Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-06-20
PERSONAL NOTES.

entertained delightful house party the
past week at their lovely summer
home, Bellevue" near Shepherds
town. Among the guests who enjoyed
and appreciated their hospitality were
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Hunter Gait and
Mr.. Boiling Gait, Mr.. and Mrs. R. D.
Shepherd, Mr.. Campbell and Major
Keedy, from Washington; Mrs. Glass,
from Wheeling, and Mrs. Mckay, Of
Pittsburg. Lieutenant Henry Shepherd
was also home for the weekend.
We are sorry to note that Mr.. H. E..
Strictly and his family have decided
to leave Shepherdstown. They have
lived here for several years past, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Strictly and their chill
dren have been highly regarded BY all
who knew them. They left on Mon
day for their old home in Hampshire
county, this State, where Mr.. Strieby
will resume farming. They will be
greatly missed in Shepherdstown.
Major Morningstar and Miss Hazel
Limbert, Of Washington, were week
end guests of Mrs. David Lemen.
Mrs. Lemen is in Baltimore and Wash
ington for a week or two, and her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Boyer, are here
from Berkeley county to keep house for
her. Mr.. Lemen expects to come home
from the hospital in Baltimore within
couple of weeks.
Kirkland Mckee, who has been prin-
cipal of our graded school, and La
mont PyleS, who graduated from Shep-
herd College last week, left on Mop-
day for Washington City, where they
will seek government positions. We
just learn that Lamont has been ap-
pointed to place in the quartermaster's
department.
We are sorry to learn of the illness of
Mrs. Dwight McQuilkin in Roanoke,
Va. She recently submitted to two
serious operations in hospital in that
city, and though she is now able to be
at home and is recovering as rapidly as
could be expected, she will be belfast
for some weeks yet.
Rev. E. w. Simon and his daughter,
Miss Ruth, of Akron, Ohio, and Rev. J.
S. Simon, of Hagerstown, were visitors
TO Rev. and Mrs. |. D. Woman at the
Lutheran parsonage the first OF the
week.
Mr.. Chas. S. Miller and his family are
enjoying an automobile trip to Davis,
W. Va, and other towns in that section.
They made the l72 miles from Shep-
herdstown to Davis in ten hours.
Col. R. P. Chew, who had been under
treatment in Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, has returned to his home
in Charles Town. He is gradually i'm
proving in health.
Mr. William Campbell, of Charles
Town, connected with the United States
internal revenue service, was in Shep-
herdstown yesterday and called at the
Register Office.
Misses Mamie and Catherine Will
lams, of this place, have gone to Nor
gantown, where they will take the sum-
mer course at the West Virginia Uni
versity,
Mrs. ]. S. Phillips and her grandson,
Phillips Berkeley, have gone TO Charles
ton, S. c., for visit of week or two
with Pay Director Phillips.
We were pleased to have a call on
Monday from Mrs. R. V. Mcdonald and
Miss Annie Mcdonald, of the Kear-
neySville neighborhood.
Mr.. andMrS. S. o. Bond have gone to
w. Va, where they will
spend most of the summer at Mrs
Bonds old home.
Mr.. !. S. Ware, of Clarke county,
Va. spent the weekend with his broth
er, Rev. J. w. Ware, at the Episcopal
rectory.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Duke and the chill
dren have gone 10 Hedgesville TO spend
some time at her old home in that place.
Rev. S. L. Flickinger is spending this
week in Harrisburg and Lancaster, Pa,
and will be gone until Sunday.
Mr.. Charles H. Reinhart, of Roanoke,
Va, is at his home at Moler's Cross
Roads for a visit to his sisters.
Mrs. Holmes Berry spent last week
very pleasantly with friends in Win
chester, her former home.
Miss Lille Marten has gone to Mac
Donald, W. Va, for visit TO her sister,
Mrs. WILDER Davis.