Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-02-02
Personal NOTES.


Among the visitors to Shepherds
town on Tuesday we're Hon. lanes S.
Lakin and Hon. ]. s. Darst, Of Charles
ton, members of the State Board of
Control They visited Shepherd Col
lege and both made addresses at the
chapel exercises. While here they
Inspected the school property and the
RumSey monument grounds. They stat
ed that plans have been made for the
new athletics building, work on which
will begin the first Of next July, when
the appropriation will become avail
able. This structure, which will te
large enough to accommodate AL in
door sports and exercises, will prob
ably be hcated on the lot now owned
by the State at the corner of Princess
and High streets. II will have a
large floor for games, with dressing
rooms, shower baths, lockers, etc, and
balconies ample to seat the largest aud
fences.
Mr.. Samuel M. Huyett and Mr.. and
Mrs. William Huyett, of the Leetown
neighborhood, were callers at the
Register Office on Tuesday. Mr.. Huy-
ett, Sr., will have sale of stock, farm
ing implements, etc, on Tuesday, Feb
ruary 2Sth. He will move the first
of April from the Strider farm near
Leetown, where he has lived for num-
Der of years, to the Small farm thnat
he purchased a few months ago, To-
Gated west of Shepherdstown.
Mrs. John B. Garden, of Wheeling,
president of the State Federation of
Woman's Clubs, is in Shepherdstown
today, guest of Mrs. VIM. b. Snyder,
president of the Woman's Club of
Shepherdstown District. Mrs. Garden
who is a woman of charming person.
ality and very popular in West Vir-
ginia, is to speak before our woman's
club this afternoon.
Mr.. T. ID. Gray, horticultural spec
iaist of the West Virginia Universi-
| ty at Morgantown, spent yesterday in
I Shepherdstown, where he was advis-
ing with persons interested in regard
10 system Of tree planting for this
community. He also made sugges.
tions concerning the adornment and
beautifying of the grounds about the
Rumsey monument.
Mr.. Geo. w. Freeman, Of the Ma.
tional Highway Garage, was called to
Mont Alto, Pa, the first Of the week
| by the serious illness of his father
Mr.. ]. w. Freeman, who had double
pneumonia. The latter is now safely
past the crisis and Mr.. Freeman ha:
returned.
Mr.. Geo. w. Burgan, of Bridgeport
was among our callers on Tuesday
He has finished the repair work or
his section of the canal in anticipa
tion Of next seasons business, includ
ing two new concrete wasteways Al
Locks 39> and 40.
Col. and Mrs. John P. Lucas and
their child have been spending the
past week at Kearneysville with DR.
and Mrs. G. c. Lucas, the Colonel:
parents. Colonel Lucas is now sta
toned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Mr.. Charles Goldsborough, of Cul
peper, Va, and Mrs. Llewellyn Nc
Weigh, of Richmond, have been at Lee
land this week, having come home t.
help celebrate the birthday of their mo-
ther, Mrs. Meta Goldsborough.
Mrs. Chas. w. Brown, of Bethlehem
Pa, is here to be with her mother, Mrs
Henry G. Marten, who has been very
i'll the past week or two, with bu
little hope of her recovery.
Mrs. Bramhall Campbell, of Luray
Va, is here to spend some time witt
her sister, Mrs. Chas. B. VanMetre
Mrs. Campbell was formerly Miss Flor
ence Furrey, of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Piquette Mitchell, o.
Detroit, were in Shepherdstown fol
several days the past week, having
been called here by the illness of Mr.
Robert Gibson.
Mr.. o. H. Kaylor, OF Washington
county, Md, visited the Register Office
last Friday and had us print his SALE
bills. He will have big sale or
February 22d.
MIR. w. A. Cessna and Miss Rets
Cessna, of Rainsburg, Pa, are spend
ing this week with the family of Rev
John A. Grose at the Methodist parson'
| age.
Mrs. G. A. Randolph, Of Richmond
Va, is here to spend few weeks with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fonross
Shipley, at the Shipley Hotel.
Mr.. Vim. A. Moler, of the Duffields
neighborhood, called at the Register
Office yesterday and renewed his sub.
scription for another year.
Mr.. DIN Mckee has been on the
sick list this week, threatened with
appendicitis. He is very much better
now and is able to be out.
Mrs. Marie MacBrien, of Washing
ton, spent the past week in Shepherds
town with Mrs. Fonrose Shipley at the
Shipley Hotel