The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-09-25
Don't forget the fair. Next Tuesday


Capt Geo. A.. Mushbach, of Alexan
dria, was in Staunton last Saturday.
Miss Reta Strayer of Charlottesville
was visiting friends in StauntOn last
week.
The entries of stock for the fair il
large There will be an attractive dis
play.
Prof. Boyton's aquatic sports at the
fair grounds lake during the fair will be
well worth seeing.
Mr.. Gather, of the Allegheny Sentinel
was in the city on Tuesday and paid the
VIRGINIAN a pleasant call.
The car fare and entrance to the fair
grounds will be only Coo. The old price
was dollar-forty cents saved.
Miss Maggie Campbell, of Staunton,
was visiting her sister, Mrs. John Nc
Daniel, of New Market, last week.
Mr.. George L. Brisendine and Miss
Mary A. Stricken were married at Mr.
Lavender's, in Covington, Va, ON Sep
TENDER 10th, 1890
Mr.. J. G. Scott, of the National Valley
Bank, was out on the street Tuesday
after four weeks confinement at home
from pneumonia.
The Methodist church at Linville will
be dedicated next Sunday. Rev. DR..
Cox, of Harrisonburg, will preach the
dedicatory sermon.
Mr.. Jacob H. Bess and Miss Florence
Shoemaker were married at Mrs. Mary
A. Shoemaker's, in Covington, Va, on
September 1Sth 1890.
| A special premium of solid silver
toilet set for the best horsemanship by
the ladies of the district will be won by
some lady next week.
Miss Susie, the interesting daughter
of DR.. R. S. Hamilton, of near Church
vile, has been entered as a pupil at
Loutherville Seminary, Md, for this SEES
sion.
The stock of the Allegheny Mining &
Development Company is going off
rapidly. In two weeks there will not be
a share to sell, at present rates of dis
posing of it,
Mr. Turner Winfield, of Sanford, Fla j,
was in the city last week He has been
spending short time at his fathers,
DIR. ]. Q. Winfield, Broadway, Rock
ingham county, Va.
The millers in the neighborhood OF
Greenville, Messrs. w. F. Smith and ]
| B. Collins, contemplate furnishing their
mills with the necessary machinery tc
make roller process flour
| Rev. Job Turner, held service last Sun
day afternoon in the Episcopal church,
! for the deaf mutes of the Institution,
and those living in the city. 1t was a
service of great inteaest.
| We have seen the drawing of the rail-
way gate recently patented by Mr.. A.
| S. Hanger, of Fishersville 1t is a use
full invention and will, we have no doubt,
be generally adopted on railways.
| The dwelling and store of Charles .
Brock, at Lacey Springs, Va, We're
burned on Saturday morning, the 14th.
|
time. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
Messrs. Moore & HILBERT, mineral ex
perts, of Staunton, have leased part of
the farm of Miss Hannah Forrer, on South
River, near Stuart's Draft, and are open
ing a body of fine brown hematite ore.
Clifton Forge is forging ahead. Lots
on the property of the Clifton Forge
Company are jumping at rapid rate.
Some that sold week or ten days ago
have been sold since at 81 900 and 81, 500
and still going up.
| The Sunday evening services in the
several churches of the city will com
mence hereafter at 7! o'clock instead of
as heretofore, except the Second Pres
/ byterian, where they will begin at &
O'Clock, p. m, for the present
The Ladies' Aid Society of Christs
Lutheran church will have an "Orange
Grove" and ice cream festival OH Friday,
September Goth, from Z to II p.- m. in
the room formerly used by Y..M., CA.
in City Hall. The public is invited.
The residence of J. NJ. Kent, in Har-
risonburg, was burned last week. 1t
was handsome building, located ON
Main street, and pleasant home. 1t is
thought to have been the work Of an in
cendiary.
We have received from James Nc
Dowell, Esq, secretary, an invitation to
attend the Botetourt Agricultural and
Mechanical Association, which will be
held at Fincastle, Va, October 18th and
18th, for which we return thanks and
regret our inability to attend.
Miss Laura Taylor, of Texas, who has
made quite a reputation as an accom-
plished horsewoman, and who is very
popular with the young gentlemen of
the town, left for Texas yesterday. She
has been living in Staunton several years
and has Won several premiums at the
annual Fairs
Willie Bumgardner, the 10 year old
son of j. Alex. Bumgardner. Esq, died
at his fathers residence near Greenville
on Tuesday evening last. He had been
suffering for many months, first from
the grippe and then from complication
OF diseases, which caused his death. He
was a promising youth and much be
loved by all who knew him.
We were pleased to meet our old friend,
H. G. Kindig, Esq, last week, who is
looking the little worse from an attack
OF typhoid fever, which kept him in bed
sixty days He reports that both his
apple and potato crops are failures.
Mr.. Kindig is noted for the superior APP
pies he raises, and is equally well known
for the size and quality of the potatoes
he grows.
Died, September 18th, near Church
vile, Mrs. Mary Jane Lambert, aged
seventy years, six months and twenty
days. She had been a consistent and
worthy member of the United Brethren
church for forty-nlne years, and was an
affectionate, wife and loving mother
from girlhood to old age. She died in
peace and leaves an aged husband and
four small children to mourn her loss.
But their loss is her gain. Ct. w. s.
For many years Mr.. B. F. Thompson,
of DeS MOines, Iowa, was severely atfii,.t-