Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-09-14
COMMUNICATED.
HALIrows, W. Va,
Sept. 10th, 1873.

about Dufhelds, q week or more since
we made the following notes OF I'm,
provements in property, OF Individual
and corporate enterprise, etc.
The parsonage of the Presbyterian
Church has been freshly painted and
thereby much improved in appearance
changing il from dungy, rusty look
ing building, into bright and hand
some one.
A. S. Link has erected himself a
dwelling house, OF comfortable proper
lions aud gocd-looking exterior. The
new store room close BY and d. Rey-
nClds residence have been painted with
modest colors. J. Harman of Martins
burg, is erecting on his farm near DUFF
fields a dwelling, which himself and
family will occupy as soon as completed.
w. B. Daniels has completed an addi-
ton to his residence, which renders it a
very attractive aud desirable one.
A. e. Drawbaugh, J. T. Hageley and
J. s. Melvin are all driving good trade
in the Mercantile line. Capt. Melvin is
locking to his election very hopefully,
and hopes he may be able to serve the
people as they desire; none seem to
doubt that he will make faithful aud
honest representative of the people.
The Rev. Jno. Scott Jr. and the Rev.
William Scott, recently returned from
Europe, where they have been travelling
during the past summer, delivered Lee
lures in the Presbyterian Church at
Dutfield's, for the benefit of the parson-
age. Their Lectures were very in
strucliye-being principally accounts of
their travels and of things seen in
Europe; but they were not very well
attended, from some cause.
Walking up the b. & o. r. r. about
mile above Dufiield's you come to the
new Railroad, the Shenandoah Valley,
which is now being rapidly pushed to
completion. The track of this new
road is a good one, the material used in
constructing it being of the best quality
we hope it may soon stretch across
the county to Shepherdstown, on into
Maryland.
The wheat crop around Duffields
was good one; but the corn crop does
not promise so well. The disease called
hog cholera has laid out great many
grunters in that vicinity.
September with its days of delightful
weather is again with us, and the aver
age schoolboy is, TO say the least miser
able. All the joys aud pleasures Of va
cation are over and gone, for him, for
the present; and his greatest ambition
and desire is to torment his school mag
ter and yet avoid his frowns or his rod,
and he will be miserable, indeed, il he
does not succeed. Trustees and Boards
of Education, too, have arrived at the
point of their yearly torment, brought
upon them by the late patching of the
school law-but to this We will write
something in the future; just now we
only make few notes OF school and
other affairs, of this district.
Our new school building is about
completed. 1t is neat, pretty and
substantial structure-tbe prettiest
school building in the county, if We ex-
cept Shepherd College. The interior
arrangement makes it roomy and con-
venient, it being divided into a main
room sc Y % feet; two cloak rooms
6 X aud two vestibules. The walls
are wainscotted FIVE feet up from the
floor, and six large windows light the
main room from the sides, and two
light the cloak rooms from the front.
There are two front entrances and two
back; and both windows and doors have
heavy caps over them outside. A cupola
surlnouuts the front gable. All the
wood work, outside and in, has been
| painted with several coats of paint of
! modest but pretty shades of color. The
building will be turned over to the
Board of Education by Frank Nichols,
the contractor, this week.
Zion school house is not yet COM
pleted nor is the one at Boiler. The
last mentioned one is two story build.
| ing and like the Zion and Halltown
! buildings, weather boarded. Each
school house will have bell purchased
by private donations for this purpose.
| The Bolivar school has been made
| Graded one, 5. w. Lightner and j. W.
| Grub were appointed teachers in said
school. Emanuel Schaeffer was appoint
ed teacher ut Zion and j. p. Hess at Hall
town, schools to commence next Monday,
! and run nine months. We believe that
this was the only district ia the county,
in which the question was submitted to
the voters, whether the schools should run
longer than four months. Sec. Al of the
school law makes this imperative.
The difficulties which existed in this
| district among some of the patrons, all
seem to have been adjusted by time, and
the prospects are favorable to the pros
porous working of our schools.
A. Frank Hess, graduate of Shepherd
College, has been appointed teacher ut
| Bunker Hill otherwise called Mill Creek,
! POD Berkeley county. G.. F. Atkinson,
! of this place, returned to HampGen sgd
ney College, one day last week. This
! will be his second year at that Institu-
! ton.
The Sunday school here has purchased
n large library recently for its use. The
! books which were purchased of the A. ).
| ). Union, are handsomely bound and
! contain, for the most part, good and in
structive reading.
Geo. 5. Eyster who left here for Europe,
early in last July, is now travelling in
Italy.
It's reported here on good authority
| that some one found in the Potomac river,
above Harper's Ferry, the gun "a Sharps
rifie) which the Brown raider Lehman,
think was his name) dropped while trying
to escape into Md. during the Brown raid,
by crossing the river on the rocks. The
stock is said to be very much decayed: