The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-26
Lvuchburg Jottings.

Davis Bell, son of Dir. VIM Bell OF MI
Sidney and brother of George ii. Bell
Staunton, has good position as steno
grapher and clerk for j r. PettyJchn
! the leading contractor and builder O
! Lynchburg. Mr.. Bell went to Lynch
/ burg several months ago.
Robert H. Blackboard, of Staunton
went to Lynchburg last week to visit
relatives and friends
Rev. r. H. Fleming, who formerly liy-
ed and began his ministry in Highland
county, is serving very acceptably and
successfully as pastor Of the Second Pres
byteran church OF Lynehburg.
John b. Evans, who with his sons is
conducting one of Lynchburg's forty OF
| fifty tobacco facto7 les, is now engaged III
Sunday school work as he was fifteen
years ago when serving as assistant SUI
| perintendent with G. W. Hunter in
| Staunton. Mr.. Evans now has charge OF
the infant department in the prosperous
Sunday school of Court Street Metho
| dist church. He is still! the same active,
leyelheaded Business man, unchanged
in - o - iraranoe by the six or
eig.. .:.,.s - have elapsed since his
removal from Staunton.
Ed A. Mcmahon, who succeeded W.
H. Bailie as clerk Or assistant in the Uni
ted States revenue office at Lynchburg,
occupies the residence vacated by the lat
ter when he moved to Buena Vista. His
office is in Lynchburg's magnificent gov
eminent building. which was erected
several years ago ut n cost of about
1926 200.
Hugh l. Shot and Edward Bryan, two
Staunton boys that serve the govern
ment as postal clerks on the Norfolk &
Western railway, board with Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcmahon. The former runs be-
tween Lynchburg and Norfolk, and the
latter between Lynchburg and the Poca-
hontas coal fields.
Writ Slower and Samuel Mccormick
two of the many young men of ability
that have gone out from Augusta coun
ty, are highly valued and we'll paid COM
sale houses for which Lynchburg is just
ly noted. The wholesale business Of
Lynchburg has extended from tobacco
and groceries to dry goods, shoes, and
other lines of merchandise. Her two
wholesale shoe firms sell nearly as many
shoes as do all the eight or ten whole
sale shoe firms of Richmond.
j. p Bell, who established at NJ. C.
Treiber's corner in Staunton about TWEEN
ty years ago the book business that was
bought several years later by Mfr. Olivier,
is at the head Of the j. p. Bell statione-
ry, handbook and printing company,
whose prosperous business he establish
ed in Lynchburg many years ago. About
thirty men are employed in the Bell com
pany's book bindery and printing Office
at Lynchburg, and nearly as many in its
printing establishment at Roanoke.
Some pleasant hours between the az
at Charlottesville by the Staunton dele
gates to the Y. M. G. A. convention
Most of them visited the historic old
University of Virginia, from whose Pie
rian spring q majority perhaps OF the
professional men of this State drank the
draughts of learning that have sustain
ed Virginias reputation as land of IN
tellectual culture. Though scarcely one
fourth as large in attendance as Harv-
ard Michigan, Columbia and Yale, the
University Of Virginia is recognized as an
institution Of the first rank in scholar
ship by the foremost educators of Europe
and America. Its total enrolment OF
students this year is AGO. about the same
as that of last year. Its prospects for
the future are quite encourageing From
latest reports it is understood that the
late Mr.. Fayerweather's bequest of $780,
600 will be paid without further contest.
The following are some of the Angus
TIA county students now at the Universe
ty: G. d. Forrer, son of Samuel Forrer
of Basic city; James Cochran, of Folly
Mills; John East, Of Spring Hill; Cary
Dunlap, of Middebrook w. A. Reeves,
of Messy Greek: S. B. Seig, of Church
vile; Baldwin Wayt, Carter Braxton,
Fitzhugh Elder, of Staunton.