Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-09-18
Personal NOTES.

Uvilla, have been much afflicted the past
few weeks, four of them having been
sick with typhoid fever. Mrs. Link was
the first to be taken i'll, the attack, fortu-
nately, being mild one. Three of the
daughters have also had the fever, and
though they have been quite sick, we
learn that they are now improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel D. Barnhart
stopped off in Shepherdstown last week
on their way from Pittsburg to their home
in Roanoke. Mr.. Barnhart has been in
PittSburg for several months past, where
he was inspecting the construction of 700
new steel freight cars for the Norfolk &
Western Railway. The order has just
been finished by the manufacturers.
Among the enthusiastic admirers OF
Mr.. Bryan who went from Shepherds
town 10 Charles Town to hear him de-
liver his address last Saturday was the
venerable D. S. Rentch, Esq, now in his
93d year. The managers of the Chautau-
qua honored Mr.. Rentch by giving him a
seat on the platform.
Mrs. B. c. Unseld, OF Lawrenceburg,
Tenn, is in Shepherdstown to spend
some weeks with her sister, Mrs. B. S.
Pendleton. This is Mrs. UnseId's first
visit TO her old home for couple Of
years, and her old friends are glad to see
her again.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. Wilmer
Miller, who has been i'll with typhoid
tever at his home in Sharpsburg, is now
on the mend. The fever has been broken
and there is every hope that he will soon
be well again.
Among the recent guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. 7. Potterfield in this place were
Mrs. c. H. Moore and her son William,
of Charles Town, Mrs. S. A. Frazier and
Mr.. and Mrs. William Frazier, ofLovetts-
vile, Va.
Mrs. S. ]. Selvey has moved with her
family from Romney to Shepherdstown,
and are occupying M. B. Bakers house
corner King and New streets. w. H.
Selvey, her son, is student at Shepherd
College.
Mr.. ]. Edward Barnhart, who has been
in the B. & o. service in Baltimore, has
received promotion and has been trans
fened to Cumberland, where he is now
with the engineer OF maintenance of way.
Mr.. and Mrs. John g. Flanagan, OF
Baltimore, who had been spending few
weeks with theirrelatives in this section,
were callersat the Register office recently,
and renewed their subscription.
Miss Lucie Beltzhoover has gone to
Morgantown, where she will teach again
in the public schools, and Miss Katherine
Beltzhoover has resumed her studies at
the West Virginia University.
Mr.. Geo. w. Johnson, the well-known
Parkersburg lawyer, spent several days
in this county on business the past week.
He stopped with Mr. and Mrs. T. o.
Everhart, near Kearneysville.
Mr.. Robert Mckee has gone to Nc
Keespot, Pa, where he has secured
employment in one Of the large rolling
mills. His brother George has been
there for some months.
Mrs. George M. Kemp and her little
son, William, and Miss Mary Kemp, of
the Scrabble neighborhood, were among
our callers this morning. They are good
friends of the Register.
Mrs. c. H. Mcclellan and her daughter,
Miss Louise Mcclellan, OF Baltimore,
spent the past week with the family OF
Mr.. r. Lucien Reinhart in Shepherds
town.
Mrs. S. M. Engle and her daughter
Mary, of Ellicott City, Md, and Mrs.
Mary Moler, of Washington, have been
visiting Mrs. Bette Moler at Bakerton.
Mr.. Edward Ricamore and his family,
who have been living in Texas, have re-
turned to this section and are now at the
home of his parents in Shepherdstown.
Miss Rachel Turner is spending week
or two in Stone Harbor, New Jersey,
with Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Hockey, for
merly OF this place.
Miss Edith Moffett, OF Troutville, Va,
has returned to her home in that place
after pleasant visit to Miss Blanche
Knott. near town.
Mrs. ]. Strider Moler, OF Bakerton, is
in the hospital in Charles Town, where
she recently had to undergo a rather
serious operation.
Mr.. ST. John Dyer, who spent the
past summer at "ValleY Res" near town,
has returned to Washington City for the
winter.
Mr.. Thomas Kearfott and his son
Thomas, of Hagerstown, have been here
this week, stopping with Mr.. VIM. L.
Arthur.
Mr.. ]. Edward Furr and his wife, OF
Othello, Washington, are in Shepherds
town visiting Mr.; Furr's aunt, Miss Ella
Grant.
Mr. Dwight McKain of Frederick coun-
ty, Md, spent Saturday and Sunday with
the family of Mr.. T. H. Davis in this
place.
Mrs. Lucy Chapman, of Darkesville,
Berkeley county, spent last week with
MIR. and Mrs. ]. L. Sheetz in Shepherds
town.
Mr.. R. ]. Hamrick. agent for the n. &
w. Railway, has been quite sick at his
home in this place for the past week or