Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-30
PERSONAL.

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! some weeks last summer with much bene
Fl t to his health.
Gov. Vance drove around the city te
the various points of interest Monday at
ternoon, accompanied by DR.. Moffett,
and Messrs. Hanger and Tucker
He was much pleased with what he
saw. He returned to the White on the
5 O'Clock train Tuesday morning. DR..
Moffett left on the same train. He will
| spend some time also at the Springs.
/ The cards are out for the marriage at
Richmond last night OF Miss Nellie She'd
don Burr to Mr.. VIM. Fenno Lawrence.
Miss Burr has many friends in Staunton,
having spent one or two summers here.
Mrs. Gen. j. +. B. Stuart and daughter,
and Mrs. Jno. B. Baldwin. of Stanton,
are at the Warm Springs. Hon. A. Fl. FL.
Stuart, Miss Maggie Stuart, Miss Mary
Julia Baldwin, and Miss Mary Craw-
ford, of Staunton. are at the White
Sulphur. DIR. S. H. Henkle and
lady, Mr.. S. M. Wilkes and wife, and
W. N. Bumpus. of Staunton, and Miss
Stricken, of Augusta, were registered at
the Cold Sulphur last week.
| At the election of officers of the Sunday
Sch DOL Convention of the Baltimore M.
E. Conference, South, at Wesley Grove
camp meeting last week, E. M. Gushing
was elected the Vice President from Rock
| ingham District.
Grand Dictator J. r. Lamkin, of the
Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor, will
visit Stanton Lodge No. 1855 next Mon
day night.
Rev. E. C. Gordon, formerly of Virgin
| ia, but now of Savannah, Ga, has received
a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church at Salem, Roanoke county, Mr..
Gordon is a brother Of Mrs. T. B. Coleman
Of this city.
| Rev. DR.. Thomas W. Hooper, of Ala
bama, and formerly of Lynchburg. Va,
will preach for Rev. Thos. M. Boyd at
| Messy Creek church in this county, next
Sunday.
The Lewisburg independent says ::
''Mr. Thos. A. Bledsoe, Cashier of the
National Valley Bank. of Staunton, Va,
and his wife, are spending few days with
Mr.. Johnston E. Bell, of this place.
Miss Rose Howard, the accomplished
daughter of E. q. Howard, Esq, the we'll
known and popular clerk of the City Court
of Richmond, and niece Of Maj. Conway
r. Howard, General Passenger Agent of
the G. s. o. r. r. Co., is spending the
summer with Mrs. Lucy D. Woods, of
this city.
Mr.. John G.. Slower, the capable County
/ Surveyor Of Augusta, is spending some
weeks with his family at the Lone Foun-
| tain,'' few miles from Churchville. From
rs to 100 persons gather at this sweet place
| every summer, where they have all the adj
| vantages and none of the fashionable re-
straints of watering-places. Mr.. Slower
has for fifteen years had a cabin at the
Lone Fountain, and has not yet regretted
his investment.
! Rev. J. A. Leslie, who has been filing
the pulpit of the Baptist church in this
city during the vacation Of the pastor,
will preach his last sermon in that church
next Sunday morning. In the afternoon
he will preach at the Dry Ridge school
house. Mr. Leslie will preach the opening
sermon Of the Middle District Baptist AS
ISOLATION, which meets at Sandy Greek
church, Amelia county, on next Wednes-
day. He leaves Staunton with much re-
greet and expresses himself as highly graft
fed at the cordial reception he has met
with in this community.
Misses Minnie and Helen Lyman
daughters of N. Il. Lyman. ESQ, OF
Norfolk, are on visit to their aunt, Mrs
Fl. D. Peck, of Montgomery Hail."
| J. P. Hawkins, Esq.,, Of Danyille, ar.
rived In Staunton on Monday with his
family On visit to his father, Richard
Hawkins, Esq. His family will remain in
Staunton for the summer.
On Wednesday night a hop was given
at the Virginia Hotel by Miss Carrie
Crowle in presenting her young friends
Misses Helen Fletcher and Rosie King, OF
Baltimore. The evening was an extremely
pleasant one, and the dancing was kept
up until midnight.
Mr. James r. Taylor. son of the late
Edwin M. Taylor, who was one of the
most popular bank officers Staunton evel
had, has been elected to a clerkship in the
Augusta National Bank.
Rev. J. G. Wheat, Principal of the Epis
copal Female Institute at Winchester, ar
rived in the city on Wednesday evening.
Father McVerry, Of Staunton, assisted
Bishop Kean at the laying of the corner
Il OF Of fl,n Do on1n 70
in Charlottesville, on Sunday last.
Rev. I. W. Dosh, D. D.. and Vice Pres
idenJ r. G. Holland, of Roanoke College,
preached at the Lutheran church on Sun
day and Wednesday nights last.
Gen. John Echols returned to the city
yesterday, from Kentucky.
Rev. A. H. Hamilton, of Mt. Carmel
church, has been given months vacation
by his congregation and has taken his fam
lily to Monroe, w. Va.
Y. M. G. A.-The meeting last Sunday
was conducted by Mr.. D. .Kayser, who af.
ter reading the Goth Psalm and after pray
er invited remarks from those present. Mr.
W. L. Rush from the county, responded
in an instructive address. He was follow
ed bp Rev. DR.. w. 7. Richardson, of the
Central Presbyterian, who in the course
of his remarks referring to the hymn which
had just been sung, 'sCome thou fount of
every blesslng,'' said if there were any
people that the sun shone upon who had
especial call for songs of praise, they were
the people who dwelt in this highly favor
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