The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-13
Wheat & summerscn have the best


stock of fancy groceries in the Valley.
Come to the sale at Bessemer, Va, or
the 18th of November, if you want te
double your money.
Thanksgiving day is coming! Christ
mas is coming. Seasonable specialties al
Wheat & Summerson's.
Colonel Thomas Smith, of Fauquie1
county, who served as a United States
attorney for New Mexico during Presi
dent Cleyeland's administration, spent
last Sunday in Staunton.
The Augusta County Teachers Asso
citation will hold a meeting in Staunton
on the 4th Saturday of this month, No
vember %. All teachers are invited and
requested to be present.
The Hid Park Concert Company gave
very good musical entertainment last
Thursday evening in Y. NJ. G. A. hall
The cornet playing by Miss Park was
exceptionally fine.
The Opera House was packed Tuesday
night at the Little Lord Fauntleroy per-
Torrance. Everybody was delighted
with it. The New York Theatre Com
pany, during all of last week, had SINH
lar success.
There will be missionary tea at the
residence of Mrs. Cootes on Thursday
afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, for the
benefit of the women's missionary socie-
ty of the Methodist church. All mem
bers of the congregation are invited.
Married, at the residence of Mrs. Eliza
beth Kincaid, near Clifton Forge, Nov
ember5th, Mr.. A. B. Anderson, of Alder
son, w. Va, and Mrs. Ada X. Tucker,
of Clifton Forge. The happy couple
left on the $50 morning train on u trip to
Anderson.
The protracted meeting conducted in
the United Brethren church by the pas
tor, Rev. j: d. Donovan, is being con-
tinued with increased interest and at
tendance. The church is crowded at
nearly every service, and between forty
and fifty persons have been converted.
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Methodist church was closed last Sunday
evening, after having been continued
through four weeks, excepting Saturday
evenings. The meetings resulted in the
conversion of 43 persons, % of whom
joined the Methodist church last Sunday.
Mr.. w. w. Stewart, of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad company, has been in
Staunton and at other places in the val
through which it is proposed to extend
his road. He is said to be well pleased
with the prospects afforded for another
railroad.
Captain T. ]. Crowder, Major Fletcher
and Paul Grow are now engaged in the
work of correcting and summarizing the
list of names composing the city councils
recent census of the population of Staun-
ton. The care exercised by them will
render their census as reliable as one can
be made. About one more week will be
needed for completing their work.
The young ladies' missionary society
of Trinity church will give the Grass
hopper Cantata in the opera house on
Friday evening, Nov 81. It is most
entertaining and delightful cantata. The
object for which it is to be given is a
most worthy one, and we bespeak for the
young ladies good audience. Those
who go will be amply repaid, in fun II
nothing else.
The Staunton Improvement Company
will hold its first auction sale of lots on
Thursday, November ~. The sale will
take place in pavilion on the company's
grounds. On the preceding day, Nov
ember 26. the stockholders of the COM
pany will participate in drawing for
1000 lots. Excursion rates have been
secured ON the railroads from all points,
and the railroad fare paid by every pur-
chaser of a lot will be refunded. A brisk
sale may be expected. Staunton Is a
favorite city with many who have care
fully compared the merits of the various
places to which investors are invited.
This is the week of prayer observed
every autumn by Young Mems Christian
Associations throughout the world. In
Staunton meetings for young men are
being held every evening of this week,
in Y. NJ. c. A. hall, from $50 to 9.15
o'clock. They are conducted by Rev.
L. B. johnson, pastor of the Harrison
burg Presbyterian church, and formerly
pastor of Hebron church, near Staunton.
On next Sunday evening, beginning at
7.30 o'clock, a union meeting for every
body, both ladies and gentlemen, will
be held in the First Presbyterian church.
At this meeting a part OF the time will
be devoted to an account of the growth
and extent of Y. N. G. A. work.