Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
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and 125 were injured.
Antietam Post, G. A. R., of Hagers-
town, Nd, will place memorial win
dow in the Lutheran Church at Sharps-
burg, in memory of their old comrades
who fell at the battle Of Antietam.
Mrs. Frances Key Howard died at
Oakland, Nd, last week, aged II
years. She was the only surviving
daughter of Frances Scott Key, CON-
poser of the "Star Spangled Banner"
Rev. DR.. H. NJ. Wharton, pastor of
Brantly Baptist Church, Baltimore,
and president of Luray College, will
retire from work in the evangelstlc
field and devote his whole time to
Brantly Church.
Some practical joker has been impos-
ing on the boys and girls at Wells
burg, this State, by story that the
President of the United States will
present bicycle to the first boy or
girl who sends him 1000 Cancelled
postage stamps, the President desiring
them to paper one Of the rooms Of the
White House. Quite a number Of
children have been making collections.
The new State geological board has
been called to meet in Charleston this
month. It consists of the Governor,
State treasurer, director of the expert
ment station and the president of the
State board of agriculture. The board
will arrange for geological survey OF
the State and the publication Of geo.
logical maps. Six thousand dollars
was appropriated to commence the
work.
DR.. George W. Massamore, assistant
game warden and secretary Of the
Maryland State Game Protective AS
ISOLATION, says the pulp mills and tan
neries threaten the extinction Of the
fish in the Potomac river. Worse still,
he says, if these unsanitary conditions
are allowed to continue epidemics of
typhoid fever and kindred diseases are
sure to follow along the river, The
best fishing is found from Little Falls
to Hancock-15O miles. DR.. Massa-
more treats the subject at length and
says it is a very important one.
The opponents of the Hagerstown
dog law are trying to kill it with ridi-
cule. They propose to erect a 400
pound iron memorial tablet to the
memory of the 125 odd dogs which
have been killed by the dog catchers
and buried in the eastern city suburbs.
They propose to put on the tablet the
names of the mayor and the members
of the city council who favor the dog
law and to embellish it with two fig
ures, one representing mastif rescu-
ing a child from the water, and the
other dog which blew out the gas
and died. Ridiculous ceremonies are
suggested for the unwilling, followed
by a fantastic parade and humorous
address.
A writer from Centreville, Nd,
sends to the Baltimore american the
following cure for hog cholera "Ne-
cessity recently influenced a farmer s
wife on Kent Island to have recourse
to a recipe Of her own. 1t consisted
of one teaspoonful of turpentine in
a-half pint of fresh milk. She had,
prior to the use of this dose, lost con-
siderable percentage of her herd of
hogs, and out of sheer desperation she
resorted to this in the hope Of possible
success. Her experiment more than
realized her expectations. Out Of the
number of those treated, she lost but
one, the others slowly but surely re-
covering. The same mixture has been
tried in this district of the county,
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