Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-11-10
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fruit-grower of Frederick county, Va,
will set out 10000 young apple trees
this fall. The varieties are Yorks,
Stayman Winesaps, Grimes Golden
and Duchess.
There is a good deal OF diphtheria in
various sections of West Virginia, and
the State Board of Health and the
health division of the school department
are sending out warnings to teachers
and others in order to check the spread
OF the disease. II is urged that anti
toxin be used as a preventive.
Virtually all the surplus motor We
hicles turned over by the War Depart
men to the Department OF Agri-
culture for distribution among the var
ious States for road building purposes
have been distributed through the Blu
reau Of Public Roads. UP to July Isl
last, a total of 22,577 motor vehicles
had been so distributed. Distribution
OF the motor vehicles among the States
in this region was as follows: Mary
land, 22S; Pennsylvania, 973; Virginia,
44S; West Virginia, Isl.
With a daughter 81 years old and a
son nine years of age, Booker Ham,
mack celebrated his ninety third birth
day at Rutledge, near Charleston, w.
Va. The father Of Is living children
and three dead, he boasts of 80 grand
children and 80 great-Grandchildren.
Mr.. Hammack is hale and hearty, able
to do a days work, and reads easily
without glasses. He has been married
twice. On his birthday dinner was
given by his children, 10 of whom were
present.
Archie Jackson, colored, who two
or three years ago had a freight train
10 pass over him on the Norfolk &
Western Railway at Shenandoah juno
ton while lying fiat on the track, is
again in trouble. For threatening to
shoot o. L. Kite, a railroad conductor,
at Front Royal on October 7th he was
arrested at Luray and is now awaiting
trial at the former pace. At the time
of his Shenandoah Junction experience,
jackson was taking a nap under box
car. A train came along and the car
under which he was slumbering was
coupled on and moved away. The train
dragged him along tearing his clothes
nearly off, bruising and decorating his
body SO that he was hardly recoenz-
able shortly afterward
An interesting theory advanced in
connection with the epidemic of diph-
liberia that is raging throughout the
country and causing SO much loss and
inconvenience to the people both in
business and sickness and even death, is
that diphtheria is caused from eating
chestnuts infected with the deadly
blight. The statement is made by some
of the papers that the Forestry Service
reports that all the chestnut trees irf
this section will be dead in the next
five years and finally become extinct
from the ravages of the blight, and the
accounts further state that the State
Board of Health has investigated the,
matter and declares that this blight be-
ing a germ disease infects the chest
nuts same as the trees and causes the
sore throat and diphtheria in the people
eating the chestnuts. One paper re-
ports that the sale of chestnuts has been
stopped in some sections of the State
1t looks to us more like we would get
worms from eating chestnuts than any
other disease, and perhaps this is why
So many children have worms, as they
eat more chestnuts than grown people
DO. This whole theory may be "chest
NUT" and we are giving it to you for
what it is worth.-J. Slidell Brown in
Randolph Enterprise.