Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-07-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The great midsummer sale of cloth
ing announced by the Weinberg Cloth
ng Co. should be read by those wishing
bargains in clothing.
DR.. Lafayette SWoopa died in Mis-
sisslppi, where he lncated about 1859
and bis remains were brought to his
old home at Swoope, and buried in
Hebron cemetery on Thursday last
1Dr. w. f. Dickens has purchased
from &. A. Grafton, committee for
John b. Roller, the Paul farm near
Flshersville, containing 24l acrs, for
IS 500 ash
Hartman Bros handsome new build
Ing in Court House street adjoining the
Ech0ls building is practically complete,
and with its front of light brick and
stone makes IA handsome store. They
expect to get into it next week.
StauntOn Hose Company No. 2, will
hold their annual lawn party at the
usual place on Sears Hill, Thursday
evening, July q. This is usually one
OF the largest and most attractive lawn
parties of the summer.
The Cold Sulphur Springs is now |
open and quite number of guests |
have arrived. This resort is one OF the |
most popular in the Virginia noun
faIuS For Oiroplaro
dress, j. s. Craig, proprietor, Cold Sui
phur Springs, Va.
Work has begun on the new sanitary
arrangements which are TO be installed
in the Western State Hospital at
Staunton. Balhs will be installed in
every ward. and the entire building will
be equipped with up-to-date arrange
ments.
We notice from Cincinnati paper
the organization there of the Quee u
City Savings Bank and Trust Compa- t
ny with capital stock of $500, 900, and T
surplus of 800, 900. Mr.. NJ. M. Rob- b
ertsOn, formerly OF this city, is large
stakeholder, and ls also vice president h
and director OF the company. Z
Among the papers read before the Ii
American Convention of Instructors
of the Deaf last week at Morgantown, s
N O.. was a very able one by Prof. q. h
ID. Euritt of the Va. School for the \
Deaf and the Blind. Others from this
school who attended the meeting were
Mrs Euritt, Prof. W. A. Bowles, Misses d
Gay Trout, Anne Berkeley. Nell Bum II
gardner and Bette BOwles, u
The opening of the 34th session of
The Dunsmore Business College is an III
nounced for Sept. 18th. 1t is hardly L
necessary for us to call the attention IL
of orr readers to this institution,
for it's graduates all over the country g,
speak for it. Prof. DunsmOre has sur m
rounded himself with an excellent W
corps of teachers and every student has eli
the closest personal supervision. When
his students graduate they find no
difficulty in securing lucrative pos
itions.
Mrs. ID. Ii. Sensabaugh died on the A
18th inst, at her home IN Newport, and
her funeral took place from Mt Her
mon Lutheran church. She had been "
twice married, her first husband being "
the late Jacob Runkle. She WAS the ',
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David G.. -
A rrhart Of the Mckinley section, and
sister of Mrs. Newton Craig of New u
port. Four brothers and two sisters d'
and husband and three chill III
dren, one of them Miss Edith Runkle 10
by her former marriage. ny
Highland Recorder: Rev. E. II Rowe.
president of the Southern Seminary,
located at Buena Vista, spent several vi
days in Highland in the interest of ''
that institution. He preached for the VI
straight Creek people on Sunday morn d.
lug, and, at night filled the Monterey ~
JAS. W. Leach, of the
Vllna neighborhood, was over Tuesday pa
OIL business. Mr.. Leach who so un. CT
fortunate rs TO have his house and la
furniture destroyed by fire last winter, M
has about completed his dwelling, and in
takes an optimistic view of his misfor
tune.
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A cloudburst last Friday afternoon TO
near Mt Elliott Springs did consider In
able damage all down the Valley of the Sc
Little Calf Pasture river. Corn crops, ex
fencing, etc, we're swept
away. AT Augusta Springs the tor i.
rent of wild waters carried everything ',
before it, not log or foot-bridge was -,
left, not even those that stood safely
above previous high water marks.
From the river bed to the paraIleling
county road was an unbroken sheet of
water. The residence of Mr.. Conrad W
w Werner, AN old resident of the neigh A
was entirely surrounded and ed
his property seriously damaged. AT by
Fordwick and all along the river, pro- ID
perty owners suffered severely. 1t is
safe to say that no such food, has oc-
Cured in the Little Calf Pasture VAL oil
ley since the Johnstown disaster of ~
many years ago.
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Monday evening last about O'Clock {,
a west bound freight train dashed into nj
the engine of II material train at Au.
2usta Springs, wrecking the latter and
tearing mp the track for quite dis It.
lance The crews of both engines, see Ii
Ing the danger, jumped. One of them, 81
however, the engineer of the freight Ut
was hurt by falling among the switch Sc
wires. The accident tied IN the main ly