Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-06-13

A meeting of the Confederate veter.
ans wiR be held Saturday afternoon
OF this week at Q o'clock at d. M
Loyns,s shop. A full attendance il
desired, as officers efor the ensuing
year are to be elected and other busi.
ness of Importance should BIZ attended
to. e.
The graves Of the Confederate dead
IN Hsgerstown will be decorated on
Sunday and the Sons of Confederate
Veterans of this place will assist in the
ceremony. Company B, of Hagers-
town, will come to Shepherdstown the
same afternoon to decorate the grave
of Harry Turner.
A committee of the Alumni Asso.
cation of Shepherd College appeared
before the Board of Regents on Mon.
day and presented resolutions re.
questing the board to rescind its re-
cent order relating to the normal
schools. The committee was com.
posed of E. Rush Turner, DR.. G. W.
Banks, G. j. Miller andS s. J. Hodges.
A few days ago dog belonging to
John N. Shackleford, south Of town,
went mad and cavorted around the
neighborhood in a way that greatly
terrified the people. 1t went to VIM.
@. Links place, and Mr.. Link sue
ceeded in killing it before it had Bit
ten any person or any animal. 1t
was very lucky that the rabid beast
was disposed of so promptly.
The unreasonable weather about
which folks have been grumbling all
spring still prevails. Monday was
a lair day, but it began to rain about
10 o'clock at night and has kept it up
ever since, the rain falling steadily
as We write Thursday morning. The
thermometer has been hanging from
so to So degrees above zero, and most
persons are still wearing winter cloth.
ing, while fires are necessity.
Mrs. 81. G. Marten will hold a-lawn
festival at her home in this place on
Friday evening, June 21st, for the
benefit of the Lutheran Church. A
delicious chicken supper will be served
for 25 cents, and in addition the ladies
will serve soup. icecream, cake and
homemade candy. Supper will be-
gin at half-past FIVE o'clock. The
proceeds are for worthy cause. and
the public is invited to be liberal in
Its patronage.
The routine business of the Diocesan
Council of the Episcopal Church in
West Virginia was concluded at
last Saturday, and the
Council adjourned to meet next year
at Point Pleasant. The reports of
the officers showed that there had
been improvement in all departments
of church work during the past year,
and substantial gains had beer made
in membership and in the number of
churches and clergymen.
Mrs. T. w. Latimer has purchased
a lot on South Mildred street near
the new, residefce of N, 81. Willis,
and will have an attractive home
built upon it. The building will be
a frame structure of seven rooms, with
all the modern conveniences. The
contract for it has been given to 81, P.
Cline. Mrs. Latimer has been living
in Washington for several years. and
her friends here will be glad to know
that she is to come back to Charles
Town to live among them.-Advocais.
There will be very material change
in the faculty of Shepherd College
next year. Miss Blanche Corbin, who
has taught here for several years, has
been granted ayear's leave OF absence,
and will next year attend Radcliffe
College, near Boston. Miss Virginia
Pride, who taught during the spring
term, is not an applicant for reap
pointment, and Mr.. Walter M. Duke,
who filed out the unexpired term Of
the late Mr.. Triplett, has concluded
to go back to Hedgesville. He has
been again appointed principal of the
public school there at an advanced
salary.
The following deeds have been re-
corded in the office of the clerk of the
county court Elizabeth G. Frazier,
Lena and Clifton Frazier to Benz.
Hartzell, tract of land containing
about three acres, on the Kearneys-
vile pike. near Elmwood Cemetery,
Shepherdstown. for the sum of $3.50 f.;
Henry Staley to James Henry Berry,
one acre on the Charles Town and
Summit Point road, consideration
5000; Geo. M. Beltzhoover, executor
of the will of ]. P. A. Entler, to the
Norfolk & Western Railway Company,
one.third of an acre for right of way
in Shepherdstown, consideration $500
A special meeting Of the town coun-
ell was held last Friday afternoon, for
the purpose OF conferring with repre-
sentatives of the Norfolk & Western
Railway in regard to their new route
Shepherdstown. The rail-
road was represented by Attorneys
Marshall Mccormick and Cleon Moore
and Engineer Bruner, who asked per-
mission to occupy certain streets with
the new line. The council did not
agree with the request, there being
objection on the part of the members
unless the company would agree to re-
nova the old tracks when the i'm.