Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pa, has been unanimously invited TO
become pastor Of the Lutheran Church
OF Middletown. Md
Thieves stole fifty fat hens from the
home Of Fred Roach near weverton
Md, last Saturday night. They had
been fattened for the Christmas trade
Rev. Robert A. Goodwin. rector Of
Christ Episcopal Church in winches-
ter, has resigned this charge and will
again engage in missionary work in
China.
The final figures of Treasurer T. A..
Brown show that the total receipts Of
the Hagerstown fair in October were
SSS,lSOSe, with net profits of Sl4,-
1913.
The last toll-gate in Maryland was
abolished Tuesday. when the Frederick
and Woodsboro turnpike was thrown
open to the public. The pike has
been bought by the State Roads Com
mission for $4,000.
Owing to the dullness Of the leather
market the big tanneries of w. D. Byron
< Sons in Williamsport, Md, have al
most entirely suspended operations. In
busy times about 500 men are employ
ed-only about sixty are at work now
There are 1913 first class high schools
in IVES. Virginia, according TO the
classifications announced by L. l..
Friend, State Supervisor of High
Schools. Second-class high schools
number "a, and there are 80 third-class
high schools in the State.
Two hundred gallstones removed
from his body and in a fair way for
recovery is the record of John H
Heiston, member of the firm of Heis-
ton, Miller and Company, of the Luray
Planning Mills Corporation The opera.
ton was performed in \ Washington
hospital.
Two men who were running LIQUOR
between Philadelphia and Washington
were killed last Thursday night when
their automobile upset near New
Market, Md. They had 800 pints of
whskey in the car. They were later
identified as crooks who were men,
bers OF an organized gang of bootleg
gers.
Farmers who contemplate cutting
apple trees for one reason or another
this winter should carefully preserve
thP wood thar, i.
mand for it at this time. Apple wood
is used largely for the making of saw
handles by tool manufacturers and is
also used as substitute for sweetbriar
in the manufacture of smoking pipes.
Mayor Murray Stewart of Savannah.
Georgia, helped to solve the fuel aues-
ton last week in very practical way.
He bought 1000 tons OF coal and sold
II at six or seven dollars ton less
than the dealers were charging, and al
so purchased thousands of cords OF
wood and sold il several dollars a cord
less than the prevailing prices. He
says that he will keep on the lob un-
til prices become fair.
The strange beast which was re-
ported to have been causing consterna-
ton among the people OF interior West
Virginia few weeks ago is said now
to be terrorizing Pennsylvania folks.
The creature is supposed to be a huge
gorilla that escaped from a circus
some time ago. Just how a gorilla.
which lives in tropical Africa, can en-
dure the rigors Of winter in the AL.
legheny mountains has not been ex-
planned.
A good deal OF a sensation has been
created by the marriage Of lanes
Cornell Biddle, member OF we'll
known Philadelphia family, and Miss
Mary Lena Gaines, Of a prominent
Virginia family at Warrenton. He is
81 and she is 46. Mr.. BiddIe was for
twenty years monk in the Troppist
Monastery in Kentucky, one Of the
strictest and most austere Catholic in.
stitutions in this country. He says that
he has become convinced that celibacy
Is not necessity and that St. Paul was
right.
Enough stockholders OF the Prick
Manufacturing Company at waynes-
boro, Pa, at recent melting called for
the purpose Of ratifying or rejecting
the proposed merger OF that company
with the Geiser Manufacturing Com
pany in the same town voted against
ratification and nullified the merger
plan. 1t was a foregone conclusion
OF practically everybody familiar with
the business Of both companies that
the sale OF the Geiser comnanv IN tho