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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
8
A reflective verse likens life to a stream and a fisherman. The speaker recalls many fish caught and missed, comparing fleeting joys to meals that remain incomplete. The speaker seeks value in present happiness and asks not to mourn the joys that eluded capture.
The West Virginia University student body election in Morgantown pitted fraternity against non fraternity tickets with a near even split. Fraternity gains include George Farmer Edward George Robert Hawkins Harold Kaltenback H L Snyder Jr Sherwood Shinn. non fraternity picks include C P Heavener Grace Kelly Ruth Johnston Richard Evans Stewart Egan Mike Murphy. Also noted are building appropriations totaling nearly 3 million dollars and bids for the law building.
A British pond tragedy shows a man fleeing as his trained dog retrieves a dynamite bomb. The device explodes, killing the dog and injuring the man who escapes with a scare. In West Virginia, Sheriff Lace Wolfe and deputies arrest moonshiner Samuel Marina after a Black cat incident leads to a surrender and discovery of three stills and 30 gallons of moonshine.
A young minister preaches at his boyhood home and faces curious townsfolk. After the service a deacon speaks with the minister's wife about the text echoing his father's last sermon in the same pulpit. She quips that it was not the same sermon as his father was a dreadful smart man.
East Nashville Tenn sees testimonial praising Thedford's Black Draught liver medicine for sour stomach indiges tion and torpid liver. W N Parsons reports it invaluable for digestion headaches and bowel cleansing, urging readers to accept no imitations and to ask for the original remedy.
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