Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cacapon district OF Morgan county,
this State, has voted a bond issue Of
S25o,OO0 for road improvement.
Many a person has wondered what
makes the "eyes" in bird's-eye maple.
They are apparently tiny buds that
formed under the bark, but that were
unable to force their way out and at
last were inclosed by the growing
tree. The Japanese are said to pro-
duce bird's-eye wood artifically by in
sorting buds under the bark.
Chiefs Best, spotted Poland
China hog, brought $4,000 in a sale
at Noblesville, Indiana, last week.
The hog belonged to Frank Wise, and
was purchased by Wycoff & Simason,
representing an Iowa State breeders
association. This is said to be a new
record price for one hog. A sow
brought $1,000 at the sale. Forty
head sold brought S64, 2SO.
At least twenty of the "a blind pu-
pills now in the West Virginia School
for the Deaf and Blind at Romney,
may regain their sight, and a num-
Der OF the 1888 deaf pupils in the same
institution may have their hearing
restored by special treatments or by
operations. The State Board OF Con-
troll has undertaken to supply the
necessary treatment and provide for
the operations
At meeting of the board Of educa-
ton held at Cherry Run Tuesday
night to consider the resignation of
M. A. Vanarsdale, one Of the teachers,
most disgraceful and regrettable af-
fair took place. Some one put out the
lights and Immediately a trough
house" took place, in which Roy Ke-
seeker, member of the board of
education was knocked down and
painfully beaten. The perpetrators Of
this affair should not go unpublished
Berkeley Springs Messenger.
One of the sufferers from the re-
cent extremely cold weather was
Bruce Pope, of Greencastle, Pa, who
is engaged in the guinea pig industry.
He raises hundreds Of the little ami
mails and sends them to the city for
laoratory experiments. His houses
for the pigs are very completely fitted
up and heated, but last week the tenn
perature in some parts of the houses
became so low that 300 little pig.
were frozen. The loss 20 Mr.. Pope
is considerable.
The Central Pocahontas Coal Com
pany, which has large operations at
Caples, w. Va, is named as defend
ant in suit in Circuit Court for Nc
Dowell County. Damages are asked
in the aggregate Of $4,000 for the re-
moval of a burying ground. Four
suits have been instituted against
the coal company and the fifth against
the company's superintendent, R. E.
Lee, each for $4,000, by ]. T. Eng
land, S. Damron and others, all of Nc
Oowell county. The plaintiffs allege
that the bodies of 35 deceased rel
atives were "transplanted" and the
site of the cemetery utilized for the
construction of a boarding house to
be used by the company's mine work
erS.
Officers are on the trail of two men
wanted for leecing the sum of S35
from woman residing in the vicinity
of Clearspring, Md. According to the
statement of the woman, two men re-
Gently called at her home and INQUIRED
If any member of the family was
suffering with bad eyes. On learning
that the woman herself was so af-
tlicted, they offered a free examina-
ton, explaining that they were expert
opticians. Following the examina-
ton, the woman was fitted with glass
es which she was told possessed
radlum lenses, newly patented and
highly efficient cure for poor eve
sight. She was charged the sum OF
S35. Following the transaction the
woman called at local optician and
proudly exhibited her glasses, which
were discovered to be worth about
81 pair.
Jesse B. Martin, census enumer.
ator for Luray, has discovered per.
haps the oldest person in Virginia. He
is Frank Veney, a colored man, who
says he was born in 1901. Persons
living in Page county say it is known