Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-03-23
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WHEREABOUTS AND NOV EMENTS OF Pee
PIE THAT YOU KNOW.

Mrs. T. M. Huyett sang very pretty
duet as an offertory at the Presbyterian
church yesterday. Cards are out announc-
ing the coming marriage of Miss Maud St
G. Waddell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh
r. Waddell to Mr.. l.. Marsh Walker, al
Chestnut Ridge" near Charlottesville
Tuesday, April 3rd.''
A letter WAS received last week by Mr.
r. w. Burke, from Gen. John Echols who
with Mrs. Echols, were in Florida. The
General wrote that they wereat Naples on
the Gulf, the extreme Southern end OF
Florida, so extreme that they had to take
a boat 70 carry them from the main land te
the point they were visiting. Gen. E. and
wife have since returned to Louisville.
In view Of his approaching marriage,
the force at the Internal Revenue Office at
Lynchburg last week, presented Deputy
Collector, Jacob Bumgardner with hand
some set of silver. Mr.. Bumgardner left
Staunton on Monday afternoon for Allen
town, Pa, accompanied by his nephew and
best man, J. Lewis Bumgardner, and his
niece, Miss Mcclure.
MI. r. Conrad Fauntleroy OF st. Louis,
son Of the late Dr.. A. M. Fauntleroy, is on
visit to his mother in StauntOn. 1t has
been six years since he was here. and he
was much struck by the building energy
displayed here, which hesays is not excelled
in any Western town he has seen. MI. E.
is in the law Office of his cousin, MI. T. E.
Fauntleroy at st. Louis, where his special
ty is making abstracts OF titles to real
estate.
| MI. and Mrs. W. A. Kite of Stanley,
Page county, left there last week to take
possession Of their farm in Augusta county.
The Stanley Herald says: 1--WE recommend
them to the good people Of Augusta, and
hope they may be surrounded with many
good friends and neighbors; for they are
worthy of them"
Mr.. J. Cash Cologne, of Fauquier, who
wasrone of the headquarters force in Staun-
ton when Collector Hamilton Shepherd
held the Office in $3.50, and who has been
incapacitated by i'll health for some time,
has fully recovered, and has been appoint
ed General Storekeeper by Capt. Shepherd.
The Presbyterian Committee on Mis-
sions, has ordered to be published and dis
tributed, leahet styled 'The Mission of
the Presbyterian Church in Brazil, y writ
ten 10y Miss Charlotte Kemper, mission
airy and former Professor of Mathematics
at the Augusta Female Seminary.
MI. G. w. Caffray, who formerly had his
dye works on North Augusta Street, was
in the city this week, preparing to move
back from Petersburg. He says he has
seen no town of the same size as alive as
Staunton is.
Mrs. r. A. Palmer, who is at the head
of the Maryland booth at the Columbian
Bazaar, has received from friends in Balti-
more, two Maryland State flags, two Oriole
flags, and several Confederate souvenirs.
DR.. Hunter Mcclure has been appointed
by Gen. John B. Gordon, to be Medical
Director of The United Confederate Vete-
rams for the Department of the Atlantic,
with the rank OF Brigadier General.
MI. James Z. Lightner, of Lightner,
Eichelberger & Co., who has been to Min
neapolis, returned home Saturday evening,
having come around by way Of New Y ork
and Philadelphia where he purchased their
Spring stock.
Misses Mabel and Lily Money of Wash
ington, daughters of Hon. H. D. Money,
member of the House of Representatives
from Mississippi, are visiting MI. and
Mrs. Robert w. Burke, on Church street.
MI. E. C. Vincent. Civil Engineer, of
this county, was on Friday last, appointed
by the Secretary of the Interior, to be Su-
perintendent of Irrigation for the Navajo
Indian reservation at an annual salary of
$500.
MI. Rankin, Principal of Trinity Church
parochiaI school at Waynesboro. who
twisted his ankle while visiting Charlottes
vile some time since, is now suffering
from decay of the ankle bone, and will have
to undergo a surgical operation.
Mr. A. G. Gordon was at the University
of Virginia Friday, attending ameeting OF
the Board of Visitors. The Board made
several changes in the Medical department
to promote it's efficiency.
Nh. J. d. Craig, the popular host of the
Cold Sulphur Springs, and its former own
Ell, repurchased it for SIS. 600 at the sale last
Friday, and will keep it as usual, during
the approaching season.
Miss Anna Cotton of Maryland, who
graduated with distinction at the Virginia
Female Institute two years ago, and is
visiting her Staunton friends, is now with
Miss Mary Morton, on North Coalter street
MI. J. A. Armentrout of Weller & Al.
mentrout, the Main street clothiers, has
returned from buying their Spring Stock
| in the Northern cities.
A fashionable New York colony arrived
at the Hot Springs in Bath county this
week, including Mrs. Geo. Lewis, MI and
Mrs VIM. Wall Chaplin, MI. and Mrs. H.
L. Gorton, MI. Louis Won Hoffman and a
dozen others.
MI. James Lindsay Gordon, the young
Virginia orator, replied to the toast Of ''The
ladies'" at the banquet of the Friendly
Sons Of st. Patrick, in New Y ork last Sat
urday.
MI. J. G. Fretwell has been elected rep
resentative, and MI. John W. Bryan alter
nate. to the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
from Staunton Lodge. The Grand Lodge
meets in Alexandria, April 10.
At successful performance in LeXing-
ton, Friday night, for the benefit of the
firemen, Harry Fifer, the Staunton jug
gler and ventriloquist was the central
figure.
MI. Crawford Shomo of FishersvilIe
last week visited his old home in New
market for the first time in forty-fve years
Mr.. Henry Clay Fellers, formerly a CLERK
at the Virginia Hotel, was in the city last