Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-16
PERSONAL NOTES.

neighborhood, well known and high
ly regarded school man Of this coun.
ty. Mr.. Bonham has been announced as
a candidate for the office of county
superintendent Of schools, subject to
the action of the Democratic primary
election. He is school man OF exper-
fence and ability and we can say for him
that if he should be chosen for this
office he would bring to the discharge
of his duties faithfulness and efficien-
cy, and we believe would serve the
people satisfactorily.
Mr.. d. Tanner Williamson, OF Berke-
ley county, renewed his subscription
to the Register a few days ago, and
in doing so showed us receipts given
him by the late Editor John H. little
more than forty years ago-for the
years 1874, 1875, and 1876. The pres
ent editor was an apprentice boy in the
Register office at that time. Mr.. Will
hanson still retains his interest in the
weekly news as furnished by the Reg
lister, though he admits that he is not
quite so young as he used to be.
Mrs. B. R. Fontane and her two
children, of Roanoke, are here to spend
the most of the summer at the home of
her grandfather, John P. Kearfott, ESQ.,,
at Kearneysville. Mrs. r. d. Guy and
her two children, of Winnipeg, Canada,
are also guests of Mr.. Kearfott.
Mr.. Edmund P. McGarry, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John D. McGarry, of Bardane,
has arrived in this country from Lon
don, where he has lived for the past
year, TO answer to his QUESTIONABLE,
after which he will return to London.
His wife remained in that city.
We were pleased to have a call last
Friday from our friend Mr.. Samuel
F. Hebb, of Sharpsburg, Md. He has
been a subscriber TO the Register for
many years and always has good
word for our paper.
Mr.. Robert Keplinger, of Fairmont,
w. Va, spent several days with his pa
rents in ShepherdStown the past week.
He expects to enlist in some branch of
the army in the near future.
Mr.. Grant T. Meyers, of Hardy coun-
ty, former popular student of Shep-
herd College and a graduate in the
class Of 1916, has been here this week
renewing old acquaintance.
Mrs. Arthur C. Pierce and her little
daughter Lorraine, of Philadelphia, are
here to spend some time with Mrs J.
S. Pierce at Airlie. Mr.. Pierce was
also here for few days.
Miss Ruth Knott, who has been teach
ing in the public school at Bunker Hill,
Berkeley county, the past year, is home
again for the summer after a success
full years work.
Miss Bessie Williamson, who has been
teaching in Berkeley county the past
school year, has closed her school
for the term and has returned to Shep-
herdStown.
Mr.. J. w. Snyder, of Bluefeld, W.
Va, former Shepherdstown boy, has
been here this week visiting his sisters,
Mrs Bernie Billmyer and Mrs. Geo. F.
Turner.
Mrs. Sallie Horn and her daughter
Miss Mary, of Berkeley Springs, spent
several days in ShepherdStown the past
week, stopping with Mrs. Virginia Har-
riSon.
Mrs. r. B. Price and her two chill
dren, of Berkeley county, are spend
ing the week with her mother, Mrs.
l. NJ. Wageley, in this place.
Mr.. Lee Powell, of Richmond, Va,
spent a part of the past week with the
family of Mr. Henry w. Potts at Po-
podicon.
Lieutenant Cox, who was on his way
TO Camp Hancock, in Georgia, stopped
off in Shepherdstown a day or two this
week.
Mrs Fannie Willis Pogue, of Waco,
Texas, is in Shepherdstown visiting her
cousin, Mrs. Edward L. Reinhart.
Miss Bessie Hoffman, west of town,
is visiting Miss Estella Thompson in
Berkeley Springs.
Mrs. A. Holmes Berry has returned
from pleasant visit with friends in
Washington.