Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1888-06-12
Local Miscellany.

Chas. W. Brown has for sale a
good Fire-Proof Safe.
Mr.. Wm. Kahn has our thanks for
a Thurman handkerchief.
A movement is on foot to organize
good cavalry company in this To-
cality.
Letters are advertised at Charles
ton for j. H. Ernshaw and Miss Julia
Hershman.
Mr.. Geo.. F. Eichelberger, we I'M
derstand, has been appointed to a
position under the Q. S. Fish Com
missioner.
A petition is in circulation and OBJ
tanning large number of signatures,
to establish graded school in
Charlestown. .s"-
Lost-on Monday of last week, two
Five Dollar Bills, for the return of
which to the SPIRIT office q liberal
reward will be given.
When you visit Baltimore stop at
the Maltby House, where will be
found first-cIass accommodations and
exceedingly low rates.
The Watson House bus is just out
from the paint shop of Messrs. Star
ry & Stump's coach factory, bright
and beautiful as June rose.
Thanks to Mr.. A. Frank Hess for
catalogue of the Officers, Teachers
and Pupils of the Charlestown and
Charlestown Sub-District Schools.
Joseph Trapnell, Esq, sat as
Special Judge in an important S. V.
q r. R. case last.week, in which several
distinguished counsel from abroad
were engaged.
Thanks to Superintendent J. c.
Holmes for late st. Louis papers, CIV
ing interesting illustrated accounts of
the meeting of the National Demo-
cratic Convention.
Mr.. A. S. Crittenden marshaled
the local and visiting wheelmen, TO
the number of dozen or more, last
Saturday, and made a nice parade in
advance of the regular procession.
A game of base ball played last
Saturday, between Capt. Chas. w.
Browns Club of Charlestown and
Shepherdstown nine, resulted in a
score of % to 6 in faver of the for
mer.
We were visited with heavy thun-
der storm, accompanied with some
hail, last Sunday afternoon. The
storm; we understand, was much
heavier about Harper's Ferry than
here.
Mr.. a. S. Crittenden has opened
n bicycle room here in the Hirschman
=buildingreernenof- 1iaia- and Charles
streets. He carries in stock many
different styles and makes of ma
chimes.
The ladies of Oakland will hold a
Strawberry Festival at Mount Hope
= SchoolHouse, on Friday and Satur-
day nights, the 18th and 10th of June,
for the benefit of the Oakland
Church.
The CharIestown Democratic Club
meets next Friday evening at o'clock.
The President requests full attend
ance, and all who have not enrolled
: are earnestly invited to do so at this
meeting.
The members of the Charlestown
Cornet Band realizcda handsome sum
[probahly about SI75 metz from their
entertainment last week, and will be
able to provide themselves with nice
uniform.
Edward Diehi, brother of the
Messrs. DiehI of this place, and Jo-
seph Walling. who erected the teIc-
phone lines in this county, were
among the injured by the late explo-
sion at Frederick City, Md.
The Band Committee request US
to return their hearty thanks to the
committee of ladies who so efficiently
assisted them in their recent enter
tainment, and to the public in general
for the very liberal patronage extend
cd.
The County Superintendent and
Presidents of the different Boards of
Education met in Chariestown last
Tuesday, and appointed Mcssrs. S.
w. Lightner and Chas. L. Smooth to
act as examiners at the next Teach
ers' Examination.
The choir organized for Memorial
Day kindly propose to get up 4 good
oratorio to render for the benefit of
the Lee Memorial Association, with
the object of getting headstones
placed at the graves of the Confcd-
crate dead in Edge-Hill Cemetery.
Our community was shocked to
learn by telegram of the death, in