Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-06-19
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

was in the city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Baylor are at
tending the National German Saenger
frest in Baltimore.
The Middle River Sunday Schoo
Association held it's annual meeting a
Mt. Horeb on Wednesday.
Mr.. Andrew J. Doyle and Mis-
Lavinia McCarty of near Craigsville
were united In marriage at Bells Val
ley on Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Landlord died very sud
denly yesterday morning at the home
of her son, Mr.. r. 2. Landlord. SHE
had only been sick about "a hours.
Miss Mabel Arehart and Mr.. JOhI
Strain, both of Middlebrook, were mar
ried here On Wednesday by Rev. w.
Q Hullihen.
Next Sunday at p. M, the Middle
brook Odd Fellows will hold memoir la
services at Mt. Tabor church. The
public has a cordial Invitation to be
present.
Mr.. VIM. Berry and Miss Ada H
Meyer, both of this county, were mar.
ried on Wednesday, and took the even
ing train for the West, where they will
make their home.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Shultz and Mrs.
Jos. l.. Barth have gone to New York.
Mrs. Barth and Mrs .Shultz will spend
the summer in the AdirondackS, and
Mr.. S. will return home in few days.
Rev. E. B. Druen of Glenville, w.
Va, has accepted the called extended
him by the congregation of Olivet
Presbyterian church to become their
pastor.
Barney Hannihan and A. Mangold
of Basic City, were lodged in Jail here
Tuesday to serve thirty days sentence
for an assault on Mr.. John D. Henkel
of Waynesboro.
Mrs. M. j. Merriken, who resides
two miles east of the city, we learn
has had plans drawn for handsome
house by J. T. Collins, which she will
have built during the present summer.
Mr.. J. G. Apple former resident of
Greenville. but now of Charlottesville,
was in the city yesterday on his way
to the former place, visitor among his
old friondQ and rQlo fiUoo
A fine horse belonging to Mr.. James
w. O'Rork of the county, stepped on
live wire of the trolley company and
was killed. The wire broke and fell
to the ground, and the horse steppeI:
upon it and was almost instantly killed.
Driven out of North Carolina by the
Watts liquor law, which prohibits the
location of distillery in rural dis
trict, number of the liquor manu-
facturers it is said will cross the bor-
der and locate in Virginia.
Capt R. V. Parr of Craigeville, has
been commissioned by Grand Master
Cassell of the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows, District Deputy Master for dis
trict No. Is, embracing StauntOn lodge
No. As, CraigsviIle LOG, Fidelity ITO,
and Lewiston 1S1.
Mr.. w. Murray Hilleary, for years a
popular bookkeeper with the Augusta
National Bank, has been elected cashier
of the Farmers and Merchants Bank
to succeed Mr.. q. q. Child, who, on
July LIST, becomes cashier of the new
StauntOn N National Bank.
Died at the residence of his sister,
Mrs. Z. Il. Sherman, in BurketOWn,
last Saturday evening, the 18th inst,
Wade Hampton Crop, in his twenty
third year. He was a most estimable
young man and beloved by all who
knew him.
The annual convention of the Vir-
ginia Pharmaceutical Association has
been called by President R. c. Petzold,
to be held at BuckrOe Beach in the
Pavilion, July 14th, 18th and 10Th.
Five hundred druggists are expected
to attend.
Hon. H. st G. Tucker to Washington
W w
school of Columbian University, his
law partnership with Mr.. Joseph A.
Glasgow has been by mutual agree
ment dissolved.
Brownsburg correspondent of the
Rock bridge News: Miss Cameron
Ryan of StauntOn, is visiting her Sis
ter, Mrs. A. r. Wade. Misses Mary
Bell, Katherine Moore and Evelyn
Dudley Of Augusta, who have been
the guests of Mrs. w. E. Irvine, have
returned to their homes.
The graduating class of trained
nurses at the Retreat for the Sick in
Richmond, have issued invitations for
the commencement exercises on June
oath. Among the graduates is Miss
Jessie Haldeinan, daughter of Mr..
Martin Haldeman of the Verona gh
borhood. This young lady completed
the arduOus course in two years.
Marc Bradley, only son of M. N. Brad
ley, Esq, is back from Louisville Train
ing School, Louisville, KY. He took
the English gold medal and Was award
ed his certificate OF distinction, al
though owing to the run down cOndi.
tion OF his health at the last he had to
suspend his studies entirely for three
weeks.
Among the graduates at the Uni
versity of Virginia were Edward Victor
Valz Of this City, who received the de-
greesof doctor of medicine; and Henry
Alexander Mathews, a son of Capt. A.
F. Mathews, of Lewisburg, W. Va,
the degree of bachelor of law. Young
Valz is son of MIR. and Mrs. A. M.
Valz of this city, and is promising
young man.
Last week Rev. 6. A. Wilson, DID.
of New Providence, preached the bac
calaureate sermon at HamptOn-Sidney
College. The degree of Master o
Arts was conferred upon Il. b. Moor
of Messy Greek. In the celebration o.
the Literary Society, s. D.. Craig o