Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-02-25
Personal.

:. Personal.
Mrs. Thomas A. Bledsoe who now resides
at Lexington is on visit to friends here.
Samuel G. Brown, of Swoope neighbor-
hood, was a caller at our Office on Tuesday
Hon. Jno. T. Harris is undergoing medi
cal treatment in Washington.
Rev. L. II. Paul and wife, of Messy Greek
were visiting friends in Basic City last
week.
Randolph Berkeley, of the Washington
. department of the Southern, spent Sunday
last with his relatives in this city.
The friends of Miss Sue Wren, who is i'll
with pneumonia, will deeply regret to hear
that she is no better.
Carter Braxton, who has been sick in
Richmond for some time, returned home last
week. much improved in health.
Capt Tom Burke, at one time Mayor of
Huntington, w. Va is in the city visiting
his brother, W. A. Burke, who is sick.
Eugene E. Hoge, now a resident of Frank
fort. KY, is visiting his father, Mr.. Jno. B.
Hoge.
! w. P. Tams and wife are spending the
Washington birthday anniversary in Rich
mond.
Miss Katy Anthony came home to spend
Washington's birthday with her parents on
Sears Hill.
| j. r. Taylor, jr., has returned from Rich
mond, where he had been to attend the fu-
neral of r. H. Fisher.
Miss Belle Mcdowell, of Kentucky, we'll
known in Staunton, is the guest of her Sis
ter, Mrs. Frank NJ. Hanger.
Miss Mayme OBrien. who has been criti-
cally Ill at her home at the National ceme-
terry, is now convalescing.
| Capt. j. B. Bradshaw. of Mcdowell, was
in the city on business Monday and Tues
day.
DR.. Fl. R. Morrison, city physician, has
gone to New York to take special course
IN hospital practice.
Mrs. DIR. Moomaw, of Lewisburg, W. Va,
is on visit to her grandfather, Prof A. j.
Turner.
George q McGilvary, son-in-law of Ma
jor Yost. is very i'll with pneumonia in
Washington. Major Yost leftfor Washing
ton last week to be with him.
Taylor Blackford, who had been ill of
pneumonia for some time, has so far recov
cred as to be able to return to his school at
Mt. Crawford.
Miss Lillian Arthur, who has been on
visit to her home, has returned to resume
her duties in the Treasury department at
Washington.
Jno. W. Stephenson, Esq, of Warm
Springs. was in the city last week. on his
way to Harrisonburg to visit his brother,
Jno. B. Stephenson.
H. P. Hancock, who has been ill with
grippe for some four weeks, is again on the
streets, looking worse for the wear, but I'M
proving rapidly.
H. " Strayer. Esq. of Harrisonburg, who |
delivered the address at the Y. NJ. e. A.
Banquet On Monday night. spent Tuesday |
amongst his friends in this city.
Mr.. H. B. Hays, of New York city, and a
son Of Mr.. John w. Hays, of Greenville, |
was in the city Monday, en- route North, |
having made short visit to his old home.
V. A. McCreery, who has charge of the |
Waynesboro Sentinel, was in the city this |
week. Under Mr.. McCreerys management
the Sentinel has been greatly improved and |
enlarged.
W. Lee Hanger, who for time had charge |
of the Adams Express Office at Basic, has
been transferred to Newport News. He |
was at one time editor of the Waynesboro
Sentinel.
Walter Biedler. well known in these parts, |
travelling salesman of Baltimore, whilst
near Luray, was seized with violent hemor-
rhages, and fora while his life was dispar-
ed of.
Capt. T. g. Morton, Inspector General o f
the Grand Camp G. V. for this State, was
in Hampton and Newport News this week.
At the latter place he visited and inspected
Magruder Camp on Tuesday night
Isaac Witt, with his son, two daughters
Mrs. VIM. A. Burke and Miss Rosa and his
son, Louis, leave this morning over the g. &
O. for Charlottesville, where they take the
Southern fer trip to Florida, to be gone
several weeks.
Capt. Ben Patterson, of Harrisonburg,
paid our Office a pleasant, but too brief a
call Tuesday. We are pleased to learn from
him. that the Shenandoah Valley Confed-
Gratis soldiers patriotic union, is not going
to muster so great force at the Inaugural
as was first anticipated, and that the line
will not stretch further than from the Capt.
tai steps to the nearest bar room.