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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
9
Notice states after September 12 the shop will stay open at night to handle all kinds of shoe repair quickly using improved machinery. It asks for more repair work and thanks customers for past favors. Also advertises Wear-Ever aluminum pans priced at 39 cents in Jeffer Hastens Town.
A note emphasizes exact compounding practices using the purest drugs obtainable. It stresses meticulous preparation and precision in pharmaceutical work to ensure safe and effective remedies.
Multiple residential and building lots in Shepherdstown and Bakerton Virginia West area offered for sale. Listings include brick houses with 7 to 11 rooms, frames with 5 to 10 rooms, 130 and 194 acre farms near Shepherdstown, and a 90 by 95 lot. Prices cited as low as $80 per acre, with gardens, cisterns, electric lights, and running water noted.
J Strider Moler real estate and insurance in Shepherdstown W V advertises fall and winter goods now ready for you. The notes claim prices have been driven down for some time and will continue while in business. Come in you’re welcome.
G W Billmyer warns all persons not to enter his junk yard in Shepherdstown without permission. For any business contact Willis Crowl who will assist. Just received a full line of Eastman Kodak film cameras and items at Owens' drug store.
Readable list details premiums from Morgan's Grove fair including Best display and awards for wheat corn and other crops. Mentions winners like Howard McKee and Chalmer Byers, plus premiums in Short Horn and Holstein departments and local district prizes amid notes on a liquor raid near Burkittsville and a ceremonial WWI burial in Antietam National Cemetery.
Mrs Ethel Poulnot, age 28, proclaims pride in being a grandmother and praises large families. She notes her daughter is 15, and after a five day marriage to her second husband, the couple becomes grandparents. Separate obituary mentions Amy Williams, born 1837, who died in Shepherdstown, leaving four daughters, two sons, ten grandchildren, and a great grandson.
School authorities in Washington County Maryland say funds are short and salaries will be cut ten percent for the year. Teachers met in Hagerstown last Saturday and refused the cut, arguing their current compensation cannot be revoked. They warned of a possible strike action if the reduction stands.
A long county page notes license checks for fuel burners, fines for noncompliance, reports on residents visiting relatives across towns, and local home improvements. It adds a political petition alleging misconduct in Mason County West Virginia, detailing road bond handling and a dispute involving a commissioner.
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