Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-05-29
NOTES FROM NEARBY

SATURDAY.
Julian A. Smith, aged 40 years,
died In Charlestown last week of con.
sumption.
Citizens Fire Company, of Charles
town, have received sc new uniforms
made of Confederate Gray.
Charles Town has a new physician.
He is DR.. j. NJ. Miller, lately of
Romney, W. Va.
Charles Town graded school, of
which Prof. Wright Denny is princi-
| pal, closed it's session last Friday after
another prosperous term.
Dogs recently killed ten lambs aud
injured twelve other sheep of the
flock of w. II. Roper in Jefferson
county.
A rabid dog at Cspon Bridge bit
number of dogs and that mountain
town is now going through a mad
dog scare.
Charles Broadway Rouss contrib
uted $50 towards new stone fence
to be placed around the Harper's
Ferry cemetery.
f. Vernon Aler, Martinsburg
lawyer, took by mistake a poisonous
acid for EPSON salts, aud only by
prompt action WAS his life saved.
Miss Lorens Flick, daughter of
Judge Flick of Martinsburg. will
we'd Mr.. Gustav b. Wiltshire, of
Jefferson county, Thursday, June
9th.
August Schultz. Frank Weller
and t. c. Green were elected to the
town council of Charles Town with
out opposition in quiet election last
Thursday.
Miss Carrie Bennett, daughter of
the late f. l.. Bennett. died last week
seven DAYS after her father passed
away. She was % years old and
victim of consumption.
Miss Annie Triplett Haxall, daugh
ter of Mr.. Boiling Haxall, of Loudoun
county. is to we'd Thomas Underwood
Dudley. Jr., son of the Bishop Of
Kentucky, early in July.
J. p West, formerly of Charles
town, died in Plttsburg last week
after a short illness of typhoid fever.
He was p years old, and married
daughter of Mr.. James Melvin. of
Jefferson.
Samuel Donohue, Loudoun conn
~ farmer, was stricken with paralysis
last Friday aud died in few min
utes. He had just returned from
drive when death came A widow
and IL children survive him.
Mrs. Ida Chapline won the first
round in the fight for the Shepherds
town postoffice against Harry f..
Munday. She was recommended to
Congressman Dayton for appoint
ment by the Jefferson county repub-
lican executive com mittee.
Charles p. Jack and A. r. Unger,
lessees of the States property at
Berkeley Syringe, propose to organize |
a stock company to erect large
summer hotel at that we'll known |
summer resort. Ex-senator Faux !
ner and Senator Scott are said TO be |
interested In the project.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage of Miss May Whiting Con-
rad, of New York city, niece of |
Hon. Holmes Conrad, and Mr.. David |
Judson Randall, of New York. The
ceremony will take place in Christ
Episcopal Church, Winchester. on
Wednesday evening, June 18th, at
s O'Clock, Rev. n. p. Dame to offici-
ate.
"The Loudoun Guards" the mill
tary company being organized in
L>esburg, is fast assuming the pro.
PORTIONS aud appearance of an unus-
ually fine company, says the Mirror.
The company hopes to be fully or
ganized, thoroughly equipped and
drilled to make good appearance on
June 4th, the Confederate Memorial
day.
A bold attempt was made early
Thursday morning To burn the plant
of the Old Dominion Paper Company
near Winchester Two men were
seen running from the direction of
storage building, and few minutes
later fire burst from the building.
The employees of the mill promptly
extinguished the flames, and the loss
was small, being confined to the sto-
rage building.
Memorial day was observed at
Chaales Town last Saturday. After
an address by Rev. DR.. Geo. w. Fin
ley, of Augusta county, Va, in the
court house, parade was formed, in
which the Confederate Camps of
Veterans and Sons, the fire compa-
MES and the band participated, and
marched to Edge Hill cemetery,
where beautiful flowers were placed
on the graves of the South's fallen
heroes.
State Senator Henry Fairfax, of