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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
7
A scattered list of public notices and local items includes a 2¢ per pound price, 19¢ per dozen, and a sale of eggs and produce. Community notices cover horse shows, farm purchases, baptisms, marriages, drownings, and relocations.
J William Frye pleaded guilty to illegally transporting liquor near Winchester and received a 250 dollar fine and sixty day sentence with the liquor confiscated. Other items report building improvements on Main street, guard duties at Morgan's Grove, a horse accident near Leetown, a damaged jaw from a downtown altercation, and two planes landing after engine trouble near Martinsburg. County voter registration shows 9,845 qualified voters this year, with 392 fewer than two years ago. Health board praises milk stables as sanitary while noting loss from broken bottles and police report moonshine seizures at Keedysville and Boonsboro.
Obituary notices report Jacob Albert Link longtime county farmer died at home after a lengthy illness. Survived by wife Sallie Blue and three children Anna, Albert, and Margaree. service by Rev Dr Siler at Elmwood Cemetery. Other deaths include John Wageley at age 48 after a sudden heart issue. William L. Lord of Martinsburg aged 36. Mrs Sylvia H. Grimes aged 27. Clarence L. Mongan of Sharpsburg aged 50. David Williams Jenkins aged 71. Ellen A. Chrisman aged unknown with 35 years in Berkeley County. Funeral services noted across local churches and cemeteries.
Notes of churches record a well attended open air union service led by Rev J L Hady with music by Elizabeth Melester and Vivian McDonald. Details list sermons at Christ Reformed and Trinity Episcopal churches, Sunday school times, and evening services across towns including Kearneysville and Shepherdstown with references to Epworth League and communion. A final line advertises Gibson's drug store quality sodas.
Mr Ford Owner the ad claims Morgan's Garage can tune up Ford motors and perform all kinds of repairing with equipment to handle the work quickly promising saving in repair bills.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Lord arrested J A Whittington near Kearneysville identified by Mrs Lipsic and E Garter as the party who passed a forged check. Whittington protested innocence but is held on 500 bond for a preliminary hearing before Justice Fred H Baker next Saturday. He allegedly forged the name of M K Bowers to a check for 11. The check was payable to another name and he was recently jailed pending fines in flow-support proceedings and reportedly passed a check during a gambling game and then stopped payment at the bank.
Work has begun on the concrete road through Bolivar and Harper's Ferry by the Brooks Construction Company of Martinsburg. Wanted fat cattle hogs lambs carload lots state lowest price when writing. We come at once to inspect. C E Wall Charles Town.
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