Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-09-14
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Va, IL visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Joseph Kennedy.
Mrs. w. j. Bryan of Jackson.
vile, Fla, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Allan.
Mrs. j. w. Brown and son Robert
ale in Lynchburg this week at
tending Confederate reunion.
DR.. Jas. Lewis Howe and fam
lily have returned from Massachu-
setts where they spent the summer.
Miss Bradie V. Goggs has re-
turned home in Goshen after a
visit Of two weeks to her cousin,
Miss Cora Brown Of Kerr's Creek.
Edinburg Sentinel, 8th: Mr.. L.
T. Stoneburner, Jr., left yesterday
for Lexington, where he will re-
sumo his studies at Washington
and Lee University.
Messrs. J. Scott Moore, S. G.
Charlton, d. NJ. Reilly, j. r. Fox
and COLI ADDISON are among the
visitors to the Confederate reunion
At Lynchburg this week.
Mr.. Robert C. Walker, for the
past nine years deputy clerk in the
clerks Office of Rockbridge, is of
on vacation at his home on Walk
er's Greek, on account Of i'll health.
Mr.. B. W. Mundy, who has been
living in Georgia, has returned to
Lexington. He has been engaged
by the Town Council to get out
crushed rock to be used on the
streets and roads.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. +. EldertOn Of
Plainfield, N. j., are visiting Mr..
and Mr.. Ernest A. Sale. Mr.. Elder
ton is prominent newspaper man
of that city, and ia connected with
the Plainfielj Courier-News.
Sundays Richmond Times-Dis-
patch published picture of Miss
BERTHE G.. Sale of Fairfield. Miss
Sale is sponsor for the United
Sons Of Confederate Veterans from
the Tenth District at the reunion
in Lynchburg this week.
Mr.. w. d. Minton Of Marshall,
Texas, is visiting in the county.
He was born and raised on Buffalo,
but thirty years ago went to Texas
and engaged in railroading and
is at present the master mechanic
of the Texas and Pacific road.
Miss Susie Wilson OF Arvonia,
Va, daughter of the late DR.. J. L.
Wilson of Lexington, is spending
the week here visiting friends.
She will go from Lexington to
Roanoke and Hollins to visit friends
before resuming her duties as u
teacher at Palmyra, Va.
The Harrisonburg Spirit of the
Valley announces that Mr.. D. S.
Lewis, the able and accomplished |
editor of that paper, has just re-
covered from an extreme illness
which for three weeks confined
him to his bed. His friends of the |
press will rejoice at his recovery.
The dental faculty of the Uni
versity College of Medicine, Rich
mond, has been increased by the
addition of DIR. Richard l.. Simp-
son of Fincastle, who becomes
lecturer on dental surgery. DR..
Simpson is president of the Vir-
ginia State Dental Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Conner left
Monday for the st, Louis EXPOSE
ton. Mr.. Conner is r. F. D. car
riev, On Lexington route l, and
goes to St. Louis as the representa-
tive from the Virginia Rural Car
riers' Association to the Nationa.
Association, which convenes in
that city today.
Mayor S. B. Walker, Jr., was
called to Amherst county last week
on account of the death his grand
mother, Mrs.Sarah E. Palmer, aged
80, who died Thursday night at
edge HILL" the home of her son,
Mayor Walkers father, Mr.. S.
Branch Walker, OF Walkers Ford,
Amherst county.
Mr.W.C.Hattan of Hancock, Nd,
son of Mr.. Mark Haitian Of Den.
mark, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Lexington a. the guest Of Mr..
E. L. Conner. Mr.. Haitian is .
graduate of Washington and Lee,
and now hOlds position in the
civil engineering department Of
the Western Maryland railroad.
Staunton Spectator of last week:
Mr.. W. T. Shields, o prominent
lawyer of Lexington, Va, was in
the city on business Tuesday. He
is son Of the late Col. j. Q.
Shields, q FORMER eaitOr OF tnls
paper. Mr.. Shields says his
fathers death was entirely un-
and apparently painless.
He was in his usual health, though
feeble, and was in the best of spirits
a short time previous to his death.
Col. Dudley Evans of New York,
president of the Wells, Fargo Il
Company's Express, was visitor
last week at the home Of Capt. j.
A. McNeel on Kerr's Creek. Col
onel Evans served in the Conf de
rate Army as member of the goth
Virginia Cavalry, and this is his
first visit to KOckbridge since
1854, when he retreated before
urrtar Whila hara COlOu oil Evape