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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
3
July 31 1913 items list Owens Miller grocery items and sales at Hill's Pharmacy Hodges' coal and shoe ads various local notices farmers markets and new bridge plans near Williamsport with details on tolls and county roads hog cholera reports and a church and school events schedule plus a lost pocketbook and several sales announcements from Jefferson county communities.
Estate administrator G M Beltzhoover will sell decedent John J Shaw's personal property on August 234. Sheriff C D Wysong reports a satisfactory county settlement. 166 excursion tickets sold for Pen Mar, railroads running limitedly to the resort. National Guard set to camp at Harper's Ferry August 4 to 13. Harvest home festival at Mt Wesley church August 11. Various local appointments and construction updates. Luray Caverns excursion August 13 from Shepherdstown. admission details. Weather hot with sporadic rain. corn crop potential damage. Temperance and gospel meeting Loudoun va August 6 to 13 with notable speakers. Charles Town horse and colt show August 7 with liberal prizes. Claude Bennett to lecture August 9 on The South Today and Tomorrow with lantern slides. Admission 25 cents.
Miss Nellie Enter and her niece Miss Marguerite Entler depart for a combined land and sea trip to New York, Isthmus of Panama by rail, then San Francisco and Portland Oregon, with Nellie staying a year with her sister-in-law's family and Marguerite pursuing a library position in Portland. The notes also recount several visits and travels of area residents including Mr Edwin Staley from New York and others visiting Shepherdstown and surrounding towns.
Deaths report William B. Lemen of Brunswick and Martinsburg physician Dr. George Porterfield Morrison, plus John E. Thompson of Kearneysville and Mrs. Annie Plotner of Berkeley County. Also notes on Harriet Neill and Portia Oglesbee. Church notices, farm fires, Washington cyclone aftermath, and federal weather bureau appointment follow.
Davis Hamrickhouse of Shepherdstown drove a car owned by Charles D. Fisher with Oscar Fisher and two out-of-town girls Olive Lynch of Newark New Jersey and Bessie Stewart of Wilmington California on a joy ride Monday night. The vehicle veered at a sharp turn and plunged over an embankment striking a telephone pole. Lynch suffered a broken arm and facial injuries, Stewart minor injuries, Hamrickhouse abdomen injuries, and Fisher head and facial wounds. All were treated at a hotel and hospital in Hagerstown, then released. The wrecked car remained in the ditch until Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs P S Dulin returns to Washington after a short visit. Mr and Mrs 0 T Sherman arrive with his mother for a stay. Mrs James Stowe, here weeks, spends a week in Washington. Local baseball team hosts a home game. Foster Mongan and Charles and Robert Thomas visit. Miss Amenta Snavely from Frost Md visiting D G McCraw. Mrs Fred Souders visiting in town. Irene Rogers of Martinsburg visits. Willam Houser at the toll gate mourns two young died? Knott's spring camp at near Shepherdstown. Daniel Dubie from Hagerstown engineers N W Railway with Roanoke friends at Ryder's landing. Jacob Kidwiler and Harry Cook build new fence toward the N W Railroad. M L has ice cream selling privilege at union link. Picnic committee to arrange confectionery, drinks, cigars. Plates growers report crops light. Richard Himes and Mrs Alice Spence visit former home. Mrs Herbert Gross and two children from Washington visit Joss family. Miss Enola Miller and nieces from Hagerstown visit Wao Snyder. Oliver Grice suffers poison ivy on arms.
A notice seeks a tenant for the Fruit Hill farm of Miss S. Andrews near Fe iherss town beginning the Ist of the Indearest Miss P Andrews in Shepherds Town W Va.
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