Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-02-10
Curious Items.

furious items.
More people are killed and injured
BY tripping, slipping and falling than
from any other cause of accidents.
Thirteen hundred cars of boxed
apples were frozen in shipment last
year. The loss to the owners amount
ed to S1,OOO,OOO.
"For SALE" read the advertisement
in the local paper, "a cow that gives
ten quarts of milk a day besides two
erindstones, lot of farm tools and q
set of harness."
The wild rubber plant is now the
subject of experiments in Southern
Arizona 1t is hoped the ultimate re-
suit will have a decided effect in re-
ducing the market price of rubber.
"Orangeade" and "orange crush"
that never come closer to an orange
than the tanks of synthetic chemical
factory are hereafter to be deemed
"misbrand," and the vendors prose-
cuted accordingly.
In a report made to Congress the
Federal Trade Commission reports:
can outstanding development in the
marketing of grain in recent years has
been the entry of the farmer into the
elevator business as shown by the
growth in the number of Individual CO.
operative elevators organized by far
mers and, used by them in marketing
their grain"
A terrific racket in the barn of A..
Johnson, farmer, near Raleigh,
North Carolina, announced that j milk
thief had met his Waterloo at the bust
ness end of a farm mule. Johnson
had planted the mule in the stall of
a COW which the thief had been milk
ing at night. When the farmer reach
ed the barn, shotgun in hand, he found
a wrecked milking stool, hat, a self
satisfied mule, but no thief
road station in Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
brought waiting travellers to their feet
to see woman clawing the air and
striking wildly at huge cat which had
landed on her shoulders. The cat had
been watching the stuffed bird on the
wrman's hat, and, finally thinking 1t
alive, had made a spring for it. The
cat was pulled away, but tie hat and
5id were ruined ard the woman had
to complete her journey Dareheaded.
Being firm believer in safety first
Henry Thurston, farmer residing
near Columbus, Ind, takes no chances
on having his automobile stolen while
in the city. When he attends a
theatre in Columbus, Thurs.cn takes
lion his machine big log chain, one
Cnd of which he fastcns % a wheel
OF m. car and the oths- :hi he wraps
around telephone pole and locks the
link.
Massachusetts, began to collect stamps,
but, unlike most collectors, he bought
only those Of one kind: thrift stamps.
He bought one every day, and, having
kept up that practice ever since, he had,
on January I, 1921, $395 that he had
saved in that way. He says that after
the first week or two he was surprised
to see how easy it was to save twenty
five cents day, and how fast it count
ed up. ats logged as does it."
With all our boosted modern means
of communication-the post, the tele.
graph, the telephone, the wireless AMI
the moving picture-it is still impos-
sible to visualize much that goes on out
Of our sight but not out Of our ken.
Perhaps it is just as we'll What, for
example, should we do if we could
really see what is going on in that
ninety thousand square miles Of China
that is famine-stricken; in which pa
rents are selling their daughters for
one hundred dollars apiece, and tying
their small children to trees so that
they cannot follow when they leave
them? Wo I nerve us to help, as il
ST. VIC. c" Id it only torture?