Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-05-25
THE ANTIQUE EXHIBIT.

last Saturday afternoon, had he walt q
on high street IN the vicinity of Shec-
herd Grade, would have come 10 m,
conclusion that page or two of an old
/ copy OF Codey's Ladies' Book had sud
denly come TO life, for there appeared.
walking sedately down High street, a
group OF girls dressed in the fashions
OF Two generations ago. These girls
acted as mannequins throughout the
afternoon at the Woman's Club exhi-
oition OF antiques, and served 10 ac-
centuate the difference between the
fashions OF then and now The old
costumes they wore were extremely in
teresting, but they formed only a small
part OF the very creditable loan exhi-
bit. Ii is impossible to give complete
list OF all the articles shown and the
names of the exhibitors, for each article
proved to have a history and the poor
visitor couldn't possibly remember all
of them.
Ii was noticed however, that there
were relics of the early Revolutionary
days, Of the Indian, Mexican and Civil
wars, as we'll as examples of the home
industries, arts and fashions-indeei
some of the relics antedated the Rev
olution, as witnessing the wedding vest
Of DR.. Nicholas Schell, loaned by
Miss Sarah Shaner showed.
Then there was the silver eorpet
worn by General Washington loaned
by member of the Goldsborough fam
lily. Among the other Washington
souvenirs was picture of Washing
tons wedding, piece of his coffin, and
a tiny group Of the Washington family
playing chess. This last named article
was loaned by Miss Ella Kelsey. The
picture was loaned by Mrs. Bragonier.
There were two documents signed by
General Washington, one comforting
commission on an officer in the Con
federate army and the other comforting
the order of Cincinnati Other docu
ments that attracted attention were a
letter from the poet Longfellow to Miss
Amanda Titus and an imposing screed
conferring on John Titus the Office of
Chief Justice to the State of Utah,
containing the signature OF Abraham
Lincoln. Both of these documents
were loaned by Miss Titus.
Henry Clay's umbrella loaned by
Miss Elizabeth White was there in COM
pany with President Jefferson Davis
smoking cap. Two ivory chessmen and
pike owned by John Brown were
loaned by the Beckenbaugh's.
A wonderful old melon quilt, loaned
by Mrs. T. II. Davis, hung near GRO.
cheted and knitted bed spreads, and
there were two gorgeous, home-woven
wooden counterpanes, one of them bear
ldg the date OF 1913.
The shoe buckles, studied with bril-.
liantS, cnce worn nv Governor John
Page, Of Virginia, gIttered in their
velvet case under the electric light, TIL
the eyes were glad to rest themselves
on wonderful cashmere shawl, a
mandarin robe and Mrs. Hady's ex-
qulsitely embroidered white silk shawl.
One exhibit which merited special
mention, as representing a great deal
of time and patient personal effort,
was the collection Of Indian relics,
loaned and arranged by Mr. Harrison
Schley. 1t comprised SHINING knives,
tomahawks, arrowheads, beads and
pipes.
There were also the following arti-
Giles: pictures made OF silk, pictures
painted on glass, Chinese shoes fof
bound feet, a pair of wooden clogs,
carpet bag, wedding bonnet and
stock of 1906, handmade silver spoons,
loaned by Miss Powell, an old shell
comb, doll 72 years old, an ola
christening robe, a collection loaned
by Miss Ella Kelsey, consisting of old
daguerreotypes, flowers made from
human hair, and wooden sander
Mrs. keplinger loaned pottery lar
made by Mr.. Wise at his shop here in
town. Mrs. Crawford sent an exqus-
lie wcdgewood teapot. Miss Powell
and others contributed examples Of old
lustre, English and Scotch pottery.
The Misses Sheetz loaned a picture
OF Shepherdstown taken in lS6S-and,
oh, yes. we must not forget Stonewall
Jackson's personal map of Virginia
with pencil notationS in his own hand
writing. Mrs. Crawford also loaned
a rare CORVALLIS lustre pitcher.
Mrs. Pinkney Schley loaned among
other things an interesting collection
of old coins. DR.. Flickinger loaned
some old books, among them an Eng
glish Catechism, dated 1913 and a
lish Catechism, dated 1643. Mr..
Robert Gibson contributed a letter
from Stonewall Jackson to a Miss
Grove Hanging her for a breakfast
she had given him. There we're also
the old files of the Shepherdstown Reg,
lister, the earliest copy dated lS49.
Someone loaned some Confederate
money and pictures of Clay and Web
Ster. There were several samplers,
one loaned by Miss Annie Licklider,
and some home-spun, hand-woven
linen. There were embroidered petit
coats and dresses, shaving mirrors and
pieces of old chintz that had helped to
decorate the bedroom of someone two
generations ago. Mrs. George Bill
myer loaned a sword carried by Major
Hamtramck. During the evening some
Of our singers gathered around the
piano and sang wonderfully sweet old
songs of other days, and Mrs. Lee