Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1898-11-01
Personal r~Iention.

J $500
Mr. August Busck has been spending
several days in town.
Miss Parron, of Baltimore. is visiting
Mrs. Julia Alexander.
Miss Fan Gibson has been whiting heI
aunt, in Shepherdstown.
Hon. Stuart w. Walker, of Martins
burg, was in town Friday.
Mrs. Henry Eby and son visited friends
in shepherdstown last week.
Mrs. Mary E. Davis was quite sick
last week, but is since better.
Mr.. Charles Hilbert has been up from
Washington for several days.
Mis- Kate seibert. of Middleway, has
been visiting friends in Martinsburg.
Hon. Geo. R. Vending and family will
leave Thursday for Washington City.
Miss Emily t. Cooke is the guest of
Miss Bette Wilson, in Lexington, Va.
Mrs. Virginia Shut has been spending
a few days with relatives in Washington
City.
Mrs. H. D. Middlekauf. of Stanton,
Va, is visiting the family of Mr.. Edwin
F. Davis.
Mrs. S. G. M. Rissler is visiting her
sister, Mrs. DR.. w. w. Brown, in Water
ford, Va.
Miss Hattie Conrad is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. James Kavanaugh, in Harri-
sonburg, Va.
Mrs. Small, of Berkeley county. is visit
ing her relative, Miss Rose Myers, at Mr..
William P. Yesterdays.
Mrs. VIM. Campbell has returned
from a visit to the family of Capt. w. B.
Colston, in M~artinsburg.
Mr.. Luther Beavers and sister, Miss
Maymie, are visiting Miss Marguerite
Palmer. at Bloomfield, Va.
Mrs. Henry Levi and little son How
ell, of Berryville, have been visiting the
family of Mr.. NJ. Kerchevel.
Rev DR.. P. D. Stephenson, of Wood
stock, Va, has been a guest at the Pres
byserian mans FOR several days.
Mr. Preston Hopk' ms visited his brother
in Philadelphia last week, and took in
the big peace jubilee in chat city.
Miss Lizzie Ware has been quite sick at
her home on Prospect Avenue the past
neutrality-suspicious. Register.
Mr.. P. II. Bristow, of Washington City,
and his daughter Miss Gertrude, whilst here
were the guests of Mrs. j. G. Holmes.
Miss Isabel Pechin, of Washington
City, is the guest of Miss Bessie Baker,
daughter of Sheriff Baker. near Leetown.
Mrs. D. w. Rodrick, of M~artinsburg,
has returned home from a visit to the
family of Mr.. ]. Ran. Rodrick in this
place.
Miss Kate Simpson, who has been Wis
ting the family of Mrs. Chas. G. Little
ton, has returned to her home in War
rem county, Va.
DR.. A. NJ. Evans, a well-known citizen
of Middleway, was stricken with paraly-
sis a few days ago, and has since been in
a critical condition,
Miss Mary Wilson, of Lexington, Va,
daughter of the former Postmaster-Ge ZEN
eral, has been visiting Misses Halle Alex
ander and Louise Baylor.
Mrs. A. d. Barr visited her daughter,
Mrs. Jno. w. Kelley, at Strasbnrg, Va,
last week, and brought little Albert Ke1-
ley home with her for a short visit.
The editor of THE FREE PRESS had the
pleasure of having Mr.. w. H. H. Smith, of
Washington City, as a guest at NJ Parvo"
during the sunday-school Convention.
Miss Mollie Porter, of Shenandoah
Junction, and Miss Margaret Minor, of
Waterford, Va, visited the Misses Beav-
ers at their home at Riverside last week.
Mrs. w. ]. Bayliss, of Washington
City, and Miss Sallie Franklin, of Lees
burg, Va, who have beer spending a
few weeks with the family of Mr.. Harry
Dooley, have returned home.
Capt. Johu H. little, editor of the
Independent, and wife, after s~ojourning
during the summer months in Middle
town, Md, nave returned to Shepherds
town and are at the Entler Hotel for the
winter.
In the Puritan for November there is a
very pretty portrait OF one OF ChnrleS IoWus
most attractive young ladies-Miss Anna
Mitchell. of "Mordington." The picture is
a good likeness and void of fattery. Miss
Mitchell is a great-great~granddaughter of
Bette Lewis-sister of General Washing
ton, and great-great-grandniece of Martha
Washington. The periodical-the Puritan
may be seen at Boards book store.
Lieut.. Mervyn Buckley, o. s. A, son of
Mr.. Thos. w. Buckley and nephew of the
Messrs. Packet. of this county. whilst in
command of his battery of heavy artillery
in Porto Rico, was stricken with typhoid
fever-was in bed forty-fve days, having
had a relapse. He recently arrived at Fort
ress Monroe, and by careful nursing has
been brought to a convalescent stage aud is
now, we are pleased to learn, with his futher
at the "Woodley Lane home, near Wash
ington City.
The villainous conduct of bands of
young kids who roamed the streets last
night without let OF hindrance and dam
aged valuable property, both public and
private, furnishes a very stro ng argument
in favor OF a curfew ordinance in Charles
Town.