Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-22
Personal.

| Sheppard nave gone To Olu olAe NoAAAoA''
Allen Shane, Esq, insurance inspector, OF
Richmond, is in the city.
J.M.H. Randolph, of Parnassus neighbor-
hood was in the city on Monday
| w. H. H. Frenger, Editor of the Clifton Forge
Review, called at the SPECTATOR office yester
! day
| Mr.. Geo. s. Etter, a prominent business
man of Ladd, was caller at the office OF the
SPECTATOR yesterday.
An infant daughter of the Hon. Jacob Yost
has been very ill for some weeks and is no
better.
| John R. Sampson, principal of Pantops
Academy, was in the city for several days last
week.
Thomas c. Kinney of New York, is in the
city, the guest of his father, Maj. A. F. Kin
ney.
Capt H W. Holt has gone on a visit to his
father, DR.. NJ. Q. Holt, ia Surry county to be
gone for fortnight.
Il Miss Virginia skeen, daughter of the late
Gen. VIM. Skeen of Covington, has been
visiting for some days at the home of Capt.
| G. G..Gooch.
Mr. Geo. R. B. Niche. former editor of the
Necs. is in the city. He is making his arrange.
ments to study law at the University of Va,
next session.
John Hughart and wife. who have been
visiting Mrs Hughart's father, Mr.. John 7.
Pritchard, have returned to their home at
Sewell, W. Va.
Mr. Jaffe, head book-keeper for M. Erskine
Miller, of Staunton, Va, was here guest OF
the family of Capt. A. F. Mathews Sunday
| Greeaabraer Independent.
Miss Ellen Guigon, who has been teaching
at the home of Mrs. Gen. Garnett on the Poto-
mac near Quantico, is now with. her aunt, Mrs.
Chesley Kinney, at the Hotel Frederick.
In shoot last week Mr.. BY Jackson. Solc-
iting Agent of the B. & 0. in this city, defeat
ed Mr.. VIM. F. Summerson, in killing Is
pigeons to Mr.. Summerson II.
Miss Kate Anthony of this city. who is a
graduate of the Mary Baldwin Seminary, has
been appointed to position as teacher in the
Old Fort Seminary at Ft. Defiance in this
county.
Miss Bessie Henderson, formerly pupil of
the Mary Baldwin Seminary. died in Danville,
Va, last Friday of typhoid fever. She was
well known in this city and was an estimable
lady.
Thomas B, knight, an aged citizen, of
Greenbrier, died at the home of his nephew,
Ex-Sheriff James knight in Lewisburg on the
18th inst. He was the last survive of fami-
Iy of fifteen.
Miss Annie Austin, of Lewisburg, and her
cousin, Frank Brown, of Jackson county, W..
Va, stopped over in Staunton to visit friends
last Friday, on their:way home from Wash
ington.
Mr. J. T. Bear, an esteemed subscriber of
the SPECTATOR, was in the city Monday to
meet his brother, Rev. J. E. Bear who has
just returned from China where he has been
for nine years as a Missionary.
Judge Lyman Chalkley, J. A. Alexander
Albert Shultz, John Smith, of Waynesboro,
| and L. G.. Strauss have gone on fishing trip
to Highland county to be the guests whilst
there, of some of their masonic brethren.
Mr.. J. w. Hess. of Clifton Forge, has taken
charge of the SPECTATOR Job Office, and will
manage it. Mr.. Hess is one of the finest jot
printers in the State. For number of years
he was with the Vindicator in the city.
The board of supervisors of this county me-
here Saturday and fixed the county levy fol
| 1890 at 25 cents ON the 500 for the county Of
Augusta. An appropriation of s12, 51S 80 was
made for roads, and So, 140 go for bridges.
Master Brooke Berkeley, son of DR.. Carte
Berkeley, whose home is with Capt. Chas. S
Arnall in Atlanta, Ca, is in Staunton on I
visit to his father, sisters, and other friends
This is the first time he has been here TO
three years.
Mr.. w. A. Pratt who has been stationed
as civil engineer on the Baltimore ant
Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg, has resigned
his position to accept the chair of electrical
and mechanical engineering in the Delawar
College.
Rev. Abram Wenger, an aged minister
the Mennonite Church. died at his home, nea
Dayton, Rockingham county, Tuesday, 14th
after long illness. Rev. Isaac B. Wenger, o
CuC odlut CuuItsu1 dASO 0ACO AC0A Icy eCAi A~o
week, of typhoid fever, aged 80 years.
DR.. H. E. Shepherd, father of Mr.. Hal. E
Shepherd of this city, and president of tn
College Of Charleston. S. G., who has beer
stopping with his family at the Hotel Fred
erick in this city for some days, will sail To-
Europe on the 22d, to spend his vacation.
Rev. J. NJ Sloan, a Presbyterian minister 0
Lewsburg, w Va, well known to many Q
our readers, injured his right eye last winter
so badly that he was at last forced to have i
removed, which was successfully done recent
ly in Cincinnati. He is home again doing
well.
Judge Chalkley, who was to have gone t.
Highland county at the invitation of some o
the masons of that county, was prevents
from taking the trip by indisposition, and MI
VIM. B. McChesney took his place. Friend
of Judge Chalkley will be glad to learn tina
he will soon be well again.
Mr.. Joseph B. Woodward will be misses
from the Circuit Clerk Office for few days
to the regret of his many friends. He sus
tanned severe sprain of the ankle last Thurs
day in stepping down from chair, on which
J he had been standing to take some papers
from case in his Office He is now on crutches
but is rapidly getting better.
Il Col. ]. B. Brown. of Gainesville, Florida
! brother-in-law of Mr. J A. Templeton of thi
city, died at his home at 1920 p. M, Thurs
, day, July 18th. He was on visit to this cit
in bad health few weeks ago. Before tha
he had been on a visit of four OF five week
to his daughter, Mrs. J. 7. Sale, near Fairfield
Rockbridge county.
: Col. Jas. A. Frazier. of Rockbridge Alur
/ Springs was in the city last week, the CUES
!, of his cousin, S. Brown Allen. The colone
is the person who said in the Republica
State Convention here that 1.-The man VIII
Kissed the name of Stonewall Jackson he
is too good for him. and there is no doub
q that he meant what he said
~ Mr.. William Finks and his sister, Estelle, {
Waco, Texas have been visiting friends in th
: and county for week past They remove