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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
West virginia's Orchards.

Pamphlets listing the orchards OF
West Virginia and giving necessary in
formation pertaining to the owners,
their addresses, the size of orchards,
and the probable production are be-
ing prepared by w. H. Somers, OF
Berkeley Springs, director of the mar
ket bureau Of the State Department OF
Agriculture, and will be published be-
fore the shipping season commences.
Mr.. Somers is also preparing list OF
200 of the buyers who deal in West
Virginia.
The list deals chiefly with the coun-
ties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan,
Hampshire, Mineral and Grant. The
making Of these lists will have the
tendency of bringing the producer to
the consumer with greater efficiency,
and eliminates the commission men.
Arrangements have been made with
the various banks in those communi-
ties whereby credits may be establish
ed during the apple buying seasons.
According to this list, Mr.. Somers
declared, West Virginia has the largest
number of apple trees of any State in
the Union, and there has never been
any doubt about the quality, he added.
From present indications, the peach
crop in West Virginia this season APT
proximate 2,200 car loads, Mr.. Somers
stated. The crop last year totalled p
$50 car loads.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
Shepherdaown West Virginia Thursday July g. 1919
Interesting Letters From France.

Rev. DR.. Charles Ghiselin, of Shep.
herdstown, has recently received some
very interesting letters from his son,
Rev. Charles Chiselin, formerly mis-
sionary in China, who is now engaged
in work among the Chinese laborers
in France. We are permitted to take
from them the following extracts,
which the readers of the Register will,
We are sure, enjoy:
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
that you never forget the enjoyment OF

that you never forget the enjoyment Of
the visit.
Now | am living out in the bare
and waste country near the City of
Lens, before the war a city of $4,000,
but containing only a few hundred
persons. This is one OF the most his
toric backgrounds, where our Chinese
men are picking up the innumerable
shells fired by the Germans and
making the land fit for occupation BY
the French. am near Vimy Ridge,
Arras, Lille, and not very far from
Ypres. Have only one Chinese Secre-
tary helping to serve 5000 Chinese
in this desolate country. Ii is such
fine weather tenting out in the country,
that | enjoy it very much. However,
the sights of skeleton villages and
towns, that are the only remnants Of
fine homes and happy families just
few years ago, produces one of the sad
dest sights imaginable.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
Billy Montigny, France,
May 80, 1919.

May 80, 1919.
Now | have been in this little town
Of France, / enjoy the Mfe and work
here very much. We are really camp
ing out. I sleep in little hut about
the size OF the room in your upper hall
at home. Nearby we have nice little
room built of roof boards, where Mr..
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
Jefferson County Farm Notes.
APPLE SCAB.

Several inquiries are coming to this
Office with reference to apple scab
Scab is identified by small, rough,
round spots, about one-eighth inch in
diameter. They are very dark brown
color. They may be partially scratched
off with the thumb nail. Scab appears
about the middle Of May, showing
plainly in a month, and spreads until
August. Weather conditions caused
it to be so prevalent, and might tend
to check it some. Spray will prevent
further spreading. Use 5 fbs. blue
stone, 5 TBS. lump lime, and so gal
Ions water. Dissolve the blue stone
and water, and slack the lime and make
a thin paste. Pour together into a
tank and add water to 50 gallons. This
will also control sooty blotch, and fly
speck fungus, which if weather condi-
tions are ideal for development will
cause as much damage as scab.
CABBAGE WORMS AND MAGGOTS.
Many questions continue to come to
this Office relative to cabbage maggots
in the roots. We note that besides
the tarred paper described few weeks
ago that a crude carbolic emulsion is
recommended in small gardens. To
one gallon of water, add one pint crude
carbolic acid and one pound laundry
soap. To this stock solution add 80
parts OF water That is to one pint
Of solution add 80 pints of water, etc.
Pour in place where cabbage is to be
planted and around roots every 7 to 10
days. The cabbage worms may be
prevented by using helebore or py-
rethus in a powered form mixed with
-four or dust. Spray will run off cab
bage leaves unless resin is used as a
sticker. The above is not so poison
Gus and will stick better.
THE ASSISTANT AGENT.
Victor Chancellor, who has been act
ing as horticultural agent for Jefferson
and Berkeley county, has resigned 10
assume the management of an orchard
in Hardy county. Mr.. Chancellor has
been Of service to those who have call
ed for him and will be missed in the
county as it was planned to have him
go ahead in his present position.
SATURDAY OFFICE DAYS.
To meet the demand for regular Of
flee day, the county agent announces ne
will be in Shepherdstown every Satur-
day until noon and in Charles Town
in the afternoon, unless announced
otherwise through the press.
FUNGUS DISEASE OF WHEAT.
Wheat seems to be damaged severe
ly by rust, smut and scab. We are
preparing special series of meetings
on this subject the latter part of July
and August community meetings. We
are taking samples from the county to
the experiment station for examination.
AT these meetings We will demonstrate
the hot water treatment for smut.
c. A. HUGHES,
County Agent.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-03
Your affectionate son,
CHARLES CHISELlN.

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner !?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallov?
liver perhaps needs waking up.
Doan's Regulets for Bilious attacks.
30c at all stores.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
MELROSE, With
TROOPS ABOARD,
CALLS FOR HELP
Steamer From Europe, En-
Route to U. S., Far Out in
Ocean, Loses Her Rud-
der and Drifts.

Halifax, N. S., March 24.-The
steamer Melrose, which left St. Naz-
aire March 9 for New York, sent
out wireless calls for help today,
saying that she was in distress. A
message picked up here said that the
ship had lost its rudder.
The. message gave the position of
the Melrose as latitude 1885, longi-
tude $3.50. If these figures are cor
rect they would indicate that the
steamer had drifted far to the south
ward of her course as the position
given is about 900 miles almost due
east of Bermuda.
Washington, March 24.-The Mel
rose sailed from St. Nazaire, France,
March 9, for Newport News.
War department records show the
troops on board to consist of de-
tachment of the Three Hundred
Seventeenth tank corps company,
the number of men not given; an
ordnance detachment of one officer
and 81 men and two casual officers,
one of the medical corps and the
other of the air service. No informa-
ton was available at the department
tonight as to the accident which was
reported to have befallen the vessel.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
.A|RPLANE
SKINS SKY.
T.H0UT
ANY! GUIDE
Secretary Baker Tells Of Fly
ing Machine That Works
Under Automatic Con-
troll for 100 Miles.

Fort Worth, Tex, March a.
Under automatic control, an air
plane capable OF carrying a heavy
lead, and operated without a hu-
man guide, has made a trip of 100
miles and landed within a short
distance of the point it set out to
reach, Newton d. Baker secretary
of war, disclosed in an address here
today.
, The device which made such a
flight possible and which has been
kept secret, Mr.. Baker said, is all
automatic guide for airplanes. 1t
is designed as all instrument of war
and the secretary referred to it in
describing to his audience the pos
sible horrors of future wars, if
there is to be no league OF nations.
When the arnlistice was signed
the invention had been so nearly
perfected that in actual test, an air
ship without all occupant was ste
cessfully sent on trip of over 100
miles, he said. An airplane went
out under control of pilot with
cut making a landing, returning to
its point of origin after locating
the distant objective for the test.
Then was sent out under auto
matte control another airplane to
land at the designated point and it
effected the landing so close to that
point that had it been shell it
would have been considered a good
shot,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25

San Francisco, Cal, March "a
Confirmation of the execution of the
former emperor of Russian and his
wife and daughters under particular
ly revolving conditions by bolshe-
vik troops, was made here today by
Gen. Robert c. Paris, one of the
first French officers to, be assigned
to the Czechp-Slovak army in Rus
sia. Genetal Paris is on his way
home to make an official report OF
the occurrence to the French gov
ernment. He arrived here yester-
day from Vladivostok.
Nicholas and his family were shot
in the basement of their house at
Ekaterinburg, Siberia. The women
of the once royal family we're sub
jected to indignities and mistreat-
ment in the presence of the former
czar before the executions took
place. General Paris said.
Describes the Execution.
"On the walls of the rooms in the
house at the present time are writ
ings by the bolshevists, in which the
former czarina's name and those OF
her daughters are frequently men,
toned" said the general. This
house is now the headquarters OF
General Gaida, Czecho-Slovak
commander. Describing the scene
attending the execution of the Ro-
manoff family, General Paris said;
Early one morning the czar was
taken from an upstairs room and
stood against the wall in the base
ment Of the house. There he was
shot. but not before his wife and
daughters had been mistreated in
his presence After that the czarina
was shot, and then her daughters
and other members of the house
hold.
Bodies Are Burned.
"a few days following the mur,
der the bodies were taken under
cover of night by automobiles into
nearly villages, where they were cut
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Hitchcock Declares
Taft Candidate for
Presidential Office

Washington, March 24-(Spe-
cial.-Senator and Mrs. Hitchcock
returned from an outing in Augusta,
Ga, today. During his absence Sen
ator Hitchcock golfed with former
President Taft, Senator Harding,
Senator Hale. Senator Frelinghuy-
sen, Speaker Gillett and former
Senator Weeks.
From number of conversations
had with Judge Taft, the Nebraska
senator came to the conclusion that
Taft was an outright candidate for
the republican presidential nomina-
ton next year.
Hitchcock leaves this afternoon
for Chicago to open his campaign in
behalf of the Wilsonian league of
nations and he has arranged series
of speeches that will carry him up
to May 1, which will include a visit
to Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25

"The State department has re-
ceived a dispatch from Belgrade
that the Hungarian government
was overturned by the communist
revolutionary element under boil
shevist leadership in Budapest on
Friday. While telegraph and other
communications were cut off and
there was some shooting and
other disorders, all the foreigners
in Budapest are believed to be safe
Through Serbian sources, in
formation has come to the de-
partment that the Hungarian gov
ernment has resigned and that the
new Magyar government announc-
ed hostilities would begin at 6
o'clock last Friday. Budapest time.
The resignation of the old Hun
garian government came after the
French authorities now in Hun
gary had directed the Hungarian
government to withdraw its army
forces to Szegedin-D n-Debreczen
boundary, the Roumanians to hold
the Aradszat-M t-Marnement line and
the French to occupy the territory
i'll dispute.
"A dispatch from Berne, refer
ring to the press reports concern
ing the situation, says that Alex
ander Gerbai, who has assumed
the presidency of the revolution
airy government of workers. peas
ants and soldiers councils, accord
ing to the press, is workman who
at first a conservative socialist has
now moved to the left. . ,...
Joseph Pogeny, minister OF
war, formerly was president OF the
Soldatenrat and was an orderly in
the second army and once punish
ed for indiscretion in all army
matter.
"Bohm, who has become COM
missioner for social affairs, was
once minister of war, and has
lately gone to the left.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25

That there should be no more
strapping, whipping, punshing Of
girls such as reported at the &C.
neva school and OF which they
heartily and unanimously disap-
proved.
That a letter should be sent to
Governor McKelvie urging him to
appoint a woman on Nebraska's
Board of Control.
That a woman be placed at the
head of the Geneva home.
That the appointment be robbed
yof its nature of political plum
and that the board take proper
/ time to choose the right woman.
That an investigation be made
into the case of Miss Lydia Nc
Mahon, who was formerly matron,
and if possible that she be con-
sidered as matron.
Shocked at Conditions.
81 am shocked at the reported
conditions at this institution sale
Mrs. D. G. Craighead, who opened
the discussion, THE most serious
part of the whole thing was thai
there was no one there who under.
stood how best to deal with it. ]
think that it is up to the women tc
take concerted action to prevent this
in the future. We should see tha,
one is placed there who understands
and sympathizes-in other words Z
woman the girls can go to and con.
flde i'll; furthermore, | propose {
woman on the Board of Control"
Hearty applause from the mem,
bers interrupted.
"The girls need someone who
can bring out the good in them, fol
there is good in everyone howeve,
depraved. Such methods as these
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
BRITISH NAVY READY
FOR LONG AIR FLIGHT.

London, March 24.-Several sea-
planes of the NC type are being
prepared for the transatlantic flight
to be undertaken soon by the Navy
department, although no decision
has been reached as to the number
that --ill make the start. Four OF
these big craft have been completed
and it may be that two and possibly
even three will be sent out on the
theory that the greater the number
the greater the chances of success.
The Navy department is not now
contemplating transatlantic flight
with a lirhter than air machine.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt said to-
day the navy had no dirigible ca
pable of making such voyage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Faces Three Charges
Over Seizure Of Army
Truck Full Of Booze

Antoine Manescalco, owner of the
property on the river bank at the
end Of Thirty-fifth street, Council
Bluffs, where nearly 1000 bottles
of booze were seized after it was
loaded on an army truck for trans
portation to Omaha yesterday fur
nished the $500 bond required when
he was held to the district court
grand jury after a police court hear
ing. .. ..E.
County Attorney Swanson then
served him with notice of all ap-
plication for a permanent liquor in
junction against his person and
property. A few minutes later he
was summoned to appear before
Justice Cooper of Council Bluffs to
answer to a charge of conspiracy
He was held under 81 900 bond to
appear for hearing, but was not
locked up when he promised to get
the bond at once. This he accom-
plished soon after noon.
Manescalco lives in, the house on
the river bank with his wife and
children.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Sues Power Co. for
$4,000 for Alleged
Damage Done to Tree:

Alleging that the Nebraska Power
company cut limbs from 10 maple
trees, Mrs. Margaret E. Adams filed
suit in district court, asking $4,000
damages-$l,000 for each tree.
The trees are located on the east
side OF Twenty-fourth street be-
tween Sprague and Shaler streets
and Mrs. Adams petition relates
that her husband planted them SO
years ago and attended to them for
many years until they had grown
into beautiful trees.
On January IS, she says, employees
of the Nebraska Power company cut
limbs from the trees, "disfiguring
and mutilating" them without her
knowledge or consent,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Ex-Czar Nicholas and Family
Killed in Basement of Home
General Paris, French Officer From Vladivostak De-
tails Revolving lndignities Heaped Upon Former
Ruler Before He, His Wife and Daughters Were
Put to Death By Bolshevik Troops.

into small pieces and burned searate-
ly. The charred remains were found
by officers of the forces opposed to
the bolsheviki.
Remains of the burned clothing
also were found. Proof that the
garments we're those of the Roman
offs was given by the fact that the
diamonds which the czarina and her
daughters wore in their waists were
picked up. Apart from this there
was ample evidence that the burned
bodies and clothing were those OF
the royal family.
Blood Under Floor.
"The room in WHICH the murder
was committed is now sealed. The
plaster on the walls shows where
the rifle bullets penetrated. The
bullets were removed with bayonet
points. Bloodstains have been
washed from the floor. Under the
flooring, however, little pools oi
blood were found. In several places
in the death room the blood seeped
through the cracks in the floor.
Every one in Russia is now
thoroughly convinced that the entire
Romanoff household was wiped out
by the bolshevists. The official re-
ports sent to France were conclu-
sive.
"The car and members of his
family are dead. That is positive.
"The shooting of the Romanoffs
was regarded as a humane killing
by the bolshevists. They probably
wished to show some consideration
for royalty and this tragical murder
was showing consideration in their
warped brains.
"But the Professionally were
striped of their clothing and stood
upright in especially constructed
boxes filled with ice; thus they were
frozen to death. Others were thrown
naked on spiked planks. Many were
decapitated. In many ways. incon-
ceivable to the average human mind
they were massacred."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25

have long been passec in ails and
better ways should be found
Girls Need Woman.
Il entirely agree with Mrs. Craig
head" said Mrs. E. B. Towle. II
have visited the institution and
know the inmates. Society has
failed don't approve of any man
at the head of such all institution.
The girls need some woman and are
hungry for love and sympathy.
Such an appointment must not be
matter of matron, but the right
matron. | think the women of Ne
braska should rise in indignation at
the thought of any man whipping d
girl in the twentieth century"
May Get Results.
Il do not believe in man as the
head of such all institution" affirm
ed Mrs. c. w. Hayes. 81 would not
want girl of mine strapped, there
fore | do not condone II. 1t is ter
rible to permit it, and if we stand as
whole | think we can accomplish
some good"
The women of Lincoln are to-
day taking up this matter and are
anxious to have the support of
Omaha club women said Mrs. ].
w. Robbins. They have taken up
the matter with the legislature with
the endorsement of the Y. w. c. A..
"Personally | think that Mr.. Nc
Auley has done the best he could
and is as efficient as any man in his
position, but what we must work for
is woman in this place"
The action of the political and So
cial science department of the club
was the result of the recent .investi-
CATION of the Geneva school, in
which it was brought out that girls
were whipped for minor offenses
and violations of rules.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Spartacans Start Uprising as
Soon as Russ Emissary
Given Freedom.

Copenhagen, March 24.-Karl
Radek, the leading Russian bolshe-
vik agent in Germany, vino was ar
rested on February IS in connection
with the Spartacan uprising, has
been released by the German gov
ernment, according to a Berlin dis
patch today.
This message reports fresh. agita-
ton by. the German Spartacans,
'coincident with the Hungarian
revolution, and reports that in these
circumstances the release of Radek
has created a bad impression.
Three States In Danger.
London, March "a, via Montreal.
Hungary adoption of bolshevism
is regarded most seriously by the
Anglo French press, chiefly as en-
dangering the efforts OF the entente
to build up the Rounanian, Polish
and Czecho Slovak states as bull
warks against German domination
of central Europe. All these three
states are menaced by advancing
bolShevik armies.
According to a Vienna dispatch,
it was the establishment of the
neutral zone on the Hungarian
Rounlanian frontier which the peace
conference had decided upon which
precipitated the crisis. This zone
was intended to make the Hun
garians desist from attacking the
Eoumanlans and to close the gap
between Roumania and Poland.
The entente note defining this zone
was dated March l9, the Vienna ad-
vices state.
~ Forty-Mile Zone.
The zone was fixed as a belt l40
miles long and 40 miles wide, vir-
tually shutting Hungary behind the
Rivers Thesis, Szamos and Maros,
and including the towns of Gross
WARDEN, Debreczen and the entire
country behind them. The note re-
quired the withdrawal of the Hun
garian troops behind the western
boundary of the belt within 10 days
and authorized the Roumanans to
advance to the eastern boundary.
Civil government of the neutal zone
was to be exercised by Hungarians
ander allied control. but the I'M
portant points would be occupied by
allied troops.
Statements issued at Budapest ac-
cuse the entente of forcing a revolu-
ton, but the crisis is held here to be
more probab bly, due to the occupation
of parts of Hungary by Czecho-
Slovaks and Roumanians, while
commentators declare the signs are
not wanting that Germany is in col
iusian with the bolsheviki.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Ebert Declares Germany
Will Not Give Up Danziq

London. March 24.-Germany
cannot and will not sign a peace
which involves the annexation of
Danzig by Poland, President Ebert
declared in a speech Sunday. a dis
patch from Berlin says.
The German president added that
Germany. could not give up West
Prussia or part of upper Silesia.
Ebertspoke at meeting called to
protest against the annexation of
Danzig by Poland. He declared that
Germany was prepared to agree to
the naturalization of the Vistula.
which would include Danzig as a
'gee port.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-25
Wife Near Death; Husband
SuCCumbS to Influenza

Unconscious and at the point of
death Mrs. John O'Brien of Mullen,
Neb, lies at the St. Joseph hospital
unaware of the fact that her death
would mean the extinction of the
entire family. John O'Brien, the
husband, prominent rancher of
Mullen, brought his wife to Omaha
for an operation last Monday. We'd
nesday he fell i'll with influenza. He
died of this disease Monday.
His wife, after undergoing a sue
cessful operation, also was attacked
with this malady. The attending
physicians despair of her life. Mon
day she was unconscious and her
physician refused to allow friends
to tell of her husbands death.
There are no other survivors OF
the O'Brien family,