Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-08-17
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Mrs. A B. Lightner is on a visit to ne
brother near Lewisburg. VIVA.
Miss Katie E. Hamilton is visiting her aunt
Mrs. Lorenzo D. Fleet in Strasburg.
AT Clifton Forge next Tuesday, August %
Mr.. s. Lasting, of Portsmouth, will be mar
ried to Miss Katie Shenholtz, of Clifton Forge
Mrs Mary c. Byerley, of this city, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Shipman a
Bridgewater, Rockingham county.
Mr.. w. B. Ward, who, with his family
| spent week on a visit to relatives and friends
at Hinton, w. Va, returned on Friday last
Miss Blanche Rush, of Cincinnati, is on ;
visit to the home of Messrs. w. T. and ]. H
Rush near Steele's Tavern in this county.
In the neighborhood of Greenvlle to-mor
row Mr. Chas. c. Armstrong will marry Miss
Lula Lightner.
Mrs Virginia B. Donaghe and her daugh
ter, Virginia, are visiting the family of Col
Jas. C. Cochran at Folly Mills.
Mrs. Chas. E. Fretwell, and two children,
of this City, are visiting the family of Jno.
H. Moore, Esq, near Montevideo in Rock
ingham county.
Donald Allen, General Manager of Pecos
Valley Railway Company arrived, here at
A. NJ, on last Monday, on visit to friends
here
Rev. Geo. Shuey, of the Lutheran church at
Rock Island, ILL.,, accompanied by his wife, is
on visit to his father, Mr.. Washington Shuey,
of this county.
Mr.. Jas. r. Kemper, of the Fishersville
in this county, accompanied by
his wife and daughter, went to the Bear Lithia
Springs, a few miles north of Elkton, on Mon
day of last week.
On the 3rd inst, at Wesley Chapel NJ. E.
Church miles from Buena Vista, Rev. 0. F.
Burgess married VIM. H. Miller to Miss Mary
L. Patterson, who were horseback, and insist
Ell on being married without dismoun ting,
which was done.
At Buena Vista on last Wednesday morn
ing, j. c. Piper was married TO Miss Alice Lee,
daughter of Mr.. E. Lee, by Rev. r. F. Camp
bell. The parents of the groom, whom they
visited after the ceremony, live at Lynnwood,
Rockingham county.
A daughter of Sitting Bull, the In dian chief,
was married on Thursday at Rondout, N. Y;
to Peter Markle, formerly United States sol
der whose life she saved when he was at
tackled by Indians.
Capt. ]. T. Long, who was hurt by fall as
heretofore published and paralyzed for while
thereby, has sufficiently recovered to make his
appearance, with the aid of crutches. on the
street where he was cordially greeted by his
many friends who were surprised as well as
gratified to see him out again. When We eX-
pressed our surprise as well as delight at see
ing him getting ON so well, he replied that,
at is impossible to keep a workingman
down unless you fill him with whiskey and
sit heavily upon him."
Capt. Thos. S. Doyle, Principal of the D. D.
& b. Institution, and Rev. Job Turner, Mis-
sionary for Deafmutes, who attended a con-
vention of the Principals of Institutions for
the D. d. & Blind, at Colorado Springs, arrived
here on their return last Monday morning,
the former at l o'clock A. NJ, and the latter
at o'clock A. NJ. On his way here, Mr.. Tur-
ner preached at Newport, KY, at o'clock
Sunday evening.
Mr.. Geo. H. Baker, the first local reporter
of the Staunton Daily Neps was married at
hvington, Va, ON the 18th inst, to Miss
Bernice Rowe. The Virginia Citizen of that
place of August 10Th, says
"a very pretty but quiet home wedding was
solemnized yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence of Mrs. w. E. Carter, the home of the
bride. The contracting parties were George
H. Baker, foreman of the Virginia Citizen and
Miss Bernice L. Rowe, one of Iryington's
The happy couple left on the boat last even
ing, amid showers of rice, for weeks stay in
Baltimore and Washington. d. c., after which
they will take up their residence at the Irving
ton Beach hotel'