Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-19
Personal. NOTES.

DR.. Hopkins Gibson has returned from
a visit of couple Of weeks with relatives
in Wytheville, Va, and he was highly
pleased with his trip. He attended the
trial of Victor Allen, who was charged
with participation in the courthouse
murders at Hillsville, Va. He was also
in court on the day when Judge Staples
sentenced to death Floyd and Claude Al
len, previously convicted of murder in
the same affair. DR.. Gibson says that
the men heard the death sentence pro-
nounced upon them without a tremor or
the slightest change of expression, though
a number of other persons wept at the
scene. The Aliens. DR.. Gibson says. are
splendid appearing men, intelligent and
prosperous looking. He also states that
a number of women have made them
selves very foolish by an excess OF SYM
pathy for the murderers.
Miss Ruth ByerIy has gone to Kansas
City, Mo-, where she will take a seven
months course OF training for service as
missionary. At the end OF this period
she will be assigned to active work, and
expects to be sent to South America,
probably 10 Brazil. Miss Byerly is a
daughter of Prof. and Mrs. F. A. Byerly,
of this place, and is one of Shepherds
towns most estimable young women.
Her friends here wish her success in her
work.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. M. Alder returned
Monday night from Oklahoma. Mrs.
Armentrout, sister Of Mrs. Alder, is some
what improved, but is still far from well,
and may have to undergo another opera
ton. Mr.. and Mrs. Alder were not very
favorably impressed with Oklahoma, as
hot, dry winds and sitting dust seemed
to be the prevailing features OF the coun-
try. They were glad TO get back to the
Shenandoah Valley again.
Miss Katherine Houser, of Bakerton,
this county, and Miss Margaret Engle,
daughter of Rev. S. M. Engle, of Ellicott
City, Nd, have gone to Statesville, N. c.,
to the Statesville Female Seminary, OF
which Rev. John A. Scott, DID,, former
ly of this county, is president. Miss
Houser will take course in the inStitu-
ton this scholastic year. and Miss Engle
will teach the history classes of the SEM
mary.
Last Saturday Mr.. Harvey H. Pendle-
ton, who has been i'll most OF the sum-
mer with asthma, was taken to a sana-
tarium near Pen Mar for treatment. He
has since written home that he is feeling
much better, being able TO sleep in COM
fort and with his appetite greatly i'm
proved. We hope that he may be fully
restored to health.
Rev. John c. Peery, president of Roa-
noke Woman's College, the new institu-
ton established by the Lutheran Church
near Salem, Va, has been in Shepherds
town this week in the interest OF this
school. Rev. Mr.. Peery is soliciting
funds from the church people so that the
institution may be put on a comfortable
financial basis.
Mrs. H. J. Warthen, OF Washington,
and Miss Emma Katherine Strider, OF
Philadelphia, formerly of this vicinity,
who have been on a trip to Rochester
and Niagara Falls, are now with their
father in Charles Town. Miss Strider
spent several weeks as the guest OF Mrs.
Harvey w. Harmer, at Clarksburg, W.
Va.
Mrs. c. c. Frazier and her daughter,
Miss Virginia Frazier, have gone to Bruins
wick, Md, where they will spend some
time with relatives and friends. Mrs.
Frazier has been in bad health recently,
and she will take good rest in the hope
that she will improve.
Mr.. James S. Phillips, of the U. S.
Navy, has been here from Norfolk, Va,
the past week, enjoying his first visit
home with his family in their new house
west of town. Mr.. Phillips expects to
retire from the service in October and
come here for good.
Mrs. H. c. Marten was called to Pitts
burg the first OF the week by the illness
of her mother, Mrs. Britner. Mrs. Brit
ner, besides being quite sick, was so un-
fortunate as to fall down a stairway,
breaking her shoulder and iniuring her
self in other ways.
Prof. ]. D. Muldoon and Strother Pen
dleton left the first of the week for Glen
vile, w. Va, where the former will again
take up his duties as a teacher in the State
Normal School and where the latter will
re-enter as student.
Mrs. Kathrine Chopper and Mr.. G. M.
Boswell, of Waynesboro, Pa, and Misses
Helen and Elizabeth Watts, of Waynes-
boro, Va, are spending this week with
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Boswell in Shep-
herdStown.
Mrs. Hattie Loyns has gone to New
castle, Pa, to visit the family OF her
nephew, Mr.. E. H. Barnhart, and ex-
poets to also visit relatives in Ohio be-
fore she returns.
Mrs L. T. Hout and her son Howard
Ballenger and Mrs. Mason Strother and
her two children, OF Wanenton, Va, are
in Shepherdstown visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Phineas Rush.
Miss Bette McGlincy has been visiting
relatives and friends in Washington this
week. She took to that city her niece,
Mildred McGlincy, who spent the sum-
mer here.
Mrs. Benjamin Greenwood, OF Ports
r,o,,th Va hac heen here the past week