Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-12-02
Personal.

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Joseph Early of New Hope. is student
at the Bridgewater College.
Mr.. W. Lee Hanger..has been appointed
Southern Express agent at Basic.
Mr.. Chas. Lambert, of Waynesboro, re-
mains quite sick.
Miss Ellen Guigon left on Saturday morn
ing for Boston, where she will visit rela-
| tives.
Miss Bessie Merritt, daughter of Capt. g.
IG. Merritt, is on visit to friends in Rich
mond.
Mrs. j. N. Mcfarland has been on a visit
to Mrs. Bowling Swoope during the past
week at Waynesboro.
Jack Cooke, who is attending school at
Mt Crawford, was in Staunton on Thanks
giving day.
| W. B. Byers, son of Charles Byers, of this
city, who has lived in Indiana for five years,
is visiting his father.
| Capt. e.. A. Holt and Mrs. Holt went
down the Valley on last Friday, the former
| to CharlestOwn and the latter to Woodstock.
julius Witt has returned to. Lexington,
after spending his holiday and eating
Thanksgiving dinner at home.
| Hon. JnO. T. Harris with his wife, and
| daughter have returned, after months So
journ in Florida.
Lowry Lewis, at one time resident of
Staunton, now of Shendun. was in the city
on last Friday.
| On Thanksgiving day Mr.. J. l.. Beck gave
a dinner to the hands employed in the Bod
ley works, of which he is the manager.
Miss Belle Kilby went to Roanoke last
Wednesday, to visit her mother, Mrs. Frank
West.
| Or. David Hanger and wife of Fishers
vile, were in Staunton ON Thanksgiving
on visit to DR.. F. NJ Hanger
Cadets Arthur Blackford, Albert Hoge.
and W. W. Gibbs, Of the V. NJ l., spent
Thanksgiving with their parents in this
city.
DR.. VIM. H. Goode. father of Col. Otey
Goode of the city council, has suffered a
slight stroke of paralysis. DR.. Goode is
over so years of age.
| Geo. Wilson has returned to his home near
Swoope from the hospital in Baltimore,
where he went for treatment, and is consid-
erably mproved.--Argus.
w. B. Trout, Charles East and e. G..
Wholey returned to Charlottesville Friday,
| where they are students Of the University of
Virginia.
l M Enp1a DQyU1v OnnOiptQ6
consul to Beyrut, Syria, and wife, were in
Staunton several days last week, and left
Friday morning for Basic.
Miss Stone of Albany, n. Y, will sue
coed Miss Edna Fay as teacher of art and
woodworking in the public schools of this
city.
| Col. Chas. S. Roller and wife of Fl. Def
ance, were in the city Monday to see the A.
NJ. A. boys vanquish the Staunton eleven in
the foot ball game.
Chas. Cobb of Highland county, was be-
fore the police court last Thursday for
fined 81 IS.
| Mr.. VIM. Sproul has gone to Pocahontas
county to look over valuable tract of land
in which he is interested lying on the head
of Williams river.
| Messrs. A. S. Morton, E. s. Subject and
Sumpter B. Sublett spent Thanksgiving
day at Pond Gap with friends, there and
whilst out. visited the palatial country place
Of Mr.. E. 6. Pendleton, near by.
Miss Edna Fay. who has taught very ac-
i dol oil Of droyx
working in the public schools of this city,
has accepted position in Albany, N. T.,
and has resigned and gone there.
Capt T. j. Crowder, w. L. McCue, j.
Med. McCue, Robert McCue, Harry Bur-
nett, Aubruy Burnett, Frank Asst and John
and Eugene Sproul left on last Thursday
for West Virginia on weeks hunt. They
will encamp in the cabin of the Augusta
Hunting Club.
Mr.. A. S. Woodhouse and family and Mr..
| T. K. Woodhouse have leased the handsome
two story brick residence on Winthrop st.
Sears Hill-formerly owned by Mr.. VIM.
F. Summerson, and will move into it in a
few days.
Louis Witt. one of our young lawyers,
son of Isaac Witt, Esq, who has been suf-
fering from appendicitis or some affection
resembling it, has been taken to Church
Home Hospital, Baltimore.
One of the finest stays ever killed in these
parts was bought in from Highland county
last week, and exhibited at the store of W.
H. Brew in this city. He weighed over 100
dressed, and was the subject of much ad-
miration. The antlers were superb.
Frank Diehl, of this city, has suffered an
other affiiction in the loss of his brother
Hezekiah Diehl, who died at his home in
Rockingham county last week. Within the
last six weeks Mr.. Diehl lost his wife and
within week thereafter a sister. who lived
with him died, now his brother.
Mr.. W. R. Tyree paid US pleasant call
last Thursday. Mr.. Tyree is now in bust
ness with the Philadelphia firm of P. G..
Fulweiler & Bro, manufacturers of cigars,
and travels in territory south, extending
his business JOURNEYS as far as Atlanta,
Ga. He came home to eat his Thanksgiving
dinner with his family, who reside here.
Miss Mamie Darlington Anderson, daugh-
ter of Francis I. and Rosa Bruce Anderson.
of Richmond, trained nurse. who had been
attending Mrs. R. E. Carter. who was i'll of
| typhoid fever, died in that city on the 22nd
of November, having contracted the disease
from the patient She was in her 23rd year.
Colonel j. K. EdmOndson, Messrs. r. 4.
Witt, E. M. Pendleton and W. S. Hopkins,
who spent last week on hunt in the noun
tains in Pocahontas county, reached home
last Tuesday, after successful hunt. They
killed five deer; Mr.. Witt shot two and each
of the others one.
Max Landsburg, Esq. of Baltimore, has
been in the city for several days attending
the County court. where he appeared as a
witness against James Turner, colored