Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-04-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

Robert Gibson, of Shepherdstown. has
oesn very i'll this week in the former
place. Mrs Treadwell has had some
trouble from incipient appendicitis for
some time past and on Monday went
TO hospital in Albany 10 submit TO
an operation for the removal of the
appendix. Ii was discovered during
the operation that the gall duct was
badly affected and the surgeons re-
moved several gall stones. She came
through the ordeal fairly well, but re-
ports from Colonel Treadwell indicate
that he is still quite anxious about her
Mrs. Gibson has received word that
her daughter, Mrs Piauette Mitchell,
OF Detroit who was operated upon for
appendicitis a couple of weeks ago, is
getting along as we'll as can be ex-
pected and will soon be able TO leave
the hospital.
We were glad to have a call yes
terday from Mr.. Ernest p. Babb, of
kcyser, who is connected with the
West Virginia Department of Agri-
culture. Mr.. Babb was a student at
/ Shepherd College some thirty years
ago, and he has a number of friends
here who were glad to renew old ac-
quaintance. He is an enthusiastic
/ ohBfoi'Si VI Iloi. JAMES II. SlGNdTl,
/ State Commissioner of Agriculture
who is a candidate to succeed himself
in that Office. He thinks that Mr.
Stewart will have a walk-over at the
/ primary election, and we rather agree
with him, for almost everybody likes
the popular commissioner.
Mr.. James W. White, of Webster
Springs, w.. Va, spent the past week
in ShepherdStown with his daughter,
Mrs. VIM. B. Snyder. and also ran down
to Washington with Mrs. Snyder for a
couple of days. Mr.. White is publish
er of the Webster Springs Republican
and has been well-known in newspa-
per circles in West Virginia for num-
Der of years.
Judge E. NJ. Morgan, of Fairmont,
candidate for the nomination for Gov
ernor of West Virginia at the Republi-
can primaries in May, was in Shep-
hcrdStoWn Yesterday, accompanied by
one OF his campaign managers, Mr.. C..
! !. Topping, of CharleSon. He is
making tour of the Eastern Pan
handle in the interest of his candidacy.
Mrs. James S. Phillips leaves today
for Washington, where she will attend
the sessions of the National Conven-
tion of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution the ensuing week
Mrs. Phillips is a candidate for the Of
flee of Registrar General on the ma
tional ticket.
Mr.. Warren II. Rissler, a prominent
farmer of the Kabletown neighbor-
hood, was a caller at the Register Office
on Thursday. He is a candidate for
deputy sheriff on the ticket headed by
J. Strider Moler, of this >ace, and vii
poll a large vote in his home section.
Mrs. ]. B. VanMetre, who recently
sold her household goods and gave
up her home west of town, is spending
some time with relatives in the Hall
town neighborhood. She will make
her home in Shepherdstown with Miss
Coopsie Keplinger.
Miss Ruth Knott. who is employed
in the Census Bureau in Washington
spent the weekend in Shepherdstown
She has a pleasant place in the agri-
cultual division in which are also en-
ployed Mr.. VIM. H. Selvey and Miss
Helen Selvey.
We were pleased to have a call few
days ago from Mr.. and Mrs. c. c.
Sager and their son Ralfh, ::orl -ast
of town. Mr.. SAFER recently purchaS-
ed the Geo. w. Moler farm, east of
town, and he and his family are now
located there.
MIR. and Mrs. E. H. Barnhart and
Mr.. ]. Edward Barnhart, of Baltimore.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Barnhart and
their little daughter Esta, of Roanoke
spent the weekend in Shepherdstown
with their father, Mr.. James E. Barn
hart.
Miss Jessie Harwood, of Frederick,
Md, and Mr.. George Harwood, a
student o>Barley Hall Aca denny, spent
several days the past week with Miss
Meta jenkins, near this town.
We were pleased to have a call on
Tuesday from Mr.. J. ~ Bonham, of
Summit Point, county superintendent
OF schools, who was in Shepherdstown
district on official business.
Mr. Garrett b. VanMetre, one of the
Registers Berkeley county friends,
made us a pleasant call yesterday and
renewed his subscription for another
year.
Mayo Snyder, of the Shenandoah
Junction neiPhborhood. has gone t.
Cleveland, Ohio, where he has en-
ployment with an automobile firm.
Mrs. George T. Hodges and her
little daughter are here from Pitts
burg to spend some weeks with her
mother, Mrs. Mollie Arthur.
Mrs. william ClePgett ami her two
children, from near Alexandria. Va
are here visiting her parents. Mr and
Mrs. Chas. b. Mcdonald.
Mrs. w. B. Hammond, of Kearneys-
vile, has been visiting relatives in
Washington, ID. c., and Boyd, Md. the
past week or two.
Mr.. and Mrs va. G.. Link drove TO