Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-05-04
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mr.. Geo. R. Talley was recently g
pointed postmaster at Annex.
Hon. J. l.. M. Curry will deliver Il
commencement address at the III
versity of Virginia in June
DR.. Lewis Nelson died at his nome
Lewisburg on Monday night last, Apl
%, aged SO years.
The Model Steam Laundry is sti
+ in operation and doing more work tha
ever.
Mr.. Jacob A. Hanger has sold b
property near the park to Mr.. G. N
Tucker, of Aibemarle county.
The Stonewall band will give a con
cert on May 25th for the benefit o
Stonewall jackson Camp of Veterans
The Christian Endeavor convention
of the Staunton district will meet il
Charlottesville on June and 8, in th
Christian church.
w. r. Knowles last week bought
three fine steers from John 81. Baker
of near Roman, the bunch weighing
4,0S5 lbs an average of 1862 lbs each.
A marriage license was issued from
the county clerks Office yesterday to
Charles r. Thacker and Miss Mabel
Lee Curry; to be married Sunday at
Grottoes.
G. G. Wheat, manager for Mrs. P.
V. Wheat, on Friday made an assign
ment to G. A. Grafton, trustee, for the
benefit of his creditors. The assets
and liabilities are not stated.
Rev. F. A. Hodge. student of the
University of Virginia, has been called
to take charge of the Christian church
at Clifton Forge, and has gone there
to enter upon his duties.
Last Wednesday party from Craigs-
vile composed of Mrs. ]. H. Hidy and |
daughter Ruth, Mrs. II. L. Shock,
Miss Marsden and Mr.. A. F. Seller,
came down and spent the day looking
oyer the city.
A letter has been received by the
committee of Stonewall Jackson Camp
from Gen. Joseph Wheeler stating that
his time was so much occupied that he
would be unable to deliver an address
here that be had been invited to do.
Bishop Van de Vyver will sail from
New York for Europe tomorrow. He
will not return to Virginia until Au-
gust or September. The greater por-
ton of his time abroad will be spent
in Belgium. his native land
Miss Anna Bell, daughter of Mr..
Chas. J. Bell, formerly of this county, 7
was married on Wednesday of last :
week at the home of her father at '
Warm Springs to MI. JAS W. Crizer,
of Covington.
The congregation of the Second Pres
Dyterian church on Sunday elected, 4
Messrs. Newton Argenbright. E. G..
Fishburne and G. E. Schumacher, trus-
tees of that church to fill vacancies
caused by death and removal from the
city.
The Board of Trade, which has just !,
been newly organized by the business ;.
men of Waynesboro and Basic City, is n
rapidly progressing and at the last =,
meeting held thirty-fve OF forty bust -
ness men were present and all becameI
members. u
There will be a meeting of the Au- =
gusta Horticultural Society in this ~
city tomorrow, May 9Th, at the usual
place of meeting. 1t is hoped there
will be full turnout as matters of III
more than ordinary Importance will 81
come before the meeting. III
Dr. Fl. w. Henry, who for some years r
was physician at the Western State
Hospital here, was bitten last week by w
a mad dog IN Pittsylvania county. Ga
The doctor has gone to New York for M
treatment His mother who had been III
visiting here left at once for home.
The United Brethren congregation OF
of this city have purchased of Mrs. DIT
Clara Hamrick, the lot, corner of Au: 90
ous+o ond Erodarick straets for 90 5oo he
X US td dAo oOlCObp LII VA.cOOI
cash, upon which in the near future ye
they will erect a large, handsome and
modern church This congregation me
was organized here about twelve years to
ago with but half dozen members and M
has now a mem bership numbering be- be
tween 800 and 400. re,
Virginians are greatly blessed in IN
their educational opportunities. The
State has a good system of public ye
schools in which the elements of q tul
sound education are impaired, and the at
University OF Virginia. an integrant da
part of the system, and as such free fri
to Virglnians'' in the academic schools, col
affords to every one in the common ]
wealth an opportunity for higher edu- Ia
cation. to,
Mrs. Margaret Breedlove, of Lexing- on
ton, hanged herself on Saturday at the U.
Western State Hospital, where she is I
was patient. She made a rope by gr(
fearing her bed sheets into strips and I
knotting them together. She tied one wi
md to the door transom and the other of
around her throat and swung off. The in
body was sent to Lexington for inter- He
nent. Her husband and several broth his
RS survive her. the
The spring meeting of Lexington /
Presby terry will be neld at Mt. Horeb me
church, beginning next Tuesday. Rev. sio
DR.. G.. B. Stricken, of Union Theolog mil
cal Seminary, Richmond, is expected sir,
10 attend. He will preach the follow tin