Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-10-10
LOCAL BRIEFS,

Soft coal is now selling In StauntC
at $3.50 per ton.
8. b. Nulty, the Timber Ridge pos
master, who disappeared last weel
has returned home and is ready
stand trial.
County Clerk Burnett issued MARI
age licenses as follows: Th0s. E. Su
ton and Miss Laura B. Thompson. ma
ried at Verona Wednesday. Milto
E. Green and Miss E. Jany Trimbls
ceremony yesterday at Hebron.
fl. H. Peck, a recent graduate o
Dunsmore 3 Business College, who ha
position as stenographer and type
writer with the Coal Company 8
Thurmond, West Va, is visitin
friends in the city.
Miss Matte Christian, daughter o
A &. Christian of Mint Spring, is tax
lg a business course at Dunsmore
Saying with her relatives at the Sec
ond Presbyterian church manse.
Gov. Montague has appointed Dr.
William Bell of Mt. Sidney, one Of tbs
delegates from Virginia TO the Ma
tional Apple Growers Convention u
be held in st. Louis November 18tt
and 10Th.
There were thirty five appli cants ex
amined here last Thursday for the po
sition of rural mail carriers The pa
pers were sent to Washington, where
the marking will be done. 1t is ex.
pected that the routes will be in oper-
alton by November LIST.
Up to date the registered voters in
Staunton have been, 1st Ward, 3l4
white, and % colOred; End Ward, 362
white and AZ colored. Registration
closes tonight at o clock, and those
who fail to get on the books by that
time will have to wait year before
they can do so.
A quiet wedding was solemnlZed In
Covington yesterday morning when
Mr.. Almyer Clemmer wac united in
marriage to Miss George Hardy,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w.
Hardy of that place. Mr.. Clemmer is
a son OF Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Clemmer
of this city, and is engaged in business
in Covington.
Buy your cloth, yarn and blankets
direct from the Wooden Mills. The
Bedford Mills Co.. Bedford City, Va,
will mail samples with prices on ap
plication. Goods sold at manufactur-
ers prices. may so 3mo
For SALE:-Seyeral pianos of first
class make, somewhat used but in good
viii be sold very cheap
for cash. Call on Or address,
F. R. WEBB.
Virginia Female Institute,
oct loft Staunton, Va.
Lewis Lee, colored, employed at Ale
ghany Hotel, Goshen, murdered col
ored woman named Saliie Hughes at an
early hour Monday morning by hitting
her on the head with hat.iron. Lee
committed suicide shortly afterward
by cutting his throat with penknife.
} ealOus was the cause.
Halle, the little son Of Mr.. and NJ
H. B. CARRIER, fell from the front po4u
of his fathers residence on Gospel Hill,
Friday evening. He landed on his head
with considerable force, and it was
some time before he regained cOnscf-
business. He is getting all right at
this time.
Mrs. Keezell, wife of State Senator
George B. Keezell, died at her home at
Keezelltown, Rockingham CO unty,
Sunday, from stroke of apoplexy with
which she was stricken Saturday
night. Mrs. KeeZell, who was Miss
Hannah before her marriage, and was
forty. four years of age. She leaves
five young children.
Joseph E. Bass, formerly of Staun-
ton, but now Of INITIALS, VIVA, and
Miss Ethel Sherwood were married at
A p. N. October 1st, in the Episcopal
church at Caperton, the home of the
bride, by Rev, MI Crook of Covington.
Mr. Bass is pleasantly remembered by
many Staunton friends.
John D. Goodman. retired merch-
ant, died of kidney trouble at his home
in Charlottesville Sunday in the
seventy sixth year of his age. Several
hours later his wife, who had been in
ill health for several months died. She
was seventy-one years old. Mr.. Good
man was a brother Of Mrs. E. A. But
Ter and Miss Fannie Goodman of this
city. Miss Goodman attend the fune-
raj which took in Charlottesville OIL
Tuesday.
Bath Enterprise; :. Misses Edmonis
Francisco and Georgia Bratton, accom-.
panied by Mr.. William Bratton, pass
ed here last Monday on their way tt
Middlebrook to attend the Bratton-
Berry nuptia!s Mr.. R. A iIelms, O
Augusta o''nnty, V ; visiting ole
friends in this county last week. "a
spent Thursday night with Mr. T. B
Hickman
On Saturday Messrs Larner and
Smith sold to Messrs W. A. Crawfor,
and Fl. q. Eichelberger, the right t
manufacture and sell The Palmer Cor
crete Building BLOCKS in Richmon
and Henrlco county, together Wit
three machines. On Monday tn, sam
gentlemen purchased the right fc
Cha riot tesVille and lhamsrje y ,.sta