Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-12
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WHEREABOUTS AND MOVEMENTS OF Pee

springs says: NOU Cne least euJoy duio vi
tertainment Of the season was coaching
party TO Goshen given by MI. j. Levi
Bumgardner Of Staunton, and chaperonet
by Mrs. Dabbs of Staunton. The part.
was followed by a dance at the Alleghan.
Hotel. Those who formed it were Misse
Warner of Philadelphia, Foreman OF st
Louis, Wayt OF Staunton, Dyer, Bayly
Kilby, Ray, and Messrs. Joseph Glasgow
H. B. Sproul, Baldwin Wayt, R. Bumgard
ner, Tom Hogshead, V. L. Denny
and J. II. Woodward. The SAM
correspondent describing a german
says: Immediately after the ger
man Mr.. J. Lewis Bumgardner' of Staun
ton, rendered to few friends an elegant
and tasty lunch, consisting of fruits ant
confectioneries and at which Mumm's ex
ira dry occupied a prominent place. Or al
the entertainments during the season none
will prove Of greater pleasure.
Capt. Carter Berkeley, who has accepted
the general agency for the Valley ant
Piedmont Virginia, of the New York Life
Insurance Co., advertises elsewhere fol
agents. He will leave in a few days tt
make tour of his territory. This is pro
badly the richest Life Insurance Ompany
in the world. A recent official examination
of it's affairs by the State Insurance Agen1
Of New Y ork, showed that had 1925, 100000
of assets, and net surplus of $l5, OO0.OOO
The London, Canada, Free Press motto
ing the appointment Of Mr.. Armadale o.
Root, formerly of Staunton, as Manager
of the Opera House there for another sea
son, says: sMr. Root has by his obliglng
manner and intelligent supervision, won
host of friends during his short residence
in London" Mr.. Root is a son Of MI. E.
M. Root.
Miss Belle White of Atlanta, Ga, a
daughter of the former Superintendent OF
the Staunton Iron Works, and former
timore, where she was visiting her sister
Mrs. De Kline, Saturday morning, to MI.
Frank A. Hayward editor of the Norfolk.
Va, Southern Progress,
While MI. H. o. Williams the well known
State Secretary Of the Y. M. G. A. of Va
was in bathing at Asbury Park, N. j., some
one stole his check for jewelry and went
and safely got away with about 300 worth
of jewelry belonging to his wife.
In the changes consequent on the Adams
Co. taking charge of the express service on
the Richmond & Allegheny road, W. A
Huddleston Of Basic City is moved to Rich
mond, and L. L. Brown Of Arbor Hill, has
been appointed messenger on the new
route.
Capt. I. B. johnson of Phi'lippi, Barbour
Co., w. Va, who was nominated for State
Auditor by the Democratic convention Of
that State, was at the Virginia Hotel this
week OH his way home from Charleston
He says the canvass will begin actively il
that State with the opening of Septem Der
Mrs. w. NJ. Blackley Of this city, has
been appointed to clerkship in the Census
Department at Washington, and left last
Friday to take it. She took her children
who will be under the care Of her mother
Mrs. Bassett, who resides there.
Mrs. Lily Patton Kearsley Of Radford, il
summering at .Wheatland," in Jefferson
county, W. Va. Her hus band, MI. Geo
T. Kearsley, with some friends, is camping
at Shannondale Springs near there.
Misses Emma Coffman, May Magrude
and Laura Walton Of Woodstock, and Der
tina Wissler Of Edinburg, Va, who hav'
been visiting the family of MI. r. d. Halls
lip on Maple Avenue, have returned home
Maj. I. G. Elder. Misses Annie and
Eloise Elder, and Miss Marshall of Apo
mattox who has been attending the Nor
City.
Mr.. Charles Stowe, the Press Agent O
Sells Circus, which exhibits here Aug
31st, was in the city Tuesday. AS he was
fellow law student with Grover Cleveland
he is naturally an enthusiastic Cleveland
man, and besides this he is good fellow
all around.
Mr.. Geo. c. Walters is in the city. H
says the campaigning in South Carolina
which State he is just from, is as hot as i
was in Alabama. He thinks, whatever th
State divisions in those States now, No
vember will find all the Democrats unitet
on the Presidential ticket. MI. Charlie
Walters is also home on visit.
Capt. J. The. Long is rapidly recovering
from his recent accident. On Monday b.
walked from his home to the Fire Depart
ment Station, two blocks away. He foun'
that with the aid of clutches he managet
very well, and on Wednesday he drove dow
to the gas works.
Messrs. J. J. Prufer and G. e. Berry lief
on Friday last for two weeks stay at MI
Henry BOrdcn's near Laurel Hill. Mrs
Prufer and Mrs. Berry and the children 0
the two families went along to enjoy an oil
fashioned country vacation.
The Clifton Forge Review speaking o
the late D. st. George Frazer who died il
Staunton, says ]: s'He was plain, straight
forward, honest and honorable in all hi
dealings, and leaves behind al exampl
worthy to be followed"
Among the Stauntonians registered a
the Rockbridge Alum last week were Rev
W. J. E. Cox Of the Baptist church, j. e
Woodward, V. L. Denny, R. r. Andrews
A. M. Myers, Mrs. M. E. Myers, Mis-
Nettie Symmetrical and Miss Ida Cohen.
Rev. 7. Edwin Brown, D. D., of th
Baptist Memorial church in Philadelphia
is, with his wife and daughter, spending
the summer with their relatives, the fami
| ly of Capt. G.. Julian Pratt.
Messrs. George and Charlie Todd G
StauntOn, Geo. Collins of Greenv1lle, an
| Frank DenOon and Walter Todd, Jr., {
Richmond, are off on camping and fishin
excursion near West Augusta.
Mrs. w. P Dupuy and children of Ros