Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-06-14
THE ElKT0N AND
THE TOWN

A POPULAR SUMMER RESORT AND
GOOD BUSINESS PLACE-sOME HAND
SOME HOMES AND BIG STORES, ETC
Elkton, Va, June 12.-Among thu
first of the big summer hotels to oper
TO the public this year is The Elkton
A. G. Drawbaugh. proprietor. In
spite of the late season, guests for the
summer are arriving, as are also
number of transients, who are ever
ready to look up the good stopping
| places along The routes OF travel.
The Elkton" is very pIettily located
| ia The subur bs of the town of ElktOn
and on the banks of the beautiful
shenandoah river. The place has ex-
tenelve grounds, and is well adapted
10 out of door sports. In itself the
hotel presents the idea of comfort with
it's wide double veranda, It's large airy
rooms and it's convenient appoint,
ments The place has its own acety
iene gas plant, and is supplied by
gravity with the best of lithia water
piped into the hotel direct from a
mountain spring. Among those here
already booked for the season are Col.
V. McNally, a retired army officer,
Mrs. McNally, and Mrs. j. j. BullOch
of Washington. Mrs. Bulloch, 1T may
be said, is relative of President
Roosevelt on his mothers side, and is
Kentuckian. Her husband, the late
DR.. J. j. Bulloch, was prominently
before The public as chaplain of the
National House of Representatives
during Mr.. Cleveland's first admins
tration. Miss Maude Elliott, cousin
of Mrs. Roosevelt, has also engaged
rooms and will soon be guest at The
Elkton.
A feature in summer life here that
often attracts officers of the Masonic
order. is the Valley Royal Arch school
of instruction, which holds its session
here-this year beginning on Wednes-
day, July 10th. Last year Messrs.
VIM. B. McChesney, W. H. Whitesell,
j. Il. Price of Staunton, and other
prominent Masons were in attendance.
Staunton was also represented last
year in social way by Mrs. S. d. Tim
berlake, ST., and daughter, Miss Mar
garet Timberlake, Miss Annie Hillea-
rY and others, who were guests at The
Elkton. Judging by past seasons, the
present one will witness the usual
midsummer overflow which usually
extends we'll into the autumn.
Among the nearby attractive neigh.
bOrs to The ElktoE is row of several
pretty houses whose rear terraces run
to the high banks of the Shenandoah.
In quiet strole after supper one ev-
ening your correspondent came upon
them. From their natural surround.
ings the places were attractive. but
there was one of them handsome be-
yond the average, gem in its emerald
setting. With its well kept lawns, its
trim shrubbery, it's flowers and its
pretty residence building, make an eX.
ceedingly handsome place, that stamp
it the abode of wealth and good taste.
This place is the summer home of Mr..
8. Ross Campbell, president OF the
Wampole COdliver Oil Co., with fac
tory In this country, and branch Off
ces in both Canada and Europe. Who
has not heard of the Wampole Codliver
Oil One OF the best known medicines
made. However MI. Campbell is not
yet occupying his summer home, but
is still IN the North looking after the
perplexities of his large interests.
AS place of business the town of
Elkton holds it's own with some of the
best. 1t has a large tannery plant, the
property of j. r. Cover and Sons, it
has two Touring mills, number of
good stores, some of them unusually
large and we'll stocked, and it has a
young bank. but very 1Ourlsnlng
and prosperous one. One that occupies
its own building and that has run its
line of deposits up to near the hundred
thousand mark. Withal the town is
growing. Here and there are new res
idence, some just completed, others
yet under the hammer. At the railroad
a new depot building is going up and
will in itself mark considerable i'm
provement. Besides, in a general way,
the town is doing good business and
the merchants are prospecting with a
remunerative trade, not only from the
towns people, but from large country
cIientage that come here to do their
trading.