South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-06-05
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at THE HILL.
NEXT SATURDAY.
DIT TIE LID

Rev. G. A. Gibbons left ON tho
noon train "Wednesday TO attend the
annual meeting OF the Episcopal
Council at Petersburg. Tie will
preach at Okonoko Sunday l4ih.
Mr.. Davis, who built the church at
Okonoko. will also be there with the
choii from Romney 10 furnish music
for the occasion.
The jury in the Girrison trial a,
Wheeling, which has been in progress
since Say 4 brough, in ver.iic. OF
guilty OF murder In the second degree
"Wednesday OF last week, aud thus
ended one OF the most interesting
trials in the history Of the State. All
through the trial the court room was
packed.
Last Saturday was pretty generally
obseTv I'd as Decoration day through
out the South 50 we'll as the North
East and West. In Richmond aud
other cities all places OF business
/ being closed. A number Of ex Con.
federates joined in the decor atoms ct
the tomb Of General Grant in New
York among them being Hon. John
8. Wise OF Virginia, who was tic ora
tor OF the day.
Mr.. Charles Il. Rouss has given
$1,000 for the erection OF an lion
fance around Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
Winchester. Va. 1t includes the
Stonewaii Cemetery, in which over
four thousand Confederate dead from
every Southern State are buried. Mr..
R1uss parents and son who re-
Gently died in New York, are buried
in Mt. Hebron.
A litslo four year old girl Of Mr..
and Mrs. Whitecotton OF Pepdleton
county, wandered away from her
home on the eleventh of May aud at
last account was still missing al
though hundreds Of people have been
making diligent search in oil direc-
tons. Tn, parents are very much
gr;eved.
f. NJ. Gilkeson is handling Fur
niture extensively Look at his
Wicker and Antique Rockers.
The ladies OF the Memorial Asso-
citation will have lemonade at five
cents glass at different places in the
town. And it is hoped that no one
other than engaged by them, will
have anything in The eating line to
sell that day. Let H. be said once tha,
this day was in reality Memorial Day
and let rybody do all they can to
aid this cause.
Mrs. Caroline Hie!t returned to her
homo at North River Mills last week
after spending week with her broth.
er, j. 9. Heiskell, Esq., and we are
sorry to state that she met with a
slight accident, while here which
might have been SCI ious. in crossing
: tho miserable old style leading in o
our cemetery. That as also tue one
at the Presby terrain church. are sadly
in need Of repir. it would be a
good idea to have q new one at the
cemetery before Decoration Day.
On FIiIay evening last Mr.. e gar
Moore and Mss Nan Shoe behind
two spirited steeds we're taking drive
to Headsville; in the ncighborhood
Of Mr.. Shulrs mill the horses took
fright at the hois;in2 of an umbrells
anl ran over miserable piece Of road
until their driver succeeded in Draw
ing them io,o the cattle scales al Mr.
Vsuee HCrrio,t's anil thus checked
them and escaped what promised to
be very serious accident. The 20
stiop Of Miss Nan was perilous in the
extreme and their dcliverance from
instant death is considered wonder
full.
f. NJ. GIlkeson's Magnet Flour
is in the lead. IL has NO superior
THE MOST INGENIOUS REAL.
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the offspring of some imaginative
I mind that wandered through a mszt
Of seeming impractlCabilities result
ing eventually in an untold blessing
to humanity.
A reality that Is the delight and
wonder Of the present age is the sew
ing mac hlDe, and the degree Of per-
fec'ion to which II has recently beer
; brought under the management o
. the Davis Sewing Machine Company
realizes Ii brightest dreams OF tht
= most sanguIne Inventors. The new
Vertical Feed, possessed BY the Davis
, alone: places 1t above all compel.
, itor5.
Though frequent editorial mention
, OF lhis machine has been made il
these columns aud attention called t
its merits and Advantages almos
, weekly for months past, no doubt
yet our readers have any adequate
conception OF the improg ements pos
sessed by this model Of machines
For excellency of work manship, sim
plicity OF construction and durability
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