Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-07-09
+, LITTLE LOCALS.

The great reunion OF Odd Fellows al
Pen-Mar will be held this year on Thurs
day, August 9th. The Norfolk & Western
Railway will run special train on this
occasion.
Prof. Thos. c. Miller, principal OIL
Shepherd College, has been named to
conduct teachers institutes in Clay county,
beginning August 10th, Logan county,
August 18th, and Pocahontas county
August 3lst.
There will be meeting at the Shep-
herd Grade school-house Sunday after
noon, July 18th, at O'Clock, for the pur-
pose OF recognizing the Sunday school.
All persons interested are earnestly urged
TO be present at this time.
A message received here from Charles
ton on Tuesday conveyed the information
that all OF the teachers OF Shepherd Col
lege State Normal School had been re-
appointed for the ensuing year-no change
being made in the faculty.
Littleton Page, well-known colored
school teacher, died last week at his
home in Charles Town, after an illness OF
two years from paralysis. He had taught
in the colored schools of the county for
SO years, and was recognized as faith
full and efficient instructor.
The weather has been gratefully cool
the past week. Monday and Tuesday
were cloudy, with several nice showers,
but Tuesday evening the clouds rolled
away and yesterday was an ideal sum-
mer day. All vegetation is green and
flourishing and crops are growing nicely.
DR.. John L. Meyers is putting the fin
ishing touches to the Improvements he
has had made to the property which he
bought some months ago from H. L. Win
termoyer, next to the Register office.
The building has been remodeled and an
addition built in the rear. The upper
floor has been converted into living
apartments, which will be occupied by
DR.. Meyers, and makes very comforta-
BILE home. The exterior of the building
has also been reprinted, greatly improv-
ing IFS appearance.
The Keyser Echo says that the State
Board of Control will at once consider
bids for the erection ofthe new dormitory
which is to be built for the State prepare
tory school at that place, with accommo-
dations for l20 students. The appropri-
alton for a new dormitory for Shepherd
College was made in the winter Of 1913,
but so far as we know nothing has been
done by the Board OF Control looking to
its erection. We are quite sure that
Shepherds College needs dormitory just
as badly as Keyser does.
Frank L. Johnson has bought hand
some new Mullins pressed steel motor
boat, which has been launched on the
Potomac and which is being enjoyed by
the owner and his friends. The boat is
fitted with three-horSe h. p. gasoline
engine, which propelS it speed OF from
six TO ten miles an hour. Mr.. Johnson
and VIM. b. Snyder and William Hines
went on cruise on Monday on the canal,
stopping over night at WilIiamsport, and
then on to Hancock, spending Tuesday
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We agree with the Charles Town Ad-
vocate that il would be very good thing
if the farmers and the road supervisors
would unite and keep down the weeds and
underbrush that are encroaching on the
roadsides. IL is not only that they are
unsightly and indicate lack OF thrift
means that millions OF weed seeds will
be scattered over the farms and thus
perpetuate nuisance. AT some points
along our county roads the underbruSh is
half way over the roadway. This is a
bit picturesque, but il looks sort O.
Slouchy.
An inventory OF the estate OF the late
w. N. Lemen, one Of ShepherdStown's
most prominent business men, was filed
in the county clerks office last week by
the administrator, David Lemen. The
entire estate was valued at $34, $50. The
principal items in the list are 100 shares
of stock in the Jefferson Security Bank,
valued at 5000; elevator property in
Shepherdstown, S., 900; farm OF l2l acres,
near Shepherdstown, $1,000; life in
surance, $4,000; interest in the firm OF
w. N. Lemen & Son, $4,000. The ap-
praisers were S. J. Hodges, E. II. Rein
hart and M. B. Baker.
A part of the Main street OF Charles
Town has been vastly improved by the
cooperation OF the town authorities, the
county turnpike commissioner and indi-
vidual property owners. The court hav-
ing decided that the Main street was real
ly a part OF The county turnpike, and that
therefore the county is responsible for
its maintenance, the obligation of the
county had TO be recognized by Turnpike
Commissioner Mcdonald. He entered
into a wise and satisfactory arrangement
with property owners and the town Off
Gals, each contributing fair proportion
OF the cost, and the street between the
courthouse and Stephenson Seminary
has been treated with coating OF oil and
screened stone that not only makes a
splendid roadway but entirely does away
with the dust nuisance. II looks TO us
as if il would be very good thing to treat
the entire street in this manner.
We very earnestly hope that Our county
commissioners will agree TO the SuggeS-
ton that has been made, and put all the
roads OF Shepherdstownd district, including
the turnpikes, in the care of our district
e,Darvicor and his assistants allowing