Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-29
Personals.


Mr.. H. Theodore Ellyson, of the Richmond
Dispatch, is in the city.
Miss Poverty Hinton, of this county, is visit
Ing friends in Highland county.
Rev. Rumsey Smithson preached morning
and evening in Harrisonburg last Sabbath.
Miss Hettie E. Burkhoder, of this county, is
visiting friends in Greenbrier county, W. Va.
DR.. D. A. Butcher, OF Bridgewater, Grand.
Master Of Odd Fellows, was in the city yester-
day.
Mr.. Geo. d, Pearman, late of Staunton, but
now member of the City Council of Rich
mond. is on visit to his old friends in Staun-
ton.
MAJ. Joseph Cloyd, one of the wealthiest and
most influential men in that section of the
State, died at his residence near Dublin Pulaski
county. on Saturday week, aged about rs years.
Rev. A. Q. Armstrong, on the Leveton, Poca-
hontas, circuit this year preached in Covington,
Allegheny CO., last Sunday, where he and his
family are on a visit, the guests of Mr.. ]. J..
Hobbs.
Mrs. Repass, with her children, the wife of
Rev.S. A. Repass, pastor of the Lutheran
church of this city, is visit to relatives and
y
| L. D. Hancock, Esq.
Miss Nettie Maud Latham, of Birmingham.
| Alabama, is now in this city, cauvassing in the
| interest of the sunny South" an excellent
literary and family journal, and we hone that
she will meet with success.
| Mr.. Frank Calvert, the former husband of the
woman who afterwards married ex. Governor
| Sprague, of Rhode Island, died last week. IT.
| will be remembered that Gov. Sprague who
| had been divorced from his wife, was married
to Mrs. Calvert in Staunton.
| Col. VIM. Preston Johnston, son of the
| lamented General Albert Sidney Johnston
| chief of staff to Presiden Davis during the war
| and father-in-law of Henry st. George Tucker.
Esq, has engaged rooms at Mr.. David Nays
and will spend the Summer in Staunton.
Miss Effie Stiff formerly of this city, who has
for the past year been teacher of vocal music
| in Central College at Lexington, No., has ac
cepted the position as teacher of vocal music in
| Rome. Ca the home of her brother Herbert
| the efficient agent for the sale of sewing ma.
chimes.
| James B. Blanks, Esq, of Petersburg, Grand
| Representative to Sovereign Grand Lodge OF
| Odd Fellows, arrived in our city Saturday night
/
was 'here in the interest of Odd Fellowship
| He is an intelligent and clever gentleman, and
| thoroughly posted on the work Of the Order o.
Odd Fellows.
| Mr.. Isaac Witt has been elected chairman Of
| the Staunton Board of Public Schools in place
of Mr.. John W. Todd. who has resigned and
taken up his abodein the country. The corps
of teachers in the Public Schools here has beer
made complete by the election Of Mr.. Bernard
White. of Mount Sidney, who comes to Staun.
| ton highly recommended as an efficient teach.
| er.
At the session of the Grand Council of Vir
| ginia, American Legion of Honor, in Ports
mouthIast week, DIR. j. NJ. Hanger Of Valley
Council of Staunton. was elected Grand Guide,
| Jos. E. Rollins. of Staunton, was re- elected to
the position of Deputy District Grand Com
mander of Valley Council, and W. H. Bailie, o
Staunton, was reelected Chairman of the FL
nance Committee.