Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-04-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.

terday to appoint registrars and judge
OF election.
In the Corporation court last weel
Hon Jacob Yost was appointed al
ministratOr of the estate of the lat
Maj H. NJ. Bell.
Little Amelia Prufer. the Swear oil
daughter of Mfr and Mrs. Chas. Prufer
is Ill with appendicitis. She also ha
pneumonia.
Mr.. D. T. Cupp and Mrs Bessie F
ADDE'S. daughter of Mr.. John w
Audes. were married on Wednesday
near Roman.
Capt Thos. 8. Doyle has been ap
pointed by Judge Letcher, a magistrate
for Basic CITY. The voters failing t.
elect at the last elecrion.
Mr.. J A. Walker has purchased of
Mr.. M. F. GiIkeson his tihe Eagle Den
mark riding and driving horse, for
which he paid a ha ldsome price.
Messrs Kennedy & Crawford have
just received most complete line of
rubber tire vehicles of the latest pat
tern. They are very beautiful and
will suit any taste.
+. NJ. JObson is moving his saw mill
from Ramsey's draft to a point near
Goshen, where he will cut timber on a
tract of 900 acres he has recently
bought. So
Mr.. John E. Gilbert, locomotive
fireman, and Miss Annie E. Sprouse,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Sprouse, were married in this city late
Thursday afternoon by Rev. j. e. Gar
Der, of the German Baptist chuIch.
Norman Taylor. for many years one
of the Western Union popular mes
senger boys, takes position as assist
ant operator in the office at Hinton,
w. Va, today. While filling the po-
alton as messenger, he learned to be a
fine operator, and his friends will be |
pleased to learn of his promotion.
Mr.. Isaac Witt, one of the best known |
citizens of StauntOn, who had been
spending some weeks in Baltimore with
his son, Henry, and who had been
suffering with grippe, was paralyze
on Saturday, his whole left side being |
affected. Capt. c. A. Holt, who re-
turned from Baltimore Wednesday,
says the doctors there hold out some
hopes of Mr.. Wits recovery.
Bishop A M. Randolph was in the |
city Sunday and confirmed classes at
the Episcopal churches. In the morn
Jig class of 81 at Trinity, and in the
evening a class of 26 at Emmanuel.
Owing to throat trouble the bishop was
unable to preach at either service.
The ordination of DIR. II. M. Nc
Ilhany, of StauntOn, and Henry Boul-
din. of Charlotte county, which was
to have taken place at Emmanuel
church Saturday, was indefinitely
postponed owing to Bishop Randolph's
lndisposition.
Mr.. M. d. Lindamocd, for nearly
twenty years station agent of the B.
i u. .Ry. at Cave Station. was stricken
with heart failure Wednesday, and
there is slight hope of his recovery. He
ia one of the best known ofiic ;als along
the line of that road.
We have received the Harrisonburg
Daily Free Press, the first issue of
which appeared on Monday evening.
While it contains but five columns to
the page it Is filled with local and tele
graphic news, and presents a neat ap-
pearance. Mr.. 81. b. Miller, the pub
Usher, has our best wishes.
Last Saturday the case of Mr.. D. W.
Speck, one of the death watches Of
John Kennedy. charged with negli-
gence in permitting Kennedy's escape |
from jail, was tried in the police court
before Justice Glasgow and fined $50
and costs. His counsel took an appeal
and the case will be heard in the Cor
poration court at the April term.
The Board of Supervisors met Mon |
day and allowed the regular monthly |
accounts; made thorough inspection
Of the Jail, and appropriated $1,000 TO
10 applied to the new building Of the
Kings Daughters Hospital. They met
again yesterday to examine into the |
management of the Jail and also into
Kennedy's escape therefrOm.
On April first the postoffice known |
as Crlmora station is changed to sim
ply Crimora, the word station being left
OF. On the same day the postoffice at
Koiner's Store is discontinued on &C
count of the establishment of a new
rural free delivery known as route No.
l. which starts out from Crimora-in
effect on and after April LIST.
Now that spring is heIe and the
roads will soon be good so you can en-
JOY drive, why not trade or sell mat
old buggy or surry, and get new
bright up-to-date one, or have the old
one repainted so 1t will look almost as
good as new. You can have this doue
or you can get a new up-to.date vehi-
Gle right away from the Hammer Car
riage Co.. at Waynesboro. They will
trade if you wish.
DR.. j. W. Shultz, now of Wichita,
Kansas, but who is native of Augus-
ia, having been born in Middlebrook,
has been writing a series of very read
able articles for Outdoor Life,"
publication issued in Denver, Col.
The doctor is great hunter and mag.
nificent shot, and has killed game