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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
Child Welfare Program.

Al meeting of the executive COM
mlttee OF the Woman's Club of Shep-
neraStown District, it was definitely
decided 10 take UP child welfare cs its
hrst objective and devote the next
elgnt meetings to that subject The
programs and objectives to be mapped
out BY the committee on child welfare
follow:
AT a meeting Of this committee held
at Mrs. Pinkney Schley's, February
9th, the following objects and plans
were outlined:
!. TO make "investments in flu
lures ior Shepherdstown children. so
.,at We may touch and keep all the
.Hliaren . OF the community, especially
should plan:
lal 10 begin work Immediately for
4 playground this summer under a
trained supervisor.
.,lo) 10 study questions relating to
;enllu-helpIng in this and other States
m y; order to find out how the best work
- - oeine accomplished and to discover
u aie pest way Of cooperating with and
"elplhg our own State agencies.
.,'cI 10 cooperate with the teachers
VI me community.
a. 10 invite some noted child wei
n e expert to address the club at an
"ee'ilng meeting in May.
-. 10 secure and keep on file in
ho !e convenient place, the college H.
uay Uaary preferably if we can, books and
pSSnHphletS pSnp concerning the history OF
IIu welfare and present day methods
,bi1s' 10 have part OF each meeting
;.s ;.s spring devoted to child welfare as
S'lucted by the executive committee
pppogram for Fridays meeting:
Neport from the Civil Legislative
HUWHlmIttee-Mrs. Lee GoIdsboroueh.
cU:ai Solo-Miss Roger.
mid Welfare Program:
ouoIect-Playgrounds for our Chill
N'S,i, wi; hve minute talks.
Why Shepherdstown Should Have q
'dIyyslonnd-Miss Ella May Turner.
Cb;T3w bH9w a Playground Will Help the
ip5i,aien-Mrs. Harry Allen Downs.
uora uayerounds in Other Placcs-Mrs
noGmer Malone.
Sc Questions and discussion will follow
no nT 10 how plans can be made for a
r"!eround here next summer.
CnMMJTTEE
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
Famous Woods Cut Down.

The Miller Lumber Company has
completed the telling of the trees in the
piece OF woodland on the farm of Mrs.
Geo. w. Billmyer along the Charles
Town pike about two miles south OF
Shepherdstown. A great change has
been made in the landscape at this
point, for this timber has stood there
since before the first settlers came in
to this section two hundred years ago
and nobody knows for how olng before
that time. Great oak trees overhunp
the roadway and afforded shade fol
man and beast, and generations have
enjoyed the beauty of this piece OF
woodland. The trees have passed
their prime, and as many of them were
decaying, 1t was concluded to clear the
land. There was good bit of skir-
mlshing ans fighting between the Yam
KEGS and Rebels in that section during
the Civil War, and the sawyers have
evidence of that fact A number of
bullets have been found and in one OF
trees piece of an explored shell was
Embedded. George Swope, who is
working in the timber, brought us on
tuesday half of leaden musket ball
which was found in the center of an
oak tree about three feet in diameter.
1t had evidently been shot into the
tree during the war. When the saw
struck the bullet it cut it in two pieces.
Me3srs. Rion Lucas and w. c. Link
have sold the timber on their farms,
in the same vicinity, and these fine old
trees will also fall before the wood
mans axe.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
Golden Wedding Anniversary.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob d. Derr, for
many years residents Of the Uvilh
neighborhood, yesterday celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.
All OF their ten children were preesnt.
and in addition a considerable num-
Der OF their friends and neighbors
attended and helped celebrate the han,
py event. Refreshments were served
and q pleasant afternoon was enjoy
ed by the venerable couple and their
friends. Besides ten children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Derr have twenty-four grandchiL
dren and four great-grandchildren
Jacob Daniel Derr. son of Jacoh
Daniel and Sophia Giadhill Derr. and
Julia Susan Amanda Creager, dauph-
ter Of Solomon and Susannah Creaeen
were married at Walkersville, Nd.
February 9th, 1871. They lived in
Walkersville for a year, they moved to
Mycrsvllie, where they resided for
four years, and from that place moved
to the vicinity Of Uvilla, where they
have remained ever since. or twelve
chilc zen born to them, the folio
arc living and were at the golden
wedding anniversary: Mrs. M. L.
Ronemous. Newport News, Va; Mrs.
L. w. Thompson, Shepherdstown; Mrs.
b. e. Maddox, Uvilla; Mrs. Margaret
B. Mohler. Newport News; Mrs. ]. F..
Stanley, Shepherdstown, Charles Ia
cob Derr, Moler's; Mrs. Daniel N. Tay-
lcr. Bakerton; John Melvin Derr. New
port News; Mrs. Earl Lynn Bane,
Charles Town; Mrs. Charles Amos
Kiblef. Dufflelds.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10

James T. Shauli, formerly Of this
vicinity, who recently bought farm in
New York State and moved there with
his family, in. renewing Ms subscribe
tion to the Register writes US that they
are very much pleased with their new
home. Land is not high In price
there, and Mr.. Shaull thinks that a
man OF moderate means can do muck
better by bringing farm In that Sec
tion than by renting IN this county.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
curPHERD COLLEGE NOTES.

The members of the Junior classes
., Sbenherd College and their class
osrer we're very pleasantly entertain
o.Hl ., the Cottage last Friday evening
g.. President and Mrs. w. II. S. White
T;ss Mabel Kinney and Mr.. White
v;nnev of Grafton, w. Va, were also
E-sSent M as house guests Of the host
20 hostess. Progressive finch, in
.hich Scott James and Mildred Conard
-arr;ed of the honors. furnished the
.S;ef diversion of the evening, toward
che close of which delicious refresh
,,ents we're served.
Row Bell and Roger Clapham, who
are now enrolled in the medical de-
.arrnent Of the West Virginia Uni
rsrsity we're in Shepherdstown for a
ysu days between semesters and found
time TO pay short visit to their
tnrmer @ teachers at the college. Miss
MAID and Miss Ethel Hollida, who
eomple;ed the short course for teach
ers in 1916, were down from Martins
burg Saturday planning for gradua-
ton from the standard normal course
with the class Of 1921.
Miss Bessie May Dudley, an imper-
senator and elocutionist, of Richmond
Va, will appear at the college audi
forum Friday evening, February 18th
Miss Dudley is said to be a real hu-
morist. having "made more people
laugh than any other woman in Vir.
pina," and will no doubt prove quite as
pppuar as the two numbers of the col
ieeg lyceum course already given. The
sale of tickets is in charge of the
Girl Scouts.
Though there has been a lull in bas.
ketta.l curing the past ten days on ac.
count of mid-term tests, the second
team boys found time to trounce the
second team of Martinsburg High
School in the local gymnasium last
Ihursday evening. The visitors Sc.
cured eight points, while the home
boys counted sixteen, ten of which
we're made by Jack Crowl, four BY
Holmes Renhart and two by Leslie
Robinson on long shot from the side
lines
This afternoon the boys team will
meet the strong five from Pennsylvania
State Forest Academy. and on Satur.
day they will 20 to Frederick for a
game with the high school boys oi
that place.
The girls go to Chambersburg High
School tomorrow with a feeling ot
confidence due to their showing in re.
cent practices.
Next Tuesday evening the boys will
play KeySer Prep, and it is hoped they
will erase any unpleasant memories oi
that 10 TO 81 defeat on their recent trip
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
accident to Miss Mamie Harris.

riom. mss Mamie Harris met with a Sc
A. uS ,6o accident last Saturday morning
IscoSe e residence of her brother-in-Iaw
he. he Hiedwohl, with whom she made
Son HGfne. AS she was attending to
ovn- s household duties she stumbled
t,oa, something and fell in the ward
heaprSS he her right hip. Neighbors
,So SSara q her cries and carried her n
we we mouse, and later il was deemed ad' A.
sister No; No take her to the home OF her
stree, "tIss lille Harris, on Main
gave bo Drs' q. w. and II. M. Banks
duce5 T .L surgical attention and re-
as cor1 .e fracture, and she was made
Since hao 'ao!e as possible. She has
ever oren o suffering a great deal. how
able ana ana her friends feel consider
anxiety over her condition.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
ohepherdso"n Jefferson West 10 1921
MORE ABOUT THE GORILLA.

Dudley Wilmington, who lives on the
Maple Shade Farm, four miles north
OF Shepherdstown, along the Potomac
river, last Friday night while in pur-
suit OF wild cat. which had been
oothering him for the past two or
three months, ran across Miller Rush
who lives on the adjoining farm,
crouched under big tree watching for
the big gorilla that made its appear
ance in the Scrabble neighborhood
some ten days ago. Rush thought
Wilmington was the gorilla coming
and Wilmington thought Rush was
the wild cat that he had rounded up
very suddenly. Both men were so
much surprised at the appearance OF
each other that fortunately neither one
could shoot until they realized that
they were both animals from the same
neighborhood. Consequently no harm
was done TO either Of them. and they
gave up the hunt and went home to-
gether. I.
Last Saturday evening /. p. Rush.
was calling on Alex. Kinsell at Scrab-
BILE, and it got dark on him before he
realized it. When he was ready to go
home he asked Mr.Kinsell to kindly go
home with him. Alex reached for his
gun, but when he got as far as his own
front gate and looked UP the gloomy
road he suddenly felt a twinge of
rheumatism-or something-and he
told Phin he would protect him from
tile rear, and Mr.. Rush had to 20 il
alone.
Last Friday night Willie Turner
started just before bedtime to make
his usual walk about the place to see
that everything was all right around
the barn, The folks had Just Been
reading in the Register about the
gorilla, and some one remarked tina,
1t would be well for him to be on the
lookout for the beast Willie hastil,
stepped back on the porch. "Oh
well" said he, "it's hardly worth
while tp go down to the barn to-
night. Besides, it looks like rain, anc
don't want to catch cold"
The Hagerstown Herald says thai
several persons declared that they
saw the gorilla on the fair grounds
at the edge Of that city the other night
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10

The Hagerstown Herald says that
several persons declared that they
saw the gorilla on the fair grounds
at the edge Of that city the other night
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Wants Clean Streets.

Fort Mill is one of thc best
towns of 1000 people in South
Carolina" yesterday said a cit
izen of the place who has visited
practically every town of import
.ance in the State. "but at that
there is not lacking room for i'm
provement here he continued.
"For instance, it gives the visitor
bad impression of the place to
see trash and refuse matter of
various kinds lying around in the
streets. 1t would cost no great
amount of money to remedy this
condition and | hope the council
that will take charge of the
towns affairs early in the new
year will take steps to this end.
"One thing | regret the Fort
Mill City Democratic club over.
looked in arranging for the pri-
mary next Tuesday was TO set Il
date for public meeting of those
who are seeking Office so that we
could be informed of their ideas of
what the town government should
be-. As the matter now stands.
we are asked TO go to the polls
and vote for this or that man
without knowing what he propos.
bs TO do to make the town more
progressive. or whether he in
tends to sit down and do moth.
ing as members of the town gov.
ernment i'm other places some
times do
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Gold Hill Happenings.

MIR. and Mrs. Tom Wilson spent
several days last week with
Mr.. Wilson s sister. Mrs. Arthur
Gardner. near Charlotte. y. c.
Mrs. +. y. Wilson and her lit.
Tie daughter spent last week with
relatives near Charlotte. y. G..
Mrs. John Patterson visited
her father at Barbcrville last
week.
Banks Patterson is visiting at
Barberville.
Carl Johnson of Charlotte. y.
t.. and Sutton Epps of Flint
Hill were guests of r. III. Wilson
last week.
Clyde Cunnup of Charleston
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Nj. Cunnup.
Joe Nivens of Pineville. n. c.,
spent the last week end at his
home i'll this community.
'"Boagus."
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Legion Post Elects Officers.

AT the annual meeting Monday
night of Eli Bales post. No. 43.
American Legion. of Fort Mill
post officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: Com
mandcr. lfricc ID. Culp; vice com
mander, +. b. White; adjutant,
W. b. Ardrcy, Jr.; historian. f..
Nj. Mack; sergeant, Oscar Ham
monds; treasurer, w. B. Meach-
am. Jr. "A chaplain for the post
Will be elected at Il future meet
ing. The new officers are to be
installed on the evening of De-
cembcr ~.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
WOULD HELP SOUTH.
Ford's Plan to Sell Nitrates at
Saving to Farmers.

Henry Ford intends to manu-.
facture more nitrates than all the
cotton growers of the South can
use if he is allowed to lease from
the government the power plant
at Muscle Shoals, Ala. He will
also standardize fertilizers and
make their use more effective and
cheaper. In addition to this he
also promises to carry on exper
mental work for still further
perfecting the manufacture of
fertilizers.
Many farmers are behind Ford
i'll his effort to lease the plant.
Hardly IA day passes but what
there are received in Washing
ton letters and kilograms from
farmers organizations asking the
secretary of war find out their
desires that the project be com.
pleted and the nitrate plant be
put in operation.
The supply of nitrates is fast
dwindling. according to a report
Of the American Farm Bureau
federation. The price of Chilean
nitrateS, the chief source of sup
ply for American farmers, is in.
creasing az the supply is becom.
ing more inadequate. By compile
tion of the Muscle Shoals plant it
is claimed that the price will be
lowered. the supply replenished
and the door of competition open
ed, thus reducing the price of
other commodities.
The proposition Of Fort to en-
ter the fertilizer business, howev-
er, is being fought by packers,
coal men, transportation interests
ard fertilizer concerns.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
BITERS BITTEN.

LET me tell YOU a little story
OF Il card game that resulted dis
aStrouSly for bunch of profcS-
Sional gamblers i'm New Orleans II
few years ago yesterday said a
Fort Mill man. AT the time
was staying for a few weeks at a
motel in that city. Among the
acquaintanccS | made at the hotel
Was Il man named George Scott,
who was one of the thousands of
Americans who rushed to the
klondike when gold was discov-
cred in that country i'm the late
9t)S. Scott was an interesting
story teller and frequently enter
tanned his friends at the hotel
with "reminiscences of his expert
"rcrS in search of the precious
metal. Once he said he discovered
very little gold. but that what he
did not learn about poker play
ING while he was in the frozen
north had been torn ont of. the
hook.
n poker game. promoted by
all round crooks. was then being
run i'm one of the hotel rooms.
One evening the principal shark
behind the game approached
Scott and me and asked us if we
would not like TO take n hand
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
LOWER TAX PROPOSAL.
Special Committee to Make Rec
ommendation to Legislature.

If the special committee on
economy created at the 1927 .ses-
sion of the General Assembly can
have it's way there will be re-
ductiOn in the State tax levy of
something like One-third, accord
ing to Il statement of the commit
tee made public day or two ago.
Three methods are to be pro-
posed i'll the report of the com
mittee to effect the proposed re-
duction. The first will be to
postpone the construction of all
public building operations for Il.
year. Better organization and
improved operating procedure in
in the State departments is the
second plan the committee will
propose and the third is to assess
Tor taxation under some form all
property now escaping wholly or
partially its fair share of the tax
burden.
Senator Nitls Christensen is
chairman of the special commit
tee and in an interesting letter to
The Times tells of the plans of
tie committee to bring relief to
the taxpayers. Senator ChriSten-
sen does not anticipate that the
Legislation the committee will pro
pose will pass without serious OPP
position. however. as he is in
formed that parties who are not
diSntrreSted already are at work
finding fault with what the com
mlttrr has done and hopes to do.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
INTEREST IN ELECTION.
Primary Tuesday Expected to
Bring Out Big Vote.

lie DeIuOcraClc primary 10 De
held in Fort Mill Tuesday, De-
cember 13, to nominate candi-
dates for town offices to be filed
at the general election OH .Janu-
ary 10 promises to bring out
decidedly larger vote than has
been polled at any municipal elec-
ton yet held in the town. Up to
last night 375 citizens. including
many women, had placed their
names on the Democratic club
rolls. It.is thought tha by Satur-
day night the number will have
gone beyond 450 In no previous
election in Fort Mill for town Off
GERS have more than 200 votes
been east.
There is much speculation on
the outcome of the election. es-
pecially that for mayor. Thus far
there are two candidates for the
office, A. c. Lytle and B. G.. Fer
guson. Both are business men of
the town and both have friends
who have been at work for them
since their announcements were
made last week. Interest i'm the
race is expected to increase with
the approach of the election.
Taking the talk heard on the
streets as a barometer, the race
will be close.
In the contest for aldcrman-at-
large, with two to be nominated,
there are six candidates and il is
not unlikely that second prima-
ry will be necessary to determine
the winners. In two of the four
wards there are opposing candi-
dates for ward alderman. Two
members of the public works com.
mission are to be nominated. but
thus far The Times has heard of
only one candidate for the office.
The polls will open for the pri-
mary'Ht 3 o'clock a. IN. and close
at 4 o'clock p. IN. AS soon as the
work of counting the ballots is
liiitSiicu, llt executive committee
wifi meet and declare the result
of the lection.
The club rolls will close Satur-
day evening and no one will be
. allowed to vote in the primary
whose name was not placed there
on before the hour of closing.
Women may enroll under the
same rules governing the enroll
ment of men. whether they have
county registration certificates or
not.
Attention was called to the fear
expressed by number Of women
that if they enrolled for the pri-
mary they would subject them
selves to the prospect of jury
duty. Such an idea is erroneous.
The laws of the State exempt wo-
men from jury service.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Free Government Seed.

United States Senator \. Il.
Dial has announced that he will
be pleased tO hear from any of his
constituents i'm South Carolina
who wish to receive any OF the
government free seed for plant
ing during the coming spring.
The lists are now being made up
IN Washington and any person
wishing to receive these seed
should send their name to Sena.
tor Dial Immediately and he will
see that they receive their quota.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Wins University Monogram.

Robert Potts of Fort Mill, VINO
is a student at Washington and
Lee university, Lexington, Va,
was awarded the university mon
ogram at the football reception
given during the Thanksgiving
dances in Lexington. He was one
OF the university's mainstays in
football this year. He still has
another year at the university
and is expected to be even better
next year. At Clemson in 1919
he made the "All-SOuthern" foot.
ball team.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Fence Wire Telephones,

Barbed wire fence telephones
are being Installed in two commu.
mites in Corson county. s. d.. ac-
cordng to the county demonstra-
ton agent, who furnished the
plans. The county, 81 miles long
and sparsely settled. had little
telephone service until the coun.
ty agent thought of using the
fence lines.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Pleasant Velley News Notes.

Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Heath and
their young son of Midland, N
e., and Mrs. Louis Markle and
children OF Detroit, Mich, are Wis.
lting at the home of Mrs. Heath s
and Mrs. Markle's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. }. w. Elms.
After spending some time with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Elms, Mrs. {. III. Hudson and her
children have returned TO their
home at North WilkesbOro, N. c..
Mrs. l.. X. Therrell and her lit
tie daughter have returned from
Greenville, where they visited
Mrs. Therrell's parents.
Mrs. j. w. Elms, Jr., and her
children have returned from Nor
folk, Va.
MIR. and Mrs. w. =. Dickson
gave party to the young people
OF the community last Friday
evening. Progressive converse.
tiOn, games and music were en-.
Joyed until late hour. Refresh.
ments were served. Those present
were: Misses Mary Graham, Sadie
Wheeler, Lucy Tice, Verda Wolfe.
Ida Lee Parler and Ruth Shuler,
Willard Wilson, William Crook,
Walter Patterson and G. +. Pat.
tesson. Spinner.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Writes From Constantincple

Robert B. Lee. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Lee of Fort Mill, who
has been in the American navy
for some time, has written 20
his parents from COnstantinople.
where he is stationed for the
present as II fireman on a subma-
rine. The letter was written No
vember II, after Mr.. Lee had been
in COnstantinople only few
days. He was expecting to leave
the next day for GalatZ, Turkey,
where he was to remain ten days
and then return to Constantine
pie.
1--WE are eXpecting,' said he,
to leave for the States about the
first of the year. We have lot
OF fun over here going to Turk
ish dances. | will send you some
pictures of the Seven Wonders
OF the World some time real
soon. was through the place No
Vember Z and saw things there
that were made in the years
and =. All the Turkish rulers are
buried there, and the ones who
We're rich have solid gold caskets,
made by hand Mr.. LIE. says
ms submarine is now burning oil
instead of coal and that he likes
he former fnal ,nnnh La.4a.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
Many Men in National Guard,

With total Of l32,OO0 men,
the National Guard units. reor-
ganized by the federal govern
ment, have reached strength al
most equal to that Of the regular
army, according to an announce.
ment of the war department.
Vigorous efforts are being made
all over the country to bring the
National Guard up to its author.
lied strength of 222,877 men.