Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-12-14
Shepherdsown Jefferson Thursday
LITTLE LOCALS.

ne parry OF surveyors who had been
working on the Berkeley county section
OF the proposed State road between
Martinsourg and Charles Town have
quit this line for the present and are
engaged in surveying for a proposed
road between Martinsbure and Berke-
ley Springs. Elkins Shipley, of this
place, is working with them.
G. w. Hoffman writes us from Mad
era, California, that he and Mrs. Hoff-
man, who have been in the Golden
State since last spring, will leave Cali
fornia on December 18th, sailing from
Los Angeles Harbor on the steamship
Ecuador" coming by the way of the
Panama Canal, and reaching Baltimore
January 10th, next. From the latter
place they will come to Shepherdstown
without delay. glad to be at home once
more.
An automobile driver of Moler's
| Cross Roads asks us to call attention
to the act of some lawless person who
the other night obstructed the road BY
placing a fence rail across it and also
put board in which there was three
inch nail sticking up along the track.
The writer says that his car was con-
siderably damaged and he thinks that
the guilty persons ought to be punish
| ed. The trouble occurred on the road
SOUTH Of the store.
u There's good reading on every page
'of the Register this week. On our
inside pages will be found special ar
ticles by DR.. !. o. Knott and Miss
Nota K. Viewer, and an original poem
by Rev. Hunter Davidson, Of this
county, which has the hopeful spirit
So greatly needed in these times. In
addition to these, there are local ar
ticles of interest and unusually good
general selections which we think our
readers will enjoy.
The workmen who recently painted
the tower of the old college building
got the points of the compass mixed
when they rcarranged the letters N
w S. w points to the north and all the
other letters are exactly wrong. We
suggest that the letters be properly ar
ranged before some wanderer gets
started in the wrong direction. II
would be sad il anyone headed fol-
Florida should be misdirected and find
himself in Oklahoma.
| On another page of the Register this
week may be FOUND very interesting
article on the early history of Berke.
ley county, written by Miss Nota X
Viewer, OF the Shenandoah VALLEY
Chapter of the N. S. D. A. r. of Mar.
tinsburg. We have another article b,
Miss Viewer that we will publish later
and have the promise of some addi
tional contributions later on. Thes,
stories of the early affairs of our Statt
are not only interesting and instruc
tive to readers Of the present day, bu
are well worth preserving in our loca
annals.
There are no new developments fhi,
week concerning the great new indus
trial city to be established at Ridge
way, Berkeley county. There ar,
those, however, who hint that the pro
posed development is gigantic hum
bug engineered by promoter who ha:
more or Jess shady reputation ane
who expects to make a pocketful o
money by selling lots to gullible 'inves
tors. On the other hand, il is posi-
lively asserted that the enterprise i:
honestly genuine one, and that in ;
very few days the real work OF con
structing the first unit Of the grea
manufacturing plant will be commenc
ed. Whether the proposition rs ar
honest one or not, it will be we'll fol
the people OF this section not to spec
ulate until they know more about it.