Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-02-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

NNH'S uuShSl tuS past week and Is
quoted today at Si.57, the highest
price in good while. Corn ha>
advanced four cents and is 81 cents a
bushel.
John p. and George G. Tabler had
hne sale on Tuesday at Scrabble.
The proceeds amounted TO about ST.
500 Horses sold up to Sl44, cows up
to S6e, and the farming implements
brought unusually good prices.
Harry L. Lyme, who lives north of
town, had the fingers of both hands
quite badly frozen during the cold
spell last week. He was assisting in
saving wood with power saw and did
not realize that his fingers were frcez-
ing until the damage was done.
The Register has an exceedingly in
teresting letter from DR.. John o.
Knott, telling of his recent visit to
Shepherdstown and his meeting with
old friends in this place. After having
II in type and in the form, we arc
obliged to defer it until next week be-
cause of pressure OF sale advertise
mentS.
There are twenty-four sales Of farm
property and household goods in the
Register this week. Our paper is rec
oGnized in our own community and ada
jaccnt sections as one of the very best
advertising mediums. II has the circu-
lation and our bills and advertising
are gotten up most attractively and ac-
curately.
Victor Sweeney, who lives near An
tietam Md, has been appointed keep
er of the bridge of the Virginia and
Maryland Bridge Company at Shep-
herdstown, and will enter upon his
duties about the first of March. w.
ID. Graham has been serving as toll
collector since the death of the form
er bridge keeper, Robert Underdonk.
We direct especial attention to the
public meeting to be held at the court
house in Charles Town on Saturday
March 4th, under the auspices of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation for JEFF
ferson county. The principal address
will be delivered by the popular Mrs.
Izetta Jewel Brown, Of Kingwood, and
special music and other interesting
features may be expected.
w. A. Collier, appraiser for tho
Federal Land Bank Of Baltimore, was
in the county last week appraising
farms on which applications for loans
in his bank are pending. He inspect
ed ten farms while here. The loans
will be made as soon as all the pre4
lminary work connected with the
valuations, searching of titles, ETC., can
be inished-all probably by April lst.
A new barn is being built by tho
Halltown Lumber Company on the Cold
Spring Farm OF Miss Virginia Lucas,
south Of Shepherdstown, tenanted by
Frank Jones. 1t is to be a ground
barn, 70x 40 feet in size This farm
has been in the Lucas family for moro
than a hundred years, but has neveq
had barn upon it, stables being used
to shelter the stock. The stone dwell
ing-house on the place is probably l20
years old
Miss Carrie Lee Campbell of Rich
mond, Va, will make an address to
women in the Shepherdstown Presby-
terian Church Friday night, February
oath, at 7.30 o'clock. Miss Campbell
is Secretary Of Literature OF the Pres
byterian Synodical Auxiliary. She has
visited the missions in the Orient and
is thoroughly Informed in all things
pertaining to missions. All women In
the community are cordially invited
to come and hear Miss Campbell's ad-
dress. 1
Mrs. G. II. Whiting, of Billinyer's
Mill, gave very pleasant party last
Saturday afternoon as a compliment 10
her niece, Miss Elizabeth Billmyer, OF
Wild Goose Farm, who will soon be
married to Mr.. Newton Vickers, of
this vicinity. About twenty-five young
ladies, friends Of the bride-to-be, as
sembled at the Whiting home and
"showered" Miss Billmyer with a mis-
cellaneous collection of useful arti-
cles. The house was prettily decorated
with color scheme Of pink and green.
playing games and in other ways, and
delicious refreshments were served by
the hospitable hostess.
Copies Of the indictments against
miners union officials and members
who will be tried in Charles Town
April "a under a change Of venue or
der from Logan and Boone counties,
where an armed march OF miners last
August and September gave rise to the
charges, have been received here from
the prosecution in the southern coun-
ties. Fifteen indictments are drawn
ranging from treason and murder to
threats to do bodily harm consummat-
ing murder. All Of the indictments are
against more than one defendant, one
OF them listing los defendants. II is
understood that the treason charges
will be taken up first.
After suffering with hiccoughs for
eleven days, during which time the
best physicians Of Jefferson and Berke-
ley county endeavored to relieve him,
S.. G. Young, veteran postmaster at
Charles Tnwn is recnuerinn frnrn the