Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-05-08
Items of Interest.

Lee Price, of Paris, Kentucky, has been
unable TO speak for twenty years because
OF an affection Of the throat. Last Mon
day after severe coughing spell he COM
pletely recovered his voice.
Mrs. Nicholas J. Barrett is to build a
fence 81 feet high, II l-2 feet wide and
IL inches thick so as to prevent persons
in an adjoining apartment house from
looking into the bedroom windows OF a
house she owns on Park avenue, in New
York
At Milton, Pa, a few days ago, c. A.
Grove put $500 in wallet and then placed
the wallet in his hip pocket. AS she passed
calf the animal nlpped the wallet from
his pocket unnoticed. Later he missed
the money and found the calf chewing it,
wallet and all.
The officials OF the United States Steel
Corporation and of the Westinghouse
Company are joining in protests against
the licensing of saloons in the towns in
the Pittsburg neighborhood where their
plants are located. They say that the
efficiency OF their work is seriously i'm
paired and the saloon-keepers are getting
the money that ought to 90 to the support
OF families.
A runor has started on the Pittsburg
division OF the Pennsylvania Railroad TO
The effect that the company will in the
near future demand that all employees OF
all classes and departments sign pledge
against the use OF Intoxicating liquors.
Although no official confirmation has been
given the report, it is being stated per-
sistenty that such an announcement Will
soon be made.
In Thomas Ellison, better known as
"Uncle Tom," who resides in Newton
county, Ark, it is believed the real cham
pion OF the progeneration principles OF
Theodore Roosevelt has been found.
"Uncle Tom" is SO years old. The birth
recently of son to one OF his grand
daughters caused a recasting OF Ellison'S
record. Here il is: Married three times.
Father of so children. Grandfather OF l25
children. Great-grandfather OF 90 chill
dren. Great great grandfather of q
children. His youngest child is II years
old, the oldest 65. Ellison was born in
Clinton county, Ohio.
Van Nelson, of East Pittsfield, Maine,
lost valuable Texas foXhound in pc
culiar manner. The dog was giving a
fox hot chase when Reynard took to
the railroad track and led him close up to
an approaching train. lust as the train
was about to strike the fox, il jumped to
safety, but the found, intent on following
the trail, was run over and killed. Sub
seuuertly if has been learned that the
mangled remains of several other dogs
with sporting blood in their veins have
been found on or beside the tracks on the
same stretch OF railroad. Tracks in the
snow and other indications all 60 to show
that they met their fate in similar man
ner. II is the current opinion there that
the same cunning old fox deliberately led
them all to their doom. Nelson's dog
was valued at $500.
"When a Mans Fit to Marry" was the
subject of an address delivered by DR..
George J. Fisher TO young Christians at
the West Side Y. M. c. A. in New York
few days ago. Doctor Fishers con-
clusion was that man may undertake
marriage without wrong to himself, his
wife or posterity if he is morally and
physically sound. "But," he added,
'the habltual drinker has no right to
marry, nor even the man or woman who
INDUCES in an occasional drunk. II is a
scientific fact that the child born OF drink
ing parents is inevitably the heir TO ner-
vouS disorders" Since 1910, according
to Doctor Fisher, the birth rate in the
United States has decreased more rapidly |
than in France. The only thing that has
kept this country from the situation in
which France finds herself, said Doctor
Fisher, has been the immigrants.
Reports from Mcdonald. Pa, say that |
the Peoples Natural Gas Company is
drilling a we'll in the vicinity of Mcdonald |
which is already the deepest in the world.
The present depth of the well is said to
be 200 feet, which is 920 feet over a
mile. AT present the drill is boring
through white sand which passes steam
as it is being poured into the tank, il hav-
ing temperature OF 80 degrees in the
tank. Before reaching this sand the
drilIers encountered flint-like rock so
hard that it cut glass as readily as a dia-
mond. A cavity was encountered in
drilling the we'll which required over
eight tons of cement to fill and in which |
the outfIt of cable drills was lost for four
months. There is said to be more than
60 tons Of pipe in the hole. The heat
and geological phases OF the we'll are
being watched by officials of the national
government.
Rev George B. Gilbert, rector of
Emanuel Episcopal Church, at Killing
worth, Conn, went trout fishing before
church last Sunday, and the speckled
beauties were so responsive he forget
the passing moments and ii was half an