Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
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manufacturer, found an old rug stuck
under the bathtub. She shook i, on,
OF window and away went $1,000 tina,
her father had hidden in the rug 70
prevent thieves from getting il. The
money was not recovered.
Ira Adam Sickafoose, former ticket
and freight agent of the Baltimore and
ONO Railroad at Redwood. W. Va
was placed under bond of $4,000 al
Charleston for his appearance at the
September term of Federal Court
charged with embezzling $4,000 of the
railroads funds. Sickafoose was ar.
rested by local authorities in Kansas
City, Mo, last week.
Julius A. and Louis Z. Hapr. broth.
erS, proprietorS of a chain of drur
stores, convicted in the United States
District Court in Indianapolis of VIOLA.
ting the Reed prohibition amendment
and OF conspiracy against the United
States, were sentenced BY ~, 4
States Judge A. B. Anderson TO serve
eisht months in the Federal prison At
Atlanta, and to pay fines OF $4,000
each. The brothers were charged
with transporting liquor illegally into
Indiana and with selling liquor illegal
~ on prescriptions. The Haags con.
tended the liquor was for medicinal
purposes only.
Because OF his heroic act in saving
comrade from drowning in the
kanawha river, James Flatlev. of
wheeling, member of the convict camp
OF kanawha county. was pardoned bv
Governor John J. Cornwell. Roy
CavendiSh, of the camp, was swim.
ming in the river and Flatley, who had
gotten out Of the water, was dressed
and was standing on the bank. Caven.
dish got beyond his depth and began
to sink. After he had gone down for
the third time Flatley dived to the
bottom of the river, brought up Caven-
dish and placed him in a boat. He
TOOK him to the bank and helped restore
MIN to consciousness. Flatley was
sentenced for a year and his term
would have been up by June %. His
record was good.
The seventeen-mile grade, west
from Piedmont, will be among the
first sections of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad to be electrified if the
project under consideration is ADOPT
ed. ]. H. Davis, chief electrical en-
gineer of the Baltimore & Ohio, who
with officials of the operating depart
ment OF the company, left Baltimore
about six weeks ago for trip over
the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railroad TO study its
electrical equipment, has returned
A report of their investigations will
be submitted TO the executive officers
OF the company, after which the policy
of the road toward electricity on some
mountain lines may be determined.
There are several streams along the
Baltimore & Ohio in the ALLEGHENY
mountains, where electricity can be
generated.
The Sehon-Stevenson Company a
wholesale grocery concern of Hunting
ton, w. Va, was fined 5000, upon
conviction of profteering in sugar, in
the Federal Court at Charleston.
Judge Pritchard said he was imposing
the heaviest fine the Lever law per-
mitted.
On account of the high costs Of
building materials, the State Board of
Control has adopted the policy of post
poning additions to State institutions
and the erection of new buildings I'M
I'll prices come down, according to an
nouncement made at the joint meeting
OF the Board Of Control and the State
Board Of Education. The board stated
that bids of new buildings averaged
Just about twice the appropriations
made by the Legislature for such
buildings.
ut never rains but it pours," said
Morris Chernof, Of Brooklyn, N. Y
The cause of the declaration was tina.
the stork visited the Chernoff home
and alighted Saturday with triplets.
Morris was hardly prepared for the
wholesale addition to his family, partic-
ularly at this time, when the high cost
Of living is making itself felt. He is
paperhanger and earns about $1,000
a year. 1t is the third time that the
stork has visited the Chernoff home
and each time he has been liberal. On
the first trip he left two girls, Dorothy