Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-24
Personal.

Mrs. J. Z. Booker, at the Hebron church
manse, has received a. box of Florida oran-
ges from her cousin, Rev. J. B. Morton,
gathered from his grove on Emeralda
Island, Florida. The oranges were packed
by Miss Margaret Morton OF Staunton,
who has been spending the winter in Florl
da and who gives an account Of orange
picking in this week S VINDICAToR.
The wife of Rev. G.. H. Buchanan of the
M. n. Church, South, who had been spend
ing month with relatives in Staunton,
went 10 their new home at Vinton. near Roa-
noke, last Tuesday. The ladies Of the
church had refitted the parsonage and
stocked it's larder for some time TO come
and gave her and her husband hearty
welcome.
At the commencement of the Maryland
College of Pharmacy in Baltimore last
week, George A. Van Lear of Staunton,
received honorable mention in pharma-
ceutical laboratory and was named among
those Junior students entitled to honorable
mention.
MI. w. Lee Hanger, who has been local
editor OF the Waynesboro Times for several
months, and who is son OF the late Wm
A. Hanger of this county, is now mem
ber Of the real estate firm of Talley, Nc
Cue & Co.. of Covington.
DR.. B. B. Ransom, who was so long ill at
the residence of his brother, Capt. Il. d.
Ransom, after coming here to attend the
funeral of his kinsman, Alexander II. I'll.
Stuart, has recovered and returned to his
home in Harper's Ferry.
MI. McH. Holiday, who for fourteen
years has done a successful shoe business at
No. 26 E. Main street, will remove in afew
days to a larger store in the Crowle build
ing opposite the Y. M. G. A. building.
At the Harrisonburg Normal Institute,
July 6th-31st, MI. w. w. Robertson, Su-
perintendent of the StauntOn Schools, will
he an instructor in Arithmetic and Tech
nical Grammar.
MI John w. Arbuckle, member of the
West Virginia Senate, who has many
friends and relatives in Augusta, is lying
dangerously i'll at his home in Lewisburg.
Ralph Riddleberger, a son of the late
Senator Fl. II. Riddleberger, was entered
by his mother last week as a cadet at Prof.
Rollers Academy at Fort Defiance.
Capt. Lewis Hartman, General Manager
of the Clifton Forge Co., moved his family
there last Monday. They have new and
pretty residence there just completed.
The friends of Mrs. Ollie Hotchkiss Jor-
dan, who has been under surgical treatment
in New York, will be glad to know that
she is reported out of danger.
Dr.. Daniel B. Conrad of Kansas City,
Mo-, formerly of Staunton. is paying avisit
to Winchester.
MI. S. n. Bagby has been awarded the
contract for the work of the new addition
at the w. L. Asylum for female patients.
e Mrs. Murray, wife Of Rev. Dr.. James
4 Murray of Bethel church, is visiting he1
sister, Mrs. A. S. Darden in Suffolk.
: Hon. Absalom Koiner has just returned
n to his home from a trip with the State
L Board of Agriculture to Cape Charles City
MI D. V. Ruckman of Mill Gap, High
land, the widely known cattle dealer, has
9 moved to the Glade in Augusta county.
Mr.. w. II. Waddell has purchased {
f place Just outside of Lexington to build ;
q residence.
: Mrs. VIM. Frazier is visiting her broth
: er, MI. J. F. Lewis at Charleston, Kanawha
MI. Fl. W. Hilleary, was visiting hi
# brother in WarrantOn last week