Shepherdstown Remster BRIEFS in August fair notes and local prices
The Shepherdstown Remster lists upcoming events and happenings. Mentions a rope fair August 31 with coins per pound for eggs and other goods, Goodyear tires and Sway Garage, Owens' Drug Store on County Cane for a session next Tuesday, shifting prices on shaving and other items, and local business notes. Also references the Lick pen investiture, the UDC activities, and a harvest event at Avilla Lutheran with chicken and country ham meals. Reports an airplane crash near Charles Town, a jewelry theft investigation, and various local miscellaneous notices and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodyear
Sway
Owens
Cat Harbers
Dave
Crur
Ben
Hartzell
UDC
B. Weennur
John Graig Huff
Ean
John Craig Ur
Mish
Shepherdstown
Brooklyn
Keister
Odin
Odin Your Most Interest Asure
Wyamily
Hollida
Cumberland
Winwock
and Wlatten
Congress
Charles Town
Henry Phillips
Meg Tiwesday
Avilla Lutheran
Bowling
Wim
Norfolk
Pen-Mar
Luifre
Secon Luray
Local notes and market updates in Martinsburg area
Geo W Moore of Charles Town plans to quit farming and hold a public sale August eighteenth. Martinsburg considers concerts by United Sidhe Marine Band. negotiations failed. Wheat prices surged with a net 26 cent loss per bushel. Local corn and oats prices shown. Mrs Gilbert Hendricks of Shenandoah Junction ill with appendicitis, operated in Martinsburg and recovering well. Rumsey Hotel property offered at public sale, then withdrawn. private sale to follow. Peach crops sold to buyers including Henry Baker and J C McKown for about eighty thousand dollars. crop to ship about 100 cars. Hagerstown delegation travels to Baltimore to oppose pardon for Bruce McCleary, who murdered a woman eight years ago. pardon board declines to recommend. Weather mild, haymaking near completion. showers aided corn growth. George C. Rissler reports good local wheat yield. dramatic May price offers to sell crop for eight hundred dollars fell through. State Department of Public Safety to enforce automobile license laws in West Virginia. expected revenue gain. Martinsburg group buys Kern orchard near Winchester for ~28,000. five locals purchase Henry orchard previously. John W Branson, known as Uncle Vickie, dies at 81 in Shepherdstown. respected by white and Black communities. Sharpsburg Community Club nears unveiling World War memorial in public square. ceremony planned with speeches and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Hendricks
Shenandoah Junction
Marinsburg
JC. McKown
Martinsburg
E. Blair Pancake
Cumberland
Romney
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Bruce McCleary
McCleary
George C. Rissler
Buckner
Charles Town
State Department of Public Safety
West Vic
P. Fortney
Road Commission
George M. Bowers
C. Nadenbousch
Harry H. Rutherford
Wilbur H. Thomas
Emory Thomas
John A. Kern
Winchester
Henry Orchard
Dr. Kern
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Ohn W. Branson
Shepherdstown
Vickie
Levi Moler
Edward T. Moler
Shargshore
Ptunic
Sharpsure
Cal
Jong Markey
Fredrick
Haeerethen
Farm And Orchard News and a Serious Auto Crash
Orchard plans extend across counties with H Warden and Frank Foner expanding with hundreds of trees. Mountain View Nursery and Geo F Coyle plan 50 acres of apples. Wheat yields rise as D C May and TW Smallwood report 1000 and 927 bushels. An auto crash near Ridgeville seriously injures Henry B Gilpin and fatally injures Eugene Stuart. Drake Stuart attends Stuart in Frederick Hospital. Ken Gilpin recovering in Baltimore.
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Real
Prospetius
H. ©. Warden
Summit Point
Edack Ben Davis
Delious
Staymans
Erank Foner
Wiliam Melton
Charles Town
Mountain View
Geo F. Coyle
Charleston, W. V
Goyle
Leetown Road
D.C May
Daniel Hettebower
Mr. May
Mr. Hawn Back Home in Shepherdstown Visit
William Henry Harrison Hawn of Baltimore visits his nephew Charles E. Walters in Shepherdstown. At eighty, he remains active, works as a shoemaker, and is the last surviving son of David Hawn. His family’s log house, built with lumber from trees on the site, marks his family’s long roots in the town. He knows few locals now and hopes to enjoy sights of his youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherdstown
William Henry Harrison Hawn
Baltimore
Charles E. Walters
Hawn
David Hawn
Walters
Mr. Hawn
Old Town
Wedding Bells for Konemous Kin in Newport News
Rose Virginia Ronemous wed Frank Baker Davis in Newport News on July 3. The couple planned a Virginia and West tour after the ceremony and visited the Shepherdstown family briefly. Baltimore guests Virginia Miller Clarence Ruckle visited Theodore Rogers’ family in Shepherdstown. Nathan Fine and Bessie Conn married in Baltimore last Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meiven L. Konemous
Newport News
Rose Virginia Ronemous
Frank Baker Davis
Davis
Virginia
Westa
Virginia Miller
Clarence Ruckle
Baltimore
Shepherdstown
Theodore Rogers
Nathan Fine
Martinsburg
Bessie Conn
Hancock
Notes of the Churches Rainy Open Air Services
A rainy Sunday afternoon prevented outdoor services but a good congregation gathered in the college auditorium for a sermon by Rev. W. R. Hartzell of Walkersville Maryland The union service next Sunday will be preached by Rev Dr Charles Ghiselin M E Church South holds services at 9 30 a m and Shepherds Churches at 11 a m next Sunday Lutheran services at Veilla continue amid community notices. A stray fragment mentions a dairy herd near La Plata and unrelated farm notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Auditorium
W. R. Hartzell
Walkersville
Charles Ghiselin
M. E Church South
Mai
Shepherds
Cathelic Church
Veilla Atitam
Bond Sale Notice for Fire Company Building Bonds
Public sale to bidders at the Treasurer’s office on Thursday August 12 1920 at eleven A M for 35 bonds of 100 each 10 20 year bonds at 5 percent interest payable annually to fund purchase of the Fire Company Building and lot dated May 1 1920 bids may cover whole or part. bids opened at the stated time and place with right to reject all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deenaneens
Millville Power Station Seeks Labor for Four Months
Northern Virginia Power Co invites workers to Millville West Virginia for four months of steady construction work at 40 per hour with overtime at time and a half. Camp conditions are excellent with board and lodging on site priced at 7.50 per twenty one meals. Published July 22 1920. An $140 subscription offers a year to the Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Virginia Power Co
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Shepherdstown Remster
Astor
Ed‘Wic
Polive
Frank Williams
Wright
Tn A
Harper's
Noyer's
Geo. W. Moore
Martinsboro
United Sidhe Marine Band of
Washington
Henry Brooke Gilpin
Scalebs Manor
Clarke County
H. B. Gilpin and Company
Ridgeville
Eugene Stuart
White Post
Gilpin
Frederick City Hospital
Young Stuart
Drake Stuart
Frederick
Stuart
Bothmen
French Lick Springs
Indiana
Kenneth N Gilpin
H Stevenson
la Plata
National Highway Garage
Ford Sales and Service
Shepherdstown, W. Va
M. M. Skinner
W. V
Charles L. Crane
W. Va
E. Douglas Davis
North Potomac Street
S. M. Langford
West VA
Owens’ Drug Store
K. Bowers
Corporation of Shepherdstown
Warner
Lester Brothers
Hagerstown, MD
Labor
Millville Power Station
Millville
Opera House
Mary Miles Minter
Marjorie
Billie Burke
Prudence
Tom Mix
Bryant Washburn
St. Anthony
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