Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-05-13
Items of Interest.

Slnce PROMOTION has gone into ef-
feet the city Jail in Louisville, KY, has
become almost entirely deserted, and
Jailer James II. Barr is arranging to
convert it into lodging-house.
Incompatibility of American and
French customs has caused $1,000 of
approximately $4,000 French war
brides to return to France, according to
Mrs Reginald II. Johnson, president Of
the FrancO-American Club of Pitts
burg.
Charging their wives with miscon-
duct while they were fighting in
France, 81 ex-soldiers filed appIica-
ton for a divorce Monday before the
circuit court at Wheeling Eighty
two divorce cases are to be heard at
this term.
The Willard Hotel at Washington
has been acquired by corporation
controlled by Coleman du Point, which
has large hotels in many other cities.
The hotel, known to old-timers as
"Willard's," has been an historic spot
in the national capital for nearly a
century.
DR., p. A. Baker, superintendent of
the AntisaloOn League of America in
a statement said prohibitionists might
safely support in the presidential cam
paign Herbert Hoover, Maj.-Gen.
Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden,
William G. McAdoo, Charles Evans
Hughes, Senator Poindexter or William
]. Bryan.
Fire destroyed the old colonial
mansion of Moses O'Brien, in Clarke
county, Va, together with its contents,
including antique furniture, many
historical papers, documents and heir
looms. Members of the family es-
capped in night clothes. a large and
well-stOckcd barn was saved by Ber-
ryvillc and Winchester frcmen. The
loss was about $4,000 partly insured
Twenty-Five men with teams are now
employed on the construction of the
big MuSSulman canning and glove fac
tory TO cost Sl500O0 at lnwOod, under
the direction of G. w. Mussulman,
of BiglCrsville, Pat principal own
or. Mr.. Mussulman hopes to have it
finished in time for apples and small
fruits this autumn, to he followed dur
ing the "oIf' season by work on gloves
in conjunction with his other factories
At Biglcrsvi!lc and Gettysburg.
DR.. Randolph J. Dorsey, manager of
Sutherland For President Club in West
Virginia, has announced that he has
closed a contract with an airpianc COM
pany of ParkerSburG to distribute
Sutherland propaganda throughout
the entire State. Beginning May Is,
three planes will be used to cover the
various sections of the State After
West Virginia primaries, May 25, tn,
airplancs will be utilized for the cam
paign covering every State in the
union.
A woman who declared in court that
her husband was the meancSt man in
England had unusual grounds for the
charge. During the sugar shortage,
she said, he kept his personal supply
of sugar in separate bowl, which
he left every morning with fly in it
and the cover on. If the fly was not
there when he came home at night he
jumped to the conclusion that some
one had taken some of his sugar, and
he was very diSagrceable about it, 1t
is a pity that his wife or some one else
did not substitute hornet for the fly.
But one party ballot may be voted by
each voter who enters the primary
polls in West Virginia May 25, and
that ballot may not be scratched for
the purpose of writing in the name of
some candidate on the other party
ticket, according to an opinion of At
torncy- General T. T. England. "a
voter voting in the primary" General
England said in his opinion, must
vote for the candidate on one ticket
alone. In other words, if he votes the
Republican ticket he must choose be-
tween the candidates on that ticket,
and if he votes the Democratic ticket
or any other ticket, the same rule must
apply. Furthermore, if you vote a
Republican ticket and scratch of some
name on that ticket and put the name
of Democrat in lieu thereof, who ap-
pears on the Democratic ticket, that
vote for him could moi be counted"