Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-12-21
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100000 annually from the working
men.
II IS announced that a splendid new
hotel is 10 be built at Charleston. this
State Il will Re IA stories high and
VIII have 40 rooms A new hotel of
l25 rooms is also to be erected at
MorClntown.
In accordance with his program Of
supplying for his factories his own
raw materials, Henry Ford has pur-
chased the Dexter coal mine NJ Davey.
Mcdowell county, W. Va, for 81 80
40 This mine, which Is on the Nor
fox \ Western Railway, has a month
~ output of from 10000 TO 10000 tons
Uuder the auspices Of the MARYLAND
State Conservation Commission il is
proposed to restock Washington county
with large number Of rabbits, so that
sportSmen may have better hunting.
Fruit growers are protesting, declar-
ing that rabbits have caused enormous
damage to apple and other fruit trees.
In a decision announced last Mon
day the United States Court declares
that violator Of national and State
liquor laws may be punished in both
the federal and State courts for the
same crime. Now that this point is
made clear, the law, both State and
FEDERAL, ought to be enforced. Moon
shining and bootlegging are such de-
lioerate crimes there is no excuse for
those who engage in them.
Getting Gertie's Garter" n music.
al comedy of unusual success with a
run of months in New York and Bal
tlmore to its credit, was written bv
George Marshall, son of the late T. Hill
Marshall, the latter for many years a
resident of this place and well-known
to our older citizens-Hampshir
Review
There is nothing to be proud Of, so
FAR as this play is concerned. II is
simply vulgar, trashy lot of rotten
ness that doesn't even have the grace OF
oeing funny. The author of such an in
decent play must have very muddy
mind.
Circumstances are such at times
that 1t is unwise to throw a whiskey
bottle away even when empty. II cost
ID. w. Cool, a travelling salesman, OF
Bristol, Tenn, S5l 60 in the CITY Court
at Clarksburg, w. Va, to learn this.
The empty bottle in question was hurl-
ed from window of hotel into the
street. A policeman was nearby and
an automobile passed the next moment
and went over the broken bottle, rip
ping tire. The policeman looked al
the hotel register, found that the room
whence the bottle came belonged to Mr..
Cool, and the fine in the police court
followed
Friends of the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis and of the mid
shipmen receiving their training there
Indignantly deny the published reports
that there was drunken orgy among
the midshipmen at and following the
Navy and Army football game in Phil
adelphia on November 18th. They
say that there was no undue revelry."
II would be interesting to know when
"revelry' becomes undue" Train
men of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
report that on one train used by these
young gentlemen 100 empty whskey
bottles were found and that the trains
themselves looked as if they had
passed through a World War bonn
bardment.
All gambling dens in Cresson, Pa,
a popular railroad town, were cleaned
~ last Saturday night by 40 hooded
members # the Ku Kux Kla7. who
visited the town in automobiles with
out lights. Wild scenes NJ d'so-ler
followed the visit OF the KlrrFr-e- g
some Of the gambling places, th-s
within overturning chairs and fleeing
IS 4 the devil we're in pursuit tn"
Hlan after cleaning out the der rost !
Cd a notice which hundreds &C rcoo'e |
we're reading newt day ir front "
I'cob Biddle's store: "Gamt'in" in
this town must stop" After Iiso'av-
ing rhe fery cross from a nechborine
hill and firing several shots, which
made the timid quaver, the Klansmen
disappeared. Church people in Cres-
son have been protesting against
gambling, but deny responsibility for
the visit Of the Klansmen.
In the absence Of the occupants, the
dwelling house OF c. Neill Hayslett,