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Personals

Personal,
Mr.. Ii. A. Carroll has been appointed
Town Sergeant
DIR. II. R, Moore spent a couple of days
in Washington last week.
Miss Mamie Richardson has returned
from Atlanta and Washington City.
Mr. W. :. Merchant expects to start for
the Atlanta Exposition this evening.
Hon. Geo. Il. Vending and family will
go to Washington this week for the winter
Mrs. NJ. Z. Butler, of shepherdstown,
has been appointed music teacher at Shep-
herd College
Mr.. aud Mrs. Levi Porter spent Thanks
giving Day with Mrs. Criswell, mother of
Mrs. Porter, in Martinsburg
Mrs. David We'll, of Martinsburg, with
her daughter and son, spent several days
with the family of Mr.. VIM. Kahn.
Mai. R. W. Hunter aud wife came to Mr..
George Washington's on Wednesday night.
The Alexandria Gazette says they will make
that city their homo after the 10th instant.
Miss Mary Latimer, of Charles Town,
and Misses Lucilla aud Annie Yates, for
merly of this vicinity, were bridesmaids at
the recent prominent Wood Miller wedding,
in Central Presbyterian Church, Baltimore.
Mrs I. b. Richey, OF Woodstock, Va,
was a guest at the NJ E. Church, South,
parsonage on Saturday and Sunday. She
is the Winchester Dist. Sec'y of the Wom-
aus Home Missions and Parsonage Society
of the Baltimore Conference NJ. f Church,
South, and Is such organized an auxiliary
society in Charles Town on Saturday after
noon and at Bethany" on Sunday af-
teruOon she organized an auxiliary of the
of the WOman's Foreign Missionary Society
in each an encouraging initial member
ship. Sherelurned to her home on Monday.
Timothy writes to the ShepherdstOwn
independents II was in error in writing in
my last letter, that the Presbyterian Church
was weak before the war. | am informed
by one who knows that it was strong tinan-
cially and otherwise under the pastorate of
DR.. DuttOn. | make the correction gladly
The late r. c. Steptoe, whose sad and un'
timely death we mentioned last week, left
will in which he disposed of $4,000 in cash,
lying in bank in Lynchburg, bequeathing
the whole amount to DR.. y. ?. Thomson
and his three sisters-two thousand dollars
to each legatee.-1dr0caie.
Some big hogs have been slaughtered
within the past few days. George Harris
had three which aggregated Loo lbs. net
one weighed 4j0 and another 500; Fl. o.
Talbot had one that tipped the scales at
AS, another $50 j. f. Reiniuger one that
weighed $50.
Two lots belonging to the estate Of R. o.
Vauvactor, decd. were sold by I. c. Green,
special commissioner, Heaebower & West,
auctioneers, as follows; The Orchard Lot"
to W. ii. McGaha, for Sl7l, and the unim-
proved lot to Mrs. Mary F, Vanvacter, for
$50.
The old dwelling house of the late Alfred
O'Baunou, on EviIt's run near the town
mill, was partially destroyed by fire on Mon
day morning last about . o'clock, almost
Immediately after a heavy shower. We are
not informed as to the origin of the fire.
Mr.. Jacob Dutterer purchased at public
sale few days ago, the wel-improved farm
of the late Washington Benner, near Ripon
lbs acres at SO per acre. Mr.. Dutterer
is "a Judge of good land aud is tue owner OF
many hundred acres in this county.
On Wednesday of last week horse fell
with and on Mr. Juo. T. Colston and bruis-
ed his Leg and side badly. All rejoice that
he escaped without the breaking of bones
and hope that he will soon be restored to
his customary activities
The ladies Of the Catholic Church will
hold an oyster supper, for the benefit Of the
church, in the dining room of the Carter
House. on Friday and Saturday evenings,
December Is aud A. The public cordially
invited 10 attend.
The announcements in tie papers other
than TIE FREE PRESS of dates for the ded-
icatiou of the Rouss Memorial Hall and OF
the reunion of Company b, 18th cavalry
Capt Baylor's company were premature.
Ca the 9th of November, 1895, Mr., Geo.
W. Rowland, and Miss Mamie l.. Baney-
both of this couuty-were married by ReY.
j. II. Wolf, at the residence of Mrs. Fea-
gans, near Porter's factory.
Oysters for our Thanksgiving Day dinner
we're the gift Of our good friend Mayor
Brown. May he live long to enjoy the good
that grows out of the generosity he intelli-
gently cultivates.
Mr.. Benjamin Wilmington died on sat
urday night last, at the residence of his SON.
n.law, Mr.. J. W. Gore, superintendent of
the Melville mill in this county, at an ad-