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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
9
Buick lights four passenger touring model 119 offering near new condition with nine hundred miles. Full equipment and tools included. Reduced price versus a new Buick, offered by W L Erwin 1018 Fourteenth St NW Washington DC.
An article extols the electric vacuum sweeper as a modern farm home aid. It contrasts broom sweeping with carpet cleaning, explains how the sweeper shakes dirt into a bag, and notes farms gain electricity from new power plants enabling such appliances. It cites widespread farm installations and forecasts electricity becoming as common on farms as in cities.
Busy housewives praise Delco-Light for home lighting and convenience. The device provides reliable electric light throughout the house, enhancing comfort and daily routines for many families.
Reports over several weeks confirm plans to form a Richmond branch of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan with Atlanta headquarters. Prominent citizens are said to back the movement, echoing the 1915 Atlanta origins and the oath atop Stone Mountain.
In Jefferson County West Virginia the trustees of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church Shepherdstown are allowed to file a petition to sell up to 80 feet of the rectory property on New and Church streets for church repairs. Court orders posting at the courthouse door and on premises and publication weekly for two weeks. hearing continues to October 19 1920.
The Sharpsburg column reports visiting veterans from New York, local social updates, and several incidents. It notes Mrs. Hebb visiting relatives, a public sale, and a concrete sidewalk project on the Are Pashen building street. An accident on Bloody Lane involved a car collision near Boonsboro Hill, injuring several people.
In Jefferson County a teacher shortage prompts a September notice for an emergency examination at Charles Town High School on October 2 1920 beginning at 9 a.m. Spelling reading arithmetic history geography and arts theory will be tested. a six-subject grade secures a temporary one year certificate. I N Bonham Supt. Jeff Co Schools. September 23 2w.
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