Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-22
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4 day.
water has been turned into some of
the levels of the c. & o. canal in suf
hc'ent quantity to keep the fish alive
that were left in them when the water
vas drawn off last fall.
The c. b. wentzell building in Har-
per'S Ferry has been sold to the Inter
woven Hosiery Company, which has
been occupying il as a factory. The
price paid was $4,000.
The Sullivan farm in Clarke county,
Va. containing l47 acres, was bought
three years ago by MesSrs. Bailey and
Dottlemyer for $4,000. II was sold
at public sale last week for Sl6,SoO.
Frank E, Reese last Friday shot at
his wife three times at their home in
Haserstown, and then, thinking he had
killed her, sent bullet through his
own head. He died but she was only
slightly injured
The plant of the Crawford Automo-
bile Company in Hagerstown has been
bought by NJ. p. Moller, the organ man.
facturer. Mr. Moller will continue the
manufacture of the Crawford car and
may also build another model.
Former Cashier Thomas Davis Leps
of the Peoples Bank, Keyser, w. Va,
plead guilty to the charge Of misap-
propriatng the banks money and was
sentenced to seven years in the peni
Tertiary.
/ A number of Hazelton, Pa, parties
WHO invested in supposed pure Ca
madam rye" and sent their money to
an address in Toronto, Canada, think
ing they would receive whiskey, have
received just what they ordered-rye
grain. They will not take the trouble
of notifying the postal authorities
/ Three buildings of the West Virginia
School for Boys at Pruntytown we're
destroyed by fire last week, causing a
loss of $4,000, covered by insurance.
An unruly boy by the name of Clarence
BasE2m, Is years old, deliberately
started the fire because, he said, he
preferred going to the pentitentiary at
Moundsville.
Ground has been staked off and bids
have been asked for the erection of a
large round-house for use of the Cum
/ berland Valley and Norfolk and
Western Railroads in Hagerstown
/ The site will be on the old Heyser farm,
| Just south of the Stockyards of the
city. In addition TO the round-house
there will be a Joint connection be-
tween the Norfolk and Western and
the Cumberland Valley, so that en-
gineS from either road may run into
the round-hOuse. 1t is expected that
work will be commenced on conStruc-
ton within few weeks.
give been making whiskey for nigh
on 40 years, and this is the first time
knew there was any law ag'in it,"
said Henry Hours, of the Smoke Hole
district, located in Grant and Pcndle-
ton counties, when he was visited by
State police and arrested the other day.
A native of the district proifered in
formation TO the troopers that "Old
Man" Hours was running still and
had done so ever since he could re-
member. Corporal Briner, who led the
State policemen, said that the episode
was the beginning of an educational
campaign
Fer eight years Homer II. Dean,
former vice president of the First Ma
tional Bank, of Sutton, w. Va, wanted
on a charge Of embezzling funds of
that institution, has lived after the
fashion of responsibility, has worked
with and gained the confidence OF bus
mess men and the esteem Of his asso-
ciates, only to be tracked to earth, ex
posed and arrested last Friday by the
federal authorities at Cincinnati. Ever
since 1914, when bank examiners dis
covered a discrepancy in the banks
accounts and traced il to Dean, the
latter has been in hiding But he
did not leave the country or search out
desert or hermitage in which to
bde his time as recuse in order to
evade the authorities. He mingled
with his fellow men, sought TO erase
his part BY changing his name to II.
D.. Holt, and for eight years succeeded.
Through the generosity of M. p.
Moller, wealthy organ builder of Ha-
gerstown, the ministers Of the Mary
land Sypod Of the limited Lutheran