Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-07-09
snARpsBURd NEWS.

Vim. Yickers died at the home OF his
father-in-Iaw, H. M. Johnson, of typhoid
fever. last Saturday morning about !
O'Clock. He leaves a wife and three
small children, his father and mother ana
sisters and brothers to mourn his sad and
uneypected death. He was "a years old.
He was member of the Masonic order,
and they buried him. Services were held
at the home by Rev. A. A. Kerlin, and
interment was made in Mountain View
Cemetery Monday afternoon. All OF Mr..
Vickers' family had been sick for months
with fever. and he visited them near
Rakersville and remained over night and
contracted the fever. ..,,
r. F. Delaney, OF the Antietam Hotel,
has secured several very good workers
and is now ready 10 serve the travelling
nuhlic again. The best OF service Will be
owen ali who have occasion to stop Tor
meals or lodging while visiting the bat
tlefield. This is very historic house,
being the General Lee and his stall and
other officers war council building. rive
Shell holes remain in this building yet.
Miss Lucy Grayson lett on TUESDAY
for Hagerstown to start from tnat pace
for European trip. She was one OF Inc
luck ones in a newspaper contest.
Several families are now stopping al
the River View clubhouse at SnyderS
landing They have very snug lille
building erected by the mail-carrIers OF
The much-needed steps to enter the
old Lutheran grave yard have been put
in of concrete. rhe old wooden steps
had become very dangerous to walk up
when one was to be buried in the grounds.
The farmers ale having some OF their
wheat threshed and is making livery good
yield. ,;o .,,,o ,,,-
chased from Harry J, E. Thomas the
Chalmers automobile. Mr.. Thomas Will
buy another one.
Mrs. George Morgan, who had been
At The Washington County Hospital for
appendicitis for the past couple OF weeks,
has returned home and is getting along
nicely. .
from Ocean City, where she attended The
forty-seventh annual meeting ofthe Mary
land State Teachers Association. She
also attended the Mount st. Alban sum-
mer school for Sunday school workers
near Washington.
Rev. Charles E. Shaw, rector OF ST.
Paups Episcopal Church, having been
called to Thomas, W. Va, on account OF
sickness, there was no service last sun
day. ,,
of Baltimore, are spending week with
relatives here.
Dudley Cobb, OF Norfolk, Va, was here
for several days with the Mrs. Henry
Bowers family. Miss Mary Bowers re-
turned with him to Norfolk to visit her
aunt.
Joseph Weigle, from neal MartinSburg,
has been visiting his old friend, Alex Da-
Wis, at the Nicodemus house.
Joseph Smith, OF Harper's Ferry, is here
visiting his brother, DR.. q. F. Smith.
George Cronice, assistant in DR.. Gar
rott's drug store, is housed up again with
very severe case OF muscular rheuma-
tism.
Hedge Calimese, near town, is suffer-
ing with very sore hand caused by a
gathering on one OF his hands.
Clifford Swaine and wife, OF HagerS-
town, spent several days here with Mrs.
Swaine's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. IhoS.
Delaney.
Samuel H. Neikirk has the concrete
block work OF his house nearly completed.
Clipp and Beachley are doing the car
penter work and Smith brothers, stone
masons, OF Boonsboro, are doing the
block work. 1t will make very hand
some home when completed.
Thomas HouSer has returned TO Wash
ington, where he has secured employment
again.
Prof. Thornton, OF the University at
Charlottesville, Va, was here last Sum
day visiting the battlefield. His father
was member of the Third Virginia Cav
airy and lost an arm near the woods
northwest OF the Dunkard Church, which
caused his death.
John w. Eavey is having the old Frank
Kretzer blacksmith shop adjoining the
dwelling torn away, il being idle since
Mr.. Kretzer'S death about 10 years ago.
Werner Cunningham, Raymond Brown,
Lloyd Fisher, Fred Delaney and Hughey
Fisher, OF Roanoke, and H. E. Murty, OF
Philadelphia, are camping at Kerfoots
Lock. Mrs. Mae M. Davis, Mrs. D. b.
McGraw aud her daughter, Miss Martha.
D., and Myrvin Delaney, OF SharpS-'
burg, visited the camp on Frloay.
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