Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-07-20
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'ntm'dating miners employed ey coal
,-mpanies in the upper Mononearela
rsg.on. Indictments were also founj
against number Of women who thr,N
stones at train on the Morgantovr
and wheeling railway during a rscc,'
demonstration at one of the mining
towns.
Caterpillars interrupted operations
on the Hetch Hetchy Railroad in Cal
itornia recently. The insects crawled
along the rails, covering them for a
mile and making them SO slippery that
the engines could not get traction I'D
the grades. 1t was necessary for the
crews to cut the engine from the trains
and run over the caterpillar recovered
rails and coat the rails with sand be-
fore the train could pass over.
Mime. Suzanne Lenglen, the French
tennis marvel, defeated Mrs. MolIa
Bjurstedt Mallory, American champion.
Tor the women's worlds championship
title at Wimbledon, England, Saturday.
he American star claims that she is
dissatisfied because the match was
played at seven o'clock in the evening.
when the light was bad, and express
ed the hope that Nine Lenglen would
come to America to take part in the
national championship matches.
A fruit crop of from IS to 80 l-3
per cent of the 1920 yield, which was
good one, is the forecast for Wes-
tern Maryland this year, according &c
statement issued by Andrew Cohill.
OF Hancock, president of the Marylan-
Horticultural Society. Mr.. Cohill
bases his calculation on replies from
about 700 postcards which he sent on;
to fruitgrowers in Western MARYLAND.
A number of the cards were returned
blank, indicating the loss of the total
crop in some instances.
A broken limb, resulting from
fall, together with heart disease, has,
tened the death of Mrs. Harriet Gaun
Shepherd, of Winchester, a member OF
the old and widely-known Colston fam4
lily OF Clarke county, Va. Mrs Shepherd,
who was in the eightieth year of her
age, is survived by two brothers, RAN
dolph c. Colston, of Summit Point,
and Frank P. Colston, of Clarke coun-
ty, and one sister, Mrs. James w.
Rogers, of Slater, Mo. She leaves no
children. The funeral was held in
Winchester Wednesday afternoon, her
nephews serving as pallbearers.
Walter A. Wise, formerly of Martins
burg, was arrested in Cumberland the
first of the week on the charge O..
kidnapping and assault on H. c. Hall,
en- employee of the B. & o. Railroad
shops in Cumberland. 1t is claimed
that Wise and another man stopped
the machine in which Hall was going
to work, and took him in an auto
mobile to Evitts Greek, where the,
liberated him and told him to 90 back
to Brunswick. The warrant, chars
ing kidnapping and assault, was sworn
out by B. c. Groves, Halls brother-in-
law and night foreman at the B. & O
shops.
A l5-gallon moonshine still reward
ed the search of Martinsburg authori-
ties on the premises of Steve Lipscomb,
colored, of Bunker Hill, when they en-
tered his home to make an investga-
ton. Mrs. Lipscomb was the only per-
son present in the house, and she was
promptly arrested and taken to Mar
tinSburg. Her husband was later tax.
en- into custody, and both are being
held for preliminary hearing. The
still was located under the floor on a
stairway leading down to a cellar
But small quantity of liquor was To-
Gated, and the authorities were unable
to find any mash.
Frank M. Mish, Of Hagerstown, has
announced himself as a candidate for
| Congress from the sixth Maryland dis
trict He states that he will make his
fight on platform fayoring the re,
peal OF the Volstead Act, and the sale
of light wines and beer, under govern
ment regulation. ICY" Cummings, Of
Montgomery county, is their other
candidate, and he is out to succeed
Congressman Frederick N. Zihlman on
a dry ticket. When the time for the
primaries rolls around, the attitude Of
the people of the sixth district will!
certainly be clearly manifested.
No disorder whatsoever has been OBJ
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