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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1921
Page
5
Thanksgiving notices dominate with farm prices and dinners. Wheat at 1.48 a bushel corn 38 cents. butter 33 cents a pound. berries and preserves promoted. Community dinner at the Be g is up at the town building. Women’s Club sale planned. various local notices include quarantines, sales, births, and police retirements.
At Delained Pew YW in Delained, Miss Jennie will recount fifty years of invalidism at 7 p.m. evangelistic services, continuing nightly at 7:30 as long as beneficial. Other area services across Sharpsburg, Mt. Wesley, Shepherdstown, and Kearneysville include union thanksgiving at 11 a.m. November 24, sermons by Rev. Ghiselin, meals for the poor, Bible Society collections, and varied church activities led by multiple denominations.
Real estate transfers include Hine to Wilson for 400 and Tabler heirs to Rice for 39191.45. Higgins to Ambrose on Washington St Harpers Ferry. Hardy to J Frank Hardy and then to Hayes Cronise. Byers to Knode on Princess St Shepherdstown. Barker to Perry in Bolivar. Two farm workers on Geo Zina’s farm claim county corn husking title with Cubbage at 1814 barrels and Boyd at 17 1/2 barrels. $100 wager offered. Shoe price talk cites W Q White before Boston board. Mass manufacturers may need wage cuts to beat Western prices. union disputes over wage reductions.
Wessiey Bolin of Rim Va wed at Trinity Episcopal Church in Charles Town in a simple ceremony with best man S. B. Moore and Miss Sweton Schley. the newlyweds plan a wedding trip to Savannah and Florida. Dr and Mrs Powell leave for extended honeymoon. Also in Washington Mrs Nelle Myers Hunter marries Captain Richard Stuart Hunter at the Church of the Covenant. Other nuptials include James Bernard Mater and Julia Link Mater at Duffields, Joseph Jenkins and Dora Compton in Hagerstown, and several couples from Martinsburg and Berkeley County. A Berkeley County flour mill fire at Johnsontown destroys 4000 bushels of wheat, valued at $20,000 with $6,000 insurance. Fewer dogs observed in Shepherdstown.
In Myeraville Maryland the orchard of Rev R J Ridgely was cut to stumps last week after he refused hunting access and supported temperance reforms. No clues to the choppers exist as the community forms a committee and condemns the cowardly act as a new form of revenge.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Bethesda at Moser's Cross Roads will hold an apron sale and various pretty and useful articles on Saturday November 19 in the afternoon. A chicken vegetable salad rolls coffee and dessert supper will be served from 4 30 to 6 30 for 30 cents. The public is cordially invited.
A. Kindall warns all persons not to trespass on lands east of Shepherdstown without permission. No hunting or trapping allowed. Dated November 3, 1021.
The item discusses profit and unemployment, urging workers and management to regain sense and unity. It suggests continued unemployment until双方 achieve back-to-work normalcy and prosperity returns.
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