Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-09-01
PERSONAL NOTES.

Prttsburg 10 spend a vacation of a
couple of weeks among his relatives
and friends. Mr.. Hodges, who is en-
ployed in one OF the great mills OF the
United States Steel Corporal. on, SAYS
that there is great depression IN
business in Pittsburg and vicinity, and
that many thousands of men are OIL;
OF employment in that section. The
output of iron and steel is only about
25 to 80 per cent of normal capacity,
and salaries and wages have been
greatly reduced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond T. Staley
and the baby left on Tuesday night
for Maybeury, w. Va, where Mr.
Staley will get ready for the ensuing
term of the graded and Junior high
school, Of which he is principal. Mr..
Staley will have several Shepherds
town teachers to work with him the
coming year. Mr.. Clayton Myers and
Miss Julia Ferrell will teach in his
school at Maybeury and Miss Frances
DALEY will teach at Powhatan, near
| by.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Lyons and chill
dren, enoute from Washington, d. c.,
to Keyser, w. Va, their home, are
stopping few days with Mrs. Lyons
brother, Rev. Jno. A. Grose. Mr.. W.
P. Fowler and wife, Of Washington, &C
companied the Lyons as far as Shep-
herdstovn and are spending few days
with Mrs. Fowler's niece, Mrs. Grose,
at the Methodist parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Finly, of De-
troit, are here for a visit to Mrs
Finiy'S parents, Mr.. ami Mrs. H. c.
Marten. They made the journey east
in their automobile, and had a very
pleasant trip, stopping over night al
such places as pleased them. Hon
Harvey w. Harmer, of Clarksburg, W.
! Va, is also here for few days.
Mr.. Charles w. Spicer, a retired
policeman of Baltimore, who has
been in Shepherdstown the pas,
month or two, boarding with MIR. and
Mrs. Willis E. Skinner, has been
called back TO Baltimore by the deatt,
of his stepmother. He had intend
ed TO remain here for the fair, but
will not now return.
Our fellow-townsman, Mr.. James Z
Barnhart, who submitted to serious
sui Si$ai oPSiation III MIX :
Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg
last week, is getting along firstrste. He
| has continued to improve steadily
without any backset, and IL all goes
we'll he will be home some time next
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Renner and their
little granddaughter, Miriam Knot,
Price, of Richmond, Va, spent the
past couple of weeks among their rel
atives and friends in this neighbor-
hood. Their daughter Juliet was also
here for few days.
We were pleased to have call few
days ago from Mr.. F. Herman Merch-
ent, who learned the printers trade in
the Register Office but is now an ex-
pert linotype operator in New York.
He has been visiting his home folks
in Roanoke.
Mrs. Lottie Schneider, of the Shep-
herd College faculty, is in Charleston,
w. Va, this week, conducting the
teachers institute for Kanawha coun-
ty. She will conduct the institute for
Grant county at Petersburg next week.
Mrs. ]. c. Tabler, of Duffields, who
has been sick for many weeks from
typhoid fever at the home of her Sis
tiers in Harper's Ferry, is now con-
valescent and has been able to return
to her home in the former place.
Mrs. Charles w. Licklider and the
children are here from Elizabeth, w.
Va, 10 spend a few weeks with their
relatives and friends and to enioy the
fair. Mr.. Licklider will also be here
in few days for his vacation.
Miss Kathryn Donley, who has been
teaching for some years past at Sis
tersville, w. Va, and Mrs. N. C. Bar
bahen and her little daughter, of Phila-
delphia, are visiting at the parental
home at Moler's Cross Roads.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Needy and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Sperow had a pleas
ant weekend trip in their automobiles.
They drove to Hancock, Berkeley
Springs and other towns in that sec
tion and were gone several days.
Mr.. VIM. H. H. Hawn, Of Baltimore,
Mr.. F. II. Merchent, OF New York, Mr.
and Mrs. r. S. Angel and Miss Lille
Cannon, Of willard, Ohio, visited the
family of Mr.. c. E. Walters in Shep-
herdstown the past week.
Mrs. Katie Snyder has returned to
her home here after a seven weeks
stay with relatives in Wilkes Barre.
Scranton and Carbondale, Pa Mr.. and
Mrs. Sherwood, relatives Of Mrs. Sny-
der, returned with her.
Miss Laura Licklider, near town.
and Miss Gertrude Ciary of M,rt;oe
burg, both of whom formerly taught
at Summit Point, spent part of last
week there with Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter T. Fredekinp,