Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-01-19
PERSONAL.

j. J. F. Wilson. of the county. was
ID caller at N Office on Tuesday.
Joseph Miller. of Knightly, was il
the city last Monday.
y H. G. Hanna, of Mt. Scion, was il
the city last Friday on business.
Robert B. Hamilton, of Messy Creek
was i'll the city this week on business
w. 3. Anderson spent last Sunday
in Clifton Forge.
]. w. Hess, of Clifton Forge, was in
the city this week and on Tuesday paid
this Office a call.
n Captain G. g. Gooch left Tuesday
8 for Cl%arksburg, W. Va. where he is
engaged in railroad building.
Albert Shultz spent a day OF two of
this week at the Hot Springs on bust
ness and pleasure combined.
, John Sipe and Oscar Fur, of neal
! Stonewall, left this week for Coving-
ton, where they will reside.
! j. E. Cooke. editor of the Valley
!, Herald at Waynesboro, was in Staun-
ton a day or two this week.
r. s. Payne, of the county, left sew
eral days ago for South Carolina to
engage in railroad building.
Miss Fannie Peck is on a visit to
friends in Boston, Baltimore and Prov
1dence. 4
The LIE Cato capitation tax bill will
hardly become a law. The Senate re-
fused to engross iG.
Frank L. Sublett and bride nee
Smith, arrived in Staunton Tuesday
morning and will make this city their
home.
! Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Alexander re-
turned home Monday night from a
visit to Mrs. Alexander's relatives in
Georgia.
" IL a. oAo WIN VI MOOu,t
have returned home. after a visit to
the father of Mrs. Rhea, J, FL. Lupton,
near this city.
H. II. Blease spent this week in
Newberry, s. g., where be was called
On account of the illness of his sister,
who resides in that city.
Rev. A. 2. Funkhouser, OF Harri-
sonburg, was in the city last Sunday
and preached morning and night at the
United Brethren church.
Baxter Slower, who moved from this
county several years ago to the Da-
kotas, is here On a visit to old friends
and relatives. |.
Miss Lucille Kilby, of Roanoke, who
had been in the city for several days
visiting friends, left for home last Sat-
urday. (
B. F.Eakle, of the Old Sweet Springs,
W. Va, so well and favorabIy known
in Staunton was on our streets We'd
nesday.
On Thursday Nh. and Mrs. W. S.
Burke left for Washington. D. c.,
where they will spend a month. They 6
will be at the Metropolitan Hotel. t
Prof. VIM. A. Bowles and B. F.
Hughes spent a day or two in Rich I
mond last week in the interest of the {
Virginia School for the Deaf and the I
Blind. &
J. Fred. Davis, of Jackson, Michi- Z
gan, is visiting relatives and friends +
i'll this city and county. Mr.. Davis was
at one time in the newspaper business v
N this city. /
Captain T. c. Morton returned home
last Friday from an extended and suc- .
cessful business trip to Arkansas. =
While absent be visited his son and !
brother in Morganfield, KY.
Rev. John g. Scott, of Buena Vista,
spent several days in the city this week
at the home of Rev. r. G. Jet. Mr..
Scott filled the pulpit at Emmanuel :
Church last Sunday.
Miss Alice Crickenberger, of the {
lower end of the county, passed through {
the city Monday for Richmond to en- {
ter the Old Dominion hospital for 6
treatment. She was accompanied by |
DR.. J. S. Sellers and N. I. Kagey, a
relative. L
wv. Porter, of Albemarle, the great 7
friend of free silver at 16 to 1. was in {
the city this week attending the Hor- r
ticultural Society. Mr.. Porter up to t
1896 was an ardent Republican, but q
like Senator Teller, left his party when
it deserted its principles.
Miss Irene P. Mann, of this city,
who has been several years a mission
airy in Japan, contemplates returning /
home IN the next month or so on &C. f
count of failing health. Miss Mann I
has many friends here who will be glad I
to welcome her home and wish her a c
speedy recovery to good health. 7
Prof. Geo. 2. Perry, who some years 7
ago was the principal of the Staunton r
High School and who has been filling !
a like position in La Crosse, Wiscon- +
sin. for the past four years, died in +
that city last Monday. He was a native
of Lunenburg county. and was highly
esteemed by those who enjoyed his
acquaintance.
John G. Root, of Messy Greek, was +
a caller at our office this week, the
first visit he had paid to Staunton for {
some time. Many persons who knew t