Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-09-16
perennsI Mention.


Mrs. A. f. Mathews left Saturday
for visit to relatives at Christians
burg, Va.
Miss Sallie Hamilton, of stanton,
Va, is here the guest of Miss Mamie
McChesney.
Miss Olivia Buckner, of Paris, KY,
is stopping at Mrs. II. X. Withrow s.
on Lee street.
Mrs. Mott Gillian and children are
on visit to her p arents in Pocahontas
county this week.
John w. Mathews, of Wilmington
Del, is here to visit his parents, Capt.
and Mrs. J. w Mathews.
Miss 10. Mathews will teach this ses.
sion in the family of J. North Cald.
we'll at Greenbrier Bridge.
Miss Pearl Scott will arrive to-day
from Lynchburg, Va, to attend the
Lewisburg Graded School.
j. w. McClung, of Nicholas county,
was here last Saturday and Sunday the
guest of Capt. A. p. McClung.
Miss Mary Armentrout, Of the Rich,
lands, is in Bath county, to attend the
wedding of her friends, Miss Ida Rever.
comb.
Miss jamie Dixon, of Macdonald
Fayette county, accompanied her sister
(who is now pupil in the l.. f. L. here
this week.
l.. ID. Lorentz, of Washington, u. g.,
joined his wife here last week, and is
now the guest of his son-in-law, Rev
VIM. NJ. White.
Mrs. Mamie b. McClung has returned
from Crump's Bottom. Her sister,
Mrs. John G. Crockett, came with her
and is now her guest.
Emory McClung and G.. M. Williams,
of Williamsburg district, this county,
left last Friday for Dunsmore Business
College, at Staunton, Va.
Mrs DR.. J. J. Williams and daughter
who have been the guests Of Mrs. j. j.
Echols fol several weeks, left Tuesday
for their home in Baltimore.
Miss Lucy Peyton, of Ronceverte,
and Miss Robbie Rowan, of Union,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. II.
Dennis several days last week.
Mr.. Gilkeson, of Moorefield, Hardy
county, was here this week to enter his
daughter as a student at the l.. +. l.,
and was guest of Rev. r. l.. Telford.
r. g. Brewter, of Nicholas county, is
in Lewisburg this week. We are glad
to state that Mr.. Brewster is making ar
to move his family back to
Mrs. A. Buttel and daughter, Miss
Olga, and Mrs. Bryanna Hurxthal and
little daudghter, who spent the summer
here, left this week for their homes, at
Ky.
Last week Thomas Summers McNeel,
Of Pocohantas county, obtained a H.
cense to practice law in this State,
from the Court of Appeals in session
Mt Charles Town.
VIM. E. Benson and wife and Miss
Callle Johnson, after spending the sum-
mer at the Battery Park Hotel, Ashe-
vile, N. c., have returned to their
home in Augusta, Ga.
Miss Grace Bready has returned to
after several months visit
to her home near Baltimore. She will
again have charge of r. Z. Ritten-
houses Millinery store.
Lewis .arew and son. of Red Sulphur
Springs, Monroe county, were the guests
of c. 5. Larew, near Lewisburg, several
days this week, and called to see us YES
terday on their return home.
Prof. w. M. Meredith, the newly
elected Principal of the Lewisburg
Graded School, arrived yesterday. He
has been detained in Virginia for some
weeks, by the dangerous illness of his
father.
Sam'l Price Preston, son of John A.
Preston, Esq, of our town, left Tues.
day for Washington & Lee University
where he will matriculate as a student.
James M. Mason and Harlow Dixon
also left for said University.
All the teachers in the L. F. 1. haye
arrived, and are at their places in the
school rooms, except Miss M. v. Chap.
man, the art teacher, who has been de.
tanned at her home by the extreme i'll.
ness of her father, but will arrive in a
few days.
Rev. V. w. Wheeler, of Clifton Forge
Va, was a guest at the District Par.
sonage here yesterday. He will accom-.
pany Rev. j. d. Martin on his Third
Round of Quarterly Meetings in Poca.
hontas county. They will leaye this
morning for said county.
Mrs. VIM. A. Jeffries, of the Rich,
lands, this county, who went to Vir.
ginia last month to visit her relatives
took the typhoid fever soon after heI
arrival there. and the last report from
her stated that she was dangerously Ill
Mr.. Jeffries is at her bed side.
From letter received by us from
Andrew Jarrett, of Genoa Junction
Wisconsin, We learn that his wife left
there yesterday for Greenbrier to visit
friends and relatives. We regret that
MIR. Jarrett (from business engage.
mnts) could not accompany her.
Warren Anderson, Esq, of Elliot
county, Ky, came to Greenbrier last
Saturday, with view to purchasing
lands in this county for his son, who
now lives in Nicholas county, and who