Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-12-11
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WHEREABOUTS AND MOVEMENTS OF PEG
PIT T. THAT VOJT KNOW

PIE THAT YOU KNOW.
The Electrical Engineer of New York,
for this month, contains an article on 1.-The
hum of motors, ~ written by MI. Slaughter
w. Huff, formerly teacher in the Staun-
ton Public Schools, and now Manager OF
the Electrical Department Of the Baxter
Electric Motor Co., at Baltimore.
Miss Louise Halves. who has been teach
ing Art at the Valley Seminary in Way
nesboro, will ON the departure of her faith
Ell, Rev. DR.. Halves, make her residence at
that school, Miss Resale Cooke, a sister
of Rev. A r. Cooke of Waynesboro, has
been added to the faculty there.
Thos. c. Kinney, President; E. S. Sub
lett and c.. Russell Caldwell, Vice Presi-
dents; 4. T. Powell, Secretary and
Treasurer, and Fitzhugh Elder, Sergeant
alarms, were the officers elected at the
organization OF the debating society at the
Y. NJ. G. A. last week.
Capt. D. A. Stofer, the Mexican vete-
ran, whose death, at Huntersville, w. Va,
was noticed last week, commanded a COM
pany i'll the 25th Virginia infantry i'll the
Confederate army. He was brother OF
Mr. A. +. Stofer of Orange.
Mr. and Mrs. Gee. W. st. Clair who
were married in Staunton on the morning
Of December 1st, were given a very hand
some reception that evening at Wytheville
| by MI. d. A. st. Clair, the father Of the
| groom.
The Bridgewater correspondent of the
Harrisonburg Spirit says: ''Mr. John G.
Erwin of Augusta, was in Bridgewater
Saturday last. He was making prepare
ton fol- deer-hunt. The last time he was
out he killed two at ore shot,
Mrs. Annie Fallon Evans, wife of Mr..
Robert Evans, is very ill Of grippe at her
home on Lewis street. Mrs. Evans was for
many years attached to the staff of the
Virginia Hotel, and her many friends will
be grieved to hear of her illness.
In the drawing of seats in Congress,
Tuesday, Hon. H. st. Geo. Tucker of
Staunton, had the luck to be called early,
and got a desirable seat near the centre aisle
almost in front of that occupied by Col.
O'Ferrall last winter.
The Basic City Advance says: Mrs.
George Fl. Selb of Basic, attended q select
masquerade party given at Staunton few
evenings since. Her costume was very
handsome and much admired
Mr.. John Schutterlee Of Schutterlee s
mill, one of the Oldest citizens of the coun-
ty, is i'll with grippe. His niece, Miss
Marpia Sohuttoraa of Staun4ou xyac
called to his bedside Yesterday.
Gen. John Echols was yesterday to repeat
his Louisville address Oh the life and char
acser of Stonewall Jackson, at Greensboro,
KY, by invitation of the Confederate As
soclation there.
Mrs. Henry L. Hoover, with her daughter,
Mrs Elverton Stands, has gone to States
vile, N. c., having received message in
forming her Of the sickness Of her husband,
Capt. Hoover, there.
Mr.. o. X. Lapham Of Staunton, address,
ed a meeting of Albemarle farmers at
Charlottesville, last Monday, on the culture
of sugar beets. His address aroused good
deal of interest on the subject.
Intelligence has reached here that Mrs.
Rose Harrison Ransom. who was married
here only about two months ago, is ill of
typhoid fever at the home of DR.. Ransom,
her husband, in Jefferson Co., W. Va.
Dr.. Watson Of South River. was pain
fully, but not seriously injured few days
ago by being thrown to the ground by a
sudden start of his horse as he was entering
his buggy.
Mrs. f. i. Fultz of Fort Lewis, Bath Co.,
is III the city guest of her relatives, the
family of Mr.. J. W. Abby. Mrs. Fultz is
en- route to New York, where she will
spend several weeks with friends.
Mr.. Alfred Lauriot left ON Sunday night
to take position on the Burlington, N. c.,
News. He will make arrangements there
and send for his wife and child to join him.
The wife of Rev. DR.. Lane of the Bra
lillian Presbyterian Mission, and former
resident of Staunton, is visiting Mrs. A.
D. Capmbell at Lexington.
Dr.. Stephen HarnsDerger, editor Of the
Front Royal Gazette, passed through here
last week on his way home after a month S
business trip to West Virginia.
Young Ralph Riddleberger. cadet at
the Augusta Military Academy, has re-
turned to Washington to resume his duties
as a page in the Senate.
Mr.. c. Slemp of Lee county, who was
candidate for Lt.-Governor on the ticket
with Gen. Malone, in 1890, was at the
Virginia Hotel, Monday.
Miss Fannie McChesney left for Rich
mond this week, where she will spend the
winter with her sisters, Mrs. w. L. Var
brough and Mrs. F. w. Cone.
Mr.. J. w. Bodey was elected Wednes day
night to represent the Methodist church OF
this city in the Temperance Convention to
be held in Richmond next week.
Miss Eliza Taylor has returned from
n orfolk, where she has been for some
months, and will spend the winter here at
Hotel Mozart.
Judge J. L. Cochran and Mr.. Howe P.
Cochran of Albemarle, were here Wednes-
day in attendance at the funeral Of Mrs.
Elizabeth Brooke Cochran.
Mr.. Jas. l.. Templeton, the courteous
acting Assistant Secretary of the Y. M. G.
A., has been elected to permanently fill that
post.
Mrs. Mabel Tinsley Lightner has just
finished an excellent life-size crayon of
Capt. Fl. M. McIlhany, which she pres ent-
ed to the Y. M. G. Association.
Prof. A. J. Turner, the accomplished
Musical Director of the D., D. & B. Insti-
tuition, is, we regret to learn, seriously i'll
with the grippe.
Mr.. Geo. w. Koiner, member of the
House of Delegates from Augusta, is stop
ping at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond.
The families of Mr.. L. W. Goodloe and