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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
6
Movable listings show shop ads for Lundell, Scheleys, and other merchants offering cheaper sweaters and goods. The item describes a public sale and livestock notes, a Dodge touring car sale, and local price lists for apples, sugar, coffee, and farm products. Neighborhood movers discuss property changes and a meteor sighting near town.
Residents handle property transfers, purchases by churches and families, and public safety notices. Reports include a Washington street sale, Lutherans buying a pastor's car, a big Remsburg stock sale near Sharpsburg, and calls for improved polling places now that women can vote. A curious case of Marie Kolwiszki, rescued after sixteen years hidden in a basement, prompts an investigation. A former Harrisburg policeman, Ernest Van Lear, is jailed in Chambersburg after elopement and Bigamy charges.
Wedding announcements from Shepherdstown and nearby towns recount ceremonies in Washington City and Shepherdstown. Notable mentions include the marriages of Miss Virginia Dalley to Mr Charles Robinson in Warren County Virginia, and Dr Claude A Thomas to Miss Leola Haker in Martinsburg, with plans to reside in Front Royal. Religious events across communities list convocation dates, sermons, and Sunday services from local churches in Shepherdstown, Kearneysville, Elk Branch, Shenandoah, Christ Reformed, and nearby areas.
The Democratic county executive committee in Charles Town outlined plans to aid women voters during the upcoming election. Legislation to ensure voter registration is expected at a special Charleston session. M. S. Moler was named for president of the school board to succeed the late Cavalier, while H. P. Light was nominated for school commissioner in Kabletown. An elderly local resident, Mrs. Kate White, survived a remarkablejaw dislocation after a fall, treated by two doctors.
Public outcry sale in Charles Town West Virginia on October 2 1920 offers a 123 3 4 acre farm adjacent to Shepherdstown and Halltown pike. The tract includes a dwelling farm buildings and a spring with a one third cash payment and two equal future payments secured by lien and an assignment of a share of insurance. Possession to be given August 1 1921.
Edward Roper announces a public sale at his home three quarters mile south of Kearneysville on Saturday September 18 1920. Items include five horses and colts a bay mare noted for work a well bred colt a good work mare a blind mare a cow a sow with nine pigs farming implements a No 1 Brown wagon and bed shelves cultivator plows hitch trees harnesses tackle a Maxwell touring car and other articles. Terms: credit three months on sums of ten dollars and over with negotiable note at Jefferson Security Bank Shepherdstown under 10 cash. Sale starts 2 PM. Auctioneer Crowl Witt Clerk.
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