Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-11-16
NEW VOL. 5S-No. 46.
OUR FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY.

/ The editor of TIE Register has re-
ceived number Ci letters from his
/ friends conGratulatiuC y m upon cele-
/ hrating his fortieth year as publisher
OF ihiS paper, besides mans verbal ex-
presSions OF good will and teeDh )ne
messages. We thank our friends for
these evidences of their consideration,
ana we don't mind admitting that il
warns the heart amazingly We like
A. Our friend Mr.. Matthew Page An
drewS, of Baltimore, whose literary
taste and reputation, as a critic and
author makes his opinion we'll worth
Nhile, In pleasant letter write us:
] congratulate you on tue completion
OF your first 40 years Of editing
say first 40 years, because | hope there
will be 40 more, and let me add that
would venture the historical statement
mat these 40 years represent a unique
record for excellent and most interest
ing editing OF home paper, for home
! folks"
writing his weekly column of
"knockabout Notes" for the Hamp-
shire Review, former Governor John
! J. Cornwell, now general counsel for
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany, with headquarters in Baltimore,
p ems the following pleasant para
graphs:
Last week Harry L. Snyder, Of the
Shepherdstown Register, celebrated the
fortieth anniversary OF his ownership
and editorship OF that excellent local
newspaper. Forty years is long
time-a long, long time in the life of
person. The Register, like wine,
grows better as il grows older, and
its editor, as is usually the case, has
grown wiser, milder and even more
amiablc, though he always possessed a
pleasing personality. His only pet
aversion, now, is the obsolete and
rather disreputable railroad station at
Shenandoah Junction. He is not to
blame for wanting il rebuilt and we
hope, now that the coal and railway
shipments strike Is behind us, that be-
fore long the present eye-sore will be
replaced by something creditable to
the railroads and satisfactory to the
public. Snyder will then be in po-
siton where, when he once grows old.
which is long time off, he can have
q peaceful and happy ending Of use
full life.
And that reminds me that il is just
thirty-two years since the writer, with
became its editor. So I am not so far
behind Harry Snyder, though no long
er editor and was away on four
years leave OF absence at Charles.
ton. But, though no longer wielder of
the editorial pen THAT work now being
} done largely by woman and done !
think quite welD-it is hard to get
out Of the habit Of breaking into the
paper with this column Of personal
notes, occasionally, and | am still a
part Of the Review force, though OF
very little use to it, There is to me,
however, sentimental side that for
bids my dsassociating myself from the
paper, entirely-a sentiment permeated
with the happenings Of thirty-two
years.
might add that got my first smell
Of printers ink in Harry Snyder's
Office while attending Shepherd College
Normal School in the spring OF 1888.
More than orce helped him get ont
his paper, wrap the singles, and did
not then dream that two years later
would begin to manage and edit a
similar newspaper and hustle for ad-
vertising and subscribers. And | had
TO hustle sure enough. But that is
another story.
Our friend James w. Weir, publish
er Of the Randolph Review, at Elkins,
writes us:
"Observng that you have just COM
pleted forty years as editor Of the
Shepherdstown Register, I hope you
will permit me to extend my sincere
congratulations and best wishes and to
wish for you many more years Of use
fulness. You have every reason to be
proud Of your record and proud OF the
journal you own and edit. I always
find IL pleasure to read it. May you
soon get the new depot. Kindest re-
CARDS and continued best wishes"