Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Bits of News and Curious Facts From
Here and There.

To be a grandfather at SO is one OF
the queer circumstances in the life OF
William R. Albright, a Pennsylvania
Railroad man OF Uniontown, Pa. His
daughter. Mrs. Thelma wilkins, Is, re-
Gently gave birth to baby boy,
weighing nine pounds. Mr.. and Mrs.
Albright are believed to be the young
est grandparents in Fayette county.
Their youngest son was born on No
vember p of this year.
Excitement was created in William
sport last week, when a young man
living near Falling Waters, who called
at the Office of DR.. Z. L. Weaver, made
a hasty exit from the town after il
was discovered he had smallpox. 1t
is said he came into contact with a
number of persons. DR.. Weaver
diagnosed the case at a glance. When
he was told he had smallpox the young
man bolted and fled across the Po-
tomac river into Berkeley county.
Thirty-ave soldiers were executed
following conviction by army court
martial from April 6, 1917, the begin
ming of the war period, to June so,
1919, Maj.-Gen. Enoch Crowder, Judge
Acknowledgement of the army, reveals
in his annual report made public last
week. Ten Of these took place in
France and IS in the United States.
Murder was charged in two Of these
cases, murder and mutiny in 10; as
sault in II and assault and murder in
three. "In no case," according to the
report, "was a capital sentence for e
purely military offense carried into
execution"
State Tax Commissioner Walter S.
Hallanan has ruled that the prohibit
ton department does not require a
prescription or affidavit for the sale of
grain alcohol by druggists, provided
the alcohol is denatured or medicated
sufficiently to prevent its use for
beverage purposes. This ruling was
made in answer to a Wheeling drug
gist, who pointed out that the federal
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this question. Mr.. Hallanan further
advised that the druggists who sell
alcohol so slightly denatured that its
use as beverage is not prohibited will
be vigorously prosecuted.
"Only God Almighty knows what is
the matter with the Senate. I haven't
sense enough to diagnose its case"
This was the characteristic comment
of Senator John Sharp Williams, OF
Mississippi, when pressed for his
reasons for refusing to serve further
in that body after his presen. to-
expires. The Mississippi Senator re-
Gently wrote letter to a constituent
in which he stated that he would "as
soon be dog, and bay at the moon
the balance of my life," as to continue
member of the Senate, and under
no circumstances would he "serve
minute after my present term of of
flee expires"
The seedless apple has been cult
waited. ]. w. McComb. of Oregon, af-
ter three years careful study of the
apple plant, has perfected a species OF
that fruit which is absolutely devoid OF
seeds. 1t closely resembles the
Gravenstein apple in color, but in form
it resembles a banana. Though elon-
gated, it is plump and has rare stripes
OF red and we low. Its fruit is more
Lay ''TftafTlr ''tHe ordinary apple, is sweet.
er and more mellow. Mr.. McL6mUe
has produced three bushels of the .
species. A sample of the apple is be-
ing studied at the Oregon Agricul- /
tural College with a view to growing
them profuscly
A recent dispatch from Washing
ton says that the members of the
United States Senate, the veteran
members IN particu ar, were given
! shock few days ago, when one of
! the younger groups of Senators, Sen
ator DAVIS Elkns, of West Virginia.
n an authorized interview with
/ press association cOrresp ondent crit
c.zed the body 10 which he belongs, for
being a wastcr of time, slow in regis
teri1G public sentiment, and slave
TO antiquatcd rules and ancient Gus.
. ,omS many years behind these modern
| lines. The attack came from an un-
expected quarter, and in the Senate
/ 1t least, produced what amounted to
real sensation.
Criminals, IN 10000 separate theF.s.
robbed the people of New York of