The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-01-22
Mrs. Hester Early died in Bridgewater

Samuel j. Keller, aged 81 years. died
suddenly in Bridgewater on the 18th.
Mr. Peter Cofley and Miss Sallie Tyree
We're married at Sherando on the sth.
Rev. r. II. Mason has accepted call
to the Rectorship of the Clifton Forge
Episcopal church.
The Southern Planter for January has
been received. 1t is an invaluable pub
ication for the farmer.
AIR. Ches. Blair, OF Moscow. this coun-
ty..left yesterday evening to visit rela-
tfves in Lewisburg, w. Va.
Mrs. j. J. Mcmahon, of Lynchburg,
has been visiting friends and relatives
in Staunton for week or more past.
About half dozen members of the
Stonewall Brigade Band are taking steps
to organize themselves into an orchestra.
Mr.. Samuel Grim, near New Market,
died on the Sd of January, aged 10 years
He was the father of Hon. A. Is. Grim,
of Page county.
Henry h. Hanger was in Washington
last week Oh business connected with
the sale of part of a 5000 acre tract of
land belonging to his mother, Mrs. NJ
NJ Hanger, and himself.
We learn from the ReUies0, that w. T.
Slllnlnerson, who had the contract, has
completed the wooden mills building on
the Clifton Forge Company's property,
and ,b.t tha ,nachiparv will ba soon
placed, ready for operation.
In the National Banking and Building
Company of Gordonsville, recently char
tered w. L. Walters jr. is first vice pres
G. G. Thompson is a director.
Wagon timber is advertised for in the
VIRaINIAN this week by the Bodley
Wagon Company-whiteo oak spokes and
woods locust for hubs. Dimensions and
pricss will be furnished on application.
Mr.. Jos. b. Woodward. late of the
Iron Gate Inn, has taken charge of the
office of the Virginia Land and Loan
Company at .-HarrisoaibuT9
Register.
This is a mistake Mr.. Jos. b. Wood
ward is nephew of Jos. N. Woodward,
the manager of the Iron Gate Inn. The
latter is still in charge of that excellent
house.
Mr. Isaac Witt and his son. Mr. Louis
Witt, started Monday on a pleasure trip
to Florida. They will be absent from
home about three weeks or Il month
Mr.. Moritz Witt, of Baltimore, has been
in Staunton for several days
The lady who represented the leading
character in Little Lord Fauntleroy, the
play that delighted the people of Staun-
ton about two months ago, is the wife of
Mr.. A. III. Marley, the gentlemanly adj
vance agent of the Marie Greenwood
Comic Opera Company.
Travellers may learn a lesson from Mr.
G. d. Done. a prominent attorney of
Parker, Dakota, who says: II never
leave home without taking a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Diar-
rhpa Remedy with me, and on many oc-
casions have ran with it to the relief OF
some sufferer and have never known it
to fail" For sale by W. NJ. allen.
The beautiful and very desirable resi-
dence lot of w. P Tams, on North
Green street, between Beverly and Fred
erick streets. was sold by him last week
toCharles T. Palmer for $3.50. Itfronts
eastward 90 feet, and extends back about
ITO feet. Mr.. Palmer will probably build
fine residence for himself on half OF
it,and sell the remaining half.
j. C. Carpenter has leased the iron
mines of the Clifton Forge Mining and
Development Company, and will at once
commence mining and shipping ores
The mine is on the old Charter Oak
property and Immediately east of Iron
Gate, Jackson river separating the town
from the mine location. Mr.. d. ST. Geo
Fraser, who was in charge of the mining
work, has been retained permanently in
that position.
Real estate transfers recorded in the
Augusta county court clerks office dur
ing 1890 number /, 1877, distributed among
the various districts of the county like
this: In Beverly Manor, III; Middle
River, 1874; North River 80; Pastures
Al; Riverheads, So; South River, 1903
OF. those in South River fully clever
hundred were the result of transactions
in Basic City. In the Office of Newton
Argenbright, city clerk of Staunton, 49,
deeds were recorded during the year.
Messrs. Bell, McQuaide and Crimmens
the Council committee appointed to at
tend to the erection of a city stable and
firemans building on the lot near Maj
Bagby's planning mill, opened on Monday
several bids for the construction work
required by S. w. Foulk's plans. As the
price set in each bid was about 81 ,00(
more than the $500 appropriated by
the Council, no bid was accepted. The
plans will probably be revised and
changed, in order that the $500 may
be made sufficient.
Among the new Industries which viii
shortly go into operation at this place
will be an extensive chemical laboratory
under the general supervision of DIR. S
X. Cox. The enterprise will employ
twenty or twenty-five nlHqS 10 peSll
with, with the prospect of an early en-
largement. A number of standard prep
arations already well known to the pub
lie will be manufactured, as well as 9th
ers of merit not heretofore on the mar
ket-RockinghGm Register.
Rev. Mr. Mcclure, a Presbyterian min
lister of Baltimore, will preach next Sun
day morning and evening in the FRS
Presbyterian church of Staunton. Rev
DIR. Shanks, of Lexington, who has oc
cupied the pulpit of this church nearl.
every Sunday since the departure of DIR
Mcfarland in November, has been engag
ed to preach regularly until March,
From letter received recently from DR.
Mcfarland, it was learned that he in
tended to go soon from St. Augustine tx
Winter Park, a winter resort in the int
rior of Florida.
The building association that is beins
organized by Richard d. Apperson, man
ager of the city street car lines, will
probably be ready for business by tn
beginning of February. 1t will belon!
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