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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described A. rorsrs
Relieved BY Black Draught.

Rossville, Ga.-Mrs. Kate Lee Able, Of
this place, writes: "My husband Is N
engineer, and once while lifting, he m
iured himself with piece OF heavy ma
chincry. across the abdomen He was
so sore he could not bear TO press on
himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed l65 lbs, and fell off until he
weighed 10 lbs, in two weeks.
He became constipaied and il looked
like he would die. We had three different
doctors, yet with all their medicine, his
bowels failed 10 act. He would turn III
a n-cent bottle OF castor oil, and drink
1t two or three days In succession. He
did this yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. He was swol-
len terribly. he told me his SUFFERING
could only be described as torture.
! sent and bought Thedford's Black.
DrauSht. made him take a big dose,
and when it began to act he tainted, he
was in such misery, but he got relief ano
began TO mend at once. He got well,
and we both feel he owes his lie &c
rhedtords Black-Draught."
Thcdford's Black-Draught will help YOU
to keep fit. ready for the days work
Try III NC-13.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Merchants Indicted For Profiteerinp

Gimbel Brothers, OF New York,
operators of large department store
and controlled by interests which own
similar establishments in other cities,
were last week indicted on POT counts
for proflteering in clothing.
Frederick Gimbel, vice-president Of
the corporation; Joseph J.. Dowdell, q
merchandise manager, and Charles ID.
Slawter, clothing buyer, were indisted
on the same charges.
The Gimbel indictment states that
the average profit on all POT articles
mentioned was "l03-1-1O per cent"
In one instance a suit Of mohair clothes
which was said to have cost Gimbel
Brothers $3.50 was offered for sale at
$50, "a gross profit OF 263 per cent"
The grand jury in the Indictment
asserted that gross profit of SIS per
cent would have been ample to yield
Gimbel Brothers a reasonable profit
after the costs of garment and pay
ment Of all overhead charges in con-
nection with its sale.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

Announcement has been made NJ
Charleston, W. Va, that Col. Fred
Paul Crosscup, OF that city, builder of
the industrial city Of Dunbar, eminent
IN many manufacturing enterprises,
and who is also accredited with having
largely aided in securing To the IA
nawha Valley many Of the largest
industrial plants now working, will
Immediately start the upbuiliirr of a
new industrial town in Putnam county,
Is miles west of Charleston ana 20
miles east of Point Pleasant. on the
hanawha river and on the line Of the
Nanawha & Michigan Railroad. The
name of the new town will be Putnam
on-kanawha. The town site is on the
recent purchase made BY Colonel
GroSscup, OF the Rosenberg Spindler
Hartley farms, comprising 200 acres
OF the finest lands in the Kanawha
Valley. IL was Colonel Grosscup's
hrst intention to sub-divide a portion
of this land into five and ten-acrc
farms for truck purposes, but recent
~ there have come such demands for
factory sites on the premises as to per-
suade the Colonel to build a greater
town than Dunbar.
summer bargain sale" of over
coats netted Gimbel Brothers i gross
profit of 100 per cent, according to the
indictment.
The indictment of Gimbcl Brothers
followed secret inquiry by the "Gv-
ing squadron of profteer hunters
which lasted about a month, and
specifies 2o7 articles Offered for sale"
at the New York store on June 8 last
Gimoel, Dowdell and Slawter ws,e
arrested by agents of the Department
OF Justices flying squadron of
protiteer hunters on four counts al
leging unjust unreasonable and UNI
lawful profits on clothing in which
the profits were said to have amounted
to from 90 to 275 per cent. They were
released in $1,000 bail each for exam
ination July 4, after pleading not guilty
to the charges
Department of Justice agents stated
at the time that the arrests in the
Gimbel case were to be followed b,
similar action against number OF
other alleged prohtcering department
store merchants of like importance. 1t
was stated that other department
stores already were under investigation
and that Federal warrants were to be
requested as soon as inquiries had
been completed sufficiently to allow
agents to file their charges.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Human Skyscrapers

John Van Albert, who is eight feet
live inches tall, arrived in this country
recently from Holland.
His height is one inch less than the
recorded height of maximus, a Ro-
man emperor from 235 to 238.
History records a long list of giants
some OF them shorter than the one
who now claims notice. Eight feet
two inches, was the height of the IA
nous Chinese giant, Chang, who was
exhibited in London in 1865.
Giants don't appeal to popular mag
ination as they once did. But height
IN men is admired. The quality which
is inherited is shortness. Those who
fail to inherit it grow tall
Similarly, blue eyes is the negative
quality Of those who do not inherit
the positive trait of blue eyes. Those
VINO do not inherit cnrly hair have
hair which is straight. Slender per.
sons are those who fail to inherit the
positive quality which makes others
stout.
Tall persons have only tall children.
But short parents do not always trans
NIT the quality of shortness to all. AT
least this is the conclusion of the fa-
nous American biologist. Charles
Benedict Davenport.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

All household pests can be killed
at this season of the year without the
use OF poisonous gases and in very
simple manner, according to ]. C.
Sanders, director of the bureau of
plant industry of the PENNSYLVANIA de-
partment of agriculture. Doctor
Sanders called attention to the death
OF persons in Bristol after fumieation
He advocates one of the latest dis
coveries in Kidding the house of the in.
sects, that of simply building a fire in
heater on hot day and bringing the
temperature in the house UP to l25 or
80 degrees and holding it for five
or six hours. DR.. Sanders declares
that this can be done in the morning
and the house allowed to cool off dur.
ing the afternoon and evening. 1t is
said that all household pests fall before
the heating treatment this season.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
NOTICE.

We want to buy all kinds of
fURS, HIDES, PELTS, ietc., in
Guiding muskrat, 'possum and other
skins. Highest prices paid in cash.
We are in the market for all
kinds of Old Metal, Old Rubber.
Rags, Old Paper, Bones, and Junk
OF every sort, for which we pay the
highest market price in cash. II
you have anything to sell, send me
word and | will come and buy it.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Eggs dndPouItry

We will pay best cash price the market
lustities Tor strictly clean, fresh eggs and
poultry at our office near the freight sta
ton.
Can take care of eggs at my residence
after o'clock.
Will be at the Office Saturday NIGHTS
until 9 o'clock.
BENZ. HATFIELD
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

Sl.50 gets the Register a year.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Backboae.

We sometimes hear people say Of q
person who shows himself weak in his
dealings with his fellow men that she
mas not enough backbone" That is
MS moral nature stoops because il has
NOT the strength to stand upright.
When We see one sitting or walking
all Siumped over instead Of erect We
DO not say he has not enough back
Done, but We are quite sure he has
weak one or badly used one. In
deed, the terms are interchangeable
Tor backbone that is not made TO dc
ITS work of supporting the frame in ar
erect position soon becomes wea
there is no part of the body so intoler.
ant of its appointed task as is the
spinal column that has been permitted
to acquire bad habits.
The backbone is not one bone. but 2
lot of small bones piled on one an.
other Ii is designed to be held erect
and 10 support the weight of other
parts OF the frame. If any of those
little bones become diseased and
crumole and break down, of course
the spine cannot do its work, but il
rails and bends, and thus produces
what is known as a humpback. Wher
the ligamentS that bind together all the
small bones of which the spine is made
up becomes weak or relaxed for any
reason, we have lateral curvature OF
the spine, which always means a weak
spine.
when the spine is growing out OF
shape because it is suffering from some
disease that is destroying the bones.
such as tuberculosis, the treatment
that it needs is exactly the opposite
from that needed when lateral cur
vature from general weakness or i'm
proper poStures is beginning % show
itself. For the spine that is weakened
by disease, absolute rest is necssarv.
with every type of tonic and constitu.
tional treatment that can be devised.
combined with most careful nursing
A moments thought will show the
cruelty OF adluring a child to Sit
straight who is suffering from some
disease of the backbone that forbids
II TO do so. But when a child is other
wise we'll, too much insistence can
hardly be made upon an erect car
rage, because this great gift can be
won by most of us with little persist
ence.
If there is debility. 1t must be treat
ed, as it is hard for a feeble person at
any age to keep fiat back Wrong
ways of sitting and standing must be
corrected even at the expense of some
nagging, and if chairs and desks are
wrong they must be corrected. Chill
dren, moreover, should not be per
mitted to SLOUGH over a storybook ir
piaytime after having been obliged to
sit up during school hours.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
HOW's This1

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Caiarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarfh Medi-
cine.
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been
taken BY catarrh sufferers for the past
thirty five years, and has become known
as the most reliable remedy for Ca.
tarrh. Halls Catarrh Medicine acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous surfaces
expelling the Poison from the Blooc
and healing the diseased portions.
After you have taken Halls Catarrt
Medicine for a short time you will see
great Improvement in your genera
health. Start taking Halls Catarrf
Medicine at once and get rid of ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
+. J.. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
To the Public.

Through the courtesy Of the officers
OF the Jefferson Security Bank, our
Office is now temporarily located in the
directors room Of the above mention
ed bank, at which place we will be
glad to have any of our customers or
friends call to see us.
Having lost our mill BY fire, and
having no use for a truck, we offer our
truck for sale. This is Ford truck
with Hudford unit with a good bed,
top and curtains which will keep out
rain and keep your load dry This
truck has been taken good care of and
is in excellent condition.
c. n. WHITING MILLING CO.,
ShepherdSOwn, w. Va.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

A Northern tourist got off the train
in Arkansas to get a better view of a
lean animal that was rubbing itself
against a scrub oak. "What do you
call that animal ?" he asked a native.
"Razor-back hawg, sub"
Whats he rubbing himself against
the tree fore"
"He's stroppin' hisself, sub, jes'
ies' stroppn' hisself."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

Waiter-Beg pardon, sir, but the
amount of your check does not include
the waiter,
Dinner-Well, | don't suppose it
does. | didn't eat one.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Hardware Department.

Bar Iron, Nails, Horse Shoes, Large
Iron Wash Kettles, Brass, Copper
and Porcelain Kettles. Skillets, Waffle
Irons, Trace, Butt, Cow and Halter
Chains, Farm Bells, Screen Doors
and Windows, American Fence Wire,
Barbed Wire, Saws, Black Hawk
Corn Shelters, Lawn Mowers, Files,
All Sizes Bolts, Loaded Shells, Pow
der and Shot.s
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Paint and Oil Department.

Raw and Boiled Linseed Oil, Harness
Oil, Machine Oil, Black Strap, Tur-
pentine, N. c. and Gas Tar, Gasoline
Varnish, Japan Dryer, Knot Killer
White Lead, Red Lead, Spanish
Brown, Calcined Plaster, Portland
Cement, Lard Oil, Plasterinp Hair
Coal Oil, Neat Foot Oil, Fish OH
Bath Brick Soap, Sulphur, Copperas.
Borax
Patent Plasteridg prepared for immediate
use.
International Stock Food and Gleason,
Horse and Cattle Powders.
frank Miller's Harness Dressing, Whale
Oil Soap.
Black Lambs Foot Harness Oil.
The Perfection Blue Flame Wickless O,
Stove-safest and bst.
The Four Leaf Clover Cream Separato,
where the milk is not mixed or di
luted with water, leaving II pure anc
sweet for family use.
Wall Paper furnished on short notice a.
reduced prices.
Reduced Prices on Haying Tools ano
Barn Door Hangers and Track.
Force Pumps, Deep Well Pumps. Cal
yanized Bucket Pump and Wate,
Purifier, ] x L Chain Pumps.
A Large Stock of Cooking and Heating
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. To
restore digestion, normal weight, good
health and purify the blood, use Bur
dock Blood Bitters. Sold at all drug
stores. Price, SIPS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29
Monday, March 20, 1920
THE BONDS FOR ROADS

Next Saturday the voters of the
county will determine whether or not
we are to issue bonds in the amount
of four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the purpose Of grading
and constructing top-soil roads. The
matter to be determined is ones of
great importance. 1t is of supreme
Importance because the debt sought
to be placed on the county is an ex-
tremely large one. 1t is important be-
cause if the people demand the roads
in order to carry on their business
affairs they should not be kept out
of them. Therefore, from either
standpoint,it is to be desired that the
voters turn out and vote according
to their judgment, to the end that
the decision may not be made either
way by mere handful of voters.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

One of the arguments advanced by
the advocates of the bond issue is
that we are to have a two mills tax
anyway for building good roads. 1t is
true that the Highway Act does pro.
vide two mills tax for this purpose
But there is this difference-the two
mills tax is to bel spent from year to
year nthe counties which pay it, and
the money will thus be expended in
small quantities, and the people will
be able to see what they are getting
without making a great outlay. The
law which provides this tax may be
repealed at anytime, if in the judg.
ment of the legislature it is not serv,
ing a good purpose.
But there will be no such way OF
getting out of bad scrape if the
roads to be built by the bond issue
prove to be a poor investment. The
bonds when issued will become q
charge upon every piece of property
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

in the county. They must be paid.
Taxes to retire the bonds, as we'll as
to nav interest Theron, will be as
certain for the next forty years as IS
death itself. No law can take away
these taxes once they are voted
there will be noErepeal. If the bonds
are to be retired in forty years 1t
will be necessary to pay something
like five or six thousand dollars into
the sinking fund each year. The IN
,terets on the bonds at five per cent
will amount to twenty-five thousand
five hundred dollars per year, MAX
ing levy to pay the bonds and the
interest, on the present assessment
of property, of about five mills ad'
ditional, instead of two under the
Highway Act. To this tax will be adj
ded the extra tax of keeping ur
these roads, and we have undertaken
to show the voters by the words OF
those who know that the roads must
be constantly worked if they are to be
kept in good shape.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

We cannot see that it will do any
great amount of good to rehash the
arguments made two or three years
ago with regard to the wisdom OF
building these roads, and the prob
ably worth of them to the people Of
the county. The arguments should be
fresh in the minds of the people.
They have had long time to study
over matters and, if they have de-
sired, they may have learned some
thing from other counties with re-
gard to the roads. We expect, there
fore, that the people who have an in
terest in the matter, one way or the
other, will be able to express thei.
decision intelligently at the ballot
box next Saturday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

If we believed that these roads
would be good roads in fact and that
they would last, or that by the levy
ing of reasonable tax we might
keep them up, and that they would
be kept up, we would advise the peo-
pile to vote for the bonds. But we do
not so believe. If the bonds are is
sued, not half the roads provided in
the bill will be built. These that are
built will not be properly taken care
of because the county authorities
will not be allowed sufficient funds
with which to keep them up. There
will be criticism that the entire tax
levy every year is being spent on
these roads, and as q consequence
the roads will be neglected, and in
three years most of the advantages
sought to be secured will have been
lost.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29
IN COUNTRY GRAVEYARDS

John Simpson has been engaged as
caretaker of the Upper Long Cane
graveyard, near Abbeville Court
House, one of the oldest burying
grounds in that part of the State.
"He has made great improvement in
the appearance of things out there.
The whole of the large burying-
ground has been gone over, the grass
nd weeds removed, and the place
has be nthoroughly worked. Those in
CHARGE" says the Abbeville Press
and Banner, care fortunate in having
the services of Mr.. Simpson" We
should think they were: There are
hundreds of other country grave
yards in this and other States that
would be- fortunate if they could on
" have the services of some other
Mr.. Simpson; graveyards with
broken-down fences, with grass
grown graves, with moss-covered
headstones and gaping tombs and
obliterated epitaphs all presenting
pictures of chow soon we are for
got"
The dead do not care we suppose
but who would wish to be buried in a
country churchyard? Yet it is in
uch places that most of the Ameri-
can dead who are to be brought back
from the fields of glory on which
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

OF course there have been some
changes since the last bond issue
was before the people. The war is
over, and we have not that to deter
us from going ahead where we
should. But the country, on the
other hand, has entered q period OF
the greatest extravaganza ever
known. People are spending money
with a lavish hand everywhere, and
legislative bodies are making ap-
preparations as never before. People
are not stopping to think that a
day of reckoning is bound to come.
With this extravaganza has come the
highest priced labor ever known in
this country, especially is this true
with regard to unskilled labor, and it
is scarcely more expensive than it is
less remunerative to the man who
employs it. In Abbeville the street
paving force is paying the most ordi-
nary day laborers, as we are inform
ed, two dollars and seventy-fivc
cents per day for eight hours labor.
The passers-by may see what is being
had for this expenditure. The people
of the county have a right to invest
in this kind of labor, athis price, for
the building of roads if they desire.
When they do they may expect labor
in this kind of labor, at this price, for
become disorganized, and the price
of farm labor to soar as we'll as 70
become less profitable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

they fell in France will be laid TO
rest. In a few years their graves will
be covered with weeds and briars and
uplv grasses and the heart-broken
mothers who have insisted that their
sons shall be brought back home to
sleep in their own soil will them
selves have passed away and then
they will all be neglected and forgot
ten. How much better it would be to
let the patriot dead and buried rest
where they made the supreme sacri-
flee or be inferred with their COM
rades in arms in great cemeteries
beautiful in all their appointments,
imposing in their monuments, filled
with poppies, covered with rosemary
for remembrance and pansies for
thought and guarded to the end of
time as the places where heroes
sleep!
It is stated by the Secretary of
War that fifty thousand of TIE
American dead will be brought back
home because their people want
them, and that is natural and most
appealing sentiment; but where will
they be buried when they are
brought home? How much better
will they be cared for here than the
twenty thousand of their comrades
who will be cared for. in the great
military cemeteries overseas by their
own grateful Government or by the
tender love of the people for whom
hey died?-Spartanburg Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

There is one other thing which
people in certain sections might
think about. We will take Due West
in order to illustrate what we are
talking about. That town has voted
bonds for public improvements and
other purposes to the amount of
eight per cent. of the value of the
taxable property of the town, the con
stitutional limit. The trustees of
that school district are now desirous
of voting bonds for the building of a
new school building. But if these
road bonds are issued, the bond issue
in that territory will amount to full
fifteen per cent of the taxable prop
erty of the territory the present
constitutional limit including all
political Subdivisions covering the
same territory, and the school dis
trict will not be able to issue one
dollar in bonds for school purposes
not until a constitutional amend.
ment may 60 through the legislature
be voted on two years hence, and
then adopted by subsequent leg
lature, There may be other towns in
the county in like plight, we do not
know as to that, but we do know
that his state of affairs will con.
front the people of Due West And
this raises the question whether
these dirt roads are more important
han schools and other things which
the people so much need. The people
will decide.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF

I hereby announce myself a candl'
date for Sheriff of Abbeville County
lin the Democratic Primary, and
pledge myself to be governed by the
rules and to abide the result Of the
primary. =. :. {.
J. N. BLUM.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

Mark Twian once said, ITO be good
noble, but to teach others to be
good is nobler-and less trouble"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

The house of representatives spent
forty-five minutes recently IN roll
call to determine whether represen-
tative would be. recognized for one
minute to read a telegram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

Two hundred and ten thousand wo-
men of the British Isles were widowed
as a result of the war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-29

The cost of a wife in Mongolia va
varies from five to 80 camels.