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m)t " fc>T^ BLI8HED 1849. H. L. SNYDER, Publisher .?.?jjOME EPISODES IN FLORIDA. <; interesting and curious things fcarrt'IlcJ in Florida during the tour of jf-e State bv the National Editorial Association. At Davtona a party of us Vl.; t to breakfast at a verv good hotel b> one Bob Dalton. erstwhile a n,Vd western bandit with dear knows how many notches on his gun. Breakfast was slow in being served, and an editor began to complain rather loudly. $sh!" >aiJ one of his friends. "Do vou know that this hotel is conducted K B Dalton. the famous train robber and killer?" "Good Lord!" said the complaining one in horrified tones. He never peeped after that. On Anastasia Island, near St. Augustine, there is a real alligator farm There are thousands upon thousands of alligators of all sorts, arranged in pens graded according to their size. | In one pen are several hundred little fellows from six to twelve inches lone. Then an attendant called to them and ( threw some finely shredded meat into ti.e per. thev came running to him like a b.'o* d of little chickens. One croup of alligators three or four feet long had been taught to climb uo a sort of stairwa\ and then slide down a shootthe-chute with evident satisfaction There was one enormous alligator in a pond all to himself that thev said was JOO years old?though thev had no birth certificate. Thev called him Poncc de Leon. He looked his age. for he w is moss covered and extremelv ancient He could have swallowed a good sized pickaninny. Some time since, a woman with a fancy little doc that was her especial net. and which she valued at S300. visited the alegar farm. An attendant advised her to have the dog at the entrance, but she haughtily refused. She carried the doc ; in her arms, and when it saw a lot of big alliga'ors in their pen it began to bark at them Rercelv. The nllicafors soparentlv so slupgish. became instant- : lv alert and moved auicklv toward the j fence The dog grew more excited an'1 I gave a spring which carried him out of i the arms of his mistress and landed him | amonc trie alligators ine nearest nn- : gave a culo then blinked blandly wi'h a doe on his inside. The ladv stormed and went?but it was no use The dog could not be recovered and she had no one to blame but herself. Kwitverkikin is the name of a handsome bungalow at Manatee?the home ofaChicapo familv. The cheerfulness of the oerupnnts ef fhis n'aoe shows that thev are in full harmonv with the najne of their home. The island of Bimini. which is a British possession, is only forty miles front Miami, and as it is well stocked with liquors of every sort, it is a very popular resort for thirsty folks. You can go either bv aeroplane or motor boat. It is a common sight to see the aeroplanes start off, one of them being large enough to carrv ten or twelve passengers. Motor boa's run the liquor in after dark and manage to land a good deal of whiskey under the noses of more or less blind revenue officers While we were in Miami an interesting case was tried in the local court. A very wealthy New York sporting man bv the name of H. S. Black was arrested and his private car seized, the charge against him being the unlawful possession of liquor. Black disclaimed all knowedge of the liauor and his negro steward took the blame. B the time the case was called in court thev had fixed ud their storv. Black swore 'hat he had instructed his steward to put 45 boxes of oranges on the car. The steward had misunderstood him and put 45 case?t of whiskev ah trJ. The funnv part of the affair that the iurv pretended to believe 'he \ .irn and acauitted both men. Bu' fc'ack lost his whiskev and his car was still in duress when we left Miami. Last vcar when I was in Florida 1 drove with Mr. and Mrs. Wvsong to Hartman's place, a few miles from "iam Mr. Hartman told me that h< *as doing well with his oranges and Rrarc fruit, hut he said his real gold nine wag his strawberrv patch. He had two and three-fifth acres in strawherric> and thev were yielding fine ^hec'nning to bear in December and cortinuing until May. He sold them wi'hnu' anv trouble, prices ranging a=: h.ph ns ge, cents a auart. He told 'hat he expected to clean up $10.his strawberries for the season ar l visited Harfman's place He was not at home, but one V eiehbors told me 'hat he had ' i his strawberrv patch to four an! was counting on making lV'l? from them this season. Some s "' i harries! ;c of the larger towns the night unrs were there an amateur per;ce was given bv the town folks ' were scattered around v-'iieh 'dlines something li'te these: I to the Leg. Show Tonight Onlv 35 Cents I; - . ~ trvea scats For the Editors fecial Acts Bv Prcttv Girls inspired that the performance ; n for the local post of the ?n Legion, and the printer had tunately abbreviated the word It was reported that most of -tors were present in the reserved St. t' ters grown on trees in Florida, 'w them. At Bradentown the ' crhang the shore of the Mana1 cr, and on the branches that 'own into the water considerable 1.' "f oysters attach themselves. ? > rth Beach. across the river from t "custine. there is a place where of ovsters are served on short i k ^0'.' Dut 'n vour order, a col?v slips out the back wav and through the vard to the water Sl)cp Shepher uades in and gets a basketful, and oresently you have a delicious mess of oysters in front of you. Miami Beach is a verv popular bath- i ing place, and it is noted for the ab- j breviated costumes of the women | bathers. One-piece bathing suits, and i a very small piece at that, were popular while others that attracted and held attention were composed of a sweater J and an exceedingly short pair of trunks such as modest small bovs wear. It must have taken considerable ; nerve to come out so nearlv naked in full view of hundreds of persons, but 1 there was no apparent embarrassment It was noticeable that those editors 1 whose wives were with them were no; J allowed to linger verv lone on the! beach thonah the men were nnite wilt. ing to risk an eve on the entrancing I scenes. The onlv woman who was not j i concerned about the display of fern- ! inine beauty was the devoted ladvi, whose husband was totally blind. If the men booming the Everglades region in Florida, now beine drained and made available as farming lands. ( are within fifty per cent true in their j( oral and printed claims, that section may become an agricultural wonderland. Tomatoes, they say. yield fron' 300 to 400 bushels, and they tell of ?v ] record of 600 bushels; peanuts vielc. from 80 to 200 bushels to the acre;; corn gives 65 to 75 bushels per acre without cultivation or fertilizer; su- j garcane and alfalfa prosper splendidly l Farmers in our limestone section can hardly believe it. but in the Everglades one can run a plow forty miles in any direction without striking a stone or a root or going up or down a hill. The fall from Lake Ocochobee to the coast is one inch to the mile. The canals or drainage ditches serve to drain the country. It is the ideal place for tractors. We would not like to doubt the enthusiastic Everglades boomers, but their claims sound too gdod to be true. Wouldn't you love to have all the oranges and grape fruit vou wanted, fresh from your own trees? I dined unc uay wun some inenas who uvea on their grove. I couldn't keeo mv eyes off of the ice chest, for it seem:d } to have an irreducible stock of grape i fruit of the most luscious sort. At first I was embarrassed at the way thev : pressed the grape fruit on me. Later 1 the hostess seemed embarrassed, but 1 whether it was because she feared the grape fruit would give out or I would bust, I was unable to ascertain. Life would seem much brighter if I could have a half dozen or so orange and grape fruit trees in mv back yard. Near New Smyrna there's a government bird reserve, and here water fowl and other winged creatures find absolute safety from human enemies. They sav it is a wonderful sight to see the birds gathering in of an evening flying from the lakes and rivers to their resting places. I never tired of watching the water fowl, from the ( little sand pipers that ran along the beach to the big storks that stood so solemnly on one leg in the shallow waters, apparently sound asleep, but instantly alert when an unwarv fish swam within reach of their sword-like bills. The great blue herons were fascinating creatures and the various fish hawks were always interesting. And a queer old bird' is the pelican, whose bill holds more than his belican Near Miami, in a tropical jungle along the river. 1 saw a real moving picture company making a picture that will be released, probably, some time in June. It was John Barrvmore's company, and the movie thev were working on was "The Lotus Eater." A village representing the native homes of the South Sea Islandei^ had been built, and this made an interestin? scene in conjunction with the natural beauty of the place. Through the courtesy of her mother I was entranced j to meet the star of the company. Miss Colleen Moore, who is more beautiful in real life than she is on the film nr just as sweet and charming as she is : lovely. It was a most pleasing experi- , ence to meet this delightful girl and tc have an agreeable talk with her. An then I was vamped bv a real vamp Miss Jordan, who is experienced in this particular line of work and was very willing to trv her art on a susceptible country editor. She came mighty near getting me. and I believe I would not have minded it. Mr. Barrymore is a verv handsome man and he has a most attractive company sup- 1 porting him. Believe me. though, it is ' real work making a movie. o r Colored Boy Shoota Himself. Harry Johnson, a colored bov 14 years old. while handling a sauirrel rifle at the home of his grandfather, i Edward Johnson, in the southern part i of Charles Town. Thursday afternoon , about 4 o'clock, accidentally shot himself and died two hours later. A smaller bov who was with him at the time, and the only witness of the accident said Harrv was looking in the muzzli , of the gun when it was discharged. ' The bullet entered his forehead iust above the eve. He became unconscious 1 from the wound and remained in that condition until his death. Prosecutinp A t At A. j .i ? niiunicy runcriiciu mvcstiEaiea inr shooting and concluded that the bov' death was caused bv an accident.? Advocate. o HAVE YOU DONE IT? J Insured your wheat croji against | damage bv < HAIL STORM If not. why wait for the hail storm ' to come first? Washington. Alexander \ Cooke Charles Town. W. Va. J. H. TROUT. Sub-Acent Shcphcrdstown, W. Va. I' Ijcrfisi MON I'ANl SEMPER dstown, Jefferson County, We LITTLE LOCALS. The Shcpherdstown Chautauoua wil' be held June 9th to 14th. Although the full programme has not vet been announced. it is known that there will be delightful numbers, including a plc\ and some good musical performances. The Register publishes this week an interesting collection of news iterni From the busv village of Hakerton. Our Bakerton correspondent promises to send us a news letter each week, which will, we are sure, be enioved bv out readers. Last Friday night thieves invaded the chicken house of C. D. Wvsone at Sudley Place and carried off fifteen fat hens. They had stolen ten on ? previous visit. Mr. Vt'vsong is prepared to give them a warm reception on their next visit. After enjovine four davs of sunchinf* onH n1ooco?? last week's lone spell of rain, another northeaster set in vesterdav. Rain fell nearly all dav. kept it up through the night. and this morning as we go to press it is ermine down steadily with no break in the clouds. Or. Hutchison, the dentist, asks us to say that he will open his office in the Register building Wednesday and Thursday next. May 18th and 19th when he will give professional attention to his patients. Dr. Hutchison will move to Shenhcrdstown if he can get a house or suitable moms. Dr. Yarnold. who with his wife has been spending his summers in Shopherdstown, was here over the weekend. seeking to find i boarding plr.ce\ Dr. Yarnold wears a speedometer, and the record shows that he has walked 44 000 miles in the oast twenty years? an average of 2.200 mi'es a vear. All of her estate, both real and personal property, was bequeathed to her daughter-in-law. Mrs Bvrle H Hoffman, bv Mrs. Marv E. Hoffman, who died in April at her home in Sheo'mrdstown. The will was dated January 28. 1908. and her signature wac attested by Geo. M. Beltzhoover and T B. Line. Quite a number of men from Sheo herdstown went to Kevser. W. Va. last Friday to attend a Masonic meet* ing in that place. Messrs. Gstar Sperow, Oscar Osboarn, .Joseph Stri) der, Edward T. Moler. ,|. Strider Moler and Walter E. Herr were among thu visitors from this place. Messrs. Hero and Osbourn took the degree of the Knights of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Gilmore White and Miss Elizabeth Staubs, two popular vouns ceri sons of the Middlewav neighborhood, were quietly married last Thursday evening at the Methodist parsonage at Summit Point by Rev. O. D. Lambert. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs> W. W. White. Miss Staubs is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Staubs. The couple will make their home on the Shirley farm near Middlewav. Miss Helen Pendleton, who so successfully conducted the Little Green Tea House on Main street last summer will reopen this pleasant insitiution on May 21st in another location. She has rented the Quaint little house on what is known as the paper mill lot just west of the river hill street, near the bridge, and will have two entrances to it, convenient for travelers ascending or descending the hill. This is a most pleasant and attractive place, with plenty of green grass and shade and ppen space, and we have no doubt it will prove popular, especially with automobile parties. The State Road Commission has been authorized to refund to traction engine owners the license taxes coh lected from them since 1917. A bill providing for refunding the license was introduced and supported in the Legislature bv Senator Milton Burr and Delegate Downs. The bill passed, thereby ending the litigation thai has been in progress to resist furth? bi i^aymciii oi irie license tax, A vear ago threshermen of the county who objected to paying the license tax started proceedings before Judge) Woods, who issued an injunction restraining the Road Comnv'ssion from enforcing payment. The case was taken to the Supreme Court recently for final decision. Next Monday will be a day full of amusement and entertainment in .Martinsburg. Rosemont Amusement and Recreation Park will be opened for the season of 1921. and special attractions will be offered there. The opening game of the Blue Ridge Baseball Circuit will be fought between the Martinsburg and Chambersburg teams, and baseball fans will be on tiptoe with interest. The Knights of Pythias will have a parade and exhibition which, it is expected, will be participated in by from 5,000 to 6.000 members in uniform, and this will be a most attractive feature. Next Monday will be a really big day in Martinsburg. and the folks >}f that city give a cordial invitation to their friends and neighbors to visit them on that occasion. A petition is being circulated in Shepherdstown. and has been signed by a few persons, praying Congress to change the prohibition laws so as to make them less rgid. We hope that our people will not be over-enthusiastic in endorsing this attempt to undermine the constitutional law of the land which has been ratified bv fortv-flve of the forty-eight States of the Union and which is the greatest moral advance this country has ever made. We are lonfident that this petition does not represent the spirit of our community, which registered its opinion of the Honor business so unmistakably when it had the opportunity. Aside from the moral and economic side of the ouestion, with our streets and roads filled with automobiles who would be safe if liquor should flow as freely as of vore and drunken drivers should be at the wheel? to tun LIBEKI. st Virginia, Thursday, May 12 PERSONAL NOTES. Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer and Judge Wilmer Latimer, of Washington, spent the week-end in Shepherdsto wn with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Ringgold at Belle V'ue and w ith Mr. and Mrs. E. L Reinhart. The former, who was recently appointed bv President Harding to be Judge Advocate-General of the Navv. has again been promoted, being raised to the rank of Rear Admiral, and will be on dutv at Washington. He has been commandant of the naval sta- j tion at Key West. Florida, for the past vear or two. The friends of these (two native Shephcrdstowners who I have made so good in their chosen professions were Rreatlv pleased to meetHhem again. Rev. William Rogers, formerly pas- i tor of the Methodist Church of Shop-; , herdstown. has been here the past week visiting his former parishioners. His j friends in this place, who are manv and 1 of all denomination, have been glad to , meet him again. Mr. Rogers spent the past winter at Black Mountain. North Carolina with his daughter. Miss Hlsie Rogers, who died a few weeks ago. He |expects to make his future home in | Washington Citv. where he and his! daughter. Miss Corinne Rogers, will keep house. Among our callers on Tuesday was Mr. I). Tanner Williamson, one of tho Register's subscribers from Berkeley county. He savs that his place has been famous for a hundred years or more for its apples, cherries, plums. I and other fruit, but this year it loses its reputation. The freezes in March and 1 April killed all the blossoms and thero will hardy be enough fruit on the place to make a pie, Mrs Arthur Conradi. of San Francisco, is in Shcphcrdstown with her little son and daughter to spend a Part of the summer with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Davis at Wingerd Cottage. Mrs. Conradi. | who was formerly Miss Louise Wei snans. ot bhepbcrdstown. has not been east for about five years, and her friends are glad to greet her again. ; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Williams have i been here this week visiting at Popodicon, Mrs. Williams' old home. They have been living in Boston for the j past year or two. but will move to! Philadelphia, where Mr. Williams is a member of an engineering firm. Prof. J. D. Muldoon is in Charleston. W. Va., this week, attending the annual convention of the State Sundav School Association. He is president of the Jefferson County School Association which is again in the front-line counties this year. Mr. C. D. Scully was in from Pitts-, burg the past week-end looking over his property north of town. He examined his orchards, and while there will be no large crop, he expects to have a tolerably fair yield of some varieties Mr. Edmund Licklider. who has been living in McKeesport. Pa., for several years past, has rented the Fra:ier house on New street and will occupy .it with his family. He will travel for a business firm. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Licklider went to Baltimore the first of the week to visit their relatives. Mrs. Licklider expects to remain several weeks, but Mr. Licklider will probably return the latter part of this week. Among our callers the past week was Mr. Wm. H. Martin, of Maple Shade Farm, who is still active and hearty, in spite of the fact that he is over ninety years of age. Mrs. J. L. Vernet. of Philadelphia, formerly Miss Mabel Hill, of this place, has been in Shepherdstown the past week visiting her mother. Mrs. Emma Hill. Miss Eva Knott, who is in training of the Winchester Memorial Hospital spent the week-end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Knott, in this place. Mr. Ferd Snyder, of the Junction neighborhood, and Mr. Lee Osbourn. of the Leetown vicinity, were callers at the Register office the past week. Mrs. Wilbur Davis, of Mt. Hope. W Va., is here with her little daughter to spend some time with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Marten. Mr. Frank J. Dobbins, who has been employed in Columbia. S. C.. for some time past, has returned to Shepherdstown for a while. Mrs. Geo. R. McKce has returned to her home in this place after several weeks visit with friends and relatives in Charles Town. We were pleased to have a call a few days ago from Mr. Wm. C. Scibert. one of our Keamevsville subscribers. Mrs. Ralph Peck, of New Yoik. Is i here with her little son for a visit to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Billmver. Miss Katrina Baumgardner. of the Shepherd College faculty, spent the week-end at her home in Washington Miss Anna J. Eichelberger. of Washington. spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. J. Strrder Molcr, in this place. Mr. Kenneth Stalev has returned to his home in this place from a business trip through the South. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Link spent last Sunday in New Market. Va.. with the family of Rev. John W. Link. Mrs. Nellie Legge spent the past week or two with friends in Washing on and Richmond. Mr. Charles Schlev was here from Pittsburg to spend the week-end with his brothers. Mrs. J. Strider Moler. visited her sister. Mrs. W. D. Shultz. in Kcvser last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Snvdcr and the baby spent the week-end in Washington. Ucgi , 1921. COINTY COl'NT PROCEEDINGS. At the regular session of the lefferson CAunty Court last veek .utan wa-. taken or the petition to wliMnh a free ferry over the Shen.in.1oih n\ir .it iMaor.ingV Fcrrv. lir. S. T. Knott, .eg in 1. Shutt and C It Monte. member". ct the court. wvj . r-pouited to c.' m. c the ferry sit:. .. tinau i i p*tr p'.t cost of 'he enterprise aiut teport ii writing rt the next rccttlai or called term of the court. Exonerations were allowed a number of taxpayers. Three of them ate residents of the corporation of Bolivar. They are lohn Strotiier. re.?l estate. $810; Frank P. Dink'.e. real estate. $250; and Elizabeth C. Smith, real estate. $225. Exonerations on re*al estate assesssments veers also granted to R. S. Grandstaff. Ranson, $22!-; Charles f\ jonnson. v.narics I own corporation i $415; Henry Green. Charles Town cor I poration. $1,105; lames M. Fields. Mid- ; dlcwav district. $100: I. C. Roberts. Charles Town district: H. C. Pase. | persona! property. Charles Town cor ' poration. $15,300. The fund derived from the doc tax ' was larger this year than lor several years, the county being able to nav 02 cents on every dollar of claims sub* mitted to cover losses vu.taincd from sheep-killing docs, l.tst year the county paid less than 45 per cent of such losses. Following is a Ust of sheep owners who submitted claims for losses with the amount of each claim: Charles Kidwilcr. StiO: Alfred Childs. $15; Henry Shepherd. $120; Geo. S Marlow, $40; James Slushcr. S.V); (.ilhirt DcHaven, Still: Ino. E Fritts, $24: J. H. Ramcv. $10: Misses Fagan. $235; Harrv F. Bane. $23: E. H. Rcinhart. $80; N. T. Snyder. $10; McGarrv Snvder. $100: Moore and Bell. $10; W Marshnll $20: I. I". Hammersla, 510; and C. F. Wall. $100. o The Shipley Fortune Hobs I'd Again Heirs of the reputed fortune, variously estimated at from $ 14.000.000 to $22,<XX),(X)0. reported to have been left by the late James McCoy, a native cf Washington county. Md.. in California. havf* tpppi'vpH rhnorino nou'Q ?ir?H cmtin I of them believe that the fortune, regarded hv most folks as mythical, is real and that thev will receive larcc slices of it McCov is supposed to have made his fortune in California durinif the "gold fever" of 1849. Among the heirs in this section are Gabriel Shipley, a canal locktender. living near Downsville. and Fonrose Shipley, of | Shrnherdstown. The story of the reputed fortune was published a year or two ago. Since then efforts have been made to ascertain the facts. E. H. Shipley, an Arkansas lawyer, a distant relative of the Shipleys, went to California to inves-1 tigate and learned that the fortune "is all there." it is said. L. A. Ambrose of Shenherdstown. is endeavoring to establish the date of the dea'h of McCov, who was the uncle of his father-inlaw. Fonrnce Sbinlev. Mrs Sallle B Crone of Washington, also Is an heir being a sister of Gabriel SbinJev. A Word AKo"t' Our ttoa/fv Most of the roads in Shephcrdstown district are in a deplorable condition and growing worse every day. After having endured them all winter, are we to suiter from the same conditions through the summer also? It seems very strange that no one bothers about keeping the roads in order. The same methods are in vogue that were used thirty years ago, namely: Put a string of broken stone in the middle of the road, then go away and leave it to its mic uniii iivai ycui. n uucsn i seen i | as if it would require super-intelligence I or impossible effort to keep the drains open and to supply at convenient intervals sufficient crushed stone to mend the bful places. A wise observer remarked to the Register a few davs ago that a hundred dollars expended in patrolling a certain road and keeping the drains open and filling up holes would have prevented damage to the amount of a thousand dollars the past year. We do not doubt this, and doubt-) less the same thing is true of other roads. Yet no step is taken to prevent such damage, indifference and neglect continue, money is wasted and our roads grow worse. Is there no wav to secure relief from these conditions? o Sunday School Institutes. Winchester Presbytery has arranged a series of Sunday school institutes. The one for the Presbyterian Sunday schools of Shepherdstown and Kearneysvfllc will be held in the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church Wednesday, May 18th. The visiting team consists of Mr. Wesley Baker. Synod's Superintendent of Sunday School Work Rev. C. D. Gilkeson. Presbytery's Superintendent of Sunday School work, and, it is hoped, a lady to demon-strate elementary methods. There will be a session at 3 P. m.. open to all. but cpccially intended for suocrin'endents. teachers, and workers: another at 7.30 D. m.. of a mnrp nonnlar rharare^r Christian workers of other denominations will be cordially welcomed at both services. The Death Record. 1 Charles Hcnrv Millard. Buckevstown, Md.. died last Monday, aged 80 ! years old. He conducted a milling business in Buckeystown for about 5C years. Besides his widow he ia survived by three daughters. Mrs. Ellen Himes. Marion: Mrs. Tohn H. Baker and Mrs. Clyde Routson. Buckeystown and two sons. Addison Millard. Washington, and Preston S. Millard. Bakerton, Miss Harriet V. Price, of Martlnsburg, died in the King's Daughters' Hospital in that place last Thursday night, from pneumonia. The deceased, who was 76 years of age. was a native of Middlewav, this county, but most of (her life was spent in Martinsburg. stcr. M 50 A YE-*K IN At A AN . NEW VOL 56?No. 19. ?? SftcJ'HtvivL) lUu,LUb .NUlbs. Friends of Shcpucrd College a* uuica gratified over the Legislature's approval of the budget bill carrying liberal appropriations for the .next bicnntui period: >24.000 will be available for a .at ics of otliccrs. teachers and i tuplestcs in 1922. and >38.000 In 19-3; for current general expenses. >8.ii'O in 1922 and the same in 1923: ior cpairs anu iinprovments each vear. >2.mK); and for buildings and lands. S12.NX) each vear. President W. H. S. U'hite spent Friday and Saturday with school people in Piedmont and Kevscr. and this weeK Professor J, D. Muldoon is in Charlesson attending the State Sundav School Convention. Mr. Muldoon was scheduled to speak on Special Davs in the Minj-iv scnool on Tuesday. At the chapel period on Friday a short programme on mother's day was rendered under the direction of Mrs. Gib* son, with >X'inters Folk. Mary I. Sc.plon. Cornelius Carter and Mabel Rice representing the department in app(i>priate selections. Special features of the Tuesday programme were the musical selections bv Catherine Matthew s and Louise Freeman and the pleasing address by ludgc Gooch. of Richmond. Va. Members of the faculty and mnh\ of the girls of the school were guest of the Y. M. C. A. on a hike up the cana> Tuesday evening. The turning point in the hike was arranged to suit the general appetites. provisions for which had been arranged bv the voune men in the way of an elaborate picnic lunch. After a week's lay-off. out of respect to the weather, our baseball enthusiasts are back on the job with a ven gcance. This afternoon at four o'clock the college second team and the Shep hcrdstown High School boys will plav off the game postponed from a week or so ago. and on Saturday Martinsbur;r High School will be here to meet the first team. On Tuesday the second team triumphed over Charles Town High School. 7 to fl. For two or three innings one was led to anticipate rather high scores on both sides, but all the loose nlaving was bunched. While Charles Town made five errors, and the Shepherd College reserves errored six times, the later innings were marked bv no misplays. Hawse pitched his first game for the home bovs. performing very creditably and keeping the ten hits well scattered. Slifer. for Charles Town, allowed onlv nine hits altogether, but was quite stingv after the fourth inning. Harris distinguished himself in the second inning bv losing the bait near the right field fence for a home run, and Walker gathered in a lot of flies in center field. Kable took first liberties with the curves delivered bv Hawse, but the real damage to them was done bv Rissler and Blackforcb who secured three hits each. Ernest Frye's one hand catch of a wicked drive to right was the sensation of the gam< S. V. A. cancelled the game to bo played at Winchester, and thus tho first team missed another afternoon's entertainment. This is the third game I that proved to be scheduled for a rainv r _ | Good reports come to us from the alumni at the West Virginia University j through the columns of the Arhenaeuut. v ' Gertrude Muldoon was entered in the 'pri'-Ties as a candidate for senior " .aOcr cf the Student Council, a oojsition now held bv Grace Pavne. another IoT o'*r "ir!?;. | -cV Snyder still continut 5 in \aried activities. RpcentJv he carried rff th.rd honors in scholarship in the college of arts and sciences j land about the same time was unaniImously elected editor of the Atherweum for next year. A few weeks ago he was on the winning debating team { against the University of Pittsburgh and now he is playing with the Reserve baseball team. o Will Oil Our Street*. At the meeting of the town council Monday night arrangements were consummated for the oiling of our streets as usual, and it is desired that this work shall be done without delay. The people living along the streets to bo oiled are asked to make their custnmary liberal donations, and the council will have the oil applied. It is proI posed to use more than usual carts this year so as to make the Uto'k of a mere permanent characte*\ An automatic sprinkler will be gotten if possible, bo as to economize on labor. The oil. which will contain 40 per cent of asphaltum. will be bought from the Stantard Oil Company in Baltimore at twelve cents a gallon. Parking aigns will be placed on the business sections of Main street, for the benefit of automobile drivers, o flood Programme By Woman's Club. The Woman's Club of Shepherds* town District will give a special programme, Friday evening. Mav 20th. at 8 o'clock in the college auditorium, showing some phases of child welfare* The programme follows: Vocal solo bv Mrs. Mary Hartzell UODDinS. Piano solo bv Mrs. Charlotte Goldsborough. Reading to be selected, expression i department. Vocal duet by Miss Freese and Mr. W. B. Snyder. An address bv Tudee Wilmer LaHnter. who has been iudge of luvenlle courts in Washington Citv and is well fitted to give an interesting and instructive ?alk on child like. All con"' and enlov a free entertainment o If vou want to raise better ehtrV*ns and larger hogs and rqttte use Co'-*no poultry and cattle remedy, at Ow ns' drug store only.