Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-01-31


Charlotte. N. g., to visit relatives.
Miss Hortenss Loeb is in PhiladeI.
phia visiting relatives.
q Hon. John W. Churchman spent
Sunday with his family at Brook
wood.
The Chesapeake and Ohio schedule
will be changed Sunday, unless the
officials again change their mind.
Miss Frances Woodhouse. who has
been spending a month or more with
her sister. Mrs. G. A. Haldeman 10
Washington, is expected home today.
The many friends of Mrs. Frank T.
Holt will regret to learn that she has
a mild attack of typhoid fever. She
has been taken to the Kings Daugh'
tiers hospital.
Mr.Jos. L. Barth left Sunday for
New York on business trip. He
will spend some time with Mrs. Bartb,
who has been there some time for her
health.
Deputy U. 8. Marsha! Rodgers ar
rested Clifton Cabell and Geo. Carter,
two young white men, at vesuvius on
Monday charged with shooting into q
S.rural mail boxs and brought them to
staunton, where Commissioner Mere
dith heard the case and sent them on
the grand jury.
Miss Anna Shirley of Waynesboro.
was operated on last week at the Uni
versity Hospital at Charlottesville
for appendicitis. Her many friends
will be glad to learn that the opera
ti0n was very successful, and that
every report has been favorable for her
recovery.
The weddidg of Miss Gladys Moore
Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt. to Count Laszio Szechenyi,
member of Hungarian nobility, lieu
tenant of Hussars and hereditary
member of the. Hungarian
parliament, took place at the Fifth.
avenue home of the BRIDES mother
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood, native
OF East Tennessee, is dead at the age
Of one hundred and twenty years. In
her youth Mrs. Wood saw George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and
many other early statesmen. 1t is said
her best recollection of public men was
that of Andrew Jackson. of whom sh g
Was great admirer.
Mr.. J. H. Silling, the we'll known
merchant at Parnassus. made an as.
signment last week for the benefit of
his creditors, with Mr.. John M. II
Randolph as receiver. His liabilities
are placed aJ $4,000, with assets
amounting to considerably more than
that. Mr.. Silling had also been con,
Quoting store at Stokesville.
r. E. Tyler, auctioneer, on Monday
sold at auction for w. H. Landes, COM
missioner, the Jacob H. Harshbarger
farm located not far from Mt. Sidney.
The bidding was quite brisk as num-
Der of persons wanted it or part of it.
The farm was sold in two parcels, one
of 1l9 acres to Mr.. John e.. Baker at
$73 30 per acre; and 81 acres to Mr..
Granville Craun at $50 per acre.
MIR. H. H. King, the popular G. & o.
agent and telegraph operator at Fer
rol, who has been confined to his room
on account of sickness for the past ten
or fifteen days, has. We are glad to
announce. greatly improved and ex.
poets to resume his duties soon. This
will be welcome news to his many
friends.
Last Tuesday a called meeting of
Lexington Presbytery was held In
Lexington, with Rev. J E. Booker as
moderator The pastoral relation of
Rev. James P. Smith, Jr., and Oxford
church was dissolved. Mr.. Smith 60
ing to Chesapeake PresbyterY to take
charge of several churches near Hern.
don. Va. He preached his farewell
sermon to bis old congregation last
Sunday.
At the meeting Of the joint commit
tee of the board of aldermen and coun.
Gil Tuesday night to consider the Ii.
quor license tax for the year beginning
May 1st, it was agreed to report a tax
of 81 900 on each place. There was
diversity OF opinion as to the amount
to be taxed several were for So, 500, and
some for $3.50. so a compro mise was
agreed upon. A bill is now before the
Legislature to increase the State Ii
cense.
Our old friend. Chas. e. Kemper,
who has 80 long and so honorably
through various administration held
high positions with the government,
sends us bis usual reminder that the
SPECTATOR is welcome in bis home.
Mr.. kemper was appointed under Mr..
Cleveland's second administration,
and has risen steadily in rank until
now. He is one of those men who is
SO valuable to the government that
changes of administration have no
effect, the government cannot afford
to lose him.
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