Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-09-07
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The Virginia State Department, Of
INC american Legion. in convention at
Charlottesville last week went on rec
OF for prohibition when they defeated
vote OF Ill to 81 a resolution fav-
inS the modification of the dry Law to
permit the sale of light wine and
beer. This piece Of news appeared in
the Baltimore Sun,
Out of approximately 5000 N,
from Clarke county, Va, who served in
the Confederate army. during the
oivii war, only 81 answered the rol,
caii at the annual banquet given by
The daughters of the Confederacv in
berryville on Friday Although every
ehoTt was made to see that no one
was missed, the largest number tina,
could be found totaled only S7-the
remnant OF the legion that followed the
fortunes of Lee and Jackson.
West Virginia University at Morgan.
town will open the regular fall Sc
mester on Monday, September 18th.
IL Is expected that the enrolment will
De considerably heavier than il was
last year. The summer session, which
closed August Goth, was the largest in
the history of the institution. IL is
expected that within the wear the
over-crowded condition will be reliey.
ed to some extent BY the completion
OF the new building for the college
OF law, which was begun in the spring
Five members OF the Hagerstown
Blue Ridge league baseball team were
injured in an automobile accident
Saturday afternoon near GETTYSBURG.
Pa, when their car was driven into
telephone pole to prevent collision
with Western Maryland train. Two
OF the players, John Layne and Holmes
Dlehl, are in Gettysburg hospital,
with injuries so serious that their
baseball careers are ended probably
for all time. The five injured players,
together with the rest of the team
we're returning from Hanover, where
they played Saturday afternoon.
A 100000 bond issue for school
purposes has been declared invalid BY
a report of Baltimore attorneys to the
Washington county, Md, Board of
Commissioners, the statement coming
after Baker, Watts & Co, of Baltimore,
had bought the entire issue at Se7.2
1t is said that the Maryland legisla-
ture failed to pass or authorize the
issue according to the requirements OF
the law. The situation will not b.
cleared up until the Legislature meets
in 1924. School construction in Wash
ington county, including a new high
school for Hagerstown, is thus tied I'D
by the way things have turned out.
The West Virginia Publicity Com
mission, with Offices in Charleston,
is doing good work in bringing to liglS
THE Truth About West Virginia" in
campaign to correct the erroneous
impression that everybody in West Viz
ginia is always armed to the teeth,
asleep or awake. Phil M. Conley, Of
Charleston, is chairman of the Com
mission, which is receiving whole
hearted cooperation from organiza-
lions such as Chambers of Commerce,
the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club
and other civic organizations A num-
Der of people throughout the State
are writing articles for the Commits
sion, which has been at work for some
time.
Representatives of 33 organizations
of Frederick city and county, Md, met
last Friday night and pledged them
selves to support a campaign for "thc
most comprehensive enforcement cru
SADIE ever conceived in the county"
Aroused by crime wave, for which
bootleggers are blamed, the people will
draft plans for the conduct of the cru
SADIE within a short time Not long
ago William A. Stulz, of Frederick,
shot and killed Policeman John H.
Adams. A few days after that, An
drew Fritz, from near Unionville, Graz
ed with moonshine, shot and killed
Samuel Bradford and Robert Shepherd
and then killed himself Still a few
days later Russian who lives near
Frederick, shot and killed his wife
and then put bullet through his own
heart.
Hagerstown's city police department
went on a campaign of prohibition en-
forcement one night last week, and the