Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-07-30
Local Miscellany.
County Court August 5th.

Read Kahn's new advertisement.
Graham Flour at Henry Dumm's.
Thanks to Mr.. H. B. Baylor for
late Atlanta papers.
Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is sold
by C. Frank Jones. Price, soc.
The Evangelical Sunday School of
Hagerstown will picnic in Morgan's
Grove, July 81.
Mr.. Frank Rely, of the vicinity of
Summit Point, is clepking for Messrs.
Beall & Phillips.
The Riverton Baptistsunday School
will be with the excursionists to Pen
Mar on August lst.
The foundation for the new graded
school building at Harper's Ferry,
has been completed.
Potomac Commandary, No. ;,
knights Templar, will meet next
Tuesday evening. atty o'clock.
The Annual Picnic of the Sarah
Zane Fire Company, of Winchester,
owill be held at Island Park, Aug. 2.
Prof. j. S. Renncr and several
friends gave a pleasing impromptu
concert in the Carter House parlor
last evening.
Letters are advertised at Charles
ton for Miss May L. Porterfeld, II.
w. Ramey, Mrs. W. L. Wilson and
Charley Dawson.
When you visit Baltimore stop at
the. Maltby House, where will be
found first-class accommodation and
exceedingly low rates.
It is not improbable Col. w. p
Craighill may be assigned as su-
perintendent at West Point Military
Academy.-Free Press.
The handsome steam pleasure
yacht of ar. C. B. Rouss has been
launched on the Shenandoah, and is
pronounced fine boat.
The eleventh annual excursion of
farmers and citizens to the wonderful
caverns of Luray will take place this
season on Thursday, August 10.
A good, steady barber may obtain
employment by communicating with
Geo. l. Travis. of this place. None
but a good workman need apply.
BLr. John II. Bishop has contracted
with the Water and Manufacturing
Company TO lay the service pipes
from the mains to the curb lines.
Special Excursion will be run by
the S. V. Il. p. to Pen-Nar on Thurs
day, August 1st, leaving Charlestown
9:35 A. NJ. Tickets limited to date
of sale.
Capt John w DorIts running IIo-
tel Connor, at Harper Ferry, in nice
Gstyle, and is securing for his house a
good line of custom. See card in
another column.
The S. V. R. R. will run Special
Excursion to Conococheague island
+, next Sunday, leaving Charlestown at
1912 A. NJ. The round trip 31.2O;
tickets limited to date OF sale.
A return game of base bail was
played at Shenandoah Junction last
Saturday between the cIub of that
place and the Charlestown nine, re-
sulting in favor OF the latter by a
score of IS to 3. The chief feature
of the game was S!ifer's pitching.
Mr. Milton Hartman, from Romney.
this State, broke his right leg below
the knee and was otherwise injured
by falling through the trestling, just
above the depot at Harper's Ferry,
last Tuesday night. He was taken
in charge by the Baltimore and Ohio
officials.
Mr.. II. I. NTiley has threshcd his
wheat at the home place, and the
yield was 20 bushels to the acre, 1900
bushels on 60 acres. He had very
heavy field of wheat on the road that
GfelI early, which, had it stood up,
would have made over 40 bushels to
the acre.
A Sunday police surveillance of the
banks of the mill race, above town,
might enure to the benefit of the NOR
, ais of some of the CharIestown
youth. From what we understand,
''Tiger HalI' in its palmiest days
might have just cause to envy this
vicious resort.
We might have added, in our re-
cent mention of the advantageous
placing of the bonds of the Charles
town Water and Manufacturing Com
pany, that Mr.. John Porterield, the
worthy and efficient teller of the Bank
of CharIestown, rendered material as
sirtance to the officers of the Water
company.