Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-11-06

Personal.

Rev. J. P. Stump will leave next Friday
to dedicate church near Romney.
Miss Mints Howell, Of Berryville, is Wis.
iting the family Of Mr. NJ. Kercheval.
Mr.. Benjamin Trapnell attended the Bar
Association meeting at Wheeling last week
Mr. Gustav Brown was in Baltimore and
New York last week purchasing holiday
goods.
Editor Haines has returned from Atlanta
aud expresses himself pleased with the Elk.
position.
Editors Morrow aud Snyder Joined the
West Virginia editorial excursionists to
Atlanta.
Miss Belle Carter and Mrs. Annie Camp
bell have returned from a visit to Washing
ton City.
Mrs. f. d. Matthaei, nee Cockrill, of
Harrisonhnrg, Va, is visiting her mother in
This ,oa-.
Mr.. J. c. Davenport, of Roanoke, has
been visiting the parental home. "Altona, f"
near town.
Mr.. and Mrs Wright Denny have taken
the house Of Mrs. I. W. Latimer, on South
Mildred street.
Mr.. Clayton L. Haines visited the Atlanta
Exposition, aud is now with relatives in
Mobile, Alabama
Mrs. ]. C. Wiltshire has returned from
Baltimore, where she went for hospital treat
ment much improved.
Mrs Mollie E. Woody aud Miss Maggie
Behu, of Washington City, are visiting Mrs.
Charles Grim OF this place
Miss Lot.ie Mason, of Fredericksburg,
who hiss been visiting her uncle DR.. G. F.
Mason, left on Thursday last
Miss Lottie Weller, of Thurmout, Nd,
who has been visiting the family of Mr. J.
Frank Weller, returned home Thursday
Mrs WIN. Hill Brown aud babe, Amelia
FOntaine, Of Manassas, Va, are visiting
Mrs. Browns mother, Mrs. Ann Amelia
HOof.
Miss Eliza oappingtOn Gallaher, aud her
brother shannon, left on Saturday for visit
to the family Of Mr.. J. B. Meredith in Phil
adelphis.
Mr. A. d. Miley attended the celebration
Of the anniversary Of the battle of Balls
Bluff, by the survivors of the Sth Virginia
Infantry, last week.
Mr. Augustine Willis, son Of Mr.. n. II.
Willis, has gone TO New York to take q
place on a mail steamer plying between this
country aud England
Mr.. Walter Beall and wife, Of Carlisle.
Pa, visited the family of Col. John T. Glib
son last week. They drove by carriage from
their home to this place.
Miss Virgie Underwood. of Loudoun
county, Va, and Mrs. John Corliss, of Leb-
anon, Ohio. are visiting their sister, Mrs. E.
R. Harrell, in this place.
Miss Daisy Campbell, Of Albany, n Y,
who has been visiting the family of Col. J.
7. Gibson on South Samuel street, left for
her home on Monday last
Mr.. Blackburn Washington, has gone to
Fort Smith, Ark, where be will engage in
the insurance business, having received the
general agency Of two States.
Mrs. Charlotte Howell, accompanied 10y
her son, William, of VALPARAISO, Ind, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Susan Maxwell, not
having seen each other for forty years.
Mrs. Henry Baylor, who has been visiting
her father, Mr.. R. W. Shirley, returned to
her home in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday
of last week, accompanied by her brother
Mr. Stanley Shirley
Rev. DR.. A. c. Hopkins returned from the
meeting Of the Synod of Virginia st Charles
ton last week. On Wednesday night, after
the regular service, he gave brief resume
Of the work Of the Synod. He occupied
his pulpit on sunday, morning and night,
and in the afternoon preached at Halltown.
The Kansas City Star announces the mar
rivge in that city recently Of Mr.. William
A. Morgan and Miss Annie c. Means, by
Rev I. P. Haley Mr. Morgan is son of
Col. ". A. Morgan, of ShepherdstOwn
The Masonic fraternity propose holding
Grand Fair in the new Rouss building dur
ing the winter Contributions will be &C
knowledged by the committee
WN CAMPBELL, Chairman.
The Presbyterian congregation at Kear-
neysyille, recently improved their church by
putting up platform for the choir, and
covering the entire church with beautiful
carpet. The cost Of these improvements was
about 500.
A term OF the L. ;. Court. Judge Jack
son. will begin at Mariinsburg on the 10th