Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-11-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FtfAS SIVSSIS IN oISHOU anu " aSn-
ington are having their troubles. The
high freight rates, with the COMPARE
lively low price of frui, in eastern
markets, are taking the profits out of
the industry this year. Sales that
have taken place on the coast have
been on such narrow margin of re-
turns no the grower that the produc-
ton cost is said TO oe eating up the
profS.
Hundreds Of thousands of bushels
OF corn may be burned as fuel BY
farmers in Northern Nebraska this
winter, according to reports brought
from that State. High-priced coal and
bounteous but low-priced crop of
corn is given as the reason. New corn,
unShelled, now brings ga of a cent a
pound, or SIS ton. The cheapest
soft coal is SIS. and there are trans
portation charges above that. Unshell.
ed corn, it is said. will make a hotter
fire and last longer than coal
DR.. r. S. Davis, Of Charleston, has
been appointed State Health Commits
sioner by Governor Cornwell TO sue
coed DR.. Jepson. DR.. Davis is a gradu.
ate of the University Of Virginia and
the College of Medicine at Richmond
He was city health officer OF Charleston
for a number of years and now is as
Sistant surgeon of the United States
Public Health Service but resigned, ef-
fcctive October I. He has practiccd
medicine in West Virginia for twenty
two years.
John Shell, of Lexington, Ky, who
is 100 years old, will 90 to Chicago on
December Is to let the most promincn;
physicians of the country examine him
and see if they can find out why he has
lived so long. He has received an in
vitation to make the trip for the
Illinois State Medical Society. Shell
says the recipe for long life is: "No
pampcring in boyhood, hard work
through life and no worry" He saws
he drinks whiskcv when he can get
1t and that he cats everything lie can
get hold of. Shell has daughter
90 years of age. who lives near him,
and son II, who lives with him. The
aged man is in better health this fall
than he has been in the last three or
our years.
Over 500 families in the United
States have requested that their SOL
der dead remain permanently inferred
in England, the country in which they
died during the World War. The re-
mains of all others of the American
dead in Great Britain already have
been returned to the United States by
the army, according to statement
from the War Department. The Sec.
rotary of War has given orders for the
remainder of the American dead in Eng.
land 10 be concentrated in a cemetery
in the vicinity of London, which W.
be under the perpetual care and contro
of the United States Government, the
British authorities having signified
their assent to this proposal. The
American dead in Great Britain have
been heretofore buried in 90 places.
Striped stockings, with jeweled gar
tiers just below the knees. will be worn
by smart women this fall and winter,
according to Miss Isabelle M. Archer
style expert, of New York, who spoke
at the jewelers. convention in Louis
vile. skirts for evening wear" said
Miss Archer, twill fall four inches be-
low the knee, but will be lined only
to the bend Of the knee. The anklet
watch of last winter will be superseded
by the elastic garter set with gems
preferably diamonds. Stockings viii
be striped in brilliant rainbow hues
Striped stockings will also be fash.
ionable for street wear. Skirts will be
slightly longer and narrower. They
will reach ten or twelve inches from
the ground. But this will be shor
enough to afford a generous glimpse Of
the gorgeously striped silken hose"