Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-06-08
Local Miscellany,


DR.. Ransom will visit Shepherds
town professionally this week.
ar. Joseph Baker, of Bowling
Green, Va, was in town last week.
Harry Talbot was home OH n visit
from the Baltimore Medical College
last week.
Mr.sLsnn Campbell is home from
the Fishburne Military School, at
Waynesboro, Va.
Mr. Robert Kcerl. of Culpeper,
ya.,has been visiting his mother and
sisters in this place.
The Episcopal Sunday Schools of
Martinsburg and other points in
Berkeley county will picnic at Island
Park July 1st.
Thanks to our liberal friend John
III. Hall for nice lot of luscious
Strawberries some of the finest we
have seen this season.
!. David We'll, ESQ.,, and Masters NJ.
I'll. and Nathan We'll, of Martinsburg,
surprised VIM. Kahn, the Clothier,
with visit last Wednesday.
Jacob Grubcr, Sr., residing near
Middleway, received some painful
0hruises about the head and face q few
days ago, while loading logs.
The jefferson County Teachers
institute for 1886 will be held in
Charlestown, beginning August 10th,
with Prof. r. Z. Hodges as conductor.
We return thanks to Mr.. G. +.
Wall for nice roast of excellent beef.
Mr.. Wall is butchering some very fine
cattle, and supplying his customers
with an elegant article of good, tender
beef.
Rev. DR.. w. II. Meade, of Phila-
dclphia, Rev. JAS. B. Craighill, of
Belaire, and Rev. Jas. 3. Avirett, of
Silver Springs, were in attendance
upon the Episcopal Council held here
last week.
The old Town Council will meet
this (Tuesday) evening, for the clos
ing up of its finances, and upon
its adjournment sine die the new
Council will organize and proceed to
business.
Mr.. Adam Young, of this county,
has on his place a mothcrless kitten
which has taken up with n brood SOW,
and derives its nourislment from the
breast of the SOW, along with brood
of seven pigs
Mr.. Julian 4. Smith has given up
his position as passenger brakeman
on the Il. & o. r. r., which he has
filled faithfully and satisfactorily for
four years past, and has received
position on the Erie Railroad.
/. Mr.. Geo. w. Welsh has at last TN
ravclcd the long unsolved problem of
perpetual motion, and has hanging in
his shop an iron claw for drawing
nails which keeps in constant vibra-
ton, without any visible cause.
Before you buy your India Linens,
Victoria Lawns, White Barred Mus
Inns, NaInsooks, Lawns of all shades
and styles, Satines, Pcrcales and
Fancy Dress Goods, look at the i'm
mense stock that the SHENANDOAH
MILLING Co. have, and are selling ut
a reduced price.
Mr.. Doug. Brown was painfully in
jured in the feet by pitch-fork n few
days ago-the fork being in buggy
in which he was riding, and suddenly
driven forward by the handle coming
in contact with the spokes of one of
the hind wheels. Mr.. Brown has now,
we are glad to say, pretty will recov-
cred from the injury.
The County Superintendent and
Presidents of Boards of Education
met in Charlestown last Tuesday,
and selected Messrs. Geo. w. Banks
and Jesse A. Engle to act in conjunc-
ton with the County Superintendent,
John Hess, Esq, as Board of Ex-
aminers for the next Examination of
Teachers for Public Schools in this
county.
The attention of Rev. DIR. A. G.
Hopkins, President of the Lee Memo
rial Association, has been called to
the omission of several names from
the list of Confederate dead buried
at Charlestown-as read at Edge-IIill
Cemetery on the occasion of the re-
cent floral decoration. The names
referred to are those of Lawrence l..
G. Berry, who fell in combat at Nuts
Hill, near Washington, in September,
1861, of Co. G., I'd Va. Infantry;
Jas. Lee Griggs, a soldier of the
Clarke Cavalry in the 9th Va. Regi-