Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
The Early Days of Shepherd College.


in connection with my entrance into
Shepherd College. II exaggerate
the Importance of a barber and over
look a great financier, put that down
TO the outlook of boy whose recol-
lections of things the man OF today is
simply recording.
Opposite my boarding house was
the Entler Hotel. AS the Kearneys-
Vile stage would dash down the street
to unload its passengers at the hotel
door | would sit at the window of my
home and watch Mr.. Entler as he
arose and received guests in the style
of a practiced hand. That hotel was
to me most imposing edifice, and was
| associated with persons who had
leisure and opportunity TO see much of
the big world If they did not have
these, why all this travel? Then the
hotel was favorite resting place of
/ Mr.. Selby, who moved his chair with
the sun and became sort of sun
dial for us who lived near. as
/ sociated him with hotel leisure and all
that went with such luxury.
Near my home Just UP the street
was Wesley Seibert's barber shop. Ii
had the odor Of a certain hair tonic
which seemed to dominate all the
other tones Of Yves had any other)
so that once in the atmosphere of the
shop you could not we'll forget that
impact upon your olfactories. No
evening in social gayety land we had
our evenings, no matter if we did not
| nave movies TO attend) was to be con-
sldered until Yves Sibert had done his
best to put in physical plight Wes-
ley was light in color and well-made.
I 1lw1US
good humor. His master hand left
nothing wanting from BARRIERS
standpoint.
Cd Uncle Jake, his father, was the
acme of his kinda genuine old
fashioned negro, much beloved and
deserving it. When ! once complain
ed In his presence about some trouble
Il know not what now, he said with
great assurance md with smile
which came right up from his heart:
Never mind, it will be all right-it
will he all right" somehow felt it
would be. Bless his old gray head.
Near the barber shop was the meat
shop OF Joe Cookus. That smiling
proprietor in white apron was ready to
Buy a calf or sell a steak at prices that
would now make a farmer weep and
the rest of us shout. | never passed
the Cookus shop without CHEEKY
. word from Mr.. Cookus. wish all
men would remember to speak to
boys. They never forget those who
do.
! used to think that Henry LOWS
was the busiest man ever had seen
His harness shop near the Billings
drug store was a center for country
boys who rode or drove to college.
That short, black whiSkered, indefat
lgable man excited my wonder at his
ability TO work eternally at the gait
he went.
UP near the college was the store of
Mr. ID. 5. Rentch. That was always
associated with Mr.. Ben Pendeton, as
recalled it, for he and my father had
once attempted a grocery store there.
II was a green grocery, they said
What green meant | did not know;
but think now that the term was very
appropriate for my father, who as
farmer thought that he could run
town" store. Mr.. Pendleton was.
when attended the college. as
socaied IN my mind with the begin
ninGs of the Y. M. c. A. movement.
On Sunday afternoons there would be
gathercd such mature young men as
charlie l.icklider and his brother Ed.
Iohn Qulgley, John Fleming, George
mckinney, and that most English-look-
ing man of our town, John Aglionby
They would sing the Moody and
Sankey hymns (then just coming OUT
and make short talks. Will our
c'ergymen take a hint when | saw:
recall rothng that the preachers said
in their sermons in those DAYS. but
wildly recall what these Young men
said and the spirit of their meetings.
One man | remember quite distinct
~ as associated with the college and
also with the ongoing of the town
Mr. Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover He usual
ly sat on the roStrum with us upon
our co lege red-letter days. Fautless
IN dress, with a very becoming silk
nat, he could be seen almost any dav
on the Strcet-his rapid utterancc and
Instinct enunciation attracting nv at
tentlon and making me wonder wheth
er all LAWYERS talked that way. He
was the first, except Mr.. Bragonicr.
| that | had seen of that profession.
Mr. Is. +. Harrison is associated in
my mlni with my early impressions
ri a bank. Mr.. Harrison was tall.
slender and graceful, and walked with
MS mead down as though STUDYING.
looked upon him with something of
awe, as thought a bank manufactured
money. The mystery of "check on
bank was a puzzle to my brain
What good fortune enabled a man to
draw money from bank, where
money was actually made? A country
Roy of fourteen knew little about hich
/ finance.
Mr.. H. little was then proprietor
and publisher of the Register. A
trlm-Iooking man, of handsome figure
with black beard and affable manner
he was another parsonage that looked
upon with wonder. At home we had
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