Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-12-19

| Next Monday will be Christmas.
| Motion pictures Dec. rs and 20.
Corn and wood wanted at the SPIRr
Office.
Turkey dinner every SUNDAY. at Tn
! Jefferson.
Blograph Motion Pictures Decembe
% and 20.
Mr.. VIM. M. Burns slaughtered bis
porker last week weighing 500 pounds.
The Charles Town Wrapper Factory
is running to its full capacity, and more
girls are wanted.
Mrs. c. M. Wetzel's public school al
Riverside will have holiday entertain
ment next Friday.
A Christmas entertainment will be
given at the Ramey School on Friday,
December ~, beginning at 1890 p. m.
Snow fell here Friday and Friday
night to depth of about twelve inches.
and sleigning has since been the order of
the day.
If you want an admirable Christmas
present for friend who is smoker. call
at DIR. Pittman's drug store and see his
fine selection of meerschaum and brier
pipes.
The postoffice will be closed on Christ
mas and New Years Days from 10 a. m
to p. m. Rural carriers will deliver
mail on Christmas Day. but not on New
Years Day.
Married. at the Methodist parsonage
in Summit Point. on Sunday evening.
December IT, 1905. by Rev. c. Syden-
stricken. Mr.. George Henry to Miss
Maggie Riley.
Mrs. Louis Diehl has grown upon a
tree owned by her lemon which weighs
I Id and II ounces. and measures I51
inches in clrcumfsrence-the largest we
have ever seen.
The Biograph Motion Picture Com
pany will exhibit in Washington Hall on
Friday and Saturday nights, December
% and 20. Best illustrated songs and
refined vaudeville.
William Robinson and Nina Parker
two worthy young colored people, were
married at high noon on Thursday. by
Rev. Washington Murray. at the brides
home in this place.
Our good colored friend John Thorn
ton has our thanks for fine shuck mat.
1t is of the old-fashioned. reliable kind
and he will take orders for more of the
same sort, at reasonable prices.
The Kahn property on Mordington
Avenue has been sold by the owner Mr..
VIM, c. Bragg to Lewis 0. Hale. of
for $500. Sale effected
through the agency of Moore e. Moore.
Mr.. John w. Gibson, who has been in
ll-health for some time, was taken to the
City Hospital, Baltimore. and under
went an operation there on Wednesday,
coming out Of the ordeal in favorable
condition
E. ]. Oates. formerly manager of the
office of the United Tele-
phone Co., has taken a position with the
Jefferson County Telephone Co, here.
and has taken the Manning residence
opposite Capt. J. c. Holmes.
Lucy Lomax, respected colored wom-
an. died at her home in this place Tues
lay of pneumonia, aged 81 years. Be-
fore the Civil War she belonged to the
ate Joseph Brown. She had been mar
red three times. her last husband being
Arthur Lomax, who died some time ago. |
A new schedule went into effect on
The N. & W, r. r. on December 3 No
change in the time of any trains passing
here except the through trains late in
the night which are not scheduled to
stop at this place. The southbonnd one
passes at 2:I5 and the northboupd at
2:4o a. nj.
The Maltby farm on the east side of
the Shenandoah River opposite the
Bloomery has been sold by w. A. Higgs
to Judge d. B. Lucas Mr.. Higgs
bought the farm few years ago from
the Maltby heirs. and has since cut oft a
large quantity of timber for use in his
barrel factory,