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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
3
A jumble of items from the Tarasway Stebstt Register and BRIEFS notes appears. The fragment mentions July and various local topics including wedding preparations, horse racing, and attendees at community events, with scattered names and places.
Local notes report L G Brotherton moving an old jail to New street for potential tenants. A Martinsburg-Harpers Ferry wedding features John A Crissman and Anna L Gray with notable height difference. Mrs. Elizabeth Mullen dies in Martinsburg at 73 after long illness. A drug advert roams with price cuts on medicines and a snake incident in Avilla area. Jefferson County Teachers Institute opens with 92 teachers. Two youths drown crossing Beaver Creek after lawn festival. Mentions Ely Cream Balm testimonials and usage.
Mrs. Ira E. Robinson attended the Shepherd College commencement with her husband in Shepherdstown. The page details many visitors, lectures, and a packed alumni week including a portrait gift to Prof. Joseph McMurran, contest nights, and the graduation of seven students with orations on duty and youth.
Sunday services are planned at M E Church South in Shepherdstown at 1 30 p m with communion, Marvin Chapel at 3 p m, and Lutheran Avilla at 10 30 a m then Shepherdstown at 5 p m. A League meeting June 24 at 8 p m will elect officers, with reports.
A campus program featured speeches by Hoffman and Miller with audience praise. Gold medals and diplomas were awarded to Grace Donald and Ellea Hoffman for musical study and completion of the course. Regents and local officials delivered remarks applauded for support of education and the new building.
A WV code note outlines the ten dollar state license for druggists to compound prescriptions and sell poisons, with small recording fees totaling 11 dollars and 25 cents. The pharmacy law sets conditions for handling dangerous drugs and prescriptions, while denying additional special taxes or licenses. Hinamosbia’s focus is on value and freshness of medicines rather than license details. Signed by C. T. Boutin.
Parkeryburg dispatch reports D. S. Hammond presiding elder of the Methodist Church South preached at a mission church on Banren Creek Sunday night. After the service four drunken ruffians forced entry to the home of Charles Samples beating Mr Samples and his son. Dr. Hamoul, awakened by the fight, joined the fray and knocked two assailants down. The other two escaped. The minister, though bloodied, remained unharmed and preached again the next night.
In Charleston last week the Etoel Diocese council reported 80 churches and chapels with 4490 communicants and total contributions of 88859.58 for the year. Missionary receipts exceeded 5000, the largest in the society’s history, with plans for annual convivals and fundraising to raise the permanent fund to 30000 by Ascension Day 1803. Delegates elected to the San Francisco convention and a spirited, cordial contest selected clerical and lay deputies and alternates from Parkersburg Wheeling Martineburg and Clarkeburg.
An amateur concert in a small village drew a large audience with a varied program. Miss Grace Wurts performed a Whistling piece, Mr Gerhardt and Miss Fulton showcased violin and vocal selections, and Mrs Patton along with Miss Merchant delighted with solos. The event, praised for grace and skill, was deemed a brilliant success despite some attendance disputes.
A note suggests selecting Oh Choice Wines from Speer's y fie yarith for illness. It promotes rich Port and Clare wines as gentle and clean fermentations suitable for family use and entertainment.
At the 1901 02 first missionary conference in Charles Town West Virginia on June 17 1901 a meeting unanimously adopted preamble and resolutions mourning the sudden death of Rev Ht Kennedy and his wife Sister Kennedy The resolutions praise the pastor as a faithful evangelical preacher and beloved colleague and express sympathy with the stricken family while ordering minutes printed and sent to the Richmond Christian Advocate and local papers
Dr D B Purinton of Denison University Ohio was chosen to lead West Virginia University succeeding Dr Raymond. The regents spoke in harmony with no dissent on the ballot. Purinton, born in 1850 in Freston county WV, earned his bachelor’s from WVU in 1878 and held multiple professorial roles before assuming Denison presidency.
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