Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

son, lnwood. W. Va.
Billy Sundays revival at Fairino1t
W. Va. is going great. Five hundred
men hit the trail last Sunday.
thieves made raid on the store
house of Vim. H. Harshman, a trapper
OF Frederick county, Md. and carries
on $1,000 worth of furs that he had
accumulated the past few months.
The wages of the employees of the
FricN Manufacturing Company Of
Waynesooro, Pa, have been reduced
20 per cent. Business is very Gull ana
the men agreed to the reduction.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register A. G. Marrow. of lolo, Cal
itornia, formerly of Sharpsbure, sends
us pleasant messages and asks us to
remember him to all his friends back
East.
Mrs. E. W. Grim, of Shepherdstown
writes us: Enclosed YOU will find my
subscription to the dear old Register
| find cannot do without it. look
for its weekly visits and read every
word in it."
While William Clark, colored, en-
ployed as Waterman at the garage of
f. Nj. Conner, in HagerStown, slept
soundly btween and 3 o'clock last
Sunday morning thieves entered the
garage and made off with two auto
mobiles valued at more than $1,000
The automobiles, both Bucks, belonged
to A. Martin Lamp and c. V. Wilkes
Something of a sensation was Gre
ated last week by the marriage of
Geo. Nj. Oyster, a Washington produce
dealer and business man, to Miss Cecil
c. Ready, said to be the most beautiful
young woman in Syracuse, n. Y. He is
y years old and she is 20. Mr.. Oyster
made her the heir of his fortune and at
the same time gave her an allowance
of $1,000 a week for pin money. The
couple left on a special train for
Miami, Florida, where they have taken
Whole floor at the splendid new
Flamingo Hotel.
Sharpers and SwndlerS are becom-
ing more numerous in neighboring
towns, and the people of our communi-
~ will do we'll to be on their guard
against plausible strangers who exploit
verious lines of business. Bogus
agents for magazines and other
periodicals have been taking subscrip-
tons and collecting money, and their
victims wait in vain for the magazines
Your own news dealer will give you
better satisfaction than these strangers
and your home folks are always here
to make good.
Six members of Maryland's new
State constabularly force will be 10.
Gated at Hagerstown, taking their sta.
ton there about the first Of March
They will watch for violators of the
law east to Middletown, west to Han.
cock, to the Pennsylvania State line or
the north and to tine Potomac river or
the south. Their duties will be to
watch for violators of the automobile
law, game and fish laws, bootlegging
and assist the county and city auth
critics in any way when called upon
to aid in running down criminals.
The old story about leaving various
articles in patients who have been
operated upon in hospitals is not all
fiction. A recent item from Frederic
ton, British Columbia, says: "Thirty-
four inches of surgical gauze left in the
abdomen of Harry A. Larlee, of Perth,
a World War veteran, after he had
been operated upon at Portland, Ore.
a year ago, for appendicitis, caused his
death here at the Soldiers Civil Re-
establishment Hospital. Larlee failed
to recover his strength after the opera
ton, and returned to New Brunswick
where he became patient at the SOL
diers' institution. A few days age
surgeons decided upon another opera
ton and discovered the gauze. After
it had been removed Larlee failed to
rally"