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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1922
Page
6
The page compiles local briefs and notices including market prices such as 28 cents a pound for meat and 4 cents a quart for milk, upcoming events like a college building opening and a bridge party, plus community anecdotes. Names of families, local businesses, and places in Shepherdstown and surrounding areas appear, with discussions of sales, auctions, and local social happenings.
Local notes recount Harriet Johnson sailing from New York to Italy for study, several Shepherd College alumni taking jobs or studying in Morgantown and Winchester, and numerous residents visiting, moving, or attending events in Shepherdstown and surrounding towns. Names include Johnson, Cunningham, Bowers, Trump, Lemen, Feagans, Hamill, Engle, VanMetre, Huyett, and others across West Virginia Maryland and Ohio.
Large scale road resurfacing under way near Shepherdstown and Duffields with new oil heated to high temperature for spraying a binder, oiling two miles of road then covering with crushed stone. Work led by county road forces under William M. Burns aims for a durable, cheaper long term result though continuation of the oiling method remains uncertain.
The obituary column reports the death of Charles H. Randal at 62 in Washington after Brights disease, with burial in Elmwood Cemetery after a Southern Methodist service. among others, William G. Baker of Buckeystown and Joseph Newton Linthicum of Baltimore & Ohio are noted with funeral details. Walter Rebo Staley dies in Huntington after long illness. Ernest Brown dies near Kearneysville. local relatives and survivors listed.
The Shepherdstown Roller Mills lists four at 35 cents per 12 pound bag, 24 pound bag for 50 cents, and 49 pound bag for 1.45 dollars. Delivery only on Tuesdays and Fridays. The note claims the mill makes the best flour in Jefferson county and invites customers to try home product and return unsatisfactory items for a refund.
Notice announces Melvin Mears offers car repair services for Studebaker and Chevrolet. Mears is a graduate of the Aviation Mechanics Training School in St Paul Minnesota and pledges first class service on all cars at reasonable prices.
Advertises buying dry hand threshed rye straw in bundles at the warehouse with payment for unthreshed field straw and contracts to buy next year’s crop at no less than the stated price. Will supply weed and fertilizer on delivery. Calls for Goetz Saddlery Co or Charles Town WV. Also touts cattle and dairy claims and a laxative product with pricing.
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