Hopeful news on price cuts and political ambition in West Virginia
Hopeful dispatch notes price reductions in shoes and steady resistance to railroad rate cuts. It critiques labor leaders blamed for high coal prices, urges stronger law enforcement against bootleggers, and surveys West Virginia political ambitions for the Senate including Howard Sutherland Henry Hatfield and others amid a crowded field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Senate
William E. Wiley
Boone County Coal Company
West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
Wosutiers
West Vir
Sila
Republican
Senaor Howard Sutherland
Henry D. Hatfield
Huntington
HG Oden
Wheeling
Charles W Swisher
Buck
T. E. Hanston
McDowell County
Virgil L. Highland
Clarksburg
Grant F. Hall
A. A. Lilly
Geo. M. Bowers
Shove
Marriages Share Quiet Weddings Around Shepherdstown
A sequence of local weddings is reported near Shepherdstown and Millville. Elsie May Gore and James W. Gore wed at a Millville home in a small ceremony led by Rev I D Worman with Mrs Bessie Durlof as matron, following a brief bereavement in the bride's family. The couple will reside in Rawson after a southern wedding trip. Separately, Mary Comer and Hugh Smith Kearfort tied the knot in Shepherdstown and Martinsville, with Rev John C. Siler and Rev Henry Allen Tupper officiating, and guests including Mr. Adem Link as best man and Mrs Ernest Jones marking the ceremony. In nearby Washington, Kathryn Barr wed, and Pauline Caupherty of Gainesville, Texas, married Norman MacArdie, an English cotton buyer. Lastly, William N Hill and Edna White wed at the Charles Town Methodist parsonage with several relatives present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie May
James W. Gore
Millville
I. D Worman
Shepherdstown
Cou
Bessie Durlof
Adem Link
Ernest Jones
Jones
Rawson
Marry S. Comer
Ella G. Manuel
Ullelis
John C. Siler
Jasper A. Manuel
Hugh Smith Kearfort
Rebecca Kearfort
Martinsville
Kathryn Barr
A. Eugene Barr
Washington
Henry Allen Tupper
Wm. E. Kearfott
Kearneysville
Crawford Hall
Gainesville
Norman MacArdie
Texas
William N. Hill
Edna White
Myerstown
Charles Town
T. M. Swann
Winchester Presbytery Plans Fall Session in Shepherdstown
The Winchester Presbytery met this week at the Presbyterian Church of Shepherdstown with Rev. Dr. Charles Ghiselin as pastor. Officers were elected for six months including Moderator Rev. S. O. Hall and clerks Rev. L. F. Harper Rev J. A. McMurray Rev A. H. Clarke. The gathering included communion, sermons by Rev. W. G. Greenlees Rev. F. M Woods and Rev. Dr. O. W. Buschger. Luncheon hostesses Mrs. Virginia Harrison and church ladies provided daily meals for ministers and delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Sesson
Presbyterian Church of
Shepherdstown
Charles Ghiselin
W. G. Greenlees
Petersburg
W. Va
S. O. Hall
Moorefield
Gilkeson
Home Missions
J. H. Lacy
Virginia Harrison
Shipley Breaks Leg Catching in Woodsboro Game
Lew at Woodsboro, Elkins Shipley of Brunswick Athletic Club broke his right leg while catching in Woodsboro Ma last Saturday. The injury occurred on a play at home plate when his shoe cleats twisted causing a slide into Shipley. He was rushed to the derick Hospital and is said to be seriously injured near the ankle. Shipley, star catcher for Shepherdstown last season, had joined Brunswick this summer but was released later. Fans at Woonsboro raised 375 for the injured player. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Fanrose Shipley of this place. Also notes sales event at WearEver stock reduction running September 21 to October 8 in Charles Town West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins Stapley
Brunswick Athletic Club
Mintortune
Woodsboro
Wadsboro
Aecoind
Hone
Inield
Shipley
Derick
Elk
Shepherdstown
Brunswick
Ram
Fanrose Shipley
Thief Steals garments. spring water questioned
A thief entered Frank Rows home near Charles Town and carried off a female wearing on premises. Spangler's Spring at Gettysburg Battlefield faces closure or cleaning after a typhoid risk. health department urges action. A Harper's Ferry pike crash injures riders. one seriously. New apple transport methods to Washington and Baltimore yield good prices. A farm accident near Charles Town injures a worker. eye injuries noted. A Bakerton quarry worker faces shooting charges. one eye badly damaged. Shenandoah Junction vermin concerns spur disgust over shipment roach contamination. Scams via scholarship schemes target townsfolk. subscription pushers outed. Washington state rabbit drives expand. heavy crop damage reported. strychnine used to control rabbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
State
Wilson
Rev Dr Alexander Mut Dies in Florida at 74
The obituary notes the death of Rev Dr Alexander Mut in Pensacola Florida from apoplexy. He visited Charles Town in past while his son Rev H M Moffett served as pastor there. The elder Mut was a Confederate veteran and father of eight, five of whom became Presbyterian missionaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Stuart Mutfoot
Pase
Charles Town
H.M. Mofett
Presbyterian Church
Pensacola
Florida
Dr. Moffett
The
Public Sale Near Old Paper Mill Road in Shepherdstown
A winter departure sale at the seller's residence near the old paper mill road begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, September 24, 1921, offering two double beds, a box couch, walnut tables, chairs, bookcases, lots of curtains, a nearly new four burner stove, oil and wood stoves, potatoes, canned goods, jellies, preserves, eggs, bread mix, kitchen utensils, and many other items, with Elen B Pendleton and Auct Crowl involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherdstown
Weastie Sn
Elen B. Pendleton
Cath M. P. Crowl
Public sale of real estate in Martinsburg
The widow and heirs of G W M Tabler, deceased, offer at public auction at 1 30 p in the Martinsburg Berkeley county courthouse front door. The listing notes a valuable real estate sale to be held in Berkeley county West Virginia, Martinsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. M. Tabler
Berkeley County
W. Va
Martinsburg
Tabler Auction Sells Several Berks Co Real Estates
A 1921 sale lists multiple properties in Berkeley and Jefferson counties West Virginia. It covers the Tabler homestead near Martinsburg and nearby tracts including a 12 room brick farm near Shepherdstown, plus a 165 acre Opequon Creek tract. Terms require one third cash at sale and rest over two years with a deed of trust lien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. M. Tabler
Scrabble
Berkeley County
W. Va
Swan Pond
Shepherdstown
Martinsburg
Billmyer's
Roo
Opequon Creek
Tabier
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Hooks Leyder
United States Bureau of Education
Fener
Winchester Presbytery
Lew
A. I. Grandstar
UNALE
Frank Rows
Baltimore
Wills Crow
A. S. Dandridge
Henry James
Bakerton
James A. Smith
John Proctor
James
Proctor
Charles Town Hospital
Shenandoah Junction
Pittsburg
Cosmopolitan
State of
Grant County
Wilson Creek
Moses Lake
Department of Agriculture
Charis Mitchell
Wheeler
Owens
Scrabbole
Jefferson County
Elisha Snyder
Allie K. Tabler
K I. Tabler
John P. Tabler
Geo. T. Tabler
Daly M. Knipe
Anna B. Kemp
Edith A. Tabler
Clyde O. Tabler
Jao W. Dodi
Nadenbousch
National Fruit Product Company
Little Green Tea House
Helen B. Pendleton
Martinsburg Business College
James T. Austin
W.va
Chas. T. Engle & Bros
W. A. Daniel
Sadler
Jordan & Wysong
Charles Town, W. VA
U. S. Army
Army Supply Bargain House
East Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Sam Miller
Lyons
W. Washington Street
Hagerstown
GOD
Reed & Myers
Reedson and Duffields
Seatoe
Ull
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