Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-11-21
The Register and the Temperance
Cause.

The editor of the Register has been
profoundly grateful for the many express
sions that have come to him from old
Shepherdstowners and other persons in
terested in our State and community con-
corning the result OF the campaign In
West Virginia for the prohibition amend
ment and the Registers part therein. we
cannot forbear printing some OF these
messages, and we assure our friends that
we are deeply appreciative OF their sentl-
ments and their kind references to the
Register.
Rev. Harry B. Lee, one OF the very
best of the many good Shepherdstown
boys, and who is so affectlonately re-
garded by our people, writes from Char
lottesville, Va:
NV Dear Old Friend am sending my
subscription to the Register. On account
of the high cost of living. am cutting OIL
all luxuries, among which are many pa
pers and periodicals, but as the Register
IS a necessity TO all who have ever sub
scribed TO if, | hold on to it. You have
no idea what pleasure il is to see that
old Rooster again adjoining its pages, al
ter having been cooped up so long. l
imagined heard him crow before the pa
per was taken from the poStofflce. nave
watched with intense interest the progress
OF the prohibition campaign, and JOIN you
and your "beSt-crowing rooster" IN pro-
claiming the dawn of brighter day than
any that has broken over the Blue Ridge
mountains for long time. That the
Register was a potent factor in bringing
about that splendid victory is we'll known
TO all who have peruSed It's pages Tor
some years past. If we can get the ques-
ton of Statewide prohibition before our
people, believe we will carry 1t as you
have done. Thus far we have never got
ten our enabling act through both houses
of our Legislature II has been defeated
in the Senate. We have some OF those
men marked, and feel sure we will APP
DIV the doctrine ofrecall in very emphatic
manner before long. May you and the
Register live long and prosper.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Maryland sends us this special
message through its secretary, Mrs. Annie
D. Starr, OF Baltimore
We wish to express our appreciation
of your stand on the liquor question. we
pray that you will be blessed in every
way for your stand for the right.
Mrs. Marguerite Brown, of Baltimore,
whose press report to the Maryland w.
C. T. U. called forth the above message,
writes us. saying:
"When read your answer to the offer
OF the whiskey people to pay Tor space,
YOU would have been delighted 10 nave
heard how the women assembled IN that
convention applauded. Some one at once
moved that a telegram be sent you.
$50 You and others like yourself are
helping 10 bring about condition that
will eliminate most OF the evil OF the world.
wish you good luck-you make me be
lieve Goods in His heaven and airs
right with the world"
Rev. w. q. Hammond, OF Herndon,
Va, formerly OF this place, writes US:
My Dear Friend want to rejoice with
you over the outcome, OF the prohibition
amendment in West Virginia. 1t was
Simply glorious was in the fight there,
as YOU may remember, more than twenty
years ago, when they hooted US out OF
the Legislature and made us laughing
stock. But things have changed since
then. was glad to see your noble reply
to what you supposed to be liquor
proposition to the newspapers OF West
Virginia, but not surprised. | knew how
you stood on this the greatest and most
serious question confronting the Ameri-
can people today.
A good friend who will not permit us
to print his name, but who doesn't live a
thousand miles away, writes us this high
ly appreciated message:
In my opinion, the Register Surpasses
other country papers, and as it grows in
years is more and more deeply imbedded
in the hearts GIFTS readers, as shown by its
increasing circulation. Having been one
OF its readers since 1860, and subscriber
almost continuously for "A years, know
whereof speak. Best wishes for you
and the Register.