South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-08-05

opringneid, was In town Tuesday.
Miss Otie Entler, of this place.
is spending this week at Atlantic
City.
|. L. Brady. ESQ, returned from
Towards Lick, Hardy county, last
Friday.
There will be preaching in the
Presbyterian church in this place
Wednesday night.
Read, in another column, Notice
OF dissolution OF partnership OF
Shelley and Wirgman.
Mr.. Harry Sharff, OF this Office.
visited friends in Martinsburs Sat-
urday night aud Sunday.
Rev. Alfred Graham will preach
in tho Presby terrain church in this
place next Sabbath morning and
night.
Mr.. Henry CT. Houser has de i'd
edly improved his dwelling and
store by a new coat Of paint and
also an iron roof.
Mr.. Bion Harrison spent last
Sabbath with his family at Noun
tain Lake Park. He reports the
weather delightful up there.
f. N. Gilkeson is ordering Fur
niture every week.
Mrs. Newkirk and Mrs. Howard
from Georgetown, ID. O., visited
their cousin, Mrs. Mary Williams,
in this place, since our last issue.
p. Garfield, ID. d. S., will be
in Romney from August Sth to
Aug. IS. Office at Keller House.
BE prompt in calling early to make
engagements.
Now is the time for any one de-
string to see the far west and the
rocky mountains to secure cheap
trip to Denver. Read the Is. s. o.
rates in another column.
We would call the attention oil
our readers to advertisement in this
issue Of Stephenson Female Semi.
nary under the principalship Of
Rev. G. n. Campbell, ID. ID.
The Womans' Foreign Miss; ona
ry Society will moet at Mrs. NJ g.
Cookps' Thursday, August A, al
half past two O'Clock. Please bt
prompt SEo'Y PROTEIN.
Mr.. Edmund Bonney, who came
to his sisters in this place som,
ten days ago looking so very feeble
seems to he improving. We have
noticed him on the street seyera
times.
Mr.. John p. Corbett came oyel
from Cumberland Saturday to see
his family who have been visiting
his mother, Mrs. j. V. Parker, il
this piece. They all returned t(
Cum berland Monday.
Gilkeson's Palmetto Wire Woven
Mattrass is greatly in demand
and he handleJ largely Cotton ant
! ouuCh BldttISsSeS'
We understand that the Reunion
of Elk. Confederates will be held on
their grounds at Frenchburg, near
this place, on Wednesday. the 3lst
day OF this month, ana Thursday
the 1st day Of September.
Mrs. Asa Moreland. formerly OF
lLis county, but now of Scdalia
Missouri, is visiting her father
Mr.. Thornton Off1tt, and Other
relatives near SlanesvilIe. She and
her father were in Romney on Mon
day.
S i'll another opportunity to see
the grand old ocean is offered you
to- !ay by the unusual low rates o.
the B. & o. II. r. for another ex
cursion to Atlantic City. Tickets
good for II days. Those of oul
town who have been and are nov
there cannot say enough in praise
Of the seashore enjoyments.
The friends of Mr.. J. j. Combs will
be glad to know his son, James r
Com bs, who was so dreadfully hur
in q train wreck in May last. is get
ting we'll. lie has had hard strug
g'e but he wrote his father n few
days ago that his wounds were al
healing and he thought he would bt
able to sit mp in a short time. Ira
ly tits wonderful case--both Leg
and his right hand gone and hi
poor body deeply eaten with severe
burns and yet he has lived through
it all and now has a buOyant hopt
of life before him.
We are md very many o5liga
tions to Rev. Il. w. Bond, ID. ID,
Principal Of Randolph Macon Acad
envy at Front Royal, Virginia, To-
an invitation to attobd the dedica
ton, on the 9Th il st., Of the acad
envy buildings as the GUEST Of thu
/ institution, and also a railroad tick
ct to Front Royal and return. w,
appreciate this courtesy and would
most assuredly accept il our hand
were not so tied with newspspe
/ duties.
With DIR. Bond at the head o
Randolph Academy success ant