Summit
Point, as the only candidates.
The faculty of Shepherd College
gave very enjoyable reception last
Thursday night to the summer school
students. After chapel exercises in
the auditorium the reception was held
in the old college hall and was greatly
enjoyed by teachers and students to
the number of a couple of hundrtd.
Music by the Hambone Quintette and
a reading by Miss Irene Murray we're
pleasant features of the entertainment.
A pleasant party Of Hagerstown folks
are camped along the Potomac river
a couple of miles east of Shepherds
town on the Maryland shore Among
them are Misses Virginia Steinmetz,
Lorraine Steinmez, Ida Rowland, May
Reese and Mary widows, and edward
Patton, John Seaman and Edward
Stcinmetz. The Register Office was
frightened on Monday by visit from
the young ladies Of the party.
Postmaster c. S. Musser has been
advised that the Shepherdstown post
Office stands ninth in the list of third
class postoffices comprising the Fifth
Federal Reserve District in the sale Of
Treasury Saving Certificates for the
month of May. II also stands 9th in
the list Of all postofIices, including
both first. Second and third-cass post
Offices. The Fifth Federal Reserve
District takes in the States of West
Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina and District of Columbia.
The terms of DR.. G. w. Banks, pres
idcnt Of the board Of education of
Shepherdstown district and W. Z.
Osbourn, member, expire this year, and
it is said that both these gentlemen de-
cline TO be candidates again. Names
suggested for the vacancy include n.
H. Hendricks, F. r. McQuilkin, A. s.
Lucas, l.. J. Mcdonald, Geo. NJ Knott
and w. p Licklider. A good many
persons think that lady ought to be
put on this board, and Mrs. II. p.
Schley has been prominently mentioned
in this connection. Names of candi-
dates must be sent to the clerk by Fri
day in order TO get on the primary bal
lot.
Governor Richie, Of Maryland, on
Monday declared that DR.. ]. Hubert
Wade, OF Boonsboro, treasurer Of the
Board of Prison Control, was guilty Of
misconduct in Office and dismissed him
from his position. The charges against
Dr.. Wade are that he accepted from
Sam Leibowitz, Baltimore whole
sale grocer, a valuable Cadillac au-
tomobile, and that thereafter Leibowitz
got profitable business in selling sur
plies to Maryland prisons. DR. Wade
denied that LeibOwitz gave him the car
contending that he paid cash for it,
At a hearing before the Governor on
Saturday last DIR. Wade refused to tes-
tify and Leibowitz also declined 10
give any evidence. The Governors
decision followed the refusal of the two
men to testify under oath.
The bugs at the old shack used as
a station at Shenandoah Junction by
the b. & o. and NJ & w. Railways
have long been known of all travellers
who are 50 unfortunate as to be
obliged to use these roads at that
point, but their reputation has been
enharccd by a new variety reported to
us this week. One OF the unhappy
persons who was stranded there on
Monday sent us specimen captured at
the station that is a real terror. 1t
is about four inches long and has
wings and claws and a stinger that
make it truly awful opponent. If
many Of these creatures shall make