Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-04-06
LITTLE LOCALS.

dDiC 10 tic do III has kept
buds from advancing too far and thus
decreases the danger from frosts that
may come later.
On another page of the Register will
he found very interesting sketch Of /
the construction OF the foundations
Of the great Standard Oil buildine
now being erected in New York. The |
Jarrett-Chambers Company is putting /
in these foundations.
DO not fail to go to the community |
building Saturday night OF this week /
ard see the play by the Bedngton ORA |
matte Club, always in Trouble" a |
three-act comedy. This company gave |
very enjoyable performance here !
snTie weeks ago, and another treat ma,
he expected. Admission 80 cents.
The Whitmore Lumber Company, OF
Charles Town, has received the con-
tract for the rebuilding of the Blue |
Ridge Rod and Gun Clubs new club !
house Just east OF Harper's Ferry. The /
rev structure will be considerable |!
Improvement over that which was de- /
stroyed by fire last fall. 1t will cost !
about $4,000.
New porches are popular in Shep-
herdstown just now. Mr.. and Mrs. |
Herbert II. Hartzell have had an i'm |
posing new brick porch built at their |
home on Princess street. In addition
to other Improvements at her home on
RumSey avenue, Mrs. Bernie Billmyer !
| Is having fine new porch erected, and !
on the same street Geo. w. Sandbower |
is charging the porch at his home.
The Miller Lumber Company has
bought from John Aglionby fifty acres
of standing timber of Gap View farm,
near Shenandoah Junction. There are
two tracts that will fall before the lum-
berman's axe-one of IS acres and one
OF rs acres. The timber will be cut
lumber will be shipped to Port Reading,
New Jersey, to be used in wharf con-
Struction.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Frank Needy and
Miss frankie Needy are able to be out
again after severe spell Of the grip,
all of them having been down at the
same time. Mr., Needy called at the
Register Office a few days ago and re-
newed his subscription to the Register.
He has been reader Of this paper for
going on fifty years, his very first rec
collections Of reading being his at
tempts as a little boy to spell out the
headlines in the Register. He ap-
preciates his home paper and looks
), for it anxiously each Thursday
s The Woman's Club has long realized
that one OF our communities greatest
assets lies in its wealth of ancient
relics and antiquities. Two of The
Gains committees are planning to bring
. together number Of most interesting
mt
of ancient pottery and weaving, old
china and other things impossible to
: see outside Of a museum. This exh;-
hilton will be held soon. In the mean
time look around and see what you have
that can be used. Good care will be
taken of all loans.
The State Road Commission has en-
tered formal order indicating sec
tons of new roads in the State which
have been taken over for maintenance
by the commission. Included in the
order are two projects in this county.
One section lies between the Charles
Town and Bolivar corporation lines, es-
tnnatcd length SOC miles. The others
Is q threemile section on the Berry
vile pike beginning at the southern
! limits of the Charles Town corporation
/
tratiOn macadam in the order.
A quantity of flowers, Shrubberv,
EincS and trees were planted at the
i}umsey monument grounds this week
/ under the direction of Benjamin Hart
2cii. expert florist and gardener, and
| Included in the list are favorite old
fashioned shrubs as well as rarer
th'ngS. In few years these grounds
| ought to be very beautiful, and they
viii be if our people will interest
| themselves in its care and protection.
Let everybody be guardian of this
lovely spot and help make it park
| of which the whole community shall
~ proud.
The Engle neighborhood witnesses
= number OF changes among the farm
| CT, this spring Isaac Kidwler and
| '"n the coming year will farm the
place owned by Misses Ida and Eu,
gtra OstOurn, Herbert Ergle having
! g'r:n it Up. The NJ. NJ Moler farm
! ':, seer vacated by Ira Mcnamara,
=, moves to Clarke county. His sue.
ncssor will be Charles T. Nichols, who
r-nvcs from the Lcklider farm, which
. u be taken by John Maddox, from the
t-'Ntern Shore of Maryland. Garland
! y itmorc leaves the Foley farm to-
cu-rate one owned BY III. b. Bane near
Summit Point
| A good deal Of comment has been
Caused by the disappearance of soma
| vnEable property at Shepherd College.
a Nv months ago an electric heater
W taken from the domestic science
d"p ''tment. Last week a typewriter
! !opeared from Prof Kenamoni's
! - -. Between Saturday and Monday
1 Pr-.-. Dent Mhitc,S nEicn ,raS rnidnI ~,