Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-09-11
LEGAL BRIEFS,

LOCAL BRIEFS.
The Corporation court met yestel
day, and there will be a session of th
grand jury.
There will be preaching at Foil
Mills School House by the Rev. W. /
White, Sunday night at o'clock.
The boards of the Western Stat
Hospital and the Virginia Soho oil TO
the Deaf and the Blind. were in regula
session here yesterday.
At a meeting of the Augusta Horti
cultural Society last week it was de
cided to have a fruit exhibit sometim'
in October.
The condition of Mr.. VIM. R. Landei
of MT. Sidney, who has been quite i'll
is unchanged. His children ale at hif
bed side.
A marriage license was issued fol
John Camden of Rockbridge and Miss
Maggie S. Swink. The ceremony was
to take place yesterday at Sherando.
Mr.. Joseph Coiner of Chicago, spent
a few days last week at bis old home in
the county, returning to his western
home Sunday.
Miss Matte Cook, who has been
spending the summer with her brother
near Valley Mills, leaves to-day for
Georgia to resume her duties in the
Agnes Scott Seminary.
Mrs. w. l.. Finley of KnIghtly, and
Mrs. q. 8. Roller of FIT. Defiance, have
returned from two weeks trip to At
lantic City.
Miss Lottie Conner of the T lshersvile
neighborhoOd, will leave shortly for
Alabama, where she will teach the
coming session.
MIR. David W. Timberlake, for many
years merchant in Fishersviile, left
last week for New Y ork where he will |
engage in business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P Campbell of |
Stuart's Draft, were in the city Tues |
day to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary |
j. Wise, who died in Culpeper.
oCovington Sentinel: miss Ida Young,
after spending week with her cousins.
Misses Addie and Edith Driscoil, in
this city, left Tuesday evening for her
home in Staunton."
Miss Courtenay Olivier, who has
been i'll with typhoid fever at the Kings
Daughters Hospital, has sufficiently
to return to her home on
Kalorama street.
The Bridgewater Herald of last week
says that Mr.. j. A. Walker of Messy
Creek, will move to Staunton this fall
to reside. He will have a sale of his
personal property on the Goth.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of DIR. Thomas Shepard Richardson,
Of Waynesboro. Va. to Miss Edith
Pauline Pole, of Hot Springs, Va.
The happy event will take place at
'Slahee, the home Of the bride, on
Tuesday, September 18th, 1903, at 4:30
p. IN.
Frank J. Gould has been In Rich
mond recently inspecting his different I
1t is now said he will put
la dam near Petersburg at cost of
$3.50 000 which will give power to run
al his electric railways.
In the county court Friday Erick
Harris was given two years in the i;
for house breaking The
crime for which he was sentenced was
The breaking into the premises Ct Mi.
J. G Armentrout near GreenviIe.
Mr.. Harry Hogshead of Waynesboro,
last week sold his fine trotting horse
Prince Redwood, to a Harrisonburg
syndicate. His speed record is 2:l6
and he is a beautiful animal, and will
be used in improving the trottlng stock
Of Rockingham. !,
On last Monday Mr.. .. O'Connell, :
who is doing large lumber business
for the st. Lawrence Boom & Manu-
featuring Co.. purchased 81, 800 worth {
of horses at Ronceverte, w. Va, from
Messrs. Thompson & Horton. They
will be used in numbering as well as to
build new railroad up Anthony's 4;
Cheek.
The Wabash has obtained from the I
council of Grafton. W. Va, cOnces
siOns which enable it to get through /,
that town on very favorable terms ,
This is the last town of any size they
have had 10 deal with, and the road is
much gratiffed at the results. Grafton
was looked on as b. u o. stronghold
and the Wabash anticipated much more
trouble than they experienced.
In arraigning the protection hum
bug, John q. Calhoun exclaimed: PRO
lection, indeed Call it tribute, levy,
monopoly, plumber; Or, if
these be too harsh. call 1t charity, as
also-anything rather than :
with which it has not a ,
feature In common" The years have
brought no words with which to better
describe the Dlngley blli,-St. Louis
Republic.
Mr.. E. E. Coiner and Miss Kate Jack.
son, two popular young people of the
Fishersville neighborhood. took that
community by surprise last week by !,
quietly going to Washington and get 4