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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1922
Page
1
A noisy mix of local notes covers prices for milk and eggs, hunting licenses, and ads for goods at shops in Shepherdstown. It notes social events, a D A R meeting, a college building plan, a bridge party, and a wedding, with community updates on school staff and local business.
Personal notes recount movements of Shepherdstown residents and former students. Harriet D. Johnson sails from New York on the Conte Rosso for Rome to study at the American School of Classical Studies. Wilbur Cunningham to become Capon Bridge public school principal with Mildred Bowers and Elizabeth Trump among the staff. Other locals visit, teach, or relocate, including travelers to Winchester, Morgantown, and Baltimore, and mentions of church evangelism and business trips.
A large force under James K. Hendricks works on the Shepherdstown to Charles Town pike using the era's most extensive equipment. A 15 000 gallon road oil tank car heats oil for spraying, with oil heated by a traction engine and steam roller. The project part of a plan to create a Class A road via Duffields, Flowing Spring Mills, and beyond, with oil layered and crushed stone added for a lasting surface.
A sequence of obituaries notes Charles H. Randal of Washington passing after months with Brights disease at 62. service at Southern Methodist Church and Elmwood burial with Mason attendance. Also William G. Baker of Buckeystown dies at 80 from Frederick County limestone interests. funeral in Frederick. Walter Rebo Staley, son of James P. Staley, dies at a Huntington Sanitarium. burial following Reform Church service. Joseph Newton Linthicum, Baltimore & Ohio engineer, dies in Martinsburg at 62 from heart trouble after a usual run. Ernest Brown, 13, near Kearneysville, dies after a week illness. praised as a good student.
The Shepherdstown Roller Mills announces flour prices: 12 pound bag 35 cents, 24 pound bag 68 cents, 49 pound bag $1.45. No delivery except Tuesdays and Fridays. The mill invites customers to try their product, promising refunds if customers are not satisfied.
A notice states that since taking on the agency for Studebaker and Chevrolet, the advertiser has secured Melvin Mears, a graduate of the Aviation Mechanics Training School in St Paul Minnesota, to provide first class car service at reasonable prices and invites customers to give them a chance.
Notice to farmers offering to buy dry hand-threshed rye straw in bunches at a stated price if quantity is sufficient, with option to purchase unthreshed straw from the field. The buyer will contract for next year’s crop, provide seed and fertilizer to be paid upon straw delivery, and asks interested parties to call or write.
Goetz Saddlery of Rawson or Charles Town Va advertises Majesty’s Prue, a highly productive cow that yielded 9 675 pounds of milk in a year as a three year old and may produce 55 pounds daily. Sold through CHAS BILLMYER with a note on 200 mile shipment and a dietary tag for Dean's Regulets at 30 cents.
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