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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
10
A 194 acre farm near Shepherdstown offering a good house and barn with other needed buildings. The property includes tan ning water on the grounds and is priced at 3100 dollars per acre.
An item labeled Lantie Dery-Ette electric washer without a wringer is noted. The regional agent for JoMerson county is A. 1 Grandstem, Chirteen Town, listed as the contact point.
The widow and heirs at law of G W M Tabler deceased offer at public auction at the Berkeley County court house Martinsburg WV at 1 30 p m the following real estate: residence at Scrabble about one acre with 7 room brick house outbuildings and barn. the Small farm near Swan Pond four miles from Shepherdstown with 12 room brick house bank barn and 25 acres timber. Elisha Snyder property at Scrabble with 5 room brick dwelling and outbuildings. Tabler Homestead on Opequon Creek three miles from Martinsburg with stone house bank barn 75 acres timber 100 acres bottom and two parcels of 49 and 116 acres to be offered separately then as a whole. Possession April 1 1922 crops reserved. one third cash day of sale with balance in one and two years including insurance as security.
Community notes describe Sunday school festivities at South Street Methodist, with a large birthday cake for superintendent Mr Licklider, and a series of church services across Trinity Episcopal, Dut yields Chapel, Zion Presbyterian, Christ Reformed, Mt. Wesley M E, Shepherdstown and Kearneysville. A Roanoke tragedy leads to fines for adultery and a coroner’s exoneration. A 24 hour traffic count at Huyett's Cross Roads records 2647 vehicles, including 973 Maryland and 533 Pennsylvania license autos, plus 126 motorcycles and 48 horse-drawn teams, highlighting cross-state travel patterns.
Wheeling prepares for the West Virginia State fair opening September 5 for a six day and night event. Officials forecast record crowds with livestock shows and displays by AUS government groups, State Agricultural Department, State University, county farm bureaus, and daily Lee Department of Mines demonstrations. Three hundred horses will be on grounds for the races as the fair begins Monday.
Local notes report visits from families like the Chis, Millers, and Hoovers, fishing trips by Jones and Smith, and a wedding return for Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey. Rail work crews quartered at Antietam, the Hutzell Caverns nearing opening, and a bicycle accident injuring Wm. Earley. A Duskard Church rebuilding query to Hon. Zihlman is noted and festival plans announced for September 2.
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