Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-06-03
LOCAL.. BRIEFS,

Mr.. JAS W Robertson aud Mis-
Matte W. Rodgers were married nea
Spottswood on w ednesday.
Mr.. John e. Hutchens and Mis-
Leila May Robertson We're united /
marriage near Spottswood Oh Wednes
day.
Mr.. J. r. Guntner has sold his plac
of business on New street to Mr..
A. Day, and the latter took charge yes
terday.
Col. W D. Chesterman, the veteran
editor of the Richmond Times Dis
patch, died at his home in that city
after All Illness Of over a Year.
The will of the late Mrs. Bette A
Silling was pr1hi.ed in the Office Of tht
circuit clerk on Tuesday, with VIM
Perry Silling as executor.
Senator Quay of Pennsy lvania, died
GA Monday after long illness. lie
WIS for years leader III the Repnbli
ctn party and was man of great ex-
ecutive ability.
The 10th Stove Works at WayneS-
boro, recently effected a consolidation
with the Southern Stove Works OF
Richmond. 1t is said the Waynesboro
factory will continue to be run.
Mr.. John l.. Manley, the contract
1ag painter of this city, has been
awarded the contract for painting the
nav government building at Go!dsboro,
N. c., 10y the King Lumber Co. Of
charlottesville
Mr.. Geo. w. Doyle died at his home
OH jackson 3 river in Highland coun
ty, last week. eyed y years. lleis sur
vived by six children, one OF whom,
Mrs. Samuel Shiflet resides al Long
Glade.
MIR. D. V. Rnckman, the cattle deal
Ell of the Long Glade neighborhood,
sold fine Polangus ball calf to Nj.
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w. Va, he being one of the breeders
OF fine cattle in that county.
Mr.. Virginius Newton, one of the
most prominent citizens of Richmond,
died on Friday last of pneumonia. He
WAS president of several of the largest
banking houses in that city. During
the war he served with distinction in
the Confederate navy.
The road board of Beverly Manor
district has surveyed al extension of
Coalter istreet from the corporation
limits to the pike, and will report to the
circuit court in favor of opening the
road. 1t follows the road as it now
exists, which, however. is not yet q
public road.
There is much about vehicles that
counts in satisfaction, person may
think he knows when he looks at them,
but practical builder knows what con-
stitutes a good buggy or surry. One
can feel that he will get full value
when he buys from the Hammer Car
riage Company, of Way lesboro, Va.
The Millboro Springs correspondent
of the Bath Enterprise says: WINDY
Cove Church has evidently not been
remodeled any too soon, for judging
from the many seamstresses and the
hum of sewing machines it VIII ere
long be the scene of at le9st one we'd
ding, if not several"
The big Chesapeake g. Ohio elevator,
which has been in course of cOnstruc-
tion for the past two months. has been
completed, and WAS put III operation
yesterday, for the first time, by g. A.
Craft, road foreman of engines for the
&. Il O., who came down from Clifton
Forge for the purpose.
Mr. Edgar &. Amsden has issued in
vitations to the marriage of his daugh-
te Winnie, to Mr.. Howard Tate Fra
zier, to be Gel ebrated on w ednesday,
the fifteenth of June, at high noon in
the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Boston. Mr. Frazier is we'll known
in Stanton, where his mother and two
sisters, Mrs W. P. Tams and Mrs r
P. Bell, reside.
Rob ert Bowles, the negro, who shot
and killed Fireman John A Ruff at
Clifton Forge, aud who Was sentenced
to be hung June "a, has, on petition,
Supreme Court, and the case will be
heard here when the c0urt meets in
September. This acts as a stay of ex-
eeution AN: BOwles will not be hung
until the court reviews the case.
Mayor Robert M. McLane of Balti-
more shot and killed himself at his
home ia that city on Monday after
noon. He was only married two weeks
ago to Mrs. Mary van Bihber, pop
ular society leader of Baltimore Nc
cause can be assigned for the act. Z
Clay Timanus, Republican, president
of the second branch of the city coun.
Gil succeeds him.
The friends of Mr. Robert s. Gamble
will be sorry to learn that his health
has become so bad as to render him al
most helpless, and to so affect his mind
that on last Saturday be was taken to
the Western State Hospital, where ht
now is with little hope of ultimate re
covery. MIR. Gamble is man of con
siderable means and was always a mos
quiet and lnoffensive person. He sole
his farm near Spring Hill some tim,
ago and bought near Sherando. Fl,
was a valient Confederate soldier.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mathews Brow
have issued invitations to the marriag
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