Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-09-04
Church Items.

Rev. j. r. Melbourne will preach at
Hafttown next Sunday afternoon
Winchester Presbytery will meet in
Winchester, Va, on Tuesday. Sept 4
Rev. Frank Kearfoot will preach in the
Summit Point Baptist Church on Sunday.
Sept. 9, at 8 p. m.
Services in St. James Catholic Church,
Charles Town, on the 4th Sunday of
each month. at Io:so a. M
Second Quarterly Meeting for shen-
andoah Junction, (Manning's,) Sept. 9;
Charles Town, Sept. 9-1o. :
Rev, A.C. Hopkins. Jr., of Elk Garden,
this State, has been calledto the pastorate
of the Presbyterian Church in Bedford
City, Virginia.
Rev R Milbourne will preach in the
Charles Town Baptist Church next Sun
day morning and night. Young Peoples
Meeting will beheld in the lower room,
commencing at IT'S p. m.
Mr. Chas c-conklvn has few fine APP
pies for sale.
A charter has been issued to the New
York Oil development Company. of
Charles Town.
We want wood. Will some of our
wood-paying subscribers please send us
in some at once.
We want money. That's plain English,
and we cannot make it more emphatic
/ Will r,,r T,ofrrr,e ,,Iaoee
Intelligence was received here yester-
day of the death, in Baltimore, of Mr.
George Hilbert, brother-in-law of Mrs.
B. F. Dooley of this place, and we'll
known here.
A match game OF base ball played at
Martinsburg Tuesday between Charles
Town and Martinsburg teams, resulted in
a score of 8 to in favor of Charles Town.
Areturn game was played here yesterday
in which the visitors won score 9 to 6.
A County Temperance Picnic WILDE
held at Shenandoah Junction on Satur-
day, September15. A program for morn
ingaud afternoon exercises will appear in
the papers next week Everybody cor
daily invited to come and spend all day
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The gentlemen who drive or ride hors-
BIZ c< out of town making night hideous
with their yells should be caught and
made to answer therefor. They might
be detected and arrested. and many per-
sons think they could beat least some
of them, to make an example of to others.
The advertisement of the Valley Gro
Gerry Company Or Frank Brooks general
manageD appears in this issue. The Com
pany have taken the west store room of
the Hooff Building, Immediately under
the SPIRIT office, and will also occupy the
former Washington elevator building,
near the B 6: o depot. We welcome this
new enterprise to our town, and have no
doubt it will meet with much success.
DR.. T. H. Buck, a prominent citizen OF
Leetown, in this county, who was in
Luray as delegate to the Shenandoah
Baptist Association, then in session there,
died of appoplexy at balf-past six o'clock
Wednesday evening. DIR. Buck. who
was being entertained at the home of DR..
w. L. Hudson, did not appear at break
fast Wednesday morning, and when
searched for was found in his bed helpless
from an apoplectic attack. He was 70
years of age and was veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, having served
as Captain of Co. E, 9TH Va. Cavalry. in
the latter. The deceased was Jealous
member of the Baptist church, and was
a Deacon of the Leetown Church and
Superintendent of the Sunday School at
that place. He was a kind-hearted chris
tian gentleman, much beliked by all who
knew him. and his death will be much
deplored, His remains were inferred
Friday morning at Buckton. Warren
county, his old family home.