Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-07-24
Items Of Interest.

Seven years ago farmer living near
| Kansas City hung his vest on a fence
in the barnyard. A calf chewed up
| a pocket of the garment in which was
standard gold watch. Last week
the animal, a staid old mich COW. was
butchered for beef. and the timepiece
was found in such a position between
the lungs of the COW that the respira-
tion-the closing in and filling OF the
lungs-kept the stemwinder wound up
and the watch had lost but four
minutes in the seven years
Every square irch of the surface OF
the United States will be photographed
from aeroplanes in the preparation OF
a typographical map of the country,
which is being planned, according TO
an announcement in the August Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine The photo
graphs will be pieced together and the
mosaic will show every detail. This
sort Of a map is considered necessary
by aviators before full use OF the aero
plane will he possible. No map in
existence takes in all that the proposed
Photographic map would show
Interesting statements regarding
the gas situation in West Virginia were
made by DR.. |. c. White, State Ceolo-
giSt, in his evidence as a witness in the
application of the United Fuel Gas
Company for increased rates. When
asked how long the gas supply of West
Virginia would last, DR.. White stated
that three-forthS of the supply had
been exhausted and that the remainder
might last twenty years, providing il
were used for domestic consumption
only. Dr. White doesn't regard more
than Is per cent of the undepleted
acreage in Southern West Virginia as
good gas territory. Ninc-tenths of the
natural gas is wasted in West Virginia
he said. because Of carelessness and
absence of burners or defective burn
ers.
More than 500 persons in the United
States have purchased or ordered air
planes during the last three months
and not less than 500 more arc anxious
to place their orders, but cannot do
so because the manufacturers are rush
cd with orders and cannot promise de-
livery. Henry Woodhouse, viccpresi-
dent of the Aerial League Of America,
made this declaration Saturday. "The
CurtiSs Company alone he said, has
orders for over 300 airplanes, and is so
rushed with prospective orders that
it has found it necessary TO put on two
shifts in its factories at Garden City
and Buffalo
The fortunes Of war sometimes take
amusing turns. On March II, 1918,
when the Germans were preparing for
their great offensive, they began to use
a new cipher code in order 10 be doubly
sure that their plans should not be
discovered. Two days later a United
States Signal Corps operator picked
up a wireless message in the new
code from the German lines. The
receiving German operator asked the
sender TO repeat the message in the
old code, and he did so. Our ex-
perts, who were already familiar
with the old code, thus got the secret
Of the new code before the Germans
themselves were thoroughly familiar
with il.
State Highway Commissioner Cole
man Of Virginia has decided to con-
struct without delay that portion Of the
Washington-W Winchester highway in
Clarke county. This action was taken
after a conference with Kenneth N.
Gilpin, a member Of the Legislative
Highway Commission and the repre-
sentative Of Clarke and Warren coun-
ties in the House of Delegates. The
highway commissioner had made plans
to construct only that portion OF the
highway in Clarke county from Boyce
to the Openqon. His decision means
that he will construct a State road
clear across Clarke county from the
Opequon to the top of the Blue Ridge
mountains As il will be a part Of the
Washington Winchester highway, il
will be one OF the finest constructed
highways IN the State and will be wide
enough for the passage Of two vehicles.
II is understood in State road cir
cles that il will be only a matter OF
short time before the State takes over
the Berryville and MiIlwood turnpike
and the Berryville and Charles Town
turnpike to the West Virginia line,
making it a State road and free Of toll
gates.