Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-12-16

BRIEF LOCALS.
On and after the first of January next the
pubiicstritss day of this paper will be Thurs
day. s--'"sAss.~s-sss->-a-ss~a.~r
Cards are out for the marriage Of VIM.
. Riley Coyner to Miss Maybell Shower at
Weyer's Cave, December 81.
At Harrisonburg, Va. on the 9th inst,
James Reed, colored. of this city, was fined
$3.50 for sending obscene literature through
the mails.
Charles Cav. of this county, who has been
filling the position of cleek at Fords Hotel
for some time, has accepted a position as
bookkeeper for J. A. Patterson, Jr.
John Goodloe. formerly Treasurer of Mel
son county, suffered stroke Of paralysis
Sunday evening at his home, near Green
field, Nelson county. His brother, A. NJ.
Goodloe is also critically i'll.
Mr. Frank E. Sanger and Miss Sallie G..
Martin were united in marriage on last
Sunday afternoon at the residence of the
BRIDES mother in Basic City, Rev. H. G.
Ferguson officiating. Mr.. and Mrs. Sanger
N. W..
which is to be their future home.
The telephone company has purchased a
line from Fishersville to Staunton and will
now have through line to Staunton with
out the delay incident to a relay at Fishers
vile. The line will also be extended to
Basic City and an Office established at the
Belmont Hotel.
1t is rumored that the Mt. Torey Furnace
property consisting of several thousand
acres of mineral land lying near Stuart
Draft has been sold to Chicago syndicate.
The property is very valuable and has be-
longed to the Wissler family.
The funeral Of David Wine took place
from Trinity church, near Koiners Store,
at II o'clock on Friday last. Hewas in his
seventy-fifth year, and leaves two brothers,
Daniel and Peter Wine, all living near
Hermitage.
j. Il. Hunt, merchant at Stuart's Draft,
made an assignment last Tuesday. N. e..
Watts is named as trustee. The liabilities
far exceed the assets and will pay only about
twenty-five per cent. The Staunton Grocery
Company. 1920, Mrs. Samuel Hunt $500 and
preferred creditors.
Of the Craigsville Presbyterian church
the Central Presbyterian says: The Rev. II.
A. Young, pastor, has been assisted IN a
fruitful meeting by the Rev. j. E. Booker.
We hear there have been ffty.one profess
sions of faith, and forty-seven have been re-
ceived into the communion of Lebanon
church, twenty-three of them heads of fami-
lies.
Mrs. Sarah Jordan, widow of the late
Isaac r. Jordan, died at her home near
Churchville on Sunday night, Dec. 6th at
Ii o'clock, of typhoid fever. Mrs Jordan
was Is years of age, and leaves large fam
lily and a wide circle of friends to mourn
her loss She was the mother of Geo. D.
and j. M. Jordan OF Churchville. The
funeral servihes were conducted from the
Lutheran church by the PASTOR Rev. Mr..
Miller. Interment in the Churchville GEM
etery.
T. B. Lee, an old Staunton boy, lately on
visit to this city, is doing some architec-
tural work up about CannOnsbury Pa.
the Notes Of that city in its issue of the It'll,
speaking of the dedication of fine new
school building there says:
"a pleasing and interesting feature Of the
day was the presentation of fine flag, the
joint gift of James McClelland, than which
there is no more liberal and progressive
patron of the school, and T. B. Lee, the
talented designer of the building"
The building designed is said to be the
finest school building in Washington county.
The City and County Mutual Telephone
Exchange has put in another 10O-drop
switchboard of the latest pattern, made by
the American Electric Telephone Company,
of Kokomo, Ind, and when this board is
filled there will be an exchange of three
hundred phones in the city. This exchange
has already 2O4 phones in the city. nine lines
with 400 phones in this county, and about
100 phones in Rockingham, Highland and
Shenandoah counties. There are also two
more lines being erected in Augusta county
which will be in operation next week; one
commercial line. with two phones, one at
Waynesboro and the other at Hotel Belmont
at Basic City. The other line is to Madrid
and will be extended down South river to
Shendun.
Major A. f. Normant, ''the old war horse
of South Branch Valley, W. Va" paid our
sanctum pleasant call on last Tuesday.
He has been the guest of Mr.. A. Hanger of
Stribling Springs, on his annual visit. In
1884 he was student at Washington
College, now Washington and Lee Univer-
sity and OF all there who were school mates
them there remain but twO-Lieut.- Gov. r.
e. Kent and Major II. M. Bell. He received
the nomination for this district as a men,
Der of the national convention to nominate
franklin Pierce, and was eleetor for Henry
A. Wise. He took an active part in the re-
cent campaign for W. j. Bryan, and reports
that his part of West Virginia, ''the Gibral-
tar Of West Virginia democracy will never.
never forget the traitors who abandoned
their party IN it's darkest hour and, turned
like the frozen viper that its benefactor had
warmed to its bosom, and stung to death its
bes5 friend" The Major is as active and
vigorous as a youth, and his many friends
in w. Va. and old Virginia will be glad to
hear it.
S-SOuTAARD.
j. NJ. Southland was married to Miss Kitty
d. Amiss at the Manse of the First Pfesby-
terrain church Wednesday evening last at
$50 o'clock. Rev. 4. M. Fraser performed
the ceremony.
Mr.. Southland is the well known merchant