Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-02-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Personal
Brief Items of Interest to Home
Folks About Their Friends
And AcQuaintances.

Mr. John O Armstrong OF Doe
Hill was in town on Monday.
Mr. Lee Hiner is getting out logs
for saw. mill set on his place
above town.
Mcssers Sam uel Hevener and I
nj Beverage, who were housed up
SO long on account OF sickness,
have recovered and are now going
about.
Mr. O E Swartz, an Attorney
from Clarksburg, w. Va. was
registered at the Monterey early
in the weet;.
Mr. H A .Iordon, formerly of
this county but now a resident OF
Pocahontas, was over this week.
Mr. James O Wade of Mill Gap,
who has been With Hevener and
Dudley at Barlow for some time. is
back to Highland again, and was
in the village Tuesday.
Start the new year right, and
buy your dry goods of Shreckhlse
& Bear.
Mr. Ezra Beverage. of Doe Hill
was here Monday attending a
meeting of the Mutual Telephone
Co.
Mr. George A Wilfong, an ener-
getic business man of Mcdowell
was in town Monday and renewed
his subscription to the Recorder.
Mr. Wilfong has been urged to
locate at Monterey, this being a
good opening for saddle and
harness shop.
Mr. w P Campbell and son.
Raleigh, were here on Saturday,
MIR Campbell being called as an
attesting witness to the will Of the
late Otko Gum, which was admit
ted to probate.
We carpet Churches, Hotels, and
Offices. All carpets matched and
made without extra charge.
Shreckhise & Bear.
Mrs Mahala Lamb, who has been
an invalid for long time, died at
her home, at the base of Jack
Mountain, an Saturday evening
and was burned on Sunday. She
leaves five children, some Of them
quite small. This family, deserted
by it's natural protector, has drunk
the cup of penury TO its dregs, and
would have suffered bat for help
from the county and the kind,
generous people among whom
thew lived.
FARM FOR SALE offer for sale
nv farm of 400 acres, situated in
the valley Of BurnsviIe, Am north
of Warm Springs. This farm con
tains one of the finest sheep and cat
tie ranges in the county. For fur
ther information apply to W. b.
Burns Williamsburg, Va,
Embroideries and White Goods
at right prices. Shreckhise \ Bear.
WANTED-10 men in each state
to travel, tack signs and distribute
samples and circulars Of our goods.
Salary $50 per month. So per day
for expenses. Huffman Co., Dept.
S., Atlas Building, Chicago.
Phone 636, Staunton: calls up
the largest carpet house in the
Valley. Call us up and talk car
pets. Shrek hise-& Bear.
Order Colton's Invisible Lacing
Corset of Shreckhise & Bear.
MIR Samuel Siple, of Deer Run,
West Va. spent Tuesday night
with his daughter. Mrs II f Slaven
He was accompanied by his son Nh
Lee SipIe, who, after six weeks,
visit to this section, is now return
ing to his home at Mendon, III.
Miss Fannie Gilkeson, of Fishers
vile is teaching in the family OF
Mr. George D Dudley, Hightown.
In order to be convinced that
Highland is neither,the coolest nol
the only cold place in the country
one has onlv to glance at the col
umns of the daily papers. In fact
we are assured of a very happy
medium when we read the report
that, on the same day, the mercury
registered 70 above in the South
and Al below in TIE Northwest.
One thousand rolls of carpet
mating and linoliums sold during
the last year. Low prices did it.
Shreckhise & Bear
One of the five Virginians wht
this wear leave the Navel Academy
to become officers of the Z S navy
is Wi liam STANLEY McCIintic broth
err of our townsman Mr. E +
McClintic The Times Dispatch
speaks Of him as having dis
tingushed himself along severa
different lines of work at thu
Academy, and leaves it with The
reputation of being one Of thc
class best athletes, far above The
average student, and exfremel
popular with his comrades"
Mr McClintic WAS ASSIGNED L