Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-08-02
Items Of Interest.

The War Department has contracted
for the construction of "a, $50 motor trucks
to be used by the army.
Several cases OF infantile paralysis have
appeared in Monongah. Marion county,
this State, and quarantine has been estab-
lished.
The managers of the Winchester faIr
announce that they will abolish horse
racing at the fair next September. and
instead will have reel races from picked
teams OF all fire companies that wish 10
compete.
The B. & o. Railroad has appointed
Mrs. Lillian Boehmis TO be ilagn,an al The
Main street crossingin Keyser, at a salary
of SAP month. She is the first woman
to be given work OF this sort.
Under new ruling of the government,
shorter and lighter men will be accepted
for the army. Heretofore men had to be
at least "a inches tall and l2O pounds in
weight. They will be taken now If they
are 81 inches in height and weigh ITO.
State Superintendent M. P. Shawkey
has made the usual annual apportlonment
among the counties OF the distributable
school funds. Jefferson county gets
s. ,O92, Berkeley county S4,43O, and the
independent district of Martinsburg
$2.67S.
Francis M. Brown, OF Smithsburg, Md,
was arrested last week by United States
Deputy Marshal Ohler on The charge OF
using the United States mails to defraud.
Brown is accused OF using the mails 10
sell an alleged "love cure" a powder
which when sprinkled over a person
whose love was waning would strengthen
love.
State Superintendent of Schools M. P.
Shawkey announces that there is such a
lack OF teachers in West Virginia that
young men and women holding third
grade certificates will be called upon 10
teach this fall. Hundreds OF teachers
have given up their profession for indus
trial pursuits which pay better salaries,
and hundreds of others have enlisted in
the army.
Frederick Lewis, alleged TO be mulat
to, of Washington county, Nd. and Viz
gle Weber, white, from near Burketts-
vile Frederick county, Md, were ar
rested on the charge OF miscegenation.
They were tried before Justice Lloyd, OF
Burkettsville, and dismissed, the magis-
trate holding that the marriage was legal
because Lewis was not full blooded
negro. The mother OF the girl objected
to the marriage and had warrant sworn
out for the arrest OF the couple.
With the arrest at Mullins, w. Va, o.
|. S. Fine, president OF the l. S. Fine
Corporation, of Roanoke. the most in
genious and widespread violation OF the
prohibition law yet discovered in Virgin
ia has been unearthed and il extends into
several adjoining States. Sentenced TO
$500 fine and 60 days in jail for violation
OF the West Virginia dry law, Fine has
confessed his whole scheme and has given
the authorities his secret formula by
which, with gill OF alcohol and a few
chemicals, he was making substitute for
whisky which, il is said, in color, taste
and effect fooled connoisseurs. His prod
uct was shipped from his soft drink plant
in Roanoke as "ginger ale" and similar
drinks, and contract was discovered by
officers by which he was selling his prod
uct at SIS dozen in pint bottles. Fine
maintained special laboratory in his
plant, officers say, in which his product
was made by his own hands and kept
secret from employees in the regular bot
thing department. In search OF his plant
more than barrel OF grain alcohol was
discovered. Upon completion of his
sentence in West Virginia, Fine faces in
dictments in the federal court and in the
Virginia courts. Officers are on the trail
of agents in adjoining States.