Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1906-07-17
Local Miscellany.


carnival next week.
Take shares in Peoples Building As
sociation.
| Big Free Carnival in Charles Town
next week.
Trespass notices. for posting lands.
for sale at the SPIRIT office.
Old Plantation and Georgia Minstrels
at the big Carnival next week.
The young men of Charles Town gave
an enjoyable dance. at the Powhatan
Friday night.
Subscribe for stock in the Peoples
Building Association. Shares tor sale at
D. S. Hughes.
Found. key with ring attached,
which the owner may recover by calling
at the SPIRIT Office.
The Episcopal Sunday school at Har-
pers Ferry had an enjoyable picnic at
Island Park July II.
The Baltimore and Ohio Y. M. c. A.
picnic miss Jennie Smith's) will be held
at Island Park July 20
Miss Daisy Reed. native of Harpers
Ferry. was struck and killed by Balti-
more and Ohio train near Piedmont.
Engineer Fred Weltzheimer has been
making survey of the streets Of Charles
Town for the Charles Town Water Com
pany
| Ground has been broken for the new
dwellings of State Senator Campbell and
Messrs. N. H. Willis and Dewitt G..
Strider
Cornelius Lloyd. son of Mrs Robert
Arvin of Bolivar, had his eye and hand
severly injured by an explosion on the
4th of July.
Shares of stock in the new Peoples
Building Association may be obtained at
the store of D. S. Hughes or law Office of
John Porterfeld.
The Jefferson County Telephone Com
pany has effected through connection
with the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany in Winchester
Mr.. E. NJ. Jones, whilst playing base
ball at Island Park last Thursday. broke
small bone in his leg. DR.. Neill gave
him surgical attention.
DR.. j. NJ. Miller has bought 1878 acres
of the Richard Henderson farm near
Halltown. for $50 per acre. Sale effect
ed through Messrs. Chew & Norris.
The Epworth League OF the Bakerton
M. E. Church South will hold an ice
cream festival in the Oak Grove school
yard at Bakerton, Saturday night, July 81.
Mr. William t. Elliott while putting
wheat into barracks fell distance Of
twenty feet to the ground, and was badly
hurt, being rendered unconscious for
some time.
The Colored Baptist Sunday Schools
and Young Peoples Baptist Unions of
this section held a convention in the
Wainwright Church in this place last
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The ladies of Oakland NJ E. Church
South will give Festival on Friday and
Saturday evening, July 20 and FL. at the
church-proceeds for church purposes.
Public cordially invited to attend.
Messrs. Moore & Russell have placed
a metal ceiling in the parlor of the resi-
1a,1oa NJ II op6te a,I ORC
stalling a hot air heating system in the
new Starry house for Contractor M. ]
Rohr
Mr.. Daniel J. Maioney. Of Washington,
guest at the Hill Top House, Harpers
Ferry. had three fingers and thumb blown
off of his right hand by the premature
explosion of giant fre-cracker on the
evening of the fourth.
Nearly every family uses the products
of the National Biscuit Company. By
saving of the ''in-er-seal trademarks, "
two of which appear on each package,
you have an opportunity of receiving
81. so in gold prize. See advertisement
LOT Iutl particulars.
Mr.. A. G. Wynkoop, real estate agent
has re Gently sold for John A. Washing
ton. trustee, house and lot near Charles
Town, to Oscar H. Griffith. tor $3.50; al
so for Mrs. Marv Fitzpatrick house and
about acres of land, near Halltown, to
E d. Turner, for $500.
The Staunton District Conference, M.
E. Church, Colored, will meet in Mt.
Zion Church, Charles Town. on Thurs
day, September 10. This Conference
covers the territory including the Valley
counties as far south as Augusta and
number of counties in West Virginia, and
will include about two hundred represen-
tatives of all classes.
Officers of Jefferson Lodge, No I6I, X
of P of Middleway have been installed as
follows: c E Riley c c, Charles M
Kearns V c. J W Shaull p, W Ringer
NJ of Elk, ID Smith K of r and S. B
Grim NJ of F, r U Smith NJ of A. c
Roberts NJ OF w. F Ringer IG, Charles
Higgs 0 G. J w Ringer, c M Kearns,
| t ] Homer. Trustees.
On driving around some teams in the
street near the court house. Mr.. ]. l..
Pentz. with his little son, James. tried to
pass over the platform of the hay scales
in a buggy thursday afternoon, when
one wheel of the vehicle dropped into the
crevice around the platform. and tie
occupants We're thrown out. Mr.. Pentz
escaped injury, but his little boy was
] painfully bruised.