Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-10-12
LITTLE LOCALS.

WSEHiii paper on nand and some nice
new type. Let US print you up some
letter-heads, bill-heads and envelopes.
Prices are moderate-a great deal less
than you will have 10 pay in the
larger towns.
The public school at Capon Bridge,
W. Va, was closed last week on ac.
count OF an outbreak Of diphtheria.
Mr. Wilbur Cunningham is the princi-
pal, and he has been in this vicinity
staying with friends until the school
reopens, Miss Mildred Bowers and
Miss Elizabeth Trump, OF Kearneys-
vile, who arc teachers in this school,
have also been home during the re-
grettable vacation.
Some of the farmers OF this neigh.
borhood are considerably peeved at the
way rabbits are already being slaugh-
tered by gunners, and will forbid any
hunting on their places. Rabbits are
not yet III for food, and il is a shame TO
XIII them so wantonly. II any OF our
farmers want TO have their lands post
cd they may have their names added
to notice in the Register for fifty
cents, good until the end of tine season.
There will be no regular meeting Of
the Woman's Club this week. The
members of the club are invited TO
meet Friday with the Charles Town
Woman'S Club in Charles Town. The
Travel Club Of Martinsburg and the
Woman's Club OF Harper's Ferry are
being entertained by the Charles Town
Club at the same time. Members Of
the local club wishing to go will meet
at the club room Friday afternoon at
II o'clock.
Boxed apples from the Northwest
are being stored at Winchester in
! large quantities under the storage-in-
transit ruling of the Interstate Com
mercc Commission, il was announced
by the Winchester Cold-Storage Com
pany, Thus far 200 carloads have
been received, and 100 additional car
loads are expected. Several carloads
OF far western pears have also been re.
ceived for storage. About l2sOOO
) barrels Of locally grown apples are
going into storage
| Water having been turned into the
. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, some fif-
teen or sixteen boats are now operating
between Williamsport and George
town, hauling sand and other building
material from the latter place to viii
, Transport for the big electrical plant
! to be built there. One OF the loaded
4 boats was sunk in the one-mile level
above Shepherdstown the first of the
week, open seams having let in more
> water than she could carry. The wa
4 ter was pumped out Tuesday and the
= journey resumed.
A pleasant trip to Europe is plan
ned for the winter by Miss Elsie Muir
ply, Miss Sara Coe and Miss Mary
Porterfeld. They expect to leave here
, the first week of November, and will
be joined in New York by Miss Helen
Martin, sailing from there November
7th on the "Carvonia." After spend
ing two weeks in Paris they will 20 on
. to the Riviera, where they will rent q
villa for couple Of months, and then
travel through Italy and Sicily. To-
wards spring they expect to journey
northward by slow stages to England,
returning home In the early summer.
Charles Town Spirit.
The Ku Klux KIan seems to be do
! ing some good work in Hagerstown.
Monday night a prominent business
man Of that city and another mans
wife were found together in an auto
mobile in lonely place in the su-
burbs by four hooded white-robed fig
ures. The couple were terrified, but
the man broke awav and ran of
through cornheld The woman
tainted when she was caught. The
four hooded men revived her, and af-
ter warning her to be true to her hus-
band hereafter sent her home. lust a
week previous four hooded figures
found a couple from Hagerstown In a
car parked in secluded place and
gave them warning never to 60 with
each other again.
There we're two striking scenes In
the skies last week Sunday night
about 8 o'clock meteor started in the
southeastern heavens and slowly, de-
liberate1y shot across the zenith in a
northwesterly direction. There were
two bright spots visible, one at the
head and the other about half way to
the end Of the long streamer OF fire
that accompanied. The meteor was
visible for six or eight seconds. The
other phenomenon was the sunset
Tuesday evening. The clouds that had
hung heavily all day broke away be-
fore sundown, and for a half hour the
western skv was wonderfully beauti-
full in the clearest green and blue and
yellow and crimson. II was a sight
long 10 be remembered
The Jefferson County Telephone
Company has added to each OF its ex-
changes at Charles Town. Shepherds
town and Harner's Ferry stationary
convcrters, purchased from the LEIGH
Electric COMPANY. Of Genoa. Illinois
These devices, which are the latest i'm
provement in the way OF telephone
ringing at the exchanges, are equipped
with twelve storage cells. These are
charged direct from the town current.