Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-08
Personal.

home from their bridal tour.
DR.. S. P. Hite is quite sick at his residence,
though at last accounts was better.
Geo. Craun, ESQ.,, of Messy Creek, is quite
ill, so much SO as to give alarm to his friends
c. Armistead, clerk of Western State Hos
pital. has returned to his position improved in
health.
Miss Mary Funkhouser is visiting at the
home of Capt. A. f. Mathews in Lewisburg,
w. Va.
Professor H. Shelley Roller, of Pontotoc,
Miss, is visiting his mother, Mrs. G. A. Roller
of this city.
Mrs. w. j. Mann and daughter of Bluefield,
WA, are guests of Mrs. Henry Hutchinson,
on Fayette street.
Mrs Dougherty and children. of Washing
ton are guests of Mrs. George NJ Cochran, on
Frederick street.
Mrs Florence Donaghe Hutchinson arrived
in Staunton Saturday and is stopping at the
Frederick.
Mrs Rosaie White returned on Friday
last from visit of several weeks in Richmond
and Norfolk.
Mr. j. H. Carlisle of the c.. & 0. railway,
has appointed Mr.. Edmund Berkeley of this
city to position.on that road.
Miss Janet Erskine of Huntsville Ala. is
near this city.
John Cosby has accepted the position of
bookkeeper in the wholesale-house of M.
Erskine Miller & Bro. of this city.
William B. Walker, son of DR.. George S.
Walker of this city, will be one of the clerks
at the Brandon at Basic City this summer.
Miss Florence Parent, of east Frederick
street, has returned from Richmond, where
she underwent treatment for her eyes.
The Standard Oil Company is looking over
ground about the freight depot at Harrison
burg with a view of locating storage tank
there.
On last Friday VIM. H. Landes qualified as
Police Justice of this city, al: office to which
he had been elected by the Council on the LIST
inst.
John Fa1rburn, of Messy Creek, accom-
panied by Mr.. Puffenberger of Sugar Grove,
Pendleton county called at the SPECTATOR
office on Saturday last.
Mr.. -Theo. F. Shuey chief of the stenographic
department of the U. S. Senate, has arrived
with his family at his country place in this
county, near Adlai.
DR.. J. Shelton Horsely, who has been prac-
tcing his profession in this city. has removed
to New York, and will act as assistant to DR..
Wyeth, an eminent surgeon of that city.
Rispah sallie and Mary Dudley, daughters
of Mrs. f. A. Dudley of this city, are visiting
their uncle, Mr.. Edwin L. Beard at Locust,
Pocahontas county, w. Va.
At 1880 this morning at the NJ. E. Church
South of this city, Mr.. Junius W. Black,
miller at the White Star Mills. will be mar
ried to Miss Mamie Wright, daughter of Mr.
W. T. Wright.
At Concord, Va, next Tuesday, July 18th,
Mr.. Richard Ernest Tyler, chief Geographic
operator of the c. & O. Railroad in this city,
will be married to Miss Mary Della Steele,
daughter of Mr.. John H. Steele.
Mr.. Crawford Miller and daughter, Mary,
Mr.. Will and Miss Maggie Crawford of Au-
Warwick recently, at Green Valley, Bath
county.
Judge H. A. Holt, of the W. Va. Supreme
Court will not be candidate for reelection,
and Mr.. S. S. Green, lawyer of prominence
| and ability, and member of the Charleston
bar will be candidate.
William Byers. who was badly injured in
the hip joint by fall about three weeks ago,
is out again, but ON crutches. He was nursed
at the Kings Daughters Hospital and is loud
in his praises of that institution.
| Miss Nina Kite of Marksville, Va, was i'll
the city last week. She has been visiting her
sister at Lipscomb, but returned home last
Saturday. She is the most charming and the
most popular young lady in Page county.
An accident occurred to the engine which
drives the dynamos at the electric car plant
Oh Wednesday last resulting in the breaking
of piston The mishap stopped the cars
for several days.
| Miss Mamie Mcdonald of Berryville, Va,
who came to Staunton to act as bridesmaid at
the marriage of Miss Peachy Williams to Mr..
Ewing Cockrell and who has since been the
guest of Miss Janet Bell, returned to her
home last week.
Some time ago Robert Blackley, son of Jas.
H. Blackley of this city, was taken to Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. where an opera
ton was performed on his cheek bone which
had been injured two years ago by a fall from
a tree. On last Friday he returned much i'm
proved.
| William J. Nelson, Esq, father of Mr.. r.
E. R. Nelson, Mrs. Judge Stout and Mrs. Ed.
Sublett of this city, who resides at Florence,
Ala has been in Staunton for some days.
Mr.. Nelson was at one time associated with
Major Elder in the practice of law in this
city.
| VIM. B. Blackley, eldest son of James II.
Blackley, Esq, who sailed from Newport
News for Honolulu about year ago, has been
heard from. He is now in the army of Presi-
dent Dole, of Hawan, and amongst other sol
dierly duties guards the palace of Queen
Kiliokulauni
DR.. E. F. Wayman, of this city, attended
the annual meet of the Field Sport Associa-
ton at Richmond on the 4th of July, and in
| the shooting contest there on that day, won
the first medal of the association, and the
highest average, which was S24 out of apossi-
BILE 100.
The wife and two children of Rev. w. J. E.
Cox of Baltimore, late pastor of the Baptist
church of this city, arrived here on Friday and
were the guests of Mrs. c. O. Herring till
Monday, when they went to John Peers; on
the place of DR.. Hamilton near Churchville,
to spend the summer.
Prof. J. R. Weaver, Principal of the Public
High School of this city, accompanied by W..
G. Morton, teacher in the same school, left
here Monday morning for Buffalo, N. Y, to
attend the National Educational Convention,
and will attend the Chautauqua at Chautauqua,
N.Y.
The Greenbrier Fishing Club composed of
Messrs. F.. R. Webb Geo. M. Beall, Capt. Jas.
Bumgardner, Fitzhugh Elder, R. P. Bell and
Chas. L. Cooke, with Otey Dunning as chef,