Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-09-08
ITEMS Or INTEREST.

John Lee Coulter, dean of the Uni
vcrsiy College of Agriculture, has
been elected president of the North
Dakota Agricultural College and will
accept the position. according TO
word received by President F. b.
Trotter. Dean Coulter is the second
University dean TO resign this summer,
Dean Henry Craft Jones having left
the college OF law to become dean of
the University Of Illinois Law school.
Only few contracts fixing the price
for cutting corn have been reported,
says the Charles Town Advocate.
They indicate wages for such work
at less than half that of last year. One
farmer has agreed TO pay 20 cents a
shock. In Clarke county, the Courier
says the rate will be from 1919 to
Is cents a shock. Before the war
Nel4) wages for corn cutting ran from
10 TO l3 cents. One farmer said he
had his crop cut for II cents in 1914,
but LAST year he had to pay 50 cents a
shock. During the high war wages
corn cutters made from So TO $40 a
day, but this year the earnings will
Il
corn 10 the farmer has dropped from
So TO $40 barrel to S2.6S a barrel
Ii will be thus seen that the decline
in the price Of corn is greater than the
decline in the cost OF labor.
Page county, Va, has suffered great
ly from drought, and farmers have
lost heavily. In Luray the water Sit
uation has become acute, and residents
have strict warning to conserve water
for domestic use. The reservoir in
the Blue Ridge, which furnishes the
towns supply of water, is reported to
have fallen until at present there is
only one-half the ordinary volume.
The Shenandoah river, where the pow
er is generated for lighting and oper-
ating the machinery for various en-
terprises in this town, is now so low
that each night at IL o'clock all cleo
trio currents are shut off in order to
gather a sufficient volume of water for
the succeeding day. The same condi-
ton is existing in many OF the other
towns Of Rockingham, Shenandoah,
Frederick, Warren and Clarke coun-
ties. The condition as to pasture has
forced farmers to sell at big losses
both cattle, horses, hogs and sheep,
one farmer living in Page county hav-
ing receatly sacrificed a bunch of cat
tie for $500 for which he had lately
paid $3.50.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has completed arrangements
whereby it will continue to make the
Pennsylvania station at 7th avenue and
32d street. New York City, the eastern
terminus for its passenger trains, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Daniel willard, president of the COM
pany.
Prior to Federal control the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company had
developed terminals at New York in
conjunction with the Central Railroad
of New Jersey. During the period Of
government operation, in line with the
policy adopted no coordinate the
movement of passenger trains and to
utilize jointly terminals wherever
practicable in the public interest, the
Baltimore and Ohio trains into New
York were transferred to the Pennsyl-
vania station at 7th avenue and 32d
street, which arrangement was con-
tinued temporarily following the end
OF federal control. With the view Of
serving the travelling public tributary
lines, the Baltimore and Ohio>has con-
cluded negotiations with the Pennsyl-
vania which assures the continuance
of this direct service into and out OF
the heart Of the City OF New York for
passengers travelling over its lines.
This fact will be OF interest 10 the
large number Of communities which are
served by the Baltimore and Ohio lines
as well as TO the TRAVELLING nyhI;c oar-