Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-05-19
PERSONALS.
A Record of the Coming and Going of the
People That You Know.

Ensign Julian Lane Latlmer, a ma
tive of Shepherdstown, who has been
on duty in the ordnance bureau of the
Navy Department in Washington, has
been ordered to active duty on the
torpedo boat Winslow. He will take
the place of Ensign Worth Bagley,
who was killed during fight with the
Spanish in Cardenas harbor last week.
The Washington Star Of Saturday last
refers to Ensign Latimer as follows
Zone of the brightest and most expert
young officers in the ordinance bureau,
Ensign j. l.. Latimer, has, at his own
request, been designated to take the
place of the late Ensign Bagley as sec
ond officer on the torpedo-boat Win
slow. He will leave Washington to-
morrow and proceed directly for Key
West.
Lieut.. Armistead Rust, [. S. n,
arrived in Leesburg on Wednesday
evening last. He had just returned
on an Atlas line steamer from Mic
aragua, where he had been since last
fall, in connection with the Nicaraguan
Canal Commission. AS soon as war
became imminent he applied to the de-
partment for an assignment to one OF
the warships. After a time he re-
ceived orders to report at Washington,
which he did as soon as he was able to
get there. Lieut.. Rust has since been
ordered to the Hirst, at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.-LeesJurg Mirror.
Mr.. Hopkins Gibson, well-known
young gentleman Of Shepherdstown,
has graduated as a doctor Of dental
surgery from Columbian University
at Washington City, having stood
high in the class. We congratulate
him and hope that he may be success
full in his practice. He will remain
in Washington, We understand, where
he has for several years held position
in the Government Printing Office.
DR.. John a. Twlgg, to whom Miss
Jane Boteler, a sister of Mrs. Lee Mo-
Ter, of this vicinity, was recently mar
ried, has been dangerously i'll for the
past couple of weeks at his home in
Cumberland.
Rev. Geo G. Everhart, pastor, and
Mr.. T. II. Davis, delegate, are repre-
senting the Reformed Church Of Shop
herdstown at the Virginia Chassis,
which convened yesterday at Lovetts-
vile, Va.
Edward Fur left Shepherdstown
Tuesday for Philadelphia, where he
hopes to be received on the United
States naval training ship at League
Island.
Marshall Kerney, son of Mr.. James
W. Kerney, formerly Of this place, is
now at Tampa, Florida, with the Ma
rine Hospital Corps of the |. S. Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Fleming left this
morning for a visit Of a week or two
to their daughter, Mrs. Ida Gerstell,
in Mineral county, W. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Billmyer
have gone to New York. Mrs. James
H. Shepherd has returned from Bal
timore.
Rev. J. L. KILLER has been in Bal
timore this week attending the Cen
eral Conference Of the NJ. L. Church
South.
Mrs. Mamie B. Grove, of Sharps-
burg, visited her brother, Mr.. J, S.
Bragonier, in Shepherdstown last week.
Mrs. D. Frank Miller and her
daughter Helen, Of Hagerstown, are
here visiting at Mr., B. S. Pendleton's.
Mrs. Susan Terrell, of this place,
visited the family Of Mr.. l. B. Rogers
in Martinsburg during the past week.
Duncan Strother formerly Of this
place, has enlisted as private in the
Roanoke Light Infantry.
Mrs. A. c. Kimler and her son Rich
ard are visiting friends and relatives
in New Market, Va.
Mr.. r. L. Moler, one Of Bakerton S
energetic merchants, was among our
callers on Tuesday.
Mr.. ]. c. StaIey, of Roanoke, Wis
tied his mother at Uvilla during the
past week.
Mr.. Charles Ramsburg, Of Hagers-
town, is visiting Mr.. c. E. Lamar in
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