Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

for an endowment fund. II they sue
, coed. the Rockefeller Foundation will
add TO it three millions more.
The Parent-Teachers Association Of
, Huntington. W. Va. has adopted res
olutons calling for simplicity in attire
on the part of girls in the high
schools, and condemning modern
styles of hair dressing, high heels
and cosmetics.
An inheritance tax of $50. SS4. so has
, been paid to the State Tax Commits
sioner of West Virginia from the es-
tate of the late Jere II. Wheelwright, of
Baltimore, who had large coal in
terests in the Fairmont region. He
, left a fortune of S967 POSTS.
The State of Virginia adopted by an
, overwhelming majority at the recent
election an amendment TO the constitu-
ton which permits the Legislature to
issue bonds for road building to an
, unlimited amount. Only few coun-
ties returned majority against the
proposition.
Manufacturers Of well-known brand
of shirts made in New York announce
reduction in price of 80 per cent,
effective last Monday. The reduction
ought to be at least so cent, for the
, prices of the said shirts have really
been at least three times as much as
they should have been during the past
five years.
A rather unusual wedding is re-
ported from Washington, North Caro-
, lima. Miss Ada Cakes was married III
, Mr.. Walter Pine, of Salisbury. They
we're married by Rev. Oscar T. Wood,
the maid of honor was Miss Anna
: Lee Laurel and the best man Robert
: L. Burch. After the wedding the
; bride and groom went to Hickory, N
!. c., to spend the honeymoon with the
. grooms aunt, Mrs. &. w. Shingle.
!, A Winchester bank that has made
:. a specially of the interests of the fruir
: growers of Frederick county is adver-
: Using apples for sale in the New York
. Packer-a performance never attempt
? cd before this year. 1t offers 10 fur
, nish apple buyers a list of growers and
!. the crop harvested. 1t is believed THAI
!. this will be most helpful in attracting
: the attention of the buyers to the large
!. quantities of apples stored about Win
, chester.
} Now that Governor Cornwell of this
Z State has been made a director of the
I Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, we earn
, estly urge him to bring his fellow -di-
) rectors to Shenandoah Junction and
} shut them up for a few hours in that
Z so-called station. We are quite Ger
tain that they would soon holler
Enough" and order a decent building
for the accommodation of the travelling
: public and the employees.
Congressman George M. Bowers.
who was reelected to represent the
: second district in the House of Repre-
sentatives, carried the district over
, Colonel Forrest w. Brown by 10000
votes, according to final statistics.
4
|, counties, as follows: Jefferson ,588.
: Hampshire $50, Hardy 642, Randolph
( 628, Pendleton 23l.
5 Mr.. Bowers received the following
} majorities from the following coun-
8 ties: Preston 4,429, Monongalia $500.
Grant 1906, Berkeley 962, Mineral H.
) $50, Tucker 453, Barbour 1921, Nor
} gan CAT. Colonel Brown received ma
: jorities aggregating 1000, while Con-
( gresham Bowers majorties totalled
) 1873, or 10000 more than those Of his
8 opponent.
The largest deal in the industrial
} history of waynesboro, Pa. one in
: volving S3.OOO,OOO, has JUST been con-
cluded, under which a new organiza-
ton to be known as The Frick-Geiser
. Company Is to take over the plant,
manufactured stock and materials of
the Observation-Disclosures Implement
Company, and the Eight line" Of ma
chinery manufactured by the Prick
J Company, including manufactured
stock and materials on hand at date OF
purchase. The new company will, I'M
der the deal, acquire control OF the en-
J tire manufacture of the tractors,
threshers, road rollers and agricultural
machinery hitherto manufactured by
.. the two companies. The Emerson
! Birmingham Company reserves a sim
gle product, a tractor, the manufacture
|. of which will be transferred to one OF
! the western plants. The deal becomes