Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-11-24


Mrs. A. B. Guigon is quite sick at
her residence, 1903 Grove Avenue, Rich
mond.
Mrs Donald Allen and Miss Kate
! Hail left last week for st. Louis,
where they will visit for some time.
Miss Daisy Yarbrough left Saturday
for Baltimore, where she will visit
friends for some time.
Miss Grace Moore returned this week
from Basic City, where she has been
visiting friends.
| Major Absolom Koiner was in the
city Monday and was a welcome visi-
tor at this office.
Mrs T. Walter Davis left NJ nday
morning for Concord Depot, Appomat-
tox county, to visit her brother.
Mrs. J. s. LeFils, of Jacksonville,
who has been spending the summer
with her parents, Captain and Mrs. Il.
G. Morton, returned home last week.
| Oscar L. Gibson, of Lyndhurst, who
is connected with the Phoenix Iron Co.,
of Pennsylvania, was in the city Satur-
day
Mrs. Leila B. Craig, of Cold Sulphur
Springs, who was here attending the
| Woodward Funkhouser wedding, left
Monday for her home.
Mrs. Blackford, wife of DR.. Ben.
Biackford, returned home this week
from Lynchburg, where she has been
visiting for some time.
Thomas c. Kinney, son of Major A,
IF. Kinney, of this city, arrived here
Yesterday from New York on brief
visit to his relatives and friends.
Mrs. S. D. Ferguson. of Roanoke, who
was here to attend the wedding of her
sister, Miss Mary Funkhouser, left
Tuesday for Baltimore.
Herbert Chermside, who has been
quite sick at his home in this county
left last week to resume his studies at
Washington and Lee.
Samuel H. Bell has just returned from
Baltimore, where he shipped several
carloads of hogs. Hogs, he says, are
very low but probably little better
than selling corn at 25 cents per bushel.
Mrs. S. A. Vines, of Huntington, w.
Va, who has been in the city for the
past week visiting her sister, Mrs. M. e.
Porterfield, returned home Monday
morning.
Gilmore Patton, prosecuting attorney
Of Monroe county, W. Va, Is In the
city visiting friends. He is stopping at
the home of his co usin, Mr.. A. q.
Braxton.
Rev. Charles A. Mark, pastor of Mt.
Tabor church, passed through Staunton
Monday Oh his way to Hermitage,
where he will ass st Rev. E. c.. Cronk,
in d series of services which will be held
in the schoolhouse of that place during
the week.
Mr.. w. D, Hanger, of this county,
who has been visiting his son, j. New
ton Hanger in Louisa county, returned
here and left Tuesday morning to spend
some months in Illinois and Missouri,
among his relatives.
Jacob Whistler, of Lyndhurst, was in
| the city Monday. He was the recent
purchaser of the Mt. Torrey property,
located near Sherando, and is organizing
force to work mineof mang anese
which he thinks he has large quantity.
Miss Donaghe Yost left Monday
morning over the B. & o. road for Cum
/ berland, Md, to be present at the mar
| rage of her cousin, Miss Bessie Shoup,
| to Hon. Geo. A. Pearre. the ceremony
| was performed yesterday at Cumber-
| land at noon.
Col. D. V. Ruckman, of Long Glade,
was in the city Thursday on his return
from Baltimore, where be had gone
with cattle. This practically winds up
| ais extensive dealing in cattle for this
season. He thinks the cattle trade
Throughout the county has been gener-
ally satisfactory.
Mr.. A. s. Crawford, an old Staunton
| boy who is now with the G. B. & q.
railway, with his wife, is on visit to
his mother, Mrs. G. s. Crawford, in
| this city. Mr.. Crawford went West
shortly after the close of the war and
with the exception of an occasional
visit here has been there ever since.
His home is at Galesburg, ILL.,
| The wedding of James H. Woodward
and Miss Mary Funkhouser on Thurs
day evening was witnessed by Major P.
H. Woodward, Joseph B. Woodward
and Porter M. Woodward, of this city,
Samuel M. Woodward, of Roanoke,
John Woodward, of Clifton Forge and
Ashby W. Woodward, of Washington,
father and five brothers respectively OF
the groom.
4 Miss jamie Price, of Lewisburg. w.
Va, who was in the city to attend the
wedding of her friend, Miss Mary Funk
houser, left Saturday for Lexington fol
short visit to friends there She re
turned Monday to spend a few days with
friends here.
Lieut.. Desha Breckenridge, son of Co
W c. P. Breckenridge, was married a
Lexington, KY, Thursday, to Miss Mage
Mcdowell, who Is great-grand
daughter of Henry Clay. Lieutenant
Breckenridge is the brother of Mrs. Ly
man Chalkiy, Of this city, aud is well
known mere, where he has often visited
Lieut.. Ran Berkely, of the Marine
Service. stationed st Washington, is a