Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-30
Personal NOTES.

, Mrs. Robert Johnson, of White Post, Va.
!. visited Mrs. Hardy at Wild Goose Farm
last week, and on Friday made mos
delightful address to the students OF Shep.
herd College. Mrs. Johnson is Alabama ;:
member of the Board OF Regents for Mount
Vernon. and she spoke entertai,ingly
and eloquently of the famous home o.
Washington, and instilled patriotic SEN
timents in the minds Of the students as
we'll as the older persons whose privi-
lege it was TO hear her. Mrs. Johnson is
the wife of General Robert Johnson, a
gallant Confederate officer who saw ser
vice in Shepherdstown during the Civil
War.
Mrs. Bette Kilmer, OF Oregon, Illinois,
arrived in Shepherdstown the first OF the
week, and will spend the winter in this
vicinity with her sisters and brothers,
Misses Salie and Louise Koontz and Mrs.
Norman H. Pyles and Messrs. Lee and
Frank Koontz. Mrs. Kilmer is daugh-
ter of the late Juwayne Koontz, of this
neighborhood, but has lived in the West
for many years. She was accompanied
to her old home by her niece, Miss Ella
Hess, of Washington, who has been with
her for some months past.
Mrs. c. E. Johnson, much esteemed
resident OF the Leetown neighborhood,
has moved to Berkeley county, near Fall
ing Waters, where she will make her
home. Mrs. Johnson has lived in the
Leetown vicinity for 4S years, and she
regrets very greatly leaving her friends in
that vicinity. She will be missed from
that section, where she has for nearly
hall century been such good neighbor
and where she has shared the joys and
the sorrows of the people.
Mr.. John r. Billmyer, who has been in
Shepherdstown for the past few months,
looking after business in connection with
the settlement of his fathers estate. left
the first OF the week for his home in
Denver, Colorado.
Rev. w. R. Hartzell, OF Harrisburg, Pa,
and Prof. c. ]. Dryfuse, of Philadelphia,
are guests of Rev. S. L. Flickinger at the
Reformed parsonage this week, having
come down TO spend thanksgiving with
him and his family.
Colonel AMI Mrs. 6. c. Treadwell and
Mrs. John Boyd Thacber, of Albany, N.
Y, and Mrs. c. P. Mitchell, OF Detroit,
Mich, are in Shepherdstown to spend
thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Gibson.
Mrs. Kate Reynolds, one of our oldest
and most beloved residents, has been on
the sick list this week. Her daughter,
Mrs. Nellie Legge, came up from Wash
ington to be with her until she gets better.
Misses Emma and Sue Hess, OF Wash
ington, are here to spend Thanksgiving
and the week end with their relatives,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Pyles and the
Misses Koontz.
Mrs. M. L. Harrington and Mrs. Julia
Miller leftyesterday for Fairmont, w. Va.
where they expect to spend month or
two with Mr.. Maurice E. Miller and his
family.
Mr.. John w. Perks, who has been
running saw mill on the Reynolds place
near Hancock, Md, the past summer,
has returned TO his home in Shepherds
town.
Among our callers on Friday last were
Mr.. Henry M. Snyderl and his bright
little son, Henry M, Junior, of the Shen-
andoah Junction neighborhood.
George Heckert, Shepherd College
student who boards with Mr.. and Mrs. 7.
H. Davis, is quite sick with a severe
spell OF the measles this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. P. Licklider went
on Tuesday to Baltimore, where they
expect to spend week or two with rel
| atlVeS and frlenoS,
Mrs. Lucy Hudgel and her daughter,
Miss Margaret, OF Winebrenner's Cross
Roads, made pleasant call atithe Register
office on Tuesday.
Mr.. ]. c. Unger, OF the Duffields neigh
borhood, was caller at the Register Of
flee yesterday and renewed his subscrip-
ton.
Miss Eleanor Potts has gone to Phila-
delphia to spend few weeks with Mrs.
Craig Huff, formerly OF Shepherdstown.
Mrs. w. w. Cleggett and the baby, of
Accotink, Va, are here visiting her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. b. Mcdonald.
Norfolk & Western Agent w. w. Waddy
is taking his vacation, which he will
spend in Richmond and Roanoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Snyder, of Wash
ington, are here TO spend thanksgiving
with the family OF the editor.
Mrs. Charles D. Wysong has been in
Fairmont. w. Va, the past week, visiting
Miss BI2nche Corbin.
MIR. Charles J. Derr, OF the Moler's
neighborhood, was among our callers on
Tuesday.
Mr.. Wilmer Miller has been in New
York this week on business and pleasure
trip.
Mrs. ]. w. Ware has returned from a
visit to relatives and friends in Culpeper,
Va.
A Fast Automobile Run.
Last Wednesday S. Kent Miller, the
well-known automobile man OF Martins
burg. had a novel race TO New York in a