Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-06-12
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things oflnterest that are Happening In
Our kelghborhood and Elsewhere.

ries are in operation. Guy Right
slime, of Shepherdstown. who has been
managing DR.. G. 7. Buffers store in
the hotel building, will clerk in Mr..
Miller's store. He goes to his new
place next week.
Rev. Dr.. Henry Clay Cameron,
professor Of Greek in Princeton Uni
versity, has resigned from the faculty
of that famous institution on account
of his advanced years. DR.. Cameron,
who is native of Shepherdstown and
who occasionally visits here, has been
professor at Princeton for fifty years
and is the senior member of the fac
ulty.
Mr.. H. L. Snyder, editor of the
REGISTER, left this morning to join
the Board of Regents on their round
of visits to the State Normal Schools.
The West Liberty commencement took
place yesterday that of Huntington
follows tomorrow, Athens next Mon
day, Shepherdstown next Wednesday,
Fairmont on the Goth and Chenille
on the 23d.
DR.. A. S. Reynolds, who was so i'll
last week, is better again. DR.. Hazen,
a Washington specialist, came up from
Washington on Saturday to see him,
and thinks he can relieve the patient
of the trouble that has given his
friends SO much concern the past year.
He has placed him on strict diet and
given him treatment that he hopes
will soon bring him around all right.
DR.. Reynolds may go away for further
treatment.
Miss Edna Hartman, young lady
of Hagerstown, came near being killed
at the N. & w. station in Shepherds
town last Sunday night. She had
come over on the excursion in the
afternoon, and when the return train
pulled out she attempted to get on
while it was in motion. She slipped
and came within an ace of going
under the wheels, but fortunately her
escort, Robert Lindsay, pulled her
aside. They missed the train and
had to remain here until Monday
morning.
Thirty members of the Henry Kyd
Douglas Camp of Sons of Confederate
Veterans of Shepherdstown went to
Hagerstown last Sunday to partici-
pate in the memorial services in men,
DRY of the Confederate dead in Rose
Hill Cemetery. Capt. R. T. Banks
was in command. An grafton was
delivered by Col. Charles A. Little,
and Gen. H. X. Douglas made few
eloquent remarks. The boys were
entertained at dinner at the Baldwin
House by Comrade John Kyd Beck
enbaugh, of Hagerstown.
Hon. Thos. P. Stone, commander
in-chief of the United Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans, has reappointed Capt.
VIM. H. Kearfott to be commander
of the West Virginia Division of the
U. S. G. ", a position that he held last
year. Col. Stone could not have made
a better appointment, for Captain
Kearfott is an indefatigable worker in
the cause and has accomplished
great deal in the way of organizing
new camps and extending the infu-
ence of the organization. We con-
graduate him upon being again hon.
ored.
The county examinations for prima-
~ pupils were held at Shepherdstown
and Charles Town on the 10th and
18th of May. Each district in the
county was Represented this year by
one or more applicants. Twenty
seven pupils took the examination.
Twenty were successful, making a
general average of IS per cent and
not falling below Is per cent on any
one branch. They received the coun-
ty diploma, which when signed by the
leading school officials of the county
is quite desirable for framing. Seven
pupils failed, photography, mathemat-
les and history giving them the most
trouble.
The members of Company B, of
Hagerstown, Capt. Geo. L. Fisher
commanding, visited Shepherdstown
Sunday afternoon and decorated the
grave of their comrade, Harry Turner,
who died during the Spanish war.
Brief exercises were held at the grave.
Rev. w. l. Dice offered a prayer,
Capt. Fisher made some remarks, the
doxology was sung, Rev. Mr., Dice
pronounced the benediction, and the
bugler sounded taps, after which the
crowd dispersed. About hundred
persons from Hagerstown accompanied
the soldiers and a number of our
town people were present at the
cemetery.
The business of boating on the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal is almost at
a standstill. When the boatmen de-
mauded an increase in the rate for
carrying coal about the first of May,
it was denied them, but they were told
that if they would accept the old rate
and give it a fair trial for month
the increase would be given them if
they couldn't get along. They &C
cepted the proposition, but none of
them can make living, and now that
the shippers have failed to keep their
promise they are simply quitting. 1t
is impossible, with the increased cost
of Evinc and the hiph prices of feed,