The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-10

Parrish. was in town this week.
Mrs. Lewis Hartman is spending a few
weeks with friends in Stanton.
Mrs. ii. Il. Parker was visiting friends
in Staunton from Saturday until Mon
day.
Mrs. e. Nj. Nettieton and daughter, OF
Covington, spent Monday III Clifton
Forge.
Mr.. John Lloyd returned the first OF
the week from Il short trip to Phlla-
delphia.
Mr.. Kramer, of the firm OF Kramer o.
Son, Of Roneeverte, was in Clifton Forge
yesterday.
Master Clyde Dudley, with Roberts u
Keller, returned yesterday from a visit
to Charlottesville.
Capt. John McQuaide and W. B.
McChesney, Esq, of Staunton, spent
Monday in Clifton Forge.
. Mr.. G. F. Moore, of Andersen & Moore,
was in Buena Vista on Friday and Satur-
day on legal business for his firm.
Mr.. ]. J. Boxley passed through town
Monday evening with number OF
hands for his works at Roneeverte.
Hon. A. f. Withrow was in Clifton
Forge on Monday looking after contracts
for the A. f. Withrow Lumber Co.
Work has been commenced on Mr.. Jas.
N. Pages new residence in West Clifton.
1t will be completed in thirty days.
Miss Nellie Grady, of Richmond, spent
two or three days this week with her
friend. Mrs. J. HI. Carlisle, at Gladys Inn.
Mrs. b. b. Bowles, of Louise county,
who came up in consequence OF the i'll
ness of her son, returned home on Men.
day.
Mr.. H. A. Tabb, prominent business
man of Richmond and director OF the
G. g. O. Develoy ment Company, is in the
city.
Miss Ella K. Anderson arrived in Cliff
ton Forge ON Friday last on an extended
visit to her brother, George X. Ander-
son, Esq.
Mr.. S. g. Cargill of the Low Moor
Iron Company, was in Clifton Forge on
Friday last, and paid this office pleas
ant call.
Capt. John Donovan, of the Clifton
Forge Wholesale Co., was in town this
week checking up the goods which have
arrived
Mr.. O. B. Smith, depot agent, went to
Richmond the first of the week to meet
his family who returned home with him
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Arthur Dickinson, of Dickinson
Bros, after an absence OF some weeks,
was in town on Saturday, and paid the
VIRGINIAN q call.
We enthusiastically emitted the name
of Mayor Bowles from the list of those
who went 20 Richmond last week in the
interest of the town charter bill.
Mrs. DR.. H. M. Patterson, who has
been visiting her daughter Mrs. W. w.
Brenaman for a couple of weeks, return
ed home to Staunton on Friday.
Mr.. Keene Ryan, of the finn of Gooch
& Ryan, contractors, between here and
Covington, spent last Friday in Clifton
Forge, and went East that night.
Mr.. J. M. Williams, late stencgrapher
for the Longdale Iron Company, has re-
signed and accepted a position with Mr..
,Jno. S. Ham, of the Dolly Ann furnace.
The friends of Mr. A. X. Bowles, who
has been sick for a couple of weeks. were
glad to see him on the streets again the
first of the week He is still weak, Low
ever.
Messrs. Patterson & Hardisty. on Tues
day, swung large and handsome sign
for Woodson & Anderson, the corner
grocers. 1t ought to draw trade for
both houses.
The friends of Mr. A. W. Woodward,
of this place, will he gratified to learn
that he graduated from the Maryland
University of dentistry on Monday. He
will return home in few days.
Edmund Scott, the we'll known colored
business man of this place, has com
menced work on the foundation OF his
new house on Ridgeway, near Dry creek.
The foundation will be completed in a
few days.
Mr.. G. Collins Taylor, of Taylor "
Nuckols, returned from the North this
week, where he has selected the hand~
soonest stock of goods ever brought to
Clifton Forge. This firm has reputa-
ton for carrying nice goods, but they
are going to Guido themselves this
spring.
Mr.. Jonathan Evans, of Fayetteville,
N. c., died on Saturday, after an illness
of only three days, at the age OF Of
years. Up until within a few days of
his death he was in robust health. Mr..
Evans was the husband of Miss MAT"
McCurdy, of Covington, whom he mar
ried three years ago.
Baldwin Wayt, son of DR.. N. Wayt, OF
Staunton, was lying at the point OF death
on Wednesday morning, and was not
expected to live through the day. He
has been a student of medicine at the
University of Virginia, and is very
promising young man. Universal sym
pathy is manifested in Staunton for the
stuff erer and the immediate members OF
the family.
Attention is directed to 1.-THE notice OF
the Clifton Forge Company. by Capt.
Lewis Hartman, in regard to the PROPOSE
ton of the Company to take it's full paid
up stock in payment for lots to be offered
for sale, commencing on the 21st OF April.
That such a movement will stimulate
activity both in stock and building
operations, we have no doubt. In this
way persons who wish to build can con-
vert what is valueless as a purchasing
power, into lots suitable for building
purposes We regard the movement as
a good one for the town.
ORA wing to a Close.
The contest for the pair of $500 shoes
offered by Roberts q Keller is drawing
to close, and as the end approaches in
terest is intensified. A large number OF
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