Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-06-17
LOCAL. BRIEFS.

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Judge Henry w. Holt held court j
Bdena Vista this week.
Miss Rachel j. Cross has been al
pointed postmstress at jennings GaI
nj ISIS Essie Newman and Mrs. Fran
Newman have returned to GrottOef
after visit to their cousin, Miss MAJ
guerite Danner.
Among the graduates of Hampdel
Sidney College this week, is Samue
ID Craig of Craigsville, who won hi
u. A. degree.
At the recentipg session of the MID
die River Sunday School Association
Mr.. E. A. A ldhizer was elected presi
dent. The next meeting will be helt
at Belvldere y r. Church.
Abner Mckinley, the only brother
of the late President Mckinley. was
found dead in his chair al his home il
Somerset, Pennsylvania, on Saturday
He had been suffering with Bright
disease for two years.
Mr.. Robert S. iiamble, for many
years O prominent farmer of the Spring
Hill section, di d in the city on Fri
day afternoon last. Mr.. Gamble had
been in poor health for some time, and
his death WAS not unexpected.
On the 2Sth of JnlV Confederate
monument will be unveiled to the
memory Of the soldiers of King W il
liam county. Hon. A. &. BraxtOn of
this city, viii be the orator of the DC
casion
Mr.. VIM. A. Crawford, of the firm Of
Kennedy Il Crawford, has purchased
the interest of Mr. j. Frank Tannehlll
in the ice business of Glenn & Tame
hill. The firm will continue as it is
until July l., when Mr.. Crawford will
succeed Mr. Tannehill.
Mr.. J. H. c. Pancake of Romney,
w. Va, was in Staunton yesterday on
his way home from meeting of tie
Hampden Sidney College Board. He
SAYS. before their final adjournment,
Dr.. Richard McIlwane sprung a sur
prise upon the board by Offering bis
resignation. 1t Will be accepted.
The thirty eighth annual session Of
the Sunday school convention of the
Baltimore Conference, NJ. E. Church
South, will be held at Martinsburg, w.
Va, July 1915. The opening sermon
will be preached by Rev. f. j. Pretty
man, of Washington, D. O., on Tues
day evening, July Y.
There is much about vehicles that
counts in satisfaction, person may
think he knows when he looks at thu m,
but a 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 Waynesboro, Va.
Mrs. Annie Hoover Holmes reached
the city "Wednesday from Springfield,
Mo-, her home, having been telegraph
ed for on account of the illness of her
mother, Mrs ii. L.. Hoover. She was
met by Mr.. John 7. Bear, who drove
her at once to his residence at Church
willie where Mrs. Hoover lies i'll with
typhoid fever.
Rev. G. w. Maxwell filed very ac-
ceptably the pulpit of the Second
Presbyterian church Sunday. Monday
evening he left for the Orphans Home
at Lynchburg, of which he is superin-
tendent. While here he received sew
eral very helpful subscriptions to the
farm fund of the Home. The Second
church Junior Society also gave him
$50 towards this farm debt.
Miss Gladys Bright, of HagerstoWn,
Md, sister of George e. Bright, OF this
city, was drowned on Saturday near
her home and young man with her
was also drowned. They were boat
ling, and it is SUPPOSED the boat upset.
The body of Miss Bright, aged %, was
broaght to Staunton and buricl Mon
day evening in ThornrOse from the
Bodley Auditorium. Rev. g. w. Slower
conducting the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heber Ker of this city.
celebrated the 25th anniversary OF
their marriage yesterday. MIR. Heber
Ker, Jr.. wife and children, Mr.. Sew.
P. Ker, wife and children. all of Pitts
burg, Pa, and Capt. Richard 5. Ker,
wife and children We're present. Nine
grandchild also graced the occa
sion. 1t is regretted that Mr.. John
Ker of ST. Louis, the fourth son, was
not able to be present.
At meeting of the J. E. 3. Stuart
Chapter Daughters of Confederacy
held Wednesday afternoon the follow
ing delegates were elected to attend tn
State Division in Petersburg in Octo
Der. Mrs. A. M. HowisOn, Mrs. W. Ii
Landes, Mrs. Charles McGuflin, ant
Miss Elizabeth Jones. Alternates
Miss Kate Hutchinson, Miss Virgini
May, Mrs. N. II. Mccullough and Mrs
lChas. Catlett.
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