Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1891-06-02
Local MiseeIIanY.

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The Jefferson Guards disbanded
ON Tuesday evening last.
A new line Of glassware be
sold cheap at Harry NJ. Whiting
toms.
Mr. p. c. Kennedy has nice offices
in the second story of the Maxwell
building.
White Mountain Triple Motion Ice
Cream Freezer, the best made, for
sale by Earnshaw & Dooley.
It is reported that Rev. DIR. w, a.
Meade has accepteda callto the Epis-
copal Church in shepherdstoRn.
The Office of the G. NJ, NJ. & 1.
Co. is now adorned with an elegant
large Miller fire and burglar proof
safe.
Our former townsman Capt Thos.
d. Ransom, delivered an address on
Confederate memorial day in Staun-
ton, Va.
Mr.. J. " Russell has the dandy
solfne stove. 1t will get dinner
when tile cook is away and wash up
the dishes.
The walls Of the first story of the
Construction Company's store build
e ARE up. and the work progressing
Satisfactorily.
7. G. Green was last week APP
pointed Commissioner of the Cir
cult Court, in place of S. w. Wash
ipgton, resigned.
Mrs. Maurice Kahn had a valuable
COW killed on the N. & W. R. R.,
near the Messrs. Lippitt's brickyard,
last Saturday night.
A large number of colored persons
from this place attended Storer Col
lege commencement, at Harper's
Ferry, last Saturday.
The walls of the Harness Factory
are rapidly rising, and can now be
plainly seen from the centre of the
town out George street.
The handsome new uniforms of our
police force are from the New York
manufactoryof Messrs. S. d. Hirsch-
man & Co., of this place.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church
South at Summit Point will hold a
strawberry and ice cream festival
about the middle of June.
I'VE products of the Shenandoah
Brass and Iron Works continue in
demand, and further increase OF
the working force is necessary.
Mr.. Geo. N. Wilson and Mrs.
Dennis McMahon are erecting dwell
IN on lots purchased of Mr.. Howell,
on West Liberty street extended.
The foundation ofthe Boiler Works
is about completed, and work upon
the foundation walls for the Road
Machine Works will be commenced.
Regular meeting of Malta Lodge,
No. 80, A., f. & A. M, for election
of officers, Friday evening, June .,
at 8 o'clock. A full attendance re-
quested.
Mr.. Troutman has purchased a
boiler for the Charlestown Glove
Works, and will use it in the steam
laundry improved process in
glove manufacture.
Our Mayor and Town Council
have taken painsworthy steps TO
break up the tramp, Ioafng and
drunkenness nuisances, and we trust
win be successful therein. See or
dinances in our advertising columns.
The Hotel Powhatan structure is
growing rapidly. Contractor Holmes
is7ushing the work upon it, and in
few weeks it will stand out as a
thing of beauty, visible for some dis
tance from every point of the COM
pass.
The Charlestown Glove Works WAS
srganized on the 25th ult. by the
eIection of a full board of directors
and the following officers, viz: H. II.
Cooke, President; G. A. Troutman,
Superintendent; R. A. Alexander,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Mr.. Stuard Hirschman, we are in
formed, has placed about seventy.
five shares of the City Electric Light
Company, of this place, in New York.
Other shares are being placed, and
there is reasonable prospect that
Charlestown will soon be enjoying
this improved mode of illumination.
A colored man in the employ OF
Or. Schaeffer, of Harper's Ferry,
drove horse and buggy belonging
to the latter short distance in the
Shenandoah river at that place, on
last Saturday. for the purpose OF
watering the horse. The horse got
in a hole in the river and not being
able 70 extricate himself from the
buggy, was drowned. The drivermade
heroic efforts to save the horse, and