Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-30
Letter From Washington.

Editor Register-The Secretary OF
War has announced that We have SUI
600 men in France, which, added TO the
four million English, three million
French and half million Belgian SOL
diers. we will certainly be able TO wear
ont the German and Austrian army
fighting in the last ditch.
How is this army and our Allies 10
be fed? Only by our farmers planning
big crops of corn and potatoes tHis
sprinp can we do il. Jefferson county
land will produce 800 bushels OF POta-
toes 10 the acre, which at ol.oO
bushel, pays four times more tilai,
wheat. A Harper's Ferry man ralse9
400 bushels on one acre by drilling seeu
in rows one foot apart. George WASH
ineton raised 1000 bushels potatoes
one wear at Mount Vernon, loaded them
IN a schooner, sold them in Louooun
and ordered a list of articles on ME III
Congressional Library: 40 yards linen,
DOZEN pairs silk hose, half dozen pairs
silk suits. which showed Madam wash
ington up to date.
Washington is filling UP with young
people from all over the United States,
and the flower of the land. lhey
snend their first money in dress ana
shine out in blue silks, striped SILK,
silk hosiery Oh, it is sight TO see.
Iow-neck dresses have proved a sure
cure for cough, colds, ETC., and It seems
the girls are determined TO keep healthy
Who would prevent them
Our bond division in the treasury Is
very busy. Some days ship million
in bonds TO a single bank. count
over after the shipping clerk. All
checks and money accounts must be
called over by two clerks, sure no mis-
take be made. Every day two tons can
celled revenue stamps and small war
stamps are burned in gas plant fur
naceS. . This gas plant is big thing
burns canal-boat load of coal, 100 tons,
every day. We burn up there to get
away from White House, made too
much cinder there.
Plant corn and potatoes and we'll do
the rest and rout the Huns.
R. D. Shepherd and his wife made
great hit in playing Shakespeare Mer-
chant of Venice at the BelaSco Theatre
for the Red CrosS-toOk in S5,000 Last
fall he played lngomar very fine at the
! open-air theater near monument TO
ten thousand people seated on the
grassy slope. twenty-five years ago
we all thought him a great goose OF
gander for selling the finest farm in
the county, but now see whole city
profiting by his expenditure and cul-
tivation. One hundred and five French
soldiers, wounded at the battle of Yer
dun, marched up our streets with guns
and into the White House TO meet the
President Congressman Dill was over
there and says the French lost 100000
men at Verdun, but killed 100000 Ger
mans and defeated them. Loss one
million. Only 5000 were killed at An
tietam, We thought big.
One thousand new clerks come 10
Washington weekly and 300 go back
home sick and for other causes.
James McCoughtry, of the Leetown
section, is head of big section Liberty
Loan bonds in Treasury.
Mrs. McAdoo, wife of Secretary of
the Treasury, is very active. Under her
supervision 10000 articles were made
by Treasury women and sent 10 France
in 1917, from $4,000 contributed by
Treasury clerks, and the same will be
done again in 1918.
Miss Margaret Wilson gave $1,000
to Red Cross from her earnings, sing
ing in monograph records.
All we need now is bountiful crops
and time to win the war. Young clerks
from West Virginia say they are run
ming their tractor plows to midnight to
get out a big crop-20 acres a day.
JAMES M. ENGLE.