Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-28

tue guest of the Misses BIckle, return
g to her home in Waynesboro tn
week.
Grand Commander Stith Boiling hs
appointed Miss Agnes Barron, as spol
sor from the first district to tide Gran
Camp.
Miss Mary Preston Moore, sponso
of the tenth district to the Grand Cam
of Confederate Veterans. has name
Miss Martha B. Christian, of Min
Spring, asher maid of honor.
Mr.. James Allen. son of Col.
Brown Allen, who underwent al
operation for appendicitis some week
ago in Richmond, has been brought t
his fathers home here.
Miss Catherine GllkesOn. of Min
Spring, who is a pupil in the Terri
Haute Institute at Terre Haute. Ind.
left last week to resume her studies
She will graduate this session.
Miss Ella Wallace, of Bath county
is the guest of Mrs. w. A. Hodge, o.
Stuart's Draft. Mrs. Hodge has just
returned from a visit to Variety
Springs.
DR.. M. J. Payne will leave Monday
for Philadelphia, where he will take g
special course in surgery under Drs
Montgomery and Kreusen. He will
be absent from four to six weeks.
DR.. G. T. Lew is has been appointed
division surgeon on the staff of E. L.
Spencer, jr., commander of the Vir'
ginia Division Sons of Confederate Vet.
Grams. 40
Mr.. John w. Freed. son of Mr.. w.
A. Freed, of the Fishersville neighbor'
hood. has returned to the University
of Virginia, for the present session,
which will we hear be his graduating
year.
Bernard PeytOn, ESQ.,, and wife, OF
w. Va, have been spend.
ing some time with DR.. E. D. Peyton,
near Greenville. Since their visit
Mrs. Peyton has been 4uite sick. but
at this time is somewhat improved.
Messrs. Frank Webb. Frank Karnes.
Alfred Loeb, Waddell Kinney, Frank
Yost, Douglas Baxter, Morris Berke-
ley and Eskridge Gilkeson, left last
week to enter the V. p. I. at Blacks
burg.
DIR. Geo. F. Eyster, Of Baltimore,
who has been spending some time at
belle Monte" his summer home near
left Monday for Balti-
more. He raised one of the largest
and finest crop of peaches ever seen in
this section.
Rev. DR.. H. Fl. Halves, formerly pas
Or of the Second Presbyterian church,
was IN the city last week. On Sunday
be filled the pulpit of the First Pres
byterian church, and in the evening
be filled the pulpit of the Second
church. He was given warm well
come by his many friends here.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of Miss Martha B. Poterfield, of
w. Va, to Attorney G. W.
Forsythe, of Front Royal, at the home
Of the bride, on the third day of Octo-
Der, 1900. Mr.. Forsythe is the young
sst member of the Front Royal Bar and
4 very promising young man.
Mr.. J. Houston Leech, Fertilizer In
spector for the 10th district, has been
spending this week in Staunton and
vicinity. He states that Augusta
county is being supplied with high
grade fertilizers at rock bottom prices;
and assures us that our efficient Com
missioner of Agriculture, Mr.. G. W.
Koiner, is exertlng every effort to
make that department success.
Mr.. G. S. Gay, whose home is at
a conductor on the r. &
A. Ry., and his wife, were in Staunton
On Tuesday on their way back from
The marriage of a neice at Harrison
burg. Mr.. Gay at one time lived here.
He has been in the employ of the c. &
D. for over 20 years, and has not in all
that time had mark against his con-
duct or efficiency, or ever been off its
pay rolls.