Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-24

Mr.. Walter Bosserman, of Academy
W. Va, is on visit to his parents.
Mrs. J. F. Neff is visiting her moth
er near Spring Hill.
| Capt. Chas. A. Holt and wife went
to New Y ork this week.
Miss Pinkie Calhoun, of Deerfield
is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Scott
at Swoope.
| Miss Sallie Warren after visit tt
Miss Bessie Baker. has returned to hei
| home at-Millboro.
The new hotel at Hot Springs is fast
nearing completion and will open to
| visitors about April.
DR.. Powell q. Faun tleroy. assistant
surgeon in the q. S. Navy, has been
assigned to duty at the Norfolk Navy
Yard.
The rails on the G. 4 O's Greenbrier
division are laid to Durbin, and trains
will begin running that far in the ear
ly spring.
Judge G. F. Moore, chief counsel for
the W. Va Pulp and Paper Co. at
Covington, has announced that he Will
move in April to New York.
The Wabash is said to have purchas-
ed the w. Va. Central Railway. Ifso
there will be a good deal of railroad
building in w. Va, during the con-
ing summer.
MIR. G. A. Brubeck and Miss Maud
s. Fuller were married Wednesday
night at thu manse of the Second Pres
byterian church, by Rev. DR. W. N.
Scott.
Rev J. L. Alfriend, of Pulaski, has
received call to Charles Town. W.
Va Mr. Alfriend married daughter
of Capt. Leroy 2. Daingerfield, and is
well known here
Mr.. j. s. Garrison, who has been
spending some time at Craigsville, has
returned to his lumber camp near
Glare, where he will spend the next
few months,
Miss Matte E. Cook, Of the Agnes
Scott Institute, of Decatur, Ga, who
was here last week to attend the funeral
of her sister, Mrs. Lindsay, has return
ed to that city.
Mrs. Brooke Eskridge, of Peubla,
Col, accompanied by her son, Asher,
arrived here this week and will remain
some time. Mr.. Eskridge is an Au
gusta man and is now city treasurer
of his adopted home.
Saturday evening at the home of the
brides parents near Spri e Hill. MIR.
Guy De Witt Holt and Miss Matte
Ellen Sheets were united in marriage
by Rev. Il. w. Lindamood.
Miss Shanks, daughter of the late
Rev. DR.. Shanks. who is so well and
favorably remembered in this commu-
nifty, will not lose her place in the
census department, owing to the ef
forts of the Hon. H. d. Flood in her
behalf.
The government has purchased from |
Mr.. D. OConnelI at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Wa, tract of land on |
which is large and beautiful Spring. |
and will establish fish hatchiug there. |
The engineers are now locating the |
pools and other devices.
Clifton Forge Review: ''Mr. Edward |
Thacker, of Staunton, has been made
miller at the Clifton Mills and has en-
,ered upon the discharge of his duties.
Mr.. Thacker is miller of experie nee
and will no doubt give entire satisfac
ion to the trade.
A party of Staunton capitalists have
purchased pneumatic pump. which I
S a wonderful invention, and will soon
place it on the market. With small /
air pump any child can pump water
from cistern, we'll or spring one hun
1red or more yards away, right into
,he house. For the Valley of Virgin
q and in fact any section where wells
and springs abound, nothing equal to
it, so experts say, bar been invented.
The people of the Stribling Springs
and around iStOver's
Shop are becoming much interested in
The public road which is proposed from
he old Stribling Springs road near
Mr.. Jos. G. Hoover's to the G. W. Ry.
The railroad has not located it's depot
It or near Stokesville and will not do
70 Until this road question is settled,
md there is danger of the location of
he depot not being convenient to that
ectlon unless the road is established.
But for the unwise opposition of few
persons the road would now be COM
,leted.