Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-09-08
NOTES BY OBSERVER.

OuT.NE 13lr NSSn thSlS "iS uSuaiy
.r-rAer of former residents OF Shep-
S.,4.,7wn who make it point 10 come
IL 70 the old home place to renew
t..,.,,rrance with the friends of their
60 davs who may yet be living.
-, hose who are here this week is
~. = G. Small, of Darby, Pa, who is
w. er,-,oyee of the Philadelphia Sub
an,s~ az Gas and Electric Company. He
:" Using his sister, Mrs. Charles B.
S,norlld. Mr.. Small last month
us his 77th birthday, but no one
Would ever suspect that he is anything
yts 81 old. for he is active and ener-
".ic and could easily pass for twen-
g v,,-s Younger. He was born in
n.rk willie, formerly "BucSlestown,"
n Berkeley county, but was reared in
the vicinity of Billmyer's Mill, near
SEaot ritown He says he remem-
hers well when a party of Forty-niners
len here for the gold fields Of Cali
fornia. among the adventurers being
three of his uncles, John, Jacob and
william Williamson. Some forty-odd
Years agn Mr.. Small ran saw mill
at Flowing Spring, near Charles Town,
and sawed out thousands Of crosstieS
for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad,
then Being built through the county.
He afterward engaged in farming, but
moved to Darby about fifteen years
ago where he has since resided. One
of the events thai he looks forward to is
his annual visits ~ ShepherdstOwn
durinr fair week, when he sees such
Of his old friends as are still living.
Er snail reads the Register each Neck
with the greatest interest, and to
show lust how he feels mentally and
physically he has paid for it in ad-
y9n,c to 1923.
Another visitor to Shepherdstown
This week is Henry c. Cookus, ma
tive of Shepherdstown and son of
GeorCe Cookus, one Of the early resi-
ten's of this place who had two
brothers., Michael and Jacob Cool,us.
AM tour sisters, all of whom were we'll
known in their day and generation but
nave long since passed away. Mr..
CooNuS was for many years an en-
ploye- of the Norfolk & Western Rail-
way at Basic City, Va, but a couple of
years ago went on the retired list, fol-
towing an attack of the flu that i'm
rared his health. He is taking life
easy, as he has a pension and a mass
ana saved enough of his earnings TO
Keep MIN comfortably in his latter
GAYS. He informs us that his brother.
reward Cookus, well remembered bv
me me older boys of his generation as
Sha5espeare," is living in walnut
Cove. North Carolina, where he bas
p.:i ,oHG 'cen IN the service of the N. G. w.
Mt'Way M While in Shepherdstown
W.. n,. C'oNuS has been spookine around
"'',..N me scenes of his boyhood davs
", NE melon patches that he raIded
%"l me fruit trees he robbed are no
tno'e. he was born in the little frame
mouse on Angel HILL" at the corner
y. y, '.'Rh street and Rumsey avenue
r."' H.. IS now occupied by colored fami,
y, lie recalls that this place was
A"o| as Bowling Alley" in his
goU!n'uI days, and this reminds Oh.
moro Sor.r IN 'nat a hundred years ago O.
on;a. ,G ''lS corner, now so modest ani
g,. I..'' was genuinely lively place. II
was was an ola inn on the wagon hirh
s,a-. a-. ana mad a reputation of being
nn,, aOoVe most others of the
d9"s 'wS y,, inns that fourished in those
cr,,, Whlskey was plentiful. DOW.
c,a '"' ana cheap, and the bar wos
wa. ~ almost every night. GAMBLING
I;c Eppuiar pastime and stakes were
,bo. Cockh ehting was diversion
-"' cd a'racted the sports, and thev bach.
W. '"eir tavorite birds with thei-
,.''-|' g.. and not infrequentlv with tbei-
otL.- mere were bowling alleys and
tain "I,l n,as actlons that appealed to GER
AM ,,Sn Sle''lents among the teamsters
loca, ,-lr r transients as we'll as the
row SpprtS; 1t is said that MANY =
was N place there, and the nIace
pror one IN which ladies' could With
i've, .u appear. A terrific fieht he.
VIII, W. 'eamsters with heavy wagon
M over lady of somewhat doubt
fe,.. fulatlon-was long a thrilIino
If .rL or the annals of the town
tbr. sc old walls could talk what
ncs. stories they might tell. The
eve e whitewashed house. how
who S nothing, and there are few
har4.5 'Ioer the tales that have been
ago wv" from hundred years
art 81, = drove to town on Tuesday Mr.
q, p WITS. George William Beresford
inc mont, W. Va. 1t was the tom.
Bs- .hct that brought them, for MIR.
al III , was born here ffty-one and
no, senrs ago, and thoug he had
il. ohepherdstown since the fam
con- mere half century ago, he
s.. 10. get away from the desire TO
Ch "a'lVe place. So he and his
in < wife, taking a leisurely trip
va. ~. iutomobile, at last found their
hal Lane nG old town from which he
in cen ms departure when a babe
jm- US his b,',,, curious, that feeling that
Sc. tho humans to sooner or later
th- --Js pace of our birth, Just as