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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1921
Page
6
July 28 1921 report notes West Virginia's 80 percent Republican tilt with 34 percent rise in colored population and no Democratic votes. Rail freight rates depress coal and agriculture. farmers meet in Chicago condemn high rates. Senate Fordney tariff bill faces opposition. debates over taxes and expenditures dominate political coverage.
State by Jo Knott details a Michigan Chautauqua tour facing biting insects and lake waters. The writer critiques local hotel quality and roads while describing a Sunday sermon about humility and practical preaching, noting the preacher's stern style and unfamiliar term “Hertatory.”
A fragmentary obituary from Mirorrsyyane mentions a native of Wollaunissirt, age 78, who died at City Hospital after an illness yesterday. The record also references individuals named Robert L Testy, Mr Heron, and Nannie Whiner in a chaotic, error-filled transcription with multiple unclear details.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a car and names such as Willy and Ky Attiee N COMBE SF Mutirectiiting Far Gauiy. It reads like a stray local item with unclear details and no coherent event.
At a trustees meeting in Berkeley Springs with Assistant Attorney-General H Blessing the G W Ensign incorporated lease of the springs property was forfeited along with a ten thousand dollar bond. The hotel and sanitarium were to cost at least 500, but no construction occurred and trustees ceded the property to another operator for the rest of the season.
Fragmentary report outlines rising concerns in Shepherdstown and nearby counties about moonshine supply, gambling and illegal selling. Mentions Mount Airy region, Antietam neighborhood, Frostburg, and government indifference. Notes residents forming watchfulness and ongoing activity by authorities.
In Mountain View the wedding of Miss Lugue Johnson Ewers to Stanley Merton Fulton occurred last Saturday afternoon at 43 o clock. The ceremony was at Fare Manor Presbyterian Church with Pastor Machemer officiating. The couple, both Shepherd College graduates, will honeymoon near the shore and settle near Hancock Maryland. Relatives and friends attended as the bride wore white with Duchesse lace and carried a bouquet of roses and orchids. Best man was Malcolm M Brown of Martinsburg. Also noted were other local marriages and a vehicle collision near Shenandoah Junction prompting calls for trimming roadside trees to improve view at curves and railroad crossings.
A distressed misspelled notice seeks a middle aged couple for general farm work and household tasks. Prefers a telionte colored man and woman for steady duties at good pace with wages. Inquiries payable via the publication. details are unclear in the damaged text.
A notice from Ringgold warns against trespassing on the Bellevue farm area amid disputes over access and permissions. The document references penalties and the publisher’s register fee of 150 dollars per year.
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