Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-08-03
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Plans are being matureo TOT the
erection OF a fine new hotel in Win
chester, Va, to cost about S3500OO.
Temperance reformers have started
a campaign to make Germany dry.
The plan is to have a Law similar to the
Volstead act. .
For the year ending June Both the
fire loss in West Virginia was apps
526, or S87, 1853 less than the previous
year. In all, 1905 fires were report
ed to the ire marshal's Office.
Graham, Virginia, lays claim to the
smallest baby. Mrs. John w. John
son is the mother of a two-months
old baby daughter that weighs exact
ly 20 ounces. The child is normal
in every way except its size, cries.
takes the collie, grips its fists, a
possesses a hearty appetite. Mrs.
Johnson could easily hide her in her
mesh bag, but she is too proud Of her
for that, and takes much pride in show
ing her daughter to the neighbors who
call to see her.
Since the railroad employees went
on strike some weeks ago it is said
that about 300 trains on the various
railroads of the country have bean dis
continued. There has been compare
lively little Inconvenience, however,
for the lack of train facilities can usual
ly be made up by using automobile
service. The railroads are determined
to make a desperate effort to rid
themselves of the intolerable condI-
tons that have been imposed upon
them by the never satisfied union
leaders, and the public should bear
with them during the painful process
Of readjustment.
That portion of the Shenandoah ap-
pie belt occupied BY Jefferson coun-
ty was damaged more seriously by the
froStS Of April "a to 80 than any other
section of the county according to q
survey just completed by crop experts.
Our yield is estimated at 10000 bar
relS or about ten per cent Of a normal
crop, while the yield in both Berke.
ley and Frederick counties is estimated
at twenty per cent of normal. Early
fruit is so scarce and so widely scat
tered that buyers find it almost i'm
possible to assemble car load ship
ment at any one point. Condition OF
other crops in this county is report
ed as follows: Corn 81, potatoes II,
wheat 90, and hay IS.
John H. Calhoun, man who never
had a tooth, was buried at his home
near BiXler's Ferry, Page county, Va.
on Monday. He was found dead al
spring about 100 yards from his
home. Death was due to heart dis
ease. His mastication of food was
accomplished BY means of solid mass
OF bone that extended the distance o;
the teeth in an ordinary person. !!
this mass of bone there was not the
slightest indication that tooth has
ever started to form. He could take
tenpenny nail between the mass c
bone and holding ore end of the nail
in his hands, could twist it in any dc
sired shape. He was about rs year
of age.
The late J. E. Cooper, of Winchester.
left considerable sums of money t
various activities of rhe Luther
Church, he having been for many years
the most prominent layman of this de-
nomination in Virginia. He bequeath-
ed certain real estate in Virginia to
his sister, Mrs. Nettie Ryan; ST 900 to
each of his five nephews; 81 900 to
pastors fund society OF the Virginia
Synod; $1,000 TO the Orphans Home at
Salem, Va; $1,000 to the trustees of
Roanoke College; $1,000 to the endow-
ment fund of the Theological Semi
nary, Columbia, S. C. All the residue
was devised absolutely to the Board
of Foreign Missions and the Board of
Home Missions and Church Extension
OF the United Synod of the South,
share and share alike, and to be used
in the discretion of the two boards.
The estate is said to be worth about
$4,000.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal is
no longer empty. II is kept half full
Of water all the time, and new water is
being run in every week This does
not mean, however, that the canal is
about to be put into use again. The