Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-11-27
LOCAL BRIEFS.

A license was issued for the marIi
age of Mr. D. B Weaver and Mis-
Fannie Strickler, to, be married a.
Mddlebrook on Wednesday last.
VIM A. Hoover of Hot Springs, hal
applied to the Corporation court fol
license to sell liquor at 16 Court Place
The application will be heard at The
December term.
Mr.. Marshall Baber and Miss Bessie
Ailor were married at the home of the
bride in Clifton Forge last Thursday
morning, by Rev. C.S Stanton. After q
wedding tour north they will make
their home in that town.
Rev Dewitt Junkin, pastor of Mt
Horeb Presbyte church, recently
closed season of protracted services
at that church. AS result of these
labors there have been twenty-three
additions to the church membership.
VIM. H. Bricker an employe at the
Portland Cement Works, fell through
an elevator shaft in new building on
which he was working, last week,
breaking three ribs and otherwise
bruising himself. He was taken to
his home in Bridgewater.
The Lexington Gazette announced
last week that the firm of Moore &
Kennedy had been dissolved, and that
Mr.. VIM. Il Kennedy, the junior mem
Der would continue the publication.
The veteran editor, Capt. j. Scott
Moore, retlres on account of continued
ill-healtn
Sunday morning, while M ayor W. Il.
Landes and all his family were at
church some one broke open a back
door and stole various articles, among
them two watches and other jewelry.
and lot of clothing. Orkney Banks,
familiar figures to the police was sus
pected and after lively chase was
captured and jailed.
Rev. r. NJ. Tuttle of Rock bridge, Is
still at Memorial Hospital, Richmond,
very ill, and under the care of DR.. Geo.
Ben johnson Mrs Tuttle is in at.
tendance on him all day staying at the
Brattle House next door. Mr.. Tuttle's
trouble is thought to be an internal
abscess. No operation has yet been
performed and it is not thought by his
physician to be the req uired treatment.
Messrs. J. F. Leonard and G. Ben
ton Koiner, of South River; William
f. Koiner. of Thinking Spring; NJ.
Bruce Whitmore, of Parnassus; s. b.
Harper. of Stuart's Draft, and John
M. Irvine, of South River, were among
the prominent county residents who
attended court Monday.
Major Francis II. Smith and his
daughters moved from Lexington this
week to Staunton where they expect
to make their home in the future. mol
residents of this community are more
highly esteemed and many expressions
of regret are heard at their departure.
-Rockbridge News.
Capt. J. S. Pettus in charge of g. &
y. fast trains Nos. and 4, returned
last week from Louisa county, where
he has been spending a several days
leave of absence, cunning for small
game. The hunt rounded up sc birds
and IS rabbits, thus proving the
doughty captain as good marksman
as he is conductor.
Mr.. Lee Hammer, of the Hammer
Carriage Co., of Waynesboro, has just
returned from the Carriage Manufac
turers Convention in Cincinnati,
where he purchased some rare bar
gains in vehicles, and proposes to give
his customers the benefit. From this
time on his prices will be lower and
the quality better. His stock is said
to be as complete as any in The valley.
He offers rare bargains in hand made
team harness and second hand goods.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Pendleton have
left their handsome country place at
Augusta Springs, to be absent till
Spring. They were IN the city this
week en-route to Washington where
after starting their little boy, Ned, to
school, they will divide time between
that city and New York till January,
after which time they will go to Palm
Beach and occupy their villa there for
the winter.
Mr.. Newton g. Watts, who, for many
years, has been sheriff of this county,
but who declined re election. will be
succeeded by Mr.. Arthur w. Wilson
Mr.. Watts will celebrate the occasion
OF turning over the keys, &c by CIV
ing a banquet. to which all the lawyers
and city and county officials will be
invited. 1t Is learned that Sheriff elect
Wilson will continue in Office Deputy
Sheriff and jailer Thos A. Dawson,
who has made an efficient officer.
Mr.. Howard D Coyner, the well
known cattle dealer of Waynesboro,
has lately been bringing to this county
from Missouri some fine stock cattle.
They are of the Hereford breed, better
known as the white faced" cattle and
are all calves. A shipment of 1856 were
received at Waynesboro last week and
promptly sold to stock raisers in the
vicinity. On Monday last another lot
of 100 were received in Staunton for
Messrs. Robt. w. Burke and 8. Allie
Porter. The s1sock are all under year
lings, and are purchased for beef
purposes. They are said to develop
rapidly into fine heavy weight export
steers.
The Middlebrook correspondent oil
the Argus says: The many friends Of
Mr.. Jacob Arehart's family sincerely
regret their breaking up the old home
TT hoo bean hOusa of entertainment