The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-23
Covingto News.

Miss Biggs is being entertained by
Miss Nellie Peck.
Mr.. Albert Peek returned home from
college last week for vacation.
NJ ISIS May Mcdonald and Mr. 7. G.
Crawford, visited Clifton Forge Monday
There is some talk among the young
folks of ID hop at the lntermont on the
Fourth.
Three baptisns were made by Rev. S.
f. Chapman last Sunday,i in the river by
the county bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McConnihay re
turned last week from an extended wed-
ding trip to Old Point. Washington and
other points OF interest.
The guests at the Intermont have fit
ted up beautiful lawn tennis court Just
north of the Hotel, and every evening
finds devotees of the game in tennis cos
tunes, playing and perspiring.
Mr.. J. NJ. Buck, formerly of the firm of
Buck, Edwards Il Chew, of this place,
was in town Saturday last looking after
the location OF Il steel plant. Hereturn-
ed to Baltimore Monday, no definite ar
range1nent having been made.
The Presbyterians are holding services
in the Baptist church while their church
is being repaired. The walls will be
handsomely papered or painted, the floor
carpeted. and q new organ will be a very
attractive and much needed addition.
Mrs E. NJ Nettleton and family will
leave on Thursday night for Ashland,
Ohio, on q visit among relatives and &C
quaintances. They will be joined there
~, -J.4x al
extended tour through the Rocky Noun
tain States.
The Office, furniture and library Of the
late James Bowler, Esq, were sold at
public auction on Saturday by his adj
ninistrator, J. J. Hobbs. The total re-
ceipts of the sale amounted to about
$1,000 Mr.. John T. Delaney purchased
the office and the greater portion OF the
books.
We are not advertising, but we must
say that Mr.. j. Ii. Ritsch takes great and
commendable pains to attend to the
wants of suffering humanity in hot
weather. In the first place he has an
elegant soda fountain, and the drinks
which he mixes and runs through it,
makes one forget the cares OF life, par
ticularly that tired feeling which is
the offspring of this hot weather. Then
what does he do next? Why he gets a
patent, double action steam milk shaker
and ice-shaver and-wait till we go and
drink one.
The streets are being surveyed pre-
paratory to putting in the new pave
ments. Much good work has been done
on the streets during the past two weeks
in the matter Of gutter cleaning. There
is no reason why the sanitary condition
of Covington cannot be exceptionally
good. The cutters should be lined with
stone, or some other method adopted to
keep down the grass in order that the
deposits may be washed away readily by
the rains or with broom. We are in
formed that complete sewerage system
will be put in at an early date. No bet
ter investment of corporation funds can
be made than that. When the council
say sewerage" or pavement" the peo-
pie all say amen"
The boating fever has struck our town.
A boat builder who lives about mile |
north of town has taken six orders for |
new boats in the past week. The dam
above Covington affords as fine boating
AS can be found in the State. From four
o'clock in the afternoon the entire length |
Of the boating race is shaded by the i'm