Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-12-17
Deferred Items.

The Maryland Legislature has rendered
decision confirming the validity OF the
lin Crow car law.
The people of Kansas are undertaking
to send 100, 900 barrels of flour 10 the des-
titute people Of Belgium.
Congressman Hunter Moss, OF Parkers-
burg, appears to have gone broke. Some
of his creditors filed papers to throw him
into bankruptcy.
One OF The nerviest appeals we have
yet heard of is that OF the Austrian vice.
consul at Charleston, this State, who asks
that medical and surgical supplies be sent
for the benefit of the sick and wounded
in Austrian hospitals. The Austrians
started the European war and should
have courteo the cost before they went
into il, ard moi have depended on neutral
nations to help them bear the burdens for
which they are solely responsibilities
change.
More than 1000 quarts of whiskey,
valued at more than $1,000, was poured
into the streets at Thacker, near William
son, w. Va, Saturday and match ap-
piled. while great crowds OF men gather
ed about and "guyed" Sheriff Greenway
Hatfield and his deputies. The whiskey
was taken in three raids on "speakeaSies
and was empted into the street and burn
ed. 1t was the biggest single haul yet
made by the officers in enforcing the
Yost laws.
"On with the dance-letjoy be uncon-
finedr" shouted the floor manager in the
town hall at Strasburg, Va, last We'd
nesday night, when large number OF
young people gathered to hold sub
scription dance. which had been arranged
by Lee Sonner, well-known resident
of the town; but unconfined Joy was in a
short time turned into more or less ex-
element and not little weeping when
Rev. Mr.. Meeks, pastor OF the Southern
Methodist Church, put in his appearance.
For some time large revival meeting
has been in progress in Strasburg, and
many people have quit the broad and
crooked path for the straight and narrow
road, forsaking the world in general and
dances in particular, and when the Rev.
MIR. Meeks learned that dance was to
be held while the revival meeting was in
progress he is said to have raised OBJ
iections on the grounds that the dance
would have a tendency to lure the young
folk away from the church. Rev. Mr..
Meeks arrived at the dance hall while the
fiddlers were rendering some choice Sc
lections by which the experienced were
enabled 10 dance the new and modern
steps with grace and agility. When he
started to 90 in, it is said, Mr.. Sonner
stepped him and stated that everyone
present had paid fifty cents for the privi-
lege of attending the dance, and that the
pastor would have to pay, too. Pastor
Meeks, it is related, left and held con-
ference with the owner OF the hall, who
gave him permission to enter the build
ing without paying. After some words
with Manager Sonner, the pastor edged
in and began TO make speech, where
upon some OF the young women started
to cry. Others became hySteucal and
made frantic efforts TO "beat it, without
being recognized. for, according TO the
story, many OF the tair dancers were sup
posed 10 be attending church services,
ard explanations would next be in or
der if their parents heard OF the girls be-
ing at the dance hail. When the men
toiks saw the tears streaming down the
faces OF their fair partners il was too much,
and the boys are said to have left the
hall in disgust That put an end to the
dance.