The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-03-05

The March term of the city court,
Judge Grattan, will begin today March
/ 9TH
s. Miss Mary L,shbaugh spent last week
in Roanoke visiting her uneies, nj. II.
and J. H. Earman.
Phil. Knapp, Optician, has removed
! his office to Drs Lindsey 4 Burkholders
dental rooms in post Office building.
/ On account of the large number of
people who call upon DR.. H. Mayer for
treatment of the eyes, DR.. Mayer will
remain at the Mozart Hotel one week
/ longer.
! The full account of the proceedings of
/ the Virginia Conference at Ronceyerte'
/ W. Va, furnished by our correspondent,
came too late for this issue. IT will ;tl'-
/ pear next week.
/ James Knowles. of Staunfon, who has
| been conducting IA fruit store in Basic
| City during the last three months. IS
! making arrangements to open there q
! bakery and confectionery store.
w. E. Craig has sold to NJ i Stoddall
| and Others The large frame foundry bniid
Tugs on his lot ut the corner OF lewis ana
Vest Frederick streets. The bindings
are to be removed at once Tise lot on
VIII len they stood is Il very desirable
piece OF property.
A very neat and attractive little pam
phlet. descriptive OF Brandon Hotel.
Basic City. has been received. II is got
ten up in the highest style Of the pfl1
ters art, ;,ald is equally as noticeable for
Its literary merit.
Harry H. Bolen, of Lang's jeweiry
store, who went to Baltimore on Monday
of last week, will remain in that city for
about three weeks from the time of his
arrival there, 10 have a cataract removed
from one of his eyes by DR.. Chishoin.
the well known oeialist-
Harrisonburg Register, Feb. 81: We
regret to learn froaG Port Republic OF
the serious illness of II. b. Harnsberger,
Esq. His condition eagiy in the week
required constant medical attention for
two days and nights Later information
brings assurance of decided improve
ment and recovery.
A burning chimney on the honse of
Mr Dinneen, on East kalorama street,
was the occasion of a fire alarm about
$50 O'Clock last Friday evening. The fire
department turned out with their APP
paratus, but fortunately their services
were not needed There has been no
fire ia Staunton worth mentioning since
the partial Burning of j. II. Blackleys
store early in November, and the loss
from that was not much over Fl 900.
The Staunton office of Dunlap & Bar
nett, civil engineers for the staunton
Development Company, is decorated
with copies of Il number of seientifi~
callv accurate and artistically drawn
maps made by them for town site com
panies at various places in Virginia.
The large map of staunton and vicinity,
made by them for the Development Co,
is considered ii fine piece OF engineering
and drawing.
The third excursion of this winter
from Staunton to Washington, by the
Chesapeake & Ohio railway, will take
place next Thursday, March II. The
round trip fare will he 1915, for tickets
good TO return upon up to the evening
of March % Persons can start from
Staunton next Thursday on any one of
the three regular trains. They leave
here at l:i0 and 9331 II. M, and at 1:40 p.
IN. Full particulars can be obtained
from James Ker jr., ticket agent ut the
depot.
J. f. Graham, who has built and sold
a dozen or more dwellings on Sears Hill,
will erect III the approaching summer q
large double residence on Winthrop
street, next to the garden of F. l.. karnes.
Mr.. Graham is now building two small
dwellings, at the western base of Sears
Hill, near the Middlebrooll road. When
these three houses have been completed,
all his land on Sears Hill will have been
built upon. In the last ten wears f1iore
houses have been built on : ears Hill
than in perhaps any other portion Of
the city.
The b. & o. Company's third and last
excursion of this winter from the Valley.
of Virginia to Washington will take
place next Thursday, March r. The
round trip fare from Staunton will be
$5.75 for tickets good to return upon up
to the evening Of March %. A special
and attractive feature of this last excur
sion is the fact that the 1919 tickets will
also be good for a round trip between
Washington aud Baltimore on the IA
nous Royal Blue Line and other trains
of the f. 6 O road. Exeursionists gan
start from Staunton at III "a. N. or at
p. III.
The attendance at the o'clock meet
ing of the Y. NJ G. A. last Sunday was
larger perhaps than that of any other
Sunday afternoon meeting ever held by
the Association. About $50 persons were
present, filing the auditorium, the par
lor and a portion of the reading room.
Julius Prufer led the meeting. Remarks
were made by Capt. McIlhany, Capt.
Morton, Guy Cochran, A. Lee Knowles
and l. G. Morton, ir The book keeping
class, free to members of the Associa
ton, will be organized next Monday
night for a practical course Of four or
five months, with two meetings each
| week for recitation or class lecture.
Shenandoah Progress: Rev. DR..
Waugh, p. f., of this Conference dis
trict preached his farwell discourse to
his people here on Sunday night last, in
the NJ. E. Church South. The church
was crowded to its fullest capacity and
his sermon was a very able one, which
stamps him as one of the most able
preachers OF the Baltimore Conference.
Having served four years in this district
all that the law of the church allows, he
expects to be assigned to some other field
OF labor at the next meeting of the Ball
timore Conference which conyenes at
/ II,