Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-05-16
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
PERSONAL.

Miss Lizzie McCue has returned frol
visit to rela ives in Richmond.
Mrs. S. ID. Gilmore left this week
visit relatives in Richmond.
Miss Gussie Shae is visiting friend
and relatives in Roanoke.
Mrs. Charles Il. McGuffin and Chi
dren have returned from visit t
Clifton Forge.
Mr.. Bert Staples, and T.. W. Staple
and Bert Staples, jr., of Roanoke, spen
Sunday here with relatives and friends
j. b Glenn and bride, of New York
were in the city last week visiting hi
brothers.
Rev. G S. Lingamfelter, Presby terra
Evangelist, filled the pulpit CT the Sec
ond Presbyterian church last Sunday
Mr.. G. F. Neel, of near this city, re
turned Tuesday from a visit to hi
former home in West Virginia.
Mr.. Geo. Berlin, of Philadelphia
spent several days here with his uncle
Capt. Chas. A Holt.
w. F. Pilson, of Union TheOlogic a
Seminary, isspending his vacation will
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs S. f. Pilson
Mrs. Ida Eakle and Mrs. Ed DWARF
Stephenson, were the guests this week
of Mrs. M. A. Mann.
Mr.. Frank Bell and family of Pulas
XII, are visltins the family of his broth
er, Mr.. s HI. Bell.
Hon. John W. Churchman has re
turned from a visit to Charleston, w.
Va.
Mr.. Frank Lindsay, of the Charlottes-
vile Progress, spent Sunday with
friends here.
We regret to report the serious ILL
ness of Mr.. w. II. Watts, father of
Sheriff N. G. Watts, at his home near
Dooms.
County Clerk Harry Burnett and
bride have returned from their bridal
tour to the Charleston Exposition and
Florida.
John II. Rawley has contracted to
build for James Michael a large and
commodious dwelling near Dorcas, and
is now busily engaged on it.
PUTNAM FADELEss DYES are fast to
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold
by Wilson Bros, StauntOn, and |. N.
Kagey, Weyer's Cave, 10 per package,
Mrs. BENJAMIN Blackford left Tues
day for Wilmington. Del, to visit her
sons, Messrs. Thomas and Arthur
Blacktord.
Mr.. Hampton H. Wayt, who was
hurt in runaway accident last week,
has sufficiently recovered as to be able
to come down to his office.
NJ og (lhuroh
vile, was one of the graduates in den
tistry at the University College of
Medical ir Richmond this week.
We have received from Commissioner
of Agriculture Geo. W. Koiner, bull
letion of the analyses of fertilizer,
showing the registered brands. 1t is
sent free to;farmers On application.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Hughart and
little son, of Richmond, passed through
the city last week, en-route for West
Virginia where they will spend the
summer.
Mr.. J. N orth Cald well, of Lewisburg,
W. Va, who has been visiting his
cousin. Mr. Joseph Caldwell near
Thinking Spring, in this county, re-
turned home Tuesday night.
Mr.. J. E. Wholey, formerly of this
city, and son of Mr.. VIM. Wholey,
has accepted a position in the Whole
sale Drug House of Burrow Martin &
Co., Norfolk, Va.
On May 2Sth there will be held here
a civil service examination for the po
sitiOns of clerk and carrier in the post
office service. Applications may be
filed with II. l.. Ruff, clerk of the
board, as late as a. m. that day.
Secretary Joseph Button, of the Dem
Ocratic Congressional Committee of the
10th district, announces that as Con-
gresham H. D. Flood was the only
candidate to enter the primary, that
the committee will meet and declare
him the LOminee of the party.
Captain and Mrs. L. D. Ransom an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Charlotte Alexander to Herbert
Jackson Taylor. The wedding will
take place at Emmanuel Episcopal
church Thursday night, May 22nd at 8
O'Clock.
The friends of Col. A. M. Bowman,
of Salem, are urging him to become a
candidate for Congress to succeed the
idtt congressman Otcy VI ohO olAoh
district. The Colonel s friends in Au-
gusta, and they are many, would like
to see him member of Congress.
J. Frank Points, a Staunton boy,
formerly connected with the Western
Union Telegraph office in this city,
who has been living for some time in
Washington, has been made assistant
city ticket agent and assistant passen-
ger agent of the Southern railway in
Washington.
Mr.. F. Templeton, of Waynesboro,
has been invited by the Virginia Com
missioners to accompany them on
their trip down the Chesapeake bay to
meet the Maryland Commissioners,
with view of settling the boundary
line between the States with refer
ence to the oyster beds and fisheries.
They will have a nice boat and pleas
ant time is anticipated.
The county school board has decided
on establishing graded school for the
twin communities of Craigsvile and
Portland. A four room building will
be erected this summer at the eastern
end of Craigsville, and there will be a
principal and three assistants. Neces-
sary bridges will be erected across the
streams to accommodate the Portland
scholars.
Miss Lena Wallace Webb and Will
liam Lusk, both of Bridgewater, were
married at Mt. Scion last Saturday
evening at the home of DIR. b. A. Kari
COTE. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. j Nj. Anderson of the Meth0-
dist church. There were a number of
friends present who extended con-
CALCULATIONS. The bride is the daugh
ter of Capt. Samuel Webb, and the
groom is son of the late James Lusk
of widely known family of Messy
Greek.
Saturday the following young ladies
and gentlemen completed the course
at Dunsmore's Business College and
received their diplomas. In shorthand
and typewri.ing-M Frances M
Haines, Miss Merle Gentry, and Miss
Bessie Woodson, of Stanton; Miss E