Shepherdstown register. [volume], February 02, 1922, Image 7

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/Road Matters to be DiecuasedL
A joint meeting of menbers of the
county couns of various counties and
oficials of the State Road Commission
ti a> he held in Charleston February
ji and 10. it was announced by Major
? p Fortney. chairnian of the commission.
The sessions will be held at the
Kanawha county court house.
The purpose of the meeting, Chairman
Fortney said, is to discuss a "plan
of co-operation between the State and
?for carrying forward the
II the cwuui.?
I general road building program of the
State."
Xhe tentative program includes addresses
by prominent officials and engineers
this and adjoining States
Governor Morgan will be the first
Speaker and he will be followed by
Chairman Fortney, who will discuss the
"State's road program."
Charles E. Ritchie, first assistant attorney-general,
will give an address
on "obtaining rights of way for State
rtiads." and J. K. Monroe, project
engineer, will talk on "providing detours
for State roads." The presidents
of the several county courts and members
of some and a few county road engineers
will make informal speeches.
"While the State road system will
be built and maintained entirely by
k- said Chairman Fbrtney,
II1V w??T
in discussing the approaching meeting,
"it constitutes a minor portion of the
total wiJcage required to handle the
general traffic, including the countydistrict
road system, without which the
main system would be inacessible to the
general public.
\ "It is hoped the improvement of
court) reads can go forward simultaneously
with the State road construction
programs that the final result
will be a statewide system of roads,
providing all of the people with good
traffic facilities. It is of great importance
that such a program proceed
on a plan looking toward a well coordinated
system of State and county
highways so linked up as to provide the
greatest service.
"There are a number of provisions
in the new road law affecting both
State and county, the interpretation and
application of which may not be entire1ly
clear to all concerned. These qaesfiens
will be taken up at the meeting
and explained as clearly as possible. It
is the desire of the commission to cooperate
with the county courts and assist
them in every way possible."
School Marks Hinge Oa Digestion.
Grades handed out to high-school
and college students on their final
I examinations frequently depend more
on the temper, digestion and immediate
comfort t>f the grader than on the contents
of their examination papers, Ben
D. Wood, assistant to Dean Hawes, of
Columbia University, declared in a report
on examination research work conducted
at the university.
He cited the case of one examination
paper, graded as a test by 114 teachers
It received marks all the way from 28
to 02 per cent. Another paper, graded
by 142 teachers, showed a difference of
opinion ranging from 64 to 98 per cent
The old type of examination, he declared,
has been found archaic and unfair
and must be thrown overboard. In
its place he urged substitution of a
"method which takes account of the
principles of mental measurement and
which makes use of modern technical
devices."
Won't Serve On Jury'?Goes to Jail.
N. E. Yoder, a member of the Amish
Mennnni?- ^^.1-? - ? 1
vuwiiy oi princess Anne
I county, Va., is serving a ten-day
I sentence in the Norfolk City jail beI
Wuse his re igious belief will not per
rait him to be a member of a jury.
Yoder was called in October for jury
I service. He explained that those of
his faith were not permitted to judge
I unbelievers. Thinking that the reason
advanced *as sufficient for his dismis
sal, he declined to be excused upon the
I ground that his wife was ill.
Upon his failure, however, to appear
a' 'he opening of the November term
of court, he was summoned. A fine
I of $50 and ten days in jail was imposed
b> Judge White, has dec'ared that
I he could not see why a taxpayer and
H Olhaa-' -
wisc excellent citizen should
I evade jury duty.
I The 8nc vts paid at once and Yoder
announced his readiness to serve hi^
I term whenever the Princess Anne
county jail was in condition to receive
* prisoner. J^or more than two months
I unti' he was informed that he was to
s?rve his sentence in the Norfolk city
tail, he was a free man.
I "Well," declared the man who had
looking over the law, "there
seems to be a pena'ty ter everything
except stealing a man's daughter."
"r'h," said his friend, "there's a
I ' provided for that too."
"'That is it V"
Htrd labor for life."
I Regulets arc recommended by
'"Jr'v who gay they operate easily, with"
y't griping and w ithout bad after cf
ec's df)c at all drug stores.
51.50 gets the Register a year.
Modern Invisible Writing.
Early in the war the French secre
service became so familiar with th<
more comman forms of invisible ini
that German spies used in sending in
formation to The Fatherland that th<
Germans were forced to seek more sen
sitive and less conspicuous substances
Liquids that were used for secre
writings, says La Nature, were no long
cr carried pure, but were often dilutee
from fifty thousand to five hundrec
thousand times.
Frequently socks, shoe laces an<
other articles of clothing were im
! prcguaiea wnn minuic quantities of :
j solution, and when a spy needed t<
write he had simply to soak the tij
of his sock or his shoe lace in a glas:
i of water and use the innocent-ap
pcaring water as ink.
It was not easy for the French to dis
j cover the process by which the mes
; sage, which was usually written be
. tween the lines of an ordinary letter
could be made legible. In the coursi
of a particularly damaging secret cor
respondence a French investigator hap
pened to notice that several suspectec
persons seemed to guard certain at'
tieles of their baggage with particula
care. In July, 1917, he seized a hand
| erchief and submitted it to a chemist
who, after three months of experiment
'< ing, discovered that it contained invis
| ible ink so powerful that one part ii
: one hundred million parts of wate
made a solution strong enough to writi
; with. But in the course of his re
I search the chemist made another am
i #?ven mnrp vnlitahlp w?
-?? "
learned what the substance was tha
would make the writing visible, and a
a result the government hunted dbwi
and exposed many spies.
Another important result of the ex
periment was that the investigator wa
able to present the French governmen
with an excellent secret formula fo
mak>ng an invisible writing fluid. }
message written with it can be revealei
only by applying four additional sub
stances in a specific order, and unles
every step of ?he process is attended ti
with the utmost care and precision th
writing remains invisible.
Treeg Heal Sears of War.
American seedlings, fast growing in
to mighty trees, already are beginnini
to heal the war-scarred areas of Eu
rope. Not only are they being growi
in France and Belgium but in Grea
Britain also, and in Ireland.
The French Ministry has orderei
that the seedlings shall be located ii
places readily accessible to main trav
eled roads, and, if possible, near his
toric sites "with the view that sue
forests shall remain as a monumen
to the partnership of France ant
j America in the great war." Th
same sentiment prevails in Crea
Britain, which actually lost more for
est cover than any other country b
the sudden demands of war for ma
terials. Ia Belgium, in the once beau
tiful Ardennes, where the Germa
ax left nothing standing, the beautifu
American Douglas fir is lifting it
head.
Arthur Newton Pack, of Prinoetor
N. J., has jost made a report to th
American Forestry Association, whic
supplied the seedlings, after a three
months inspection of the plantings. H
reports that the trees everywhere ar
regarded as growing monuments t
cordial relations between the Allies i
the great war. Paok's report show
that the seedlings have been plante
along the Chemin des Dames, aroun
Li'le, Valenciennes and Hioson, at th
forest of St. Gobain and around th
ruins of the famous Coucy le-Cha
teau; in the forest of Mormal, wher
j In a 25,000-acre forest of p:ne an>
j beech the German ax left rothin;
! but Ihe smallest saplings; in the Ar
dennes Mountains bordering the ol<
: Duchy of Luxemburg; in County Ty
rone, Ireland, where the b?st nur
sery showing of any planned by th
British forestry commission has beei
made, and along the Caledonian Ca
nal in Scotland, known to all th
American Navy, because it was ther
the American submarine chaser
were mobilized.
The magnitude of the work aheai
is shown in the report which bring
! *Un? r-/>?* ? ?? ?"
uioi uiwai 01 iiitiii 3 prugram can:
for 14,000 pounds of. seed a year
wMIe France needs an equal amount
?O- ? -A
lighthouse, the flash of which cai
be seea for nearly 200 miles, has jus
been completed in Pari9. It is intend
cd few the new air station at Dijon am
has been under construction for tw<
| years. The beam of light thrown fron
1 groups of lamps has an intensity tof 2,
(XX),000,000 cnndle'-powef. The light
I house will be set up on Mount Africa
in the east central part of France, ai
1 a guide to airplanes on the fvreat air
' ways to the south and east of Europe
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
OASTO R 1 A
"I couldn't get atbng without th
! Rcgi%kcr. It is always a welcome vis
I itor, Ringing mc the news of Jeffcrsoi
, county, where I used to live."?Mrs
L. F. Wilson, Jnwood, W. Va.
Conquering the Hessian Fly.
Army sanitary methods a century and
: a-half ago were not what they are *>v
day. Ml heat straw, brought from Germany
by Hessian soldiers, who came
: to America to fight the colonists, was
scattered about the camps. Later
the wind carried it to near-by farms.
In that stww, entomologists say, the
colonists might have observed small,
1 hard, brown objects, resembling flax*
, seeds.
In early spring and autumn start
- ung cnanges might have been observed
; in the flaxseeds. There was a pro-;
1 nounced disturbance in the shell. A
5 hole appeared at one end. A small insect
pulled itself out by stages and be5
fore tobng flew to where the colonists
" had planted wheat.
I There it soon was joined by other
insects, also travelers in the Hessian
bedding roll from the old home in Germany.
They mated. Soon afterward
' the female began depositing eggs on
" the first blades of tender wheat.
The eggs were oval and generally j
" | three were placed on a blade. Some-1
* i times there were many more. The insect
didn't stop until it had laid from
r . 100 to 107 such eggs.
" i Three to five days later the eggs gave
': forth tiny red worms that wriggled
down between the leaf sheath and the
stalk. They continued downward until
1 they found a location just under the ;
r ground. There thev fed and grew.'
2 j Other changes occurred and the next |
* | season the process just described was :
repeated.
fc , That is the story of the introduction
1 into America of the Hessian flv. It
s takes the largest toH of any insect that'
1 attacks wheat- In 1916, according to!
Federal estimates, it reduced the wheat i
yield 37,000,000 bushels. From the!
3 beginning in the East in Revolutionary j
days the insects spread to various sec- ]
r tions. Now it is found chiefly from the t
eastern boundary of Ohio to the!
western section of Kansas. Tennessee!
and Kentucky also suffer losses due to
s | the fly.
0 The average yearly loss in the nae
tion, due to fly da mage, is estimated by
the same authority at 13,000,000 bushels.
Because, possibly, of the standing of
Kansas as a wheat-growing State, the
damage in the nation usually reflected
conditions in Kansas. In 1916, the
{ year the national loss wrfs 37,000,000
bushels, the Kansas loss exceeded 8,.
000,000 bushels.
But the 1916 loss was not the largest
in Kansas. Several years earlier it
~ had been noted that Hessian fly dam,
age was increasing there. In 1907 the
loss amounted to 10,000,000 bushels.
' When the loss in a single State
e amounted to 10,000,000 bushels it was
ICCUglll?CU Hldl ilJCUIUUS oi II y V-UIIIIUI
' then in use had failed.
F. M. Webster, representing the
y United States Department of Agriculture,
went to Kansas. There he con- j
ferred with E. A. Popenoe, of the
" Kansas State Agricultural College,
1 about new methods of fighting the ins
sects. They decided that the Department
of Agriculture and the college
* would co-operate in experiments.
* E. G. Kelly, representing the department,
was given charge of the work and
the experiments began. Wheat was
* planted under varying conditions.
e Farmers' fie'ds were studied. A route
0 was established from Salina, Kansas, to
n Medford, Oklahoma. It was covered
9 by Kelly and his assistants every year
d
j for five years. Sometimes several trips
e were made each year. Meanwhile the
fiy-free date was more elearly established
in the various localities and
e farmers were urged to plant about
4 that time. But losses continued heavy.
E Ke'ly had been at work eight years,
seeking the new methods, when the disd
( aster of 1916 occurred. He was discouraged.
Apparently he was no nearer
a solution than when he began in
1908.
"I knew some fields in the fly districts
didn't have flies," he said, "but I
e didn't know why."
e * Such were conditions when Kelly
cfrrtH nn? <4a<> In IQtfi nn form nf
s J ... - -
Ed Laney in Sumner County, Kansas,
j The sun blazed down and the 6tubble
s seemed to give off heat like a furnace.
s A '"hunch" came to Kelly that deep
plowing would eliminate the Hessian
; fly.
"Bury the stubble so deep the fly
i can't get out," was the inspiration,
t Kelly took a mental journey back to
- the fly-frtee fields he had visited and
i studied. He could not rewember any
5 but those that had beep plowed deepi
ly.
Laney conserved to plant part of his
- field in experiment plots as Kelly sugii
gested.
s Part of the field was disked deeply,
- part lightly and part was not disked,
t. Some was plowed deep, some sha'low.
Boxes three feet wide and six
feet long wore placed open side down
j in each plot. In the walls were placed
glass tubes, extending outward. Similar
experiments were made on other
c farms. And Kansas farmers were |
* ulfeed to plow their wheat land deep.!
n At last the boxes were inspected.'
Where the plowing hid been less than |
four inches deep and where bits of j
stubble were on the surface, flies were
plentiful. They had come out of their
hiding places just under the soil in the
stubble and gone into the glass tubes,
leading toward the light, seeking liberi
ty.
The boxes on land plowed five inches
deep showed only a few flies. 'Where
the plowing was ?ix inches deep there
were no flies.
"I knew, then, I had thc secret."
Kelly said. "But I was determined to
guard against a fluke, so I preached
deep plowing and continued experi- ! Z
ments without making any announce- j
ment." j 1
The spring of 1917 came and with
it the war. Because it was war time j,'
farmers gave more attention than usual p
to crop suggestions. Meeting after
meeting was held, at which speakers
told farmers deep plowing would clim- >
inate the toll of a pest that came from 3
Germany. Groups of men were taken
to demonstration fields and shown the 1
fly and its work. The farmers were
taught to pick out the infested plants. *
There was some fly damage that year
and attention was directed to it on even'
occasion.
"In 1918, with the greatest wheat
acreage in her history," Kelly said,
"Kansas was 'ripe' for heavy losses due
to the fly. Yet the crop harvested that |
year virtually was free from fly damage."
Thc plea for deep plowing was continued
in thc succeeding months and ^
the 1919 crop, too, virtnally was free from
fly damage. In 1920, when there
was damage in wther States, Kansas
again escaped loss.
Adding reports this year to that good
record, Kelly decided h'6 theory had stood
the test. An announcement was *
made at the college that the Hessian fly
had been eliminated as a crop factor in
Kansas. I
Kelly has left the Department of Agriculture
and devotes his entire time to
Kansas agricultural extension work.
famn V Tn Sinlft
Beating swords Into plowshares is
not as s>mple as it sounds, in fact .
the business of salvaging the war ma- |
chine which goes to the salvage
heap is no less intricate than interesting.
Interesting to the home
builder as well as the dealer, as nobody
knows what the material will
bring. 3
By ogder of the Secretary of War,
the next big army camp which goes to [
the scrap heap will be Camp Lee, at
Petersburg, Va. This will be sold in
its entirety, at auction beginning February
6th and continuing until com- pleted.
In order to simplify the details of
this immense auction, the entire camp
has been divided into twelve different 1
areas, with the contents of each list- '
ed separately. The idea of this is '
twofold, first to give the home builder,
the small buyer and dealer an opportunity
to bid on such goods as he t
may require, and alsb to facilitate the
movement of the immense equipment
without confusion and dblay.
In a cave near Benhams, Va., a
large heap of bones, estimated to represent
about 700 skeletons, has been
found. Henry Woodman, of the Bris- (
tol High School, has returned to Bristol
after exploring the cavern. Measurements
of the heap of bones taken by c
Professor Woodman show that it is
about 30 feet high, with a diameter of
about 80 feet at the base. It is believed that
the bones were thrown into the '
cave by Indians who lived in that sec- ^
tion hundreds of years ago. Two or j
three Indian hatchets and Indian beads j
were found in connection with the in ?
o
vestigation. E
o I
An operation performed at the Rock- .
ingham Memorial hospital, Harrisonburg,
Va., tor removal of an appendix
disclosed the fact that the diseased organ
contained six bird shot, surgeons
who performed the operation reported.
The explanation was given that the
patient had probably eaten fowl and
animals which had been kil'ed with
shotguns, and the small shot penetrating
the animals' or fowls' flesh had
been swallowed unconsciously. The
patient is William Richards, who is *
now rapidly convalescing. c
A Household Hint^ *
They had been dining 'n state in the 0
dining car. Husband, who is a teach- d
er of English, was glad that little f
daughter had behaved so perfectly.
Mother also was in a happy frame of f
m'nd. There were numerous other r
diners in the car, and the parents were v
pruua oi uieir cnua. noi a sing c
thing had happened to mar the serenity j'
of the o?cas>on. I N
Finally tfle meal was over, and they
started to leave the car. Their way
took them past all the other tables
Suddenly the little girl felt impeller'
to ask a question.
"Mother," she ca'led in a shrill voice
"aren't we go:ng to wash the dishes?"
For any pain burn, scald or bruise
apply Dr. Thomas' Ecletic Oil?the
household remedy. Two sizes 30c and
GOc at a'-l drug stores.
DR. FAHRNEY
DIAGNOSTICIAN
Specialist in chronic diseases.
I make study and treatment
of any kind of disease the family
Doctor is not curing. Tell
me your trouble and I'll tell
you what is your disease and
what can be done for it. Ill
J v 1 - ?
ruu uianK ana specimen case.
Give uie your name.
HAOKRSTOWN, MD,
lay & Straw Wanted"
Baled or loose, delivered either at the
lilroad oral my place of business. Also
ood CORN, for which the highest cash
rice will be paid. Always have on hand
ie best of Anthiacite and Cumberland
tan-of-Mine and Lump.
X)AL at Lowest Cash Prices.
dpha Portland Cement always or
hand.
H. KNODE
Windows, Moulding,
Tooring, Siding. Doors, Blinds.
Framing. Shingles.
I.Y.BLACKFORD.
Shenandoah Junction, W. Va.,
?dMlrr in?
L U MB E R
and BUILDING
MATERIALS,
stag Paint, Hardware and Plaster
Board
State, Galvanized and Steel
ROOFING
Stylish New Millinery
VIISS LOU D.MANN'S,
Shepherdstown. W. Va.
Everybody invited to come and
:ee the stvlish new hats and milllterv
Established 1856.
DIEHL & BRO..
Charles Town's Old Reliable
Marble and Granite Works
Manuiacturers oi Monuments, Tomb*
tones. Statues and all kinds of Marble and
jranite work in their Hne. All orden
iromptly filled and satisfaction guaraneed
DIEHL & BRO.,
Charles Town. W Va.
Eggs and Poultry
We will pay best cash price the market
ustifies for strictly clean, fresh eggsand
jcultry at our office neir the IreighUtaKJn.
Can take care ot eggs .it my residence
titer 6 o'clock.
Will be at the office Saturday nighta
rntil 0 o'clock.
BENJ. HAHTZELL.
INO. H. SCHOPPERT
The fancy Grocer,
-Dealer In3onfectioneries,
Cigars
Tobacco etc.
Country Produce Taken in Exchange
Welshans' Building, Main Street.
Shepherdstown W Va.
rYPEWRITERS!
LH makes and all styles SIS up. Boms that wers
ed and releaaOlfcy the U. 8. Oor'U Bargains.
Itate your needa and ws will dsseribs sad quote. '
'he LINOMfltlTEIt, a printing office wscassrrrl
tibbona any oolor 75f delivered. Give name and
aodel. Carbon paper 8x13100 sheets Il.Mdeliy'd. |
jnplre Type Foundry, Mfrt. Wood Tytti
nnmi m yp 9rnnuTj ouppncjimmm? iwi
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The editor of a newspaper in a
western town was walking in the park
>ne night and happened to run across
i young blood of hi? acquaintance who
fas busi y engaged la hugging a girl
>n one of the park benches. The next
lay he printed this notice A his pa>er:
"If the man whom I saw hugging n
irl in the nark the other nieht. rlrvea
tot pay up his subscription at once, I
vill publish hw name ih the paper."
Thirty-?even men called and paid
he next day, while tour even paid a
rear in advance.
mm
$1.50 gets the Register a year
'
~~UeoTM7 Beltzhoover^
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA.
Geo. M. Beltzhoover, Jr.,
CHARLES TOWN. W. VA.
Attorneys and Counsellors.
General Law Practice and Collection*
Dr. Roy S. Proctor
V?t?rfoarlan
/Wartinsourg, W. Va.
Call* answered promptly, day or
night. Charges reasonable. BeB
phone No. 88. Winchester Phoee
lfcJ-Y.
DR. S. IW. LANQFORD
Graduate Veterinarian
MARTINSBURG, WEST VA
Call Owens' Driio <^tr?re
HARRISON SCHLEY
General Insurance.
Ottice in Jefferson Security Bank Building
Sheoherdstown, W. Va.
Orchard For Sale
For sale, a fine youas aoole orchard
near Staunton. Va.. three miles
from the city, on good road. Tract oT
23 acres, on which are 1.000 aoole trees
eleven years old. iust now cominc into
bearing right. Included In the above
are 210 Starke Delicious. 250 Stav*
mans, 50 Old Winesaos. 250 ICIafc
Davids. 75 Yorks. 150 Black Ben Bavls.
and some odd trees. For further particulars.
inqnlre of
THE REGISTER OFFICE.
Sheoherdstown. W. Va.
H. C. Marten's
GREAT CHEAP
Hardware Store,
Shepherdstown, W. Va.,
?manufacturer of?
TIN and SHEETIRON WARE
and wholesale and retail dealer In
Hardware, White Lead, Stoves
Pumps, Putty, Olass, Oils,
Paints, Leather, Rims,
Hubs, Spokes.
Hardware Department
Bar Iron, Nails, Horse Shoes, Large
Iron Wash Kettles, Brass, Copper
and Porcelain Kettles,Skillets, Waffle
Irons, T*ace, Butt. Cow and Hatter
Chains, Farm Bells Screen Down
and Windows, American Fence Wire,
Barbed Wire, Saws, Black Hawk
Corn Shelters, Law n Mowers, Files,
All Sizes Bolts, Loaoed Sheila, Powder
and Shot.
Paint and Oil Department
Raw and Boiled Linseed Oil, Harness
Oil, Machine Oil. Black Strap, Turpentine,
N. C. ana Gas Tar, Gasoline,
Varnish, Japan Dryer, Knot KIDer,
White Lead, Red Lead, Spanish
Brown, Calcined Plaster, Portland
I Alt -
vvaiwui, uaiu v/U| ruuienna nitff
Coal Oil, Neat Fool Oil, Pah OB.
Bath Brick Soap, Sulphur. Copper*,
Borax.
latent Plasteridg prepared for immediate
use.
International Stock Food and CJieason'c
Horse and Cattle Powders.
Frank Miller's Harness Dressing. Whale
Oil Soap.
Black Lamb's Foot Harness Oil.
rhe Perfection Blue Flame Wickless Oil
Stove?safest.
Hie Four Leaf Clover Cream Separator,
where the milk is not mixed or diluted
with water, leaving it pure and
sweet for family use
I Wall Paper furnished on shon notice af
reduced prices.
Reduced Prices on Haying Tools and
Barn Doorr Hangers and Track.
-nrce Pumps, Deep well Pumps. Qalvanized
Bucket Pump and water
Purifier, 1 X L Chain Pumps.
\ Large Stock of Cookinv and Heating
S TOV E S
to burn coal or wood. Also Repairs
furnished foi all iatterus ol
stoves.
T he Keystone and I X L Cider Mills, Copper
Kettles, Apple Parers, Ac.
Bicycles for sale and repairs furnished. .
Tin and Galvanized Roofing and Spooling
put on by experienced workn.ee
in the best manner.
White Enameled icon Bedsteads, AO
Steel Serin? u/i?.
Hammock Chair* and Swing*. %ww*
H. C. Marten,
Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Prices to conform to thettmes?Very Low
M. C. andE. D Sutnan
KEEDYSVILLt, MO
. * P. PkM? tl-P
Undertakers and Embalmers.
Furniture of all Kinds.
Night Calls Promptly Answered.
Automobile or Horse Drawn Hears?
as Preferred. At the Old Stand Low
est Prices.
WANTED:?Men or women to tak
| orders among friends and neighbor
1 for the genuine guaran J hosfen
t fidl line for men, women n ij children
| Eliminate darning. We ray 75c a:
hour spare time, or $30 00 a week fo
full time. Experience r,nr.?cc3san
Write International Slocking Milk,
Norristown, Pa.