Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc rexi term OF the Jefferson Cir
cui; Court will convene on TUESDAY,.
Ap:.l 18th.
L. A. Darby. a former resident of
Marnnseure, died last week at his
nome In Altoona, Pa, aged 81 years.
]. William Kastle. who has been act
ing postmaster At Martinsburg, has
oeen appointed as postmaster BY Pres
ident Harding.
new mill is TO be erected BY T. w
Clipp on the site Of Weirick's mill
along the kabletown pike. DESTROYED BY
IRE several years ago.
AT a special congressional election
IN Maine on Monday the Republican
candidate won by plurality Of 5000.
Two years ago the Republican plural
ity was 1900.
he University of California has a
registration or 1926 largest en-
rollment of any educational Institution
IN the world. Columbia University at
New York comes next. with On enroll
ment of 52,42o.
The Jefferson County Court held a
special session last Friday and Satur-
day, taking testimony in the case of
closing the road between the Hopkins
and Mason lands and considering this
details of establishing a free ferry at
Manning's.
The work of returning to the United
States the bodies of the American SOL
diers who died in France was COM
I nlPtaH Saf,rjo,,
OF l,SOO bodies from Brest for New
York. This brings the total number
or American bodies returned to 45,023.
We note from an exchange that q
certain town in this State does not gain
in population, and in fact is on the de-
cline, with decreasing population
and the paper explains il in this way !:
That every time baby is born two or
thre men leave town.-Elkns Enter
prise.
This little incident tells the story: A
customer Of ours bought pair OF shoes
in neighboring town for $3.50. The
same evening he happened to be in
our store, and we sold him a pair of
shoes for $500. Next day the Gus
toner returned the $3.50 shoes, gave
us the $500, and kept $3.50 Who was
wise? We can likewise save you
money. Schley's.
A ring Of rum-runners and boot
leggers that has been operating I'M
restrained in Miami, Florida, has been
rounded up by federal prohibition
agents. Among the arrests on Tuesday
was a well-known banker. and other
prominent men will be involved. A
determined effort will be made to stop
the landing OF liquor from islands ad :
jacent to the Florida coast.
Three business men of Martinsbure
within the past few days have filed
voluntary petitions in bankruptcy with
Deputy Federal Clerk A. c. Naden-
'bousch. The petitioners, with their
schedules, are: Walter A. Hoffman.
individually, and trading in the name
of the Nu-Way Dry Cleaning Company
liabilities, S3,l6460; assets, S2,23i.-
so. Oscar See, retailer; liabilities.
S2,273.13; assets nothing. Ernest
L. Shade, retail grocer; liabilities, S.
91S.S9; assets, S1,S83.
R. E. L. Allen, police magistrate at
Morgantown, has clamped down some
new regulations for the purpose of
breaking up law violations by dance
| hall officials and patrons. Hereafter
girls under 10 years of age will not be
permitted to attend dances or 20 70
roller skating Kinks unless they are &C
companied by suitable chaperons.
This thing must STOP" declared Police
Chief Carl Beebe, "and this department
of the city government is going to
take active measures to stop it,"
Sheriff William Dean, of Berkeley
county, who took Monroe Payton to the
Moundsville pcnitentiary, following his
| speedy trial in the circuit court in Mar
tlnsburg last week, landed his prisoner
safely behind the bars of the peni-
Tertiary, at which place the negro will
go to his doom in the early morning
hours Of May fourth. Sheriff Dean is
OF the opinion that Payton is beginning
to realize the gravity of his heinous
otfense, and that he will make con-
fession Of 1t all before he is executed.
Records of the Virginia Highway
| Commission contain some interesting
| figures showing how the cost Of main
tanning a road increases with the in
crease in the number OF motor cars
travelling over it. or special interest
are the figures giving the maintenance
cost of the Valley pike. Despite the
fact that less oil has been used since
the State took over the pike, the cost
of maintaining it has steadily grown
since the toll-gates were abolished. In
1916, maintenance cost per mile aver
aged 1881. Two years later, the aver
age was $500 per mile. In 1920 it
was S766 per mile.
The new courthouse at Romney, this
State, was used for the first time on
Tuesday For severaI yaore uo.,,.