Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-11-10
Communicated.
Baltimore, Md, Nov. :

BdlUlNOTe, Nu., NOV. }, lSlO'
Dear Mr.. Editor You will observe
from The Sun that all Baltimore is look
ing I'D this week. We have with us the
aviators, and everybody is expecting TO
see them, so we are all looking up.
| see from your valuable paper that
YOUR old town is also looking up, and
that YOU have been made president Of
the Village Improvement Society. The
society is to be congratulated on its Sc
lection and upon your acceptance OF the
position. 1t will take on new lie under
your administration, am sure. You
have in the chairman OF committee 10
raise funds for civic centre, Mrs. K. ID.
Shepherd, a splendid chairman. Her So
cial position, her indOmtable energy, her
magnetic personality and her superior
optimism will secure the home you con-
template erecting. In tact, there IS
enough of the spirit OF enterprise IN tie
entire personnel OF The society TO win
out IN anything you undertake.
To a former resident OF the town II IS
especially gratifying to see the Sprit OF
progress and improvement you are man
lesllng. You are, indeed, looking up.
Keep il up, Mr. President, until youm-Ae
the Town the prettleSt and most attractive
in the Shenandoah Valley. It's natural
advantages are already there, and with
the help that YOU can give them, you
will have a beautiful town.
If YOU will allow ii, | will make sug-
Cestion which thlnk may assist you III
your work. Why not let your energetic
Chairman write a personal letter TO each
OF the former residents OF the place, set
ting forth the advantages OF the society
and its needs, and requesting that they
assist in the work OF Improvement, &C
cording 10 their ability, and IN a modest
way intimate that any contribution Will
be acceptable ?
have good hopes OF your project, ana
| feel that ii must succeed, and to assist IN
making success possible, and to be adoer
and not a Sayer only, my check Tor 50 w
| is at the service OF the committee, when
| ever the cornerstone Of the building IS
| laid. II YOU will allow 1t, you can put
me down as a member Oh the society,
and advise me what its dues are dId
will at once remit you check Tor the an
nua dues.
Once more, why not take down the old
market house and put grass plat IN IT'S
stead and a railing around II; then place
a granite stone in the center and a tablet
on each side, one giving the TACT that
from this center there marched to Boston
in ITO a company OF men that made pos
! sibe the glorious liberty we are now en-
loving as a nation, and en- the other side
a roster of old Company B, who went 10
war from 1861 to 1863? II Will be an IN
SEPARATION TO the young men OF the pres
ent generation, and should inspire pa
triotism in all who see it. The old SOL
diers OF 81 to 90 are fast passing away.
The present generation ought to have
these names as a reminder that thelT
fathers fought for what they thought to
be right. II we don't preserve them III
this way, a generation hence will be lg-
norant OF the character Of men that once
moved and lived in the old town.
Lives there a man with soul so dead
| Who never 90 himself hath SAID,
This is my own. my native land ?
and | write because / love the old town
and all that concerns it, and am much IN
tereSted IN your building project. LEI
it rise ~ Very truly yours,
{. A. LICNIDER.