Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

living near PeaSheE NH IN Harper
Ferry district, has bought the Merritt
property, house and four acres OF
land in that neighborhooc, from W. c.
Foreman, vino has been occupying il.
/ Mr.. Foreman will move to the farm
owned by the Marist Seminary on the
Potomac river above Peacher's Mill
April lst.
Three new stokers are being install
ed az the steam plant of the North
ern Virginia Power Company near
Millville. Three of the five stokerS in
operation there had worn out in the
nine years they have been in use, and
the new installation is being made TO
keep the efficiency Of the plant up to
top-notch The stokers are great la
Dor savers, the battery of them in use
there feeding a carload of coal into
the furnaces every l8 hours.
Scores of millions of dollars could
not save the life of Gwendolyn Ar
mour, the six-year-o daughter of
Philip D. Armour, Sd, Of Chicago. A
couple of weeks ago, the little girl con-
tracted a throat infection and became
very i'll. All of the resources of the,
Armour millions were called into pow
er and seldom have such efforts been
made to save life. The greatest ply
sicians in the country were summoned.
But all was in vain. The child died,
with her father and other relatives and
ten physicians and six nurses grouped
about her bedside.
Jefferson county pillow land leads ali
the counties of the State in value, &C
cording to the u. S. Bureau Of Markets
and Crop Estimates. The average
value of pillow land with improvements
in this county was placed at Sl04 pei
acre. Without placing any value on
improvements, the land is estimated to-
be worth S65S3. The average value
of pillow land throughout the State
is placed at SAT per acre, nine dollars
less it was estimated to be worth in
1921. On March lSt the above author
tiles estimated that we had 80 per
] cent of last years corn crop, IL per
cent of the wheat and 20 per cent OF
the oats still in the hands Of the
growers.
Last Saturday between 700 and 500
Railroad shops in and about Hagers-
3
road company recently turned over
its repair work to contracting COM
pany, which offered work TO the former
railroad employees at reduced wages
The men went TO work, but the union
leaders prevailed on them to strike
and they walked out last Saturday. The
contractors have been employing other
men to take the places of the strikers,
but the work is pretty badly crippled
Tuesday night there was a riot in
the railroad yards, when the strikers
tired to prevent other men from work
ing, and two men were shot as the
guards opened fire on the disturbers.
Letters were reported to have been
received Friday morning by number
on single and married men of Williams
port In reference to their conduct. The
letters, which were all signed K K
N, accused the recipients of breaking
the moral code and threatened them
that unless they correct their faults
they would be publicly logged in the
center OF the towns public square. The
letters are the first to have been re-
celved In the county and accredited
TO the Ku klux Khan. The existence
OF the Khan here was not absolutely
known until the appearance of two
whIte-robed figures at the United
Brethren Church, in Williamsport, last
Sunday evening during services. There
are rumors to the effect that the Khan
has a membership in this CITY and
county of several hundred -Hacers-
town Globe.
attacked by two stray dogs and
painfully bitten by one of them, Miss
alta keyton, aged Is years, of Mar
lihSourg is now undergoing special
treatment to prevent hydrophobia. Both
dogs were killed and the head of the
one specifically alleged to have bitten
the girl, was sent to Washington for
analysis. AS in the case of nearly
every other analysis of suspected ca
nine from that section, unmistakabIe
symptoms of rabies were found bv tho
chemist. The girl was in the habit of
going across to West Virginia ave.
nue. to visit her sister, Mrs. Robert Lin.
ION. ne other day as she wended her
way along vacant portion of tho
street the two dogs attacked her One
iailed to bite the girl, but succeeded
IN tearing her dress. while the other
sank his teeth into her thigh. There
nave been many mad dogs arouna
Martnsourg the past few months.
mrs. Sarah Ruth Hillyard has no
reeoiIectIon whatever of going through
marriage cermony on February "a
with Harrison L. Hilyard and living
win MIN three days and nights. ac.
cording to testimony she gave Satur-
H Sv,y night in the municipal court in
winchester, when Hillyard was ar.
raigned on charge Of feloniously AT.
lacking his wife while she was LEAVING
motion picture show with her father
william D. Grim. Mrs. HilIyard said
] She did not even rcmnn,ha ~