Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-09-13

DR.. Chas. P. Eichelberger, of Dar
vile, is spending some days at his oil
home in this city.
The G. II W. railway has complete
feasible and excellent survey iron
Elkton to GordonsvilIe.
John R. Kiracofe was in New Yor
this week purchasing his fall and win
ter stock of furnishings.
Mr.. J. II. Dinkle, of Valley Mills, i
In Charles Town on business engage
ment for several months.
Mr.. J. l.. Tate, of Clifton Forge, ant
formerly of this place. was in the cit,
last Tuesday visiting relatives.
Donald Allen, Esq, is at home il
this city for brief vacation from his
railroad work in Kansas City.
Mr.. 7. Arthur Blackford, after spend
ing the vacation with his parents here
has returned to Wilmington, Del.
Mis-, Sarah HILBERT, of Basic City,
has returned home after a pleasant Wis
it to the Misses Bickle on north Mark
ct street.
Miss Bessie G. Anderson left Monday
night for Albany, N. Y, where she is
teacher in the Albany Home School
for the Deaf.
Rev. DR.. F. J. Brooke, of Alexan-
dria, was in the city last week, and
Sunday afternoon led the services at
the Y. M. @. A.
Mr. NJ. Floyd Poyntz, with the dry
goods of Heironimus & Co., Roanoke,
spent some days with his relatives in
the city last week.
Mr.. Fl. 6. McGary, of the firm of
Fl. G. McGary & Co., MiddlebroOk. is
in New York this week buying fall
and winter goods.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter, of Steele's
Tavern, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. E. A.
Gibbs, OF Rsphiue, are visiting the
Buffalo Exposition.
Miss Ellie d. Vaughan, of Roanoke,
who has been visiting friends for some
weeks in RockDrldge, Is now a guest of
the family of Capt. T. G. Morton
DR.. Geo. Fl. Bell, who has been spend
ing some time with his father, DR..
VIM. Bell, at Mt. Sidney, left this week
for Na,r Vork to racur,o hic pro atioo
Mrs. Fred. F. Alle, aud her baby
have returned to their Ime in Newport
News. after dellghtf visit to the
home of her husband parents, Col.
and Mrs. S. Brown Allen.
There was family reunion at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Swoope
Keller near Churchville on the Sth
instant where many members of the
family were present, including some
members from distant States.
Mrs. T. r. N. Speck, who was called
to Baltimore by the illness OF her moth
er, Mrs. Condor, returned home last
week, accompanied by her little daugh-
ter and her friend, Mrs. Waters, of
that city.
Mr.. John n. Anderson, for some years
p list local drummer for Bowling, SPOTS
IL Co., left Sunday for Richmond to
take position with the Good Luck :"
Baking Powder Go. Mr.. Chas. Lewis
NJ nd mill Pa,uli,,r~
SPOTS i Co.
Col Robert Catlett has been nomin-
ated for the Senate, for the district
composed of Bath, Highland, ALE.
ghany and Rockbridge, and Judge q.
T. Moore, of Covington, for the House
of Delegates from Allegheny, Bath
and Highland.
Mr.. Lowry Lewis, Of Fire Gre elk,
w. Va, was in the city last week en-
route to Fauquier county, where he
will spend few days at the home of
his brother-in law, DR.. Harnsberger.
MIS-. Lewis, who has been visiting
there some time, will return with him
to West Virginia.
The Va. School for the Deaf and the
Blind has opened with splendid pros
poets. There has been received and
a limited into the school a deaf blind
boy, the first one of this kind ever
taught in the State. Ii is hardly ex-
pected to make Helen Keller of him,
but Supt. Bowles is satisfied that be
Can teach him great deal.
j. Nj. Mcclure has been called tosup
ply the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church at Barton Heights during the
coming year. Mr.. Mcclure is from
Augusta county, Va, and is Il mem
Der of the graduating class at the Union
Theological Seminary. The Rev. w
II. Squires, the former pastor, resigned
to accept a call at Bristol, Va.-Rich-
mond News.
Mr.. Mcclure is the son of Mr.. M. Il.
Mcclure, of Spottswood, and during
UllC tbdOJ cumuCl w cS CuShSCu III lulb-
sionary work in West Virginia.
Mr.. Arthur chairman, an old Staun-
ton boy, Was last week nominated by
the Democrats of Richmond as one of
their candidates for the House of Dele
gates. He has lived in Richmond for
many years, and is successful bust
ness man, being at present member
of the Board of Aldermen. Mr.. Har-
man is brother of Mrs. E. S. Surber
and Miss Augusta Hartman, of this
city, and Mr.. A. 6. Hartman, of Cos
hen. His friends here are glad to
learn of his good fortune and know he
will make his adopted city a good rep
reSentative.