Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Get your moneys worth at the oper
house tonight.
The Red Men of Staunton had
blow out on Wednesday night at thei
lodge rooms over Wayt's drugstore.
Capt. 7. c. Morton offers for rent a
eight-room brick residence on Freder
lex street, centrally located. See ad
vertisement in this paper.
No news of Importance has rea chez
this country concerning the war il
South Africa. At present the BoerI
appear to have the advantage.
At present there are only "a appli
cants for the position OF steward at
the Virginia School for the Deaf an6
the Blind made vacant by the resigna
ton of W. S. Gooch.
J. G. Lewis as 81 Plunkard, will ap
pear at the opera house this Friday
night, supported bya strong company
Irvine Taylor, of near G%reenville, is
in Jail awaiting the action of the grand
Jury on the charge of assaulting Maria
Doyle.
McIlhany and Hilleary, real estate
agents, have moved their office from
Masonic Temple to their new quarters
in the Marquis building on the corner
of Main and Augusta streets.
B. B. Buchanan, clerk in the store of
c. D. Higginbotham, and Miss Lottle
Zirkle were married in Washington
last Thursday. The marriage was quite
a surprise to their friends.
The fourth Thursday in May has
been agreed upon by the Democratic
caucus as the day upon which a vote
is to be taken for and against a consti-
tutional convention.
If it is an evening of real enjoyment
you are after be sure to go to the opera
house tonight.
There was a slight fire early Wednes-
day morning in the third story Of the
Argus building. The fire department
responded promptly to the alarm sent
in from box "A and soon quenched the
flames The damage was trifing.
The congregation of Hebron church,
which was recently destroyed by fire, |
have decided to erect a new church to
cost Sc, 1000. A meeting will be held at
an early date to decide upon calling a
pastor to succeed Rev. j. E. Booker,
resigned.
At a congregational meeting of the
Second Presbyterian church, held last
Sunday, A. s. Morton was elected per-
manent clerk and Messrs. Arthur Will
lson, B. F. Hughes and N. G. Kester,
elders. They will be ordained next
Sunday morning.
There will be preaching next Sunday
at IL a. No., at Mt. Tabor Lutheran
church after which a meeting will be
held to decide whether a call shall be
extended to Rev. G. W. Spiggle, of
Pennsylvania, to become the pastor of
that church.
The Elks of this city will give a MINIS
trel performance in the opera house in
this city on next Thursday night, the
10Th. The performers will be home
talent and an evening OF genuine
pleasure is promised all who attend.
James Smith, colored, was arrested
Wednesday on the charge Of passing
counterfeit money. He attempted to
pass the money on a Greenville ave-
nue. MN, and did pass it SO far as to
refuse to accept same in return. Uncle
Sans officer, John Rodgers, took
Smith in charge.
A rare musical treat is promised by |
Managers ShultZ & Barkman at the
opera house next Friday night, the
10th, as they have engaged the Inter
national Grand Operatic Company to
give one of its magnificent performan-
ces or that evening. Particulars will
be given later. Remember the date.
Among the delegates appointed by
Governor Tyler to represent Virginia
in the International Mining Congress, |
which meets in Milwaukee on June
10Th, next, are the following: Hon. Ed
ward Echols, J. Mason Miller, Jr.,
Hon. A. F. Withrow and Hugh B.
Sproul.
VIM. L. Bailie, the infant son of
Thos. D. BaiIie, died last Sunday night
after a lingering illness that developed
into pneumonia. The funeral took
place from the residence of his parents
on Tuesday morning and the remains
taken to Buena Vista for interment.
The little one was only IS months old
and had been in delicate health for a
long time.
The man who was taken off of the
train at Clifton Forge, and was sup
posed to have smallpox, has died.
The citizens were naturally much ex-
cited, but a physician went up from
this city and pronounced the case not
smallpox, much to the relief of the
people. There has not been a case of
smallpox in Clifton Forge for a num-
Der of years.
A new enterprise has been started in
this vicinity in the reopening of the
CroZier Iron mine. The mine has not
been worked for many years, but the
rise in the price of iron has caused the
promoters, Messrs. Powell, Crawford,
Kennedy and Harvey, to open up.
They will build a branch railroad con-
Meeting with the Norfolk and Western
near Greenville.
Samuel Clayter, of Sampson, died
on Thursday of last week from the
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