Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-05-13
PAR NASSUS.


Addison Whitmore of this community, spent
Sunday, April the 18th, with them at the res
idence of their daunhter, Mrs j. W. Crist, OF
Sangersville These parties had all been res
idents of SangersviIle for number of years
except Mr.. Whtmore, and it is a peculiar
pleasure to long severed friends to attend to-
gether the house Of God, when they first re-
ceived its holy sacraments. The many va
cant seats in the sanctuary, and the fresh
mounds in the graveyard were forcible re-
minders of mortality. Upon these silent SEN
tinels in unmistakabJe characters were writ
ten Passing away" Every inmate of Mrs.
Whitmore's childhood's home is sleeping
there We appropriate poem from an old
SPECTATOR as suitable to this occasion. written
many years ago by Col. Kenton Harper of
this county, who commanded the 9TH Va. In
fantry at the beginning of the civil war.
''THE HOME OF OUR CHILDHOOD
The home Of our childhood, how sweet is the
How Fr tender the memories with which it is
Though our present be happy, the mind still
will stray
Mid the scenes and affections of hfe's early
day.
The home of our Childhood mother was
there,
A mother, dear mother, whose love and
whose care
From the dawn of existence enturned round
the heart
feeling whose memory can never depart
The home of our childhood, fathers fond
look
As we sat on his knee, or his bounty par
took;
How sweet to recall we can never forget
Till the sun of our life in deaths darkness
has set.
The home of our childhood, yet Others were
there
The comforts and joys of that blest home
to share.
The brothers, the sisters, oh loved ones were
they
With whom we nestled at night and united
in play.
But the home of our childhood how changed
As we think of the past there's cloud on
the brow.
It's fond links are broken, its hearth stone is
cold
1t seems but dream-"like tale that is
told.''
At this reunion many war scenes were re-
counted by Lieut. J. w. Crist, Messrs. J. adj
Olson Whitmore, William Karicofe Beniah
Vint, John VICAR and John Phillips, all of
them members of Co. l. 9Th Va Stonewall
Brigade At Lees surrender, Lieut.. Crist was
in command of the regiment, not field off
Ger being present.
Mr.. Jared L. Jones, who was guest at the
Parnassus parsonage last week. left Thursday
for his home at Doe Hill, Highland county.
He will return when the roses come again.
MIR. J. NJ H. Randolph and his son, Master
Scott, visited Mr.. R. T. Lambeth of the Fort
Defiance section on Tuesday, the 9th.
Mr.. Lambeth is coming gold and silver out
of wood, but we are not prepared to give the
naOdus Operandi.
Mr.. D. M. Sanger of the Mt. Scion section,
the hustling machinist and farmer, who had
with symptoms of fever.
Professor Mcbride, the successful and pro-
gressive principal of Messy Greek Academy,
has out an announcement for next year, in
which he proposes to make many additions
and advantages to his past and commendable
mode of teaching young ideas how to shoot"
Mr.. A. 4. G. Bass, of Mt. Scion, and his son,
Master Whitney, and his little daughter, Miss
Brownie, are in Middlesex county visiting rela-
tives and friends. Mr. Bass will extend his
trip to Baltimore, where he will purchase his
stock of summer goods
Mr. Brown Bell of Stonewall and his sister,
Miss Mamie, attended worship at Messy Creek
church on Sunday, the 3rd. Some of the young
men in the congregation would like to see ",
Bell there soon again.
Mr. James B Byers and his sister Miss Eliza
beth Byers, of this community, attended the
Hogshead and Dryden marriage on the 9th.
Rev. s. A. Hammack of the U. B. church,
pastor of the Harrisonburg charge. is seeking
aid toward the erection of new church there.
He has visited Pennsylvania and Maryland
with success, we presume, as he is worker.
The Frontier is still in the lead, and that
wide-awake regimental force is still Sin the
SWIM" While it is ahead in quantity and
numbers, the quality of the harvest will be
decided by the future. But Mr. George Will
son, a sub boss, knows no such word as fail and
he takes much thought for the morrow"
Seven hundred cattle have passed through
Mt. Scion this Spring en- route to the mountains
and their bells enliven the town. You see,
music charms the savage breast"
The Messy Creek Literary Society will hold
their next meeting at Mr. Ernest Dudley's ON
the Goth inst
Program:-A recitation by Miss Sallie Rob-
son. Dialogue by Misses Carrie Davis and
Eva Dudley.
A lecture on Hydrophobia by DR.. ]. R.
Keezel.
An article on the duty of hostess to her
guests, by Miss Minnie Moore.
An grafton on the life and character of Gen.
R. E. Lee, by Mr. st. Andrew Myers.
Mrs Joseph A. Whitmore, who accompanied
Mrs. Mary Mohler to Lock Seven, w. Va, has
returned to her home. Mrs Mohler is visiting
at Charleston and other points, and will not
arrive for some days yet at her old home.
Rev. Mr.. Gather, of Goshen, passed through
this place on the Sth.
MIR. Will Dryden of Moffett's Creek, accom-
panied by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. James Reeves, passed through our
village on the 7th, going to Messy Creek. the
home of his sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fillmore Rusmisell of North
Carolina, passed our place on the 7th.
Miss Ashby of the Churchville section on
the 8th.
Mr. Claude Butcher of Bridgewater and his
c.cta Mr, H. oE nsrhto
Highland county, passed up on the 9Th, Gu
route to Churchville where they are guests at
the home of DIR. M. P. Jones.
Major Norman of Richmond, who is
guest at Stribling Springs, was in our village