Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-08-15
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AT st. Francis Catholic church at $50 o'clock
tomorrow morning, Thursday, august 10th,
Rev Father McVerry will unite in the bonds
of matrimony, Mr.. Patrick Hanrahen Conner
and Miss Elizabeth Wholey, only child OF
Mr.. Thomas Wholey-both of this city.
After the ceremony, the couple will take
the 40 a. m train on the B. & 0. railroad for
Atlantic City and other cities in the North.
]. H Levin, of McGaheysville, visited
friends and relatives in Staunton on Monday
and Tuesday.
VIM. McGahey, of Elkton, was in the city
yesterday on business.
VIM. E. Trout, of Waynesboro, who has
been on visit to his old home at Spring Hill,
returned yesterday.
Miss Emillie Koontz will leave to-day for
Philadelphia to pay visit to her sister, Mrs.
Albert Moller after which she will go to
Atlanta City and Cape May.
Mrs Nellie Sprunt, wife of Rev. Alex.
Sprunt, of North Carolina, with her children,
is visiting Mrs. George B. Crawford near Fort
Defiance.
Mr. Charles H. Taylor a compositor in this
office left here July Both for Johns Hopkins
Hospital, at Baltimore, to have surgical
operation performed which was successfully
done on the eth of August, but necessitates
his confinement for 10 days, after which, it is
hoped, he will be restored.
Misses Cora Norris of Brunswick, Md, and
Miss Cora Peters, of Baltimore, are visiting
Mrs. Geo. McCreigh in the Barterbrook neigh
borhood.
On Saturday and Sunday last Miss Lena
McCreigh of Barterbrook, Mrs. George Nc
Creigh of that neigh borhood, Miss Cora Nor
ris of Brunswick, Md, and Miss Cora Peters
of Baltimore, were in this City visiting
Misses Margaret and Lucy Cauthorn
Miss Alice Crickenberger of Mt. Sidney is
visiting her brother, DR.. W."P. Crickenberger,
in New Market.
Rev. DR.. Stephenson, of the Presbyterian
church at Woodstock, and his wife, have
gone to Rawley Springs to spend few weeks.
AT meeting of the Buena Vista Alumni
Association of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity Mr.. Robert Paxton, of Buena Vista, was
awarded the scholarship.
Mr. Oliver L Rhodes, with his wife and
son Ed. Oliver Rhodes, has been ON his an
nual visit to Atlantic City, N. j., and has
sent us a copy of the Atlantic City Daily Guest
of Monday, August 9Th, and card contain
ing the menu of Hotel Royal of which e. L.
Johnson is Proprietor. The Guest says that
fifty thousand people visited the Inlet on
Sunday, the 9th, which, it says, sis one of
the chief charms of the City-by-the-sea.
DIR. Hunter Mcclure, with his daughters
Fannie and Annie, sailed from New York
City for Liverpool, England, on the 4th inst,.
and Rev. Robert A. Gibson, Rector of Christ's
Episcopal Church of Cincinnati, Ohio, Alex
f. Robertson of this City sailed for South
ampton, England, on the Sth to spend some
time in Europe. All three of these gentlemen
are sous-in-law af the late Hon. A. FL. II.
Stuart
DR.. v T. Churchman of Charleston, W. Va.
who is a native of this county, has had the
honor of being elected a member of the Board
of Censors of the Medico-Chirurgical College
of Philadelphia.
Mr. c. S. Knott has been appointed Post
master at Dorcas in this County in the place
of G. f. Perry, removed.
Hon John f. Lewis of Rockingham, who
went to Richmond to be operated on for can
Ger has returned to his home without the
operation, as it was deemed advisable to post
pone it till cooler weather.
Mrs. J. w. Newton and wife are spending
several weeks at the Augusta Springs.
Gen. John EchoIs will be among the speak
ers at Confederate reunion at his old home,
Union, Monroe Co., w. Va, on August 23rd.
The Greenbrier Independent of Lewisburg,
w. Va, says that Rev. DR.. j. M. Rawlings,
who has supplied the Presbyterian pulpit
there for the last eighteen months, with great
acceptability to the congregation, will leave,
with his family, on the 9th for Wilmington,
n c.. where he will take charge of the edito-
rial columns of the North Carolina PreSbytey-
ian, in which he has bought an interest.
The wife and children of Mr.. John G. Scott,
of the National Valley Bank of this City, are
on visit to relatives in Montgomery, Ala.
Mr.. Geo. H. Bell of the firm of Hughes &
Bell, is on visit to the Rockbridge Alum
Springs.
is visiting the family of B. Sacllerman on
Augusta street
Miss Mary Berkeley is on visit to the
Stribling Springs.