Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-04-24
The New Towns.
Basic CITY.

lowing notes:
Iedustries.-Thc Sch DOL Furniture
Works began operations Monday morning.
Its first shipment of desks will be to Call
fornia, and it has orders to fill for Haytl.
Its CAPACITY is $4,000 desks per annum.
The first annual report of the Car Works
Co.. shows it's assets to amount to 1921, 100.
Its Secretary, M. A. Booker, is in New
Y ork buying machinery for the works.
Matches will he manufactured at the
Basic City factory within two weeks.
Persomal-Judge J. M. Quarles, Gener-
al Manager of the Basic City M, M. q l..
Co., has removed his family from Staunton.
They are now stopping at the Brandon.
The Judge will at once begin the erection
of an elegant residence in this city.
EM. A Booker has given the contract for
the erection of his fine residence Oh Bridge
street, to Architect w. B. HoltzclaW OF
this city, who will commence work on the
same next week,
Rapid Building during the past ten
DAYS dwellings and store houses to the
value of sos, 900 have been contracted 1or
at Basic CITY. The contracts call for the
speedv completion Of all these buildings.
| Shendun.
The Shendun News of Friday has the fol-
lowing items
A Healthy Locality.-At the close OF
communion service last Sunday at Mt.
Horeb. Rev. Mr.. Laird called attention to
the remarkable fact that out OF member
ship of 200, only one death had occurred
during the past year. Shendun is within
the bounds of Mt. Horeb congregation.
Industrial Hems.-Thenew iron bridge
across South river has been completed and
Mr.. D. Caldwell has returned to Chambers
burg, Pa.
Several car loads of material have arrived
for the Shendun Construction Company.
| A. d. Wright, President, and this COMMA
ny will commence business in few days
The Shendun Brick Company have orders
for over 100000 brick from Basic City,
Clifton Forge. Shenandoah, Gordonsville,
Staunton and Natural Bridge.
The First Bass.-The first bass OF the
season was caught at Shendun On Wednes-
day of last week by Mrs. Dr.. Mohler. 1t
weighed q pounds.
Clifton Forge.
The Review of Friday has the following:
The Fruit Crop.-The frosts of the past
few days have not injured the fruit much
and the peach crop will be immense.
Personal-Wood Huddleston has been
promoted to a regular messenger OF the
Adams Express Co., and assigned to the
run from Richmond to Huntington.
Mrs. J. Gardner Woodwardhas been seri-
0 lsly i'll for several days.
Mr.. Hugh Rowan. father of the late
Capt. M. A. Rowan, died at Low-Moor on
April 10th, aged seventy years,
The Chiffon Forge Building and Con-
structiom Co., has commenced the erection
of brick building 5OXS0 feet to be used fol
bank and store.
| Buena Vista.
The Advocate furnishes the following
items:
Large Freight.-Durlng the month OF
March, 25 car loads of freight were handled
at Buena Vista every day. 1t was a larg
Ell month S work than was done at any Vir
ginia city except Richmond.
Accident.-C. r.. Sheets, a carpenter
new Hotel Buena Vista, on Monday. was
: thrown from the roof to the ground, a dis
lance of sixty feet, by the breaking of ;
1 scaffold. He escaped without broker
bone and received only some bad bruises.
I; The Glass Company has perfected its OF
a; ganization by the election of j. W. Collins
(; of Ohio, Secretary; Thomas j. Martin O.
5 Ohio, General Manager, and S. M. Donald
S OF Buena Vista, Treasurer. VIM. Patricl
!; of Staunton is Director in the company
The sand deposit land has been purchased
PersondI.-F. III. S. Morrison, one Of
| our active real estate agents, has removed
+ with his family to Buena Vista. They al
Z boarding at Mrs. Wiber's On hotel hill
e Waynesboro.
e The Times Of Saturday has the follow
! ing:
= Busy Scene.-Since the good weathe
S came, the Waynesboro Building and I'm
S provement Co. has over two hundred car
penterS and painters at work, and IN
). Waynesboro Stove 90. has twenty thre
J. carpenters at work.
More than Doubled.-The Waynesbor
PRESBYTERIAN church, of which Rev. A. r
Cooke is pastor, in 1890 contributed to a
objects $2,7O2, and in 1891 $6,206, an il
f crease of So, 504.
Personal.-Messrs. Bib, Hartman Il &c
b have dissolved partnership by mutual con
e sent. MI. T. J. Hartman will hereafte
j. make Staunton his headquarters, but wi
q by no means sever his connection here, W
|. are pleased to state. MI. Hartman ha
l. many friends in this place who will AWAY
a be glad to see him.
d Rev. a. II. Cooke has been in Staunto
{. attending the local missionary meetings.
:. Dr.. E. w. Kirby, State Lecturer Gran
Lodge of Good Templars, will deliver
e free lecture on the subject of Temperate
in the Presbyterian church at 1870 T. M
!, Monday, April 10th.
: Mr.. M. M. Robertson, the live and pol
> ular real estate man of StauntOn, Va, wa
: here Saturday.