Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-09
PERSONALS.
a Record Of the Coming and Going Of the
People That You Know.


Mr.. j. Walter Barnes and his fam
lily left Oh Tuesday for Fairmont, this
State, where they will again make
their home. Mr.. Barnes has lived in
this neighborhood for about a year,
but recently having accepted posi-
ton as manager OF telephone compa-
ny at Fairmont he concluded to re-
turn to that place. We are sorry to
lose him and his estimable family from
our community.
Messrs Roland Myers. William
Rutherford and John Crowl left on
Tuesday for Clarksburg, this State,
where they will be employed by the
telephone company of which ]. Walter
Barnes is manager. The two first
named went by train, while the latter
drove Mr.. Barnes's team. The dis
lance is over 200 miles, and it will
take him all week to get there.
Mr.. R. P. McGarry, of Shenandoah
Junction, called at the REGISTER Of
fee on Tuesday. Mr.. McGarry taught
elocution at the Chenille Normal
School last year, and further fitted
himself as an elocution teacher by
taking a course under Prof. Byron
King the past summer.
Miss Mamie Trussell, who has been
visiting relatives in this county for six
weeks, will return to her home in
Wheeling on Saturday, accompanied
by her aunt, Mrs. Julia Hill. Mr..
Ransom Trussell, of Wheeling, has
been visiting Mr.. V. P. Hill, near
Dufields, for some time past.
Mr.. William McChan,a former Shop
herestown boy who is now living in
Kansas City, Mo-, is here to spend
several weeks with bis mother. He
left here twelve years ago, and this is
his first visit home. Will has accu-
INFLATED a wife and baby since he left
this place.
Mr.. Walter Duke, of Bakerton, who
went to the West Virginia University
last month to continue his studies,
came home Tuesday sick, and we
learn he is threatened with typhoid
fever. We hope he may not be seriously
i'll.
Captain Eugene Baker has returned
from Baltimore, where he recently had
a surgical operation performed. The
operation was a success, but the Cap
tain is not improving as rapidly as his
friends could desire.
The REGISTER was pleased to have
calls the past week from Mr.. and Mrs.
George Moler and Mrs. R. G. Moler
and Miss Maggie Moler, ofthe Baker
ton neighborhood.
Mrs. F. P. Miller and her son Ross,
of Mason G. Dixon, spent last week
with her sister, Mrs. ]. e. Flanagan,
of Bakerton, who has been i'll with
malarial fever.
Mr.. E. c. Long, of Windsor, Mo,
visited his sister, Mrs. Melinda Byers,
near town, this week. He was on
his way to the G. A. R. encampment
at Washington.
Rev. Walter B. Stehl has gone to
Baltimore, his former home, to spend
a week or two. There will therefore
be no service in the Episcopal church
on Sunday.
Among our callers on Monday was
Mr.. Henry Trostle, Of the Kearneys-
vile neighborhood, Mr.. Trostle will
have sale of stock, ETC., on October
22d.
Mrs. Alice Gibson is visiting rela-
tives in Harrisburg, Pa. She will
visit her son, Robert Gibson, in Phila-
delphia before her return.
Mr.. John Reynolds left last week
for New York City, where he expects
to 90 into business and make his home
for some time to come.
Mrs. Walter R. Hill and her son
Bernard, of Romney, this State, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. T. Nc
Quilkin, near town.
Messrs. r. B. Line and David Lem
en- have been in Baltimore and Wash
ington this week on business and
pleasure combined.
Mr.. A. T. Brady, Of Annapolis, and
Miss Emma Cugle, Of Magnolia, Md,
have been here this week visiting Mrs.
Florence Williams.
Miss Bessie Cathcart, who spent
the past summer in Shepherdstown,
left last Friday for her home in Har-
risburg, Pa.
Mrs. Nellie Lucas and Miss Lula
McMurran are spending tnls week
with relatives and friends in Berkeley
county.
Mrs E. H. Reinhart and Mrs. Min
ME Shepherd have returned from
Winchester, where they spent the past
month.
We were pleased to have a call on
Monday from Mr.. ]. S. Moler, the
hustling merchant at Keller, this
county.
Mr.. G. NJ. Phelps, of Toledo, Ohio.
is in Shepherdstown to spend some
days. He is stopping at the Virginia
House.
Mr. Hanrv Snerov one of orr