Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-05-11
Personal.

Capt. Jas. N. Mcfarland and wife left here
on last Thursday on visit to relatives at De
catur, De Kalb county, Georgia.
| Mr.. Jno. s. Hays of Alton was in the City
yesterday and made brief call at the SPEcTA-
| TOR Office.
G. c. Burks has been appointed Postmaster
at Avis in this County in the place of L. A.
| Keiser, resigned.
The wife of Hon. A. C. Gordon is visiting
friends in Delaware. She was accompanied
| thither by her husband who has returned.
Mr. John C. Scott of the National Valley
| Bank is taking month of recreation and re-
cuperation which he will spend on a visit to
relatives in Montgomery, Alabama
Rev. Hugh Goodwin has accepted the call
| to the pastorate of the Baptist church at
fGreenville, and will enter upon his charge on
| the LIST of June.
Mr.. Algernon B. Reese, of Charlotte, N. c.,
with his wife and child, is on visit to the
family of his father, DR.. P. B. Reese of this
City.
Miss Kate Krebs, daughter of the late DR..
w. F. Krebs of this City, who removed from
here to Mt. Jackson is now in Woodstock, her
native town, on visit to Mrs Josiah Heller.
Mr.. Ashby Burke, Superintendent of Elmo
coal mines, who has been i'll with pneumo-
mia was brought by his father, w. A. Burke,
to his home in this City on Friday last where
he is improving.
Rev. A. N. Lambert, son of Mr.. Adam Lam
bert, who graduated at Hampden Sidney Col
lege, preached his first sermon on last SUM-
day at White Hall In this County, acquitting
himself with much credit.
In New York. tomorrow the marriage of
Mr. ]. Talbot Taylor, of Baltimore, to Miss
Jessie Keene, daughter of Mr.. James R.
Keene, and niece of Mr.. LeroyP. Daingerfield
of this county, wilftake place. The mother
of the bride, who married Mr.. Keene in Cali
fornia, was, before marriage, Miss Sarah
Daingerield, a lovely woman.
Mr. ]. Fred. Davis, manager and local ed
itor of the Mining Gazette, Houghton, Lake
Superior Michigan arrived here on.last We'd
nesday evening, and will spend several weeks
on visit to his mother, father, and brothers,
and friends. When he left his home in Mich
igan there was snow on the ground and some
ice on the lake, and when he got here he
found the temperature above 80 degrees. He
is looking well notwithstanding the rigor of
that Northern climate.
Rev. John E. Bushnell A. NJ, for five years |
pastor of st. Marks Lutheran Church, of |
Roanoke Va, has been elected professor of |
philosophy and catechetics of Kee-Mar Col |
lege, Hagerstown. Mr.. Bushnell graduated |
at Roanoke College in 1878, and received the |
medal in logic and metaphysics. He studied
theology at the Lutheran Theological Semi |
nary, South He married Miss Annie c. Ter
rill, of Salem Va He is president of the
Synod of Southwestern Virginia and member
of the executive committee of the Information
al Sunday School Convention Professor
Bushnell is young author of merit and a
preacher of ability, Mr. Bushnell is well and
favorably known here, having resided here for
some time some years ago.
The Shenandoah Valley of New Market of
May 9Th says
ed here Tuesday evening from Washington,
d. c., where she has been visiting, to spend a
week with her aunt, Mrs Emma Shoupe
Rev. DR.. Gardner, presiding elder, preached
several very acceptable sermons in the Meth
odist church, in this place, last Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. Abram Flory and wife, of Augusta Co.,
Va, are here visiting his sister, Mrs Elizabeth
Salyards, having arrived Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Kingan, Staunton, Va, arrived
here Tuesday, to visit her parents-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. John Kingan, and to see her sister
in-law, Mrs. Walker Kingan, who is very ill
with the pneumonia.
Mrs D. c. Cline and family now reside at
Fl. Defiance, Va, having recently moved
from near Timberville to that point"
Col. Samuel A. East, of Long Glade, went
on last Friday to New York to see his son
John, who is practicing law in that City, and
who is i'll with pneumonia.
The Monroe County CIV. Va.,) Watc1saan of
May 9Th, contains the following personal COM
plimentary notice of J. H. Crosier, Esq, who
has become member of the Bar of this City:
~. H. Crosier, Esq, last week removed
from Waynesboro to StauntOn, where he has
opened law Office and is now engaged in the
practice of his profession. Mr.. Crosier is
native of Monroe, having been born almost
within gunshot of Union, and practiced law
here successfully for a number of years, being
finally induced to go South ON account of his
health. He was elected commonwealth at
torney of this County some ten years ago.
serving for four years, and made vigilant
and efficient officer. We wish Mr.. Croser
much success in his new field.'