Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-11-13
Items Of Interest.

Items OF Interest.
The famous Highspire whiskey dis
! tillery at Harrisburg, Pa, is to be con-
Eerted into a knitting mill, which will
employ twenty times as many persons
as the distillery did.
What is claimed TO be the largest
hog in the world was sold at Hannibal,
Missouri, at public auction for Sli,-
900, which is said to be the highest
price ever paid for a Poldad-China
porker. The hog is forty-four inches
tall and eighty-four inches in length
and weighs l,l00 pounds.
At the recent annual inspection of
the sections along this division of the
Norfolk and Western Railway the
prize for the best section of track was
awarded TO Foreman Walton, of Elk
ton. The second prize went TO John
R. Short, of Luray, the third to John
V. Houser, Of White Post, and the
fourth to Vernie PeteRsh, of An
tietam.
An electric vaporizer which takes
the place of both spark plug and car
bureter in automobile gas engines, has
Just been tried at Rome, N. Y. An
automobile equipped with the device
made 63 miles on one gallon of gas
oline, while a smaller car, similarly
equipped, made 90 miles with one gal
Ion. The inventor, Clyde B. White,
has sold the patent rights 10 a Buffalo
concern for $4,000 cash, $4,000 in
stock and a royalty of $500 a month
The American Railway Express
Company is preparing to put into effect
new express packing rules on Decem-
Der TO- The rules will not permit the
use Of paper wrapping for packages
over 25 pounds, nor of ordinary paper
boxes, wrapped or unwrapped, when
the weight Of the contents is over that
limit. For shipments of more than 25
pounds wooden containers or fiber
board, pulp board or corrugated straw
board containers of specified test
strength are required.
H. S. White, of the State Road Com
mission, has been in Martinsburg this
week looking after those who have fail
ed TO pay the legal licenses for auto
mobiles. In a day and a-half he col
lected SS7092 in licenses, one man
paying S97. He stated that Berkeley
county gave more trouble in this re-
spect than any other county in the
State William Barbour has been ap-
pointed traffic officer for Martinsbure
and for the county, and will hereafter
be close on the track of all violators
of the automobile laws in both town
and country.
The Hagerstown and Sharpsburg
Turnpike Company through its attor-
news filed a motion to quash the
condemnation proceedings instituted
against the company by people living
along the road Condemnation pro-
ceedngs were started some time ago,
and a jury went over the road and
found 90 of the II places complained
of in bad condition. The petitions
asked that the court restrain the COM
pany from collecting toll due to the
bad condition Of the road bed. The
motion asking for a quashing OF the
proceedings points out as a basis Tor
this request that two of the jurors were
not qualified to serve and that the IN
QUESTION is not specific.
At least a temporary victory was
won by John T. McGraw last week in
the consolidated cases Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Webster Springs and
others, American Audit Company
and others, and Union Trust and De-
posit Company and others, each against
McGraw, when the Supreme Court
reversed the decision of the Circuit
Court Of Webster county and remand
ed the case. Colonel McGraw by the
courts decision is relieved Of the costs
in the case, which were heavy, owing
to the printing OF the enormous volume
Of records. II is said nearly all OF
McGraw's large property holdings in
the State are involved in the suit, in
cluding 26 properties in Taylor county.
20 in Webster, eight in Randolph, two
in Braxton, one in Nicholas, two in
Preston. two in Jefferson one in
Greenbrier and two in Pocohontae.
Many Of these properties were larCo
estates which have since been sui
divided into numerous small pieces.
which now number some 400 or 500
separate and distinct properties. All
had been ordered sold by the court OF
Webster county, but this decision IS