Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-10-26
Person ais

Miss Bessie BOISE OF the Buen'
Vista Seminary, was visiting Mrs
IF. j. Elford Sunday.
DR.. S. McPheeters Glasgow o
Nashville, Tenn, is visiting hi
father, Mr.. William A. Glasgow
Mr.. aud Mrs. James E. Heck
have returned from n trip to the
Peaks of Otter in Bedford county
! Mr.. j. w. LeecL, manager of tn
Western Union Telegraph office il
Staunton, was in Lexington Mon
day.
DR.. and Mrs. G. Graham Dolt
returned home Friday from theil
wedding trip through the West
and South.
Misses Olive Parker and Lula
Bickle of Staunton, are the guest
of their aunt, Mrs. Robert G.
Templeton.
Col. w. Il. Poague has returned
from Martinsburg, w. Va, where
he attended the meeting of Vir
ginia Synod.
Postmaster McClung Patton wal
q visitor in Staunton Monday anC
attended the political speaking
between Messrs. Flood and Rever
comb. $50
Mr.. Charles Carter, son of Mr.
r. E. Carter of Newport News,
formerly of Lexington, has enter
ed the Virginia Military Institute
as a cadet.
DR.. w. S. Currell has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address
before the Epworth League in one
of the leading Methodist churches
Of Columb bus. Ohio.
Stanton Argus DR.. j. l..
Howe of Lexington, preached Ia
DR.. Scott's Second Presbyterian
church on Sunday and addressed
the Y. NJ. c. A. meeting also.
Messrs. H. d. Flood and George
A. Revercomb, the Democratic and
Republican candidates for Con-
gress from this district, held a
Joint discussion in Stanton Mon
day before large crowd.
Mr.. Walter E. Beard of Moffett g
Creek, and Miss Anna S. Ott,
daughter of Mrs. Virginia OFT of
near Spottswood, were married
this afternoon at New Providence
Presbyterian church, the pastor,
Rev.Dr. G. A. Wilson, officiating.
Rev. DIR. Charles Manly will
preach Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the new church at Rapp's
Mill, preparatory tc the dedica-
ion on the Sunday following by
Rev. Thomas Mowbray. Rev. S.
r. Neel and Rev. J. p. Smith will
also take part.
Buena Vista Advocate: Air.
Walter Risque, who has been con-
nected with the Dispatch Co., of
Stanton, for some time, visited
relatives and friends here Sunday,
and left on Monday morning to ac-
cept position with The GAZETTE
at Lexington.
Rev. w w. Ruff Of Fairview,
S. c., who has been visiting in
Rockbridge for some weeks, .oc-
cupied the pulpit of the Presby-
terrain church Sunday morning in
the absence of DR.. Thornton
Whaling, who is visiting the st.
Louis Exposition.
Rev. j. Olin Knott preached
Sunday afternoon at Mt. More
land Methodist church near Lex
ington and received into church
membership twelve persons as the
result Of the protracted meeting
recently conducted there by the
pastor, Rev. S. r. Neel.
DR.. J. X. Hosmer of Minneap-
oils, Mimi, a leading historian of
the county, spent several days in
Lexington last week, gathering
data for a history of the Civil
War, which he is writing to be
published in a historical series.
DR.. John H. Latane is also writing
one of the volumes in the series.
Mr.. Matthew S Kahle, after
visit Of six weeks to his old home
in Lexington, left Friday for his
home in Cleburne, Texas. While
here he was the guest Of his sister,
Mrs. Kate Hartigan. Mr.. Kahle
holds in affectionate remem-
brance the people of his native town
and expressed sorrow at having to
part with his many former acquain-
tanceg.
Staunton Dispatch; Capt L. Y.
Morton, the inspector general of
the Grand Camp Confederate Vet
Grams of Virginia, has appointed
DR.. Carter Berkeley of this city
assistant inspector general for the
10th district. He succeeds Capt.
J. Sc tt Moore of Lexington, who
has served efficiently for five terms
but has been compelled on account
of ill health to retire.