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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
5
Readable notes from the Shepherdstown Register include local ads for Boswell's sale items and Easter candy at Owens Drug Store. Mentions seeds, liver salts, new farm equipment, and estate transactions near Shenandoah Junction and Berkeley County with family notices and club meeting.
Churches announce Easter services with Sunday school at various times, special music and anthems in Shepherdstown, Avilla, Kearneysville, and Charlestown. Notables include Rev. Theodore J. Schmauk’s death in Lebanon, and retirements and dedications planned for local church buildings and presbyteries.
The undersigned agent for the owners will sell at public sale in the Merme's hall, Shepherderben, on Friday, April 9 1920, the valuable personal property including bedstead set, secretary, wardrobe, baby bassinette, office chairs and table, wash stand, mantels, oak closet doors, nursery items, lamps, pictures, commode, screen, doors, books, valises, children's toys, Laurel base stove, bath tubs, car part items, glassware, rubber boots, stoves, cut glass, and more. Terms cash. Sale to begin at o'clock p m. Crowl Agent RG. Miller.
A vintage Billmyer’s Bargain Store advertisement touts low prices on canvas shoes and chosen leather items due to high leather costs. It lists affordable white canvas oxfords for men and women, pumps, boots, children’s and misses sizes, plus work shoes, khaki trousers, pants, shoe remedies, and soaps with low price points.
Warning trespassers will be prosecuted on the Grove Billmyer farm now rented by the undersigned Walter R Crowl dated March 25 1920. Also farming ads offer pure bred S C R I R eggs for hatching at 150 per 15 and 8 per 100 eggs from Race of Roanoke and Minna by J B Osbourn Owings Junction West Virginia. Fur bearing rabbits and other fur bearing animals advertised by The Fur and Specialty Farming Co Fargo North Dakota requesting consignments and lowest prices on large lots with shipment details.
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