Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-11-20
Personal rIention.


Miss Ella Wood has been quite sick.
Mr.. VIM. Trapnellleft for Kansas City
Missouri.
Miss Agnes Phillips has returned tc
Washington City.
Miss Jessie Henlsle is the guest OF Mis-.
Ora F. Tomlinson.
Col. W. W. coe has been spending
several days in town.
Miss Bessie colston left Friday to visit
friends at Buena Vista, va.
Mrs Foptaine B. HooF has been visit
ing relatives in Richmond. Va.
Miss Mary Alexander has gone to
clarksburg to spend the winter.
Miss Lila Willis has been spending a
few days with Miss Lousie Baylor.
Mr. VIM, Hopkins is spending few
days at the parental home east of town.
Mr.. Allison TIooff. of Manassas, Va,
IS visiting his mother and brothers here.
We were pleased to meet Mr.. Eugene
Shugart, of Harpers Ferry, in town
yesterday.
Rev. R. S. COPELAND left for Norfolk.
Va, Saturday, to accompany his family
back home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. B. Gallaher have
been spending few days with friends in
Stanton, Va.
Mr.. w. F. Walker visited Monongalia
county last week, to look after bridge
work in that locality
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie c. Beard and lit
tie son, OF Hagerstown, Md, are the
guests of {. N. Beard.
Mr. ]. C. Wiltshire, who has been quite
sick with a threatened attack of typhoid,
is able to be out again.
Rev. E. R. Leyburn and Mrs. sallie
Harlan, of Berkeley county. have been
visiting the Misses Keerl.
Mrs. Chas A. johnson and daughter
Moselle returned Thursday from an ex-
tended visit to friends in Roanoke and
elsewhere.
Mr.. w. w. Slough, theenterprisingand
genial Shippensburg (Pa.) carriage man
ufacturer, was in Charles Town last
Wednesday,
Mr.. G. I. Knight has been out to Clarks-
burg, and expects to return and locate in
that now rapidly growing city. We wish
him much success.
DR.. VIM. Long and young son, of Lake
Prpx-flar,ra
friends in this place-the first visit of the
Doctor here since leaving Charles Town
fourteen years ago.
1t is published in the papers that Rev. A.
C. Hopkins has been extended call by the
Hampton (virginia) Presbyterian Church,
to succeed Rev. w. H. Mclaughlin, who
has rendered his resignation. This refers
to Rev. a. G. Hopkins. of Bayard, son of
Rev. DR.. A. G. Hopkins. of this town.
Mrs. Margaret Moreland, of Berryville,
Va, visited her son, Mr.. F. ]. Moreland,
in this place several days last week. Mrs.
Moreland has been troubled of late with
defective eye-sight, and came here to
consult DR.. Bishop. who is now treating
her.
Col. B. D. Gibson and Messrs. Chas.
w. Brown, Milton Burr and D. w. Glen
dening attended the meetings of the
Grand Chapter and Masonic Grand
Lodge, at Parkersburg. last week. The
Grand Lodge will meet in Huntington
next year.
Miss Maduro from Porto Rico, is ex-
Pected at Powhatan College this week.
1t is high compliment to this institu-
ton that the father of this young lady
should have selected the Powhatan as a
proper place to educate his daughter
in preference to the leading female col
1eges of New York.
From the Bridgewater correspondent of
the Harrisonhurg Spirit of the Valley we
take the following: Miss Amelia Man
ming, the pretty aud attractive daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ]. Manning, of Charles
Town. w. Va, is a guest of her uncle, Mr.
c. ]. Manning, since Thursday. She is on
her return home from three-months visit
to her sister, Mrs. R. E. L. Prior, of Charles.
ton"
Mr.. and Mrs. George Baylor and Miss
Louise Baylor entertained the Buchre
Club Friday evening. Those present
were:
Mr.. and Mrs. George Porterfeld. DR.. and
Mrs, William Neil. Mr.. and Mrs. james NJ.
Mason, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. William Cam bell,
Mr.. aud Mrs. C. z. Baylor, Col. and Mrs. X.
?. Chew, Misses Christine W: Chew, Emily
T. Cook, Margaret and Ethel Kennedy, Anna
Mitchell, Maud Howell. Lila Willis, Rebecca
VI. Trapnell aud Julia Alexander, and Mcssrs.
Arthur Davenport. a. S. Allen. Ceon
Moore, Robert A.Atkinson, Thomas R.AIoore,
E. c. Worthington, E. E. Cooke. George T.
light, Robert Chew, John Porterfeld and
Charles l.. Crane.
Mr.. John H. Hall, well-known resi-
dent of this place, died Saturday morning
at his residence on Liberty street. He
had been in failing health for several
years. and his death was the result of a
general decline He was about Go years
of age and came to Jefferson county soon
after the war from Ellicott City, Md
He resided on his farm about one mile