Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-02-17
STANTON SPECTATOR AND VINDICATOR.
Person al.
Capt. e. e. Gooch is in Richmond.

PERSONAL.
a. Capt. e. e. Gooch is in Richmond.
Ter Miss Jennie Bosserman. of the county.
visiting friends at Waynesboro.
If Miss Maysie Guy; of Deerield. Wa
re-, in the city on Friday last.
tn H. S. Radcliffe is in Richmond on busl
lie ness.
se Miss Wyllhart Hartman has gone on visi
to friends at Millboro. Va.
IL Miss Ella Hizer has gone to Washington
"a. ID. g., on visit to friends there.
~ Mrs. Allen T. Caperton, of Union, Mon
no roe county is again quite ill.
ID VIM. L. Mowry, of South River, was il
the city on Friday last.
of A call has been made on Mr.. VIM. Ii
" Landes to become candidate for Mayor.
t. Mr.. j. Claude Clemmer and sister, Miss
l. Addie and Miss Caricofe, of this city, are
O. visiting friends in Clifton Forge.
le J. A. Wise has gone to see his mother,
Mrs. q. j. Wise, who is very i'll, at her
D home, near Bridgewater.
Frank L. Lee. who has been visiting at
the residence of DR.. N. Wayt. for several
. days, has returned to his home in Baltimore.
. Lynn Taylor, of Charlottesville, who has
= been visiting friends in the city. has return
ed home.
a Mr.. Joe. Young, brother of Mrs. Edward
7 Echols has been in the city for some days
visiting friends.
r Il. f. Hughes went last week to Charles
: Town, W. Va, to visit his mother, who is
in feeble health.
), The father of Miss Edna Way, teacher of
3 articulation at the d. d. & B. l =. died at
Grace. N. g., on Monday of last week.
Mr.. Thos. P. Ora sly, of the Manufacture
ers' Record, passed through the city Friday,
en- route from the west to his home in Balti-
more.
Miss Mamie Forrest Richardson, of
Charlie Town. W. Va, is spending few
days with her friend, Miss Charlotte Ransom
at Oakenwold.
W. Frazier Bell, son of K. P. Bell Of this
city, is among the Juniors who have been
declared proficient at the V. P. 1. for first
half of the present session.
Joseph B. Woodward returned last Satur-
day evening from Florida. where he has
been taking months vacation. He threw
the train off the track twice on the trip.
Hon. Jacob Yost and Mrs. Yost returned |
to Staunton Friday evening from Washing
| ton. MIR. Yost has been i'll with grippe.
Miss Grace Hileman, of Iron Gate, who
has been the guest of Miss Mary Yost on
West Frederick street for the past month or
six weeks, returned to her home Saturday.
W. G. Moffett, for many years local rep
resentative of Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
has been appointed travelling agent for the
road, and is succeed as agent at Stanton by
Porter M. Woodward, who has long been in
the Office here.
Rev. Father VIM. Fallon, pastor of st.
Joseph's Catholic church of Clifton Forge. I
fell upon the ice near Low Moor recently
and sustained painful injuries.
W. Gordon Mathews. of Lewisburg. son of
the late Gov. Hy. NJ, Mathews last week
passed most creditable examinations at the '
W. Va. University for admission to the bar
of that State.
Guy johnson, of Monroe county, who has :
been in this city attending Dunsmore's Bust
ness College, returned to his home last
week.
Maj. B. F. Eakle, of Lewisbnrg, W. Va,
SO we'll and fayorably known throughout a
the State, was in the city Friday last, on his I.
way to Richmond. where he usually spends II
some time every winter.
Major Jed Hotchkiss returned to Rich
mond Monday to appear again before the
legislative committee in behalf of his geo.
logical survey bill. which is most import
ant measure in the interest of material de- o
velopment.
Capt. James II. Waters and Chas. W.
Miller and family have returned from =
Lynchburg, where they had been summon z
ed again by the fatal illness of Mrs. Mil :,
ler's father, the late John W. Carroll. y
Rev. j. M. Wells, of the Second Presby- c
terrain church, went to Alexandria Saturday h
where he filled the pulpit of Mr.. Thacker, n
who is preaching at the First Presbyterian r
of this city. a
Jas. q. Lightner. attorney at law at Warm p
Springs, Bath county. was in the city for a ST
day or two last week. He has entirely re- p
covered from a severe spell of typhoid fever A
which Frustrated him several months ago.
Rev. Arnold Hall, synodicaI evangels l
IF Williamson, W. Va, and former pastor
Of Shemariah church this county, IL nowi
here visiting among his former congrega- r,
Jon. He will preach at Hebron church for
Rev. j. E. Booker. Sunday Goth inst.
The Greenbrier Independent says of Mr.
Thomas l. EpamStpr who ic no of
postmaster of that town. "Mr. Feamster re- CT
tires from the Office with the consciousness
that he has discharged its duties with credit Of
20 himself and fidelity to the government" al
Rev. Henry Alexander White, A. NJ, Ill
D. D., LII D., Professor of History in Wash
ngton and Lee University. who has been in
elected Professor of Ecclesiastical History b
n Columbia Presbyterian Seminary, Col 81
lmbia, S. g., has not yet decided as to ci
what course he shall pursue touching the re-
position.
Capt T. ID. Ransom, of this city, is one of al
he incorporates of the Deep Water Rail- W
Dad Co., which proposes to build from pl
Dsep Water, Fayette county, on the line of T
he Kanawha and Michigan up Lower Loup
Creek and to Glen Jean. Abram S. Hewitt,
# New 7 ork, is at its head.
Mr.. E. NJ. Taylor, of this city. has been r.
appointing travelling salesman for Bailey d
Bros. & Co.. of Philadelphia Manufactur-
RS of fine cigars. Mr.. Taylor has large ;,
ield to cover, is young man of fine address =,
nd should be a valuable man in any line g.
hat brings him in touch with the CONNER =
lal public. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Van Lear of Little he
Rock, Arkansas, are in Staunton. and will w
make their home with DR.. e. W. Rogers. al
whose wife is a sister of Mr.. Van Lear, who
S native of Augusta county. They will
cPupU the Van ,oar rocidopoa pavt 70 bo AZ