Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-01-04
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"hEhhAboOIo AND NOV EMENTS OF PEG
PIE THAT YOU KNOW.
The ONO State journal published at Co
lumbus, OF a recent date, gives a very in
teresting account of a sham battle at til,
Kenyon Military Academy, under the su
perVlslon and direction of Capt. Thomas
A. Blackford, cOmmandant OF the CORPS of
cadets, which attracted much attention
and was witnessed by several Thousand
people, many of them old soldiers. Cap
tain Blackford is graduate of the Viz
glnia Military Institute and is son Of
DR.. Blackford, Superintendent of the
Western State Hospital. lie has been pro-
lessor and commandment at Kenyon for sew.
eral years, and has conspicuously displayed
his ability and has done credit both to his
alma mater and his native State He was
last summer prominently mentioned for
the position Of commandment of the Vir
ginia Military Institute, occasioned by the
resignation of Col. Marshall. Capt. Black
ford is spending the holidays in Staunton.
Charlottesville Progress: 1.-THE cold
weather has not affected the matrimonial
market. Miss Sallie Henry, formerly of
Winchester. was married to MI. James J.
Carmody, formerly of Staunton, at the
Baptist parsonage Sunday night at 8
O'Clock, by the Rev. DR.. Turpin. The
groom is foreman on the sewerage work.
They will make their home for the present
with Mr.. Sibley on North Second street.
Mrs. Sallie Walker Of Augusta county.
who has been visiting the family of Mr.. j..
F. Elliott, near Charlottesville, left this
morning to visit friends in Richmond"
Abiding to the position to which Mr..
Charles e. Kemper has been promoted in
the Treasury Department at Washington,
the correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record says: "Mr. Charles E. Kemper,
the chief clerk. and for the last two months
the acting Supervising Architect, has re
signed that position and his resignation has
been accepted. He has been appointed 10y
Secretary Carlisle, Executive Officer of the
Bureau, and will have absolute charge Of
the Office force and will have nothing what
ever to do with the purely scientific work. ="
Mr.. A. G. Finley Of w. Va, who had
Rev. DR.. G. w. Finley, of Thinking Spring,
left on Friday for APPOINT on Kelley S Greek,
near Charleston. W. Va, where he will go
into mining coal. The proprietors of the
new works, besides himself, are John B.
Finley, his brother, and E. NJ. Gilkeson
(of the Internal Revenue DEPARTMENT. of
Parkersburg. and G. g. Lewis, Jr., and
Geo. E. Price of Charleston.
Richmond Dispatch of Sunday: 'tMr.
w. w. Gibbs, business manager Of the
Norfolk Pilot, is in the city. 1t is under
stood that his visit is on business partly
connected with the fight that his paper has
undertaken to make against the American
Book Company, and those who are respon-
sibe for the adoption OF it's books for the
Virginia schools MI. Gibbs came from
Richmond to Staunton.
The next annual convention of the
National Association of Woman Suffrage
Associations will he held in Atlanta, Ga,
Jan. 31-Feb. 9Th. One of the leaders in
the work in Georgia is Miss II. Augusta
Howard OF Columbus, Ga, pupil OF the
Augusta Female Seminery here, in 1SSI-3
Some Of The most prominent women III
Georgia are HOW active in the suffrage
cause there.
Staunton Lodge No. As, I. o. o. F., has
elected the following officers: G. S. w. |
Barnes, noble grand: William Larne vice
grand; C. E. Fretwell, recording secreta-
ry; C. A. Grafton, financial secretary;
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son Chaplain; DE-. J. H. Boyd, assistant
chaplain; j. B. Coffelt, steward; G. G.
Wheat, lecturer.
Charlottesville Chronicle: ''Hon. H.
st. George Tucker, of the Tenth district,
passed through Charlottesville on his way
to Amherst county, where he will consult
with Captain Taylor Berry and other
friends in regard to the contest Mr.. Jake
Yost is making for the seat in Congress in
the Tenth DISTRICT
Greenville, n. c., correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch: "To-night in the ;
Opera House, under the direction of Miss
Hortense Forbes. a graduate of music of
StauntGn (Va.) Female College, compa-
ny Of Greenvile young people presented
the charming operetta, The Merry Milk
Maids.'''
Richmond Dispatch: "Mr. Ashley R.
Sydnor Of Staunton, who has been visiting
his parents in Prince George county, is
stopping for few days with his friend,
1fr. Richard II. Wills. Jr., on Venable
street. MI Sydnor will leave for Staunton
Sunday night y
In the Sundays Richmond Dispatch of
Sunday before last, MI. Roger B. Akin
son of Staunton, had very pretty story
entitled ''GIory Christmas Carol" 1t is
just one of those well written, entertain
ing stories that makes the readers wish to
see more from the same pen.
Mr.. Geo. H. Bell. formerly of Hughes &
Bell OF this city, and later a medical stu
dent at the University of Virginia, has
taken the position of manager of the Chris
tian, Barbee Co. S drug store, in Roanoke,
having given up the study of medicine for
the present.
Mr.. Walter Searson, representing the
estate of the late Cyrus III. Mccormick. Of
Chicago, has bought the farm adjoining the
Mccormick place, near Steele's Tavern,
lately owned by the Misses Carson, for
81 SOC.
Charlottesville Chronicle: sMr. and
Mrs. G. E. Van Pelt returned to-day from
a pleasant visit to relatives in Staunton.
DE-. W. J. Points and family, who for some
time have been residents OF Charlottesville.
left to-day for Winchester, Va.''
Salem Times Register "Mr. J. E, GUY
has posted a notice in the postohce bearing
this inscription: THE man who left an
Old hat at the Seminary on Friday night $
can get his own by calling there and re-