Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

II is said that there is a great scar
city OF physicians in the rural dis
tricts of West Virginia. In Webster
county there are but four practicing
physicians, and outside OF Buckhannon
only four in Upshur county.
A West Virginia Judge recently up
held the right of an officer to arrest
landowner on whose possessions was
found a STILL though the owner of the
land disclaimed ownership of the still
Some other landowners would better
! be careful of the character of their
| tenants.
William Roylance, of North Dakota,
got real peeved in Chicago restau-
rant the other day. He had Just closed
deal by which he had sold his crop of
oats for Is cents bushel, and when he
went into restaurant to get something
TO eat he had to pay 20 cents for half
/ pint of oatmeal.
1 DR.. F. L. McNeer, of Hinton, w. Va,
was fined 5000 in the Federal Court at
Charleston for writing prescriptions for
habit-forming drugs without informing
himself as to their necessity. f. B.
Pickett, former owner of the drug
store, and n. L. and A. L. Johnson,
who bought the drug store from Puck
EFT, were each fined $500 for dispens
ing the drugs.
State Prohibition Commissioner
/ Brown has named n. r. Stotler, of
keyser. to be deputy for this dis
trlct. Let us hope that Mr.. Stotler will
prove active and efficient in elimina-
ting the moonshiners and bootlegpers
/ from his territory. II can be done if
the officers Of the law do their duty
/ and persons who respect the laws will
back them up.
Mrs. Mary Ludwig, aged IS years,
was admitted to the hospital in Allen
town, Pa, to be treated for severe
stomach pains. An X-ray examination
revealed foreign substance, and Chief
Surgeon Schaffer removed three tea
spoons by an operation. The woman
does not remember having swallowed
them. She had been suffering for three
years. The operation was conducted
in clinic before 25 persons and the
spoons were placed on exhibition in
the hospital laboratory. DR.. Schaffer
said that they were of regular size.
The United States Marines who have
been detailed to guard mail trains seem
to be on the job. One night last
week soon after train No. 9 on the
B. & o. Railroad left Washington
Private WasSerman, who was on duty,
saw two men on the bumper Of the
mail car. He captured one Of them and
drove the other off, taking his prisoner
on to Pittsburg. The man declared
that he was not bandit, but was mere
ly stealing ride. He was sent to
jail until his story could be investi-
gated.
More than IS per cent of runaway
marriages are failures, said Rev. DR..
George Clark HoughtUn, for the last
"a years rector of the world famous
Little Church Around the Corner in
New York. 81 turn so couples away
every month, refusing to marry them
for various reasons" DIR. Houghton
said. 81 do not mean that the choice
of the parents is always the best. MANY
times parents have grievances against
the selection of their son or daughter
that are unfounded. However, it is nv
observation that less than Is out Of 100
secret marriages weather the sDrms Of
the matrimc- i seas. canno; say
what percentage of happy marriages re-
suit from the usual planned weddings,
but it is many, many times greater than
that of elopement marriages"
1t pays to be a good cook and faith. !
full one. Maggie Maloney's artistic de-
velopment of corned beef hash to the !
point where Presidents and Senators
and others favored in the highest pc
litical strata We'd with one another for
steaming plateful has been rewarded
with $4,000. This sum was willed
to her by Mrs. Mark Hanna, widow of
the famous Senator from Ohio. Fo
70 years Maggie Maloney served the
Hannas as cook. 1t was Maggie who
cooked the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUNDAY
corned beef hash breakfasts with
winch Hanna rega ed Presidents, SEN
ators and o'her personages of impor. /,
NJ L