Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-06-12
PERSONAL MENTION.

Capt. w. @. Kable has been on Z
short visit to New York.
Mr.. w. j. Swink of Craigsville, spent
Sunday with his family here.
Mr.. j. T. Silling and wife are visit
ing relatives al Slower.
Mrs. j. a. Alexander has returned
from a visit TO her old home in Atlanta.
Miss Emma Gillerson of Waynes-
boro, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bruce
Dinkle near Parnassas.
Rev. III. p. Hamill is attending the
Sunday school convention of Baltimore
Conference ut Alexandria.
Mr.. f. w. Litman has been appoint
ell postmaster AT Laurel Hill in place
of l.. J. ludlow, resigned.
The Chinese Ambassador, WI Ting
Fang, passed through the city Monday
ea-route to Hot Springs.
Mr.. ID. Miller koiner of st. Louis
Mo-, is on visit to his father, Mr..
Marion Koiner, near Waynesboro.
Mrs Hugh NJ. Blaine and children
have returned to Waynesboro from
Baton Rouge La.
Mr. John Child of Charleston, w. Va,
was on short visit to his father, Capt.
6. G. Child, this week.
Mrs. j. NJ. F'itz of Charleston, w. Va,
is visiting her daughters, Mrs. Harry
Hogshead and Mrs. K. NJ. Brand.
Mr.. F. NJ Engleman has gone to
FLEETWOOD, w. Va, to take position
with his brother, Mr.. o. III. Engleman.
Mrs. Sarah Dinl<le of Slower is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Lightner at
Valley Mills.
Mrs J. B. Lowman of Mt. Scion and
Mrs NJ. G. Martz OF Fort Defiance,
were visitors in the city this week.
Miss Janet Stephenson of Monterey,
is visiting friends and relatives in this
city.
Mrs William Mcnamara of Lynch
burg, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs VIM. Wholey.
Some Of the finest straw berries ever
seen here, have been marketed the past
xr,aolr fran, the 0onntu
MI. q. Julian Pratt of Waynesboro,
and son, Mr.. 6. Julian, jr., of New
York, were in the city Tuesday.
Mr.. Berry Thompson died at his
home here Sunday morning from can
Ger OF the stomach. His wife and four
children survive him.
Mr.. John I. Smith and wife and Mis-.
Chas. S. Cav and children of Waynes-
boro, are visiting relatives in New Cas-
tie, Indiana.
Mr. III. r. Houston, editor of the
Hampton Monitor, and a member OF
the Legislature, was in the city Mon
day on business.
Mr.. Joseph l.. Barth has gone to
New York on business. He expects to
spend most OF the time with Mrs.
Barth.
Mrs. 5. d. Gochenour and children
and Mrs. c. b. Woodruff were called
to Roanoke Tuesday by the illness and
death of MI J. +. Jeffries.
The condition of Mrs. Franklin NJ.
Hanger, who was so dangerously in
jured about a month ago in a runaway
accident, is not so well. Pneumonia is
now feared.
Mr.. John Shelley underwent an ope-
ration at the Kings Daughters hospi-
tai Monday, at the hands of DIR. Cat
lett. He is doing rs well as could be
expected.
Dorsey Tyler of Augusta Springs,
who was shot last fall at that place by
l.. r. Sexton, c. IL o. agent there, is
in precarious condition, gangrene hay
ing sent it,
Rev. Crosby NJ. Robertson of Crozier
Seminary, Chester, Penn, has accept
ed the call to the pastorate of the Bap-
fist church at Greenville and will enter
upon his new duties about July 1st.
Mr.. Eldridge Wheat of New York,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Wheat of this
city, was married in that city. on Sat
Greenwich, Rhode Island.
The through service over the b. u q.
and Southern Railroads from Licking
ton to Alexandria, was put into effect
on Monday. This was ordered by the
State Corporation Commission.
A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa,
where the general conference of the
German Baptists, or Dunkards, is in
session, states that Harrisonburg was
selected rs the next place of meeting
by an overwhelming vote
AT a congregational meeting last
Sunday, the First Presbyterian congre-
CATION decided to pay off its church
debt of $1,000, and the deacons were
instructed to canvass the congregation
for that purpose.
Mr.. j. III. Lindsay, editor of the Char
lottesville Progress, and member of
the board of the Va. School for the
Deaf and the Blind, was here this week
attending the closing exercises of the
school,
Mrs. Fannie Keith, wife of Judge
James Keith of the Supreme Court,
died in Richmond Tuesday morning,
aged about 90 years. Besides her hus-