Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-10-07
Personal Mention.

isburg.
A. l.. Shockey, of Central City, was
here this week, the guest Of John A.
Handley.
Miss McCleary, Of Bluefeld, is here
the guest of her mo Their, Mrs. Mary Nc
Cleary.
Mrs. Mott Gillian and children haye
returned from a visit to her parents
in POcahontas county.
Judge McWhorter, Maj. Harris and
Fred Wallace, Esq, are at Pocahontas
Circuit Court this week.
Rufus d. Anderson and wife, of Cali
fornia, were the guests of G. T. Arga-
brite several days this week.
Kirk Snyder left this week for Cllf-
ton Forge, Va, where he will have a
position Oh a new paper recently started
there.
w. w. Hume has returned from q
visit to his parents in Virginia, and is
back at his old post in the Lewisburg
Drug Store.
Nolie, little daughter of Rev. c. NJ.
Coffman, at Summersville, Nicholas
county. is now dangerously ill with ty-
phoid fever.
Wilson Odell and son Frank, of
Hominy Falls, Nicholas county, who
were visiting in Greenbrier, called to
see us last Monday.
Hon. M. Sydenstricker is in Charles
ton this week attending a meeting of
the State Board of Agriculture, of
which he is member.
Echols Campbell and niece. Miss
Mamie Campbell, passed here last Sat-
urday on their return from the Confed-
crate re- union at Marlinton.
Misses Mary w. Taylor, of Washing
ton, KY, and Miss Ena Shutting, of
Academy, Pocahontas county, entered
the l.. F. 1. this week as pupils.
e. F. Hill, John H. Clay, G. S. Nc
Kenzie, of Anderson, and r. p. Boyd
and son, of Monroe county, were visitors
to our town during the past week.
Hon. Rob't F. Dennis, whose 18th
has been steadily declining for more
than two years, is now near the end
His physician thinks he cannot survive
many days.
Walter M. Johnston, of Monroe, was
here Tuesday and returned yester-
day with his mother. Mrs. M. j. John
ston, who had been with her daughter,
Mrs. Thos. H. Dennis, for two weeks.
E. F. Turner, of Anderson, was the
guest of his father-in-law, VIM. Wor-
sham, here last Tuesday. Il. Heinrich,
representing Renaker & Heinrich, of
Mt. Sterling, KY, was also here the
same day.
Mrs. J. M. McWhorter and Mrs. J.
ID. Martin have returned from Coving-
ing, Va, where they went to attend a
meeting Of the Woman's Missionary
Society, of the Baltimore Conference
of the M. f. Church, South, which met
there Monday.
Miss Mary Gardener, who spent the
here with her aunt, Mrs. A.
+. Mathews, left Monday for her home
In Yorkville, S. g. Miss Christie Mauzy
left the same day to take a position in the
Deaf and Dumb School of that State.
Is. F. Harlow, ir, left yesterday to
renew his studies at Washington and
Lee University. We predict that Ben
will return next summer with his Mas
ter's degree. Homer Harlow has re-
turned from Coyington, Va. land entered
the graded School here.
Vice President Decater Axtell and
Harry Frazier, Chief Engineer of the
G. q y. Ry., passed through Lewisburg
last Thursday on their return from Po-
cahontas county, whittier they had been
for some days looking after the SURVEYS
now being made in that county.
l.. II. Surbaugh, of Fayette county,
who had been visiting relatives and
friends in the Meadows of this county
Tor a week, paid us pleasant call yes
terday and two pieces of Uncle Sam Is
coined silver which we readily accepted
In exchange for the INDEPENDENT for
one year.
John McCue, Esq, of Nicholas
county, was in Greenbrier this week. -
He told US yesterday that in eleven
months he put an average of 4S9 lbs. on
"a head Of 3-year-old cattle, grazing
them on the John Price lands six miles
north Of Lewlsburg. This speaks well
for the fattening properties of Green.
brier bluegrass. Do yon hear this,
Bro. Johnston Can Monroe beat 1t ?
Mrs. A. W. Wilson, wife of Bishop
Wilson Of the NJ. +. Church, South,
accompanied by Mrs. II. A. Brown, of
Hinton, and Mrs. w. II. Beehler, wife
of Lieut.. Beehler, of the U. s. Navy,
were guests at the District Parsonage
here yesterday. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs.
Beehler addressed the women of the NJ /.
K. Church, South. on the subject of
Missions, at the prayer-meeting service
last night. Their addresses were very
entertaining and instructive and our
people were delighted with them.