Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-07-24
Items OF Interest.

mond, Va, on Tuesday, for wearing a
slit skirt. The charge was indecent ex-
posure.
Kansas farmers are crying loudly for
harvest hands, and are offering three
dollars day, with chicken dinners and
icecream thrown in. Some farmers are
hauling the hands around in automobiles
as extra inducements. =
AT the meeting of the State Pharma-
ceutical Association at White Sulphur
Springs last week the druggists took
firm stand against the sale OF liquor, and
all were urged TO refrain from making
sales under any conditions.
Reports of the school authorities at
Passaic, New Jersey, show that during
the past year 81 school children appeared
in school in a state ofintoxication. Pas
sale is noted for its personal liberty"
and its unrestrained liquor saloons.
A man in Iowa was soundly thrashed
by his wife last week for not paying his
newspaper subscription after she had
given him the cash 10 do It. We publish
this note 10 commend the excellent woman
and as warning TO other faulty husbands.
While some boys were playing around
bonfire at Camden, N. j., on Monday,
Harry Smith. / years old, threw pistol
cartridge into the fire. II exploded and
the bullet pierced the head of Preston
Slaughter, 8 years old, killing him in
Stantly.
An Illinois editor who started about
twenty years ago with only So cents, is
now worth 100000. His accumulation
OF wealth is owing TO his frugality, good
habits, strict attention TO business and
the fact that an uncle died and left him
$4,000.
Tilted by her lover, Harry Pendleton,
young business man Of Wheeling, Miss
bessie Mcintyre, aged IS, donned mems
attire and became acquainted with Miss
Henrietta Aiken, Bridgeport. Ohio, girl
who had supplanted her in Pendleton's
affection. Miss Mcintyre made an ir-
resistible suitor, and while masquerading
as Lawrence Dessing' won the love Of
Pendleton's girl, who Dismissed him and
confessed her love for Lawrence.
When Miss Aiken learned the truth there
was feminine battle on the streets OF
Wheeling.
Persons all over this State who may
desire TO enter the internal revenue ser
vice will be given aa opportunity TO make
themselves eligible, for civil service ex-
aminations have been ordered TO be held
on August l6 at Wheeling, Huntington.
Charleston, Parkersburg, Martinsburg and
Bluefield. Collector Hays has al present
a full force of Republicans who were in
the office when he assumed charge. He
wants Democrats under him, and il DEM
ocrats succeed in standing at the top OF
the list under the new examinations he
will probably appoint them to places un-
der him. II is expected that a large num-
Der OF Democrats will take the examina-
tions.
Charles Page, wealthy resident OF
Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is reputed TO be
worth S., 600, 900, has adopted 300 chill
dren, and hopes TO increase the number
TO 900 before he dies. He has provi-
ded that the bulk OF his estate shall 90
toward aiding poor children and main
tanning home which he has built at Sad
Springs, a suburb OF Tulsa. Page has
built street car line which runs from
the village TO the home and carries the
children, who are picked up daily from
the poor homes of the city. He has a
cannery and farm where the boys and
the girls work in their off hours, and he
has promised any boy or girl who COM
pletes the course in the free school
which he conducts at the home can elect
any college for further education. Page
enjoys nothing better when he can get
away from his work than aromp with his
adopted children at the home, where he
has skilled teachers who conduct all
branches Of manual training and domestic
science.
Four parcels OF mountain and forest
land. aggregating ll3,o0o acres. have
been purchased the past week for the
United States Government by the Ma
tional Forest Reserve Commission. The
first tract Of 20,567 acres at the head
waters of the Monongahela river, in the
Ohio river watershed, at y3.06 per acre.
The commission also acted fayorably
upon the White Top area, l0,48 acres,
located near the junction OF Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee, at an
average price Of s.. IS an acre; the Nat
ural Bridge area, near the famous Virginia
Natural Bridge, 3,420 acres, at s6.A;
and the Shenandoah area, 79.464 acres.
at the extreme headwaters OF the James
and Shenandoah rivers. al 1.0l. The
commission considers the Monongahela
purchase particularly important one,
since the Ohio is one of the most used
nayigable streams OF the country. Last
year the Pitfsburg flood commission made
study ofreforestraiion at its headwaters.
Purchases approved the past week bring
the total Of all national forests in the east
up to 1884 acres.