Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-05
Personal Briefs of People at Home
and Abroad
RevIA, @. Flaherty is spending
the week in Crabbottom.

The Highland pasture fields may
not be such as to quite make an old
cow smile, but they will Craze her.
Miss Martha Jones, student at
the R. M. w. c., Lynchburg, re-
turned to her home in Monterey
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. T. H. Slaven, one Of the OLD
est residents of the town and very
feeble, celebrated his 10th birthday
on Wednesday last.
Mrs. Ella Fleisher, who has been
confined to her bed most OF the
time since January, was able to be
brought on the street Tuesday in
her invalid's chair and enjoy sun
bath.
An interval of pretty weather
from Friday until Wednesday ena-
bled the farmers to do some need
ed work in corn-feld and garden,
and vegetation is coming on at q
bound.
Work on the new bank building
is progressing favorably, and the
laying Of blocks will likely COM
mence next week.
For SALE-A few choice English
Berkshire pigs. Entitled to rlgls-
try. Apply early,
J. LUNsFoRD.
Mrs Samuel Ralston, whose home
is near Mcdowell, is now visiting
her son, Mr.. Samuel Ralston, OF
Monterey.
Mr.. B. F. Gardner, wife and lit
tie son, of Elkins, W. Va, spent
last week with relatives and friends
in Highland, returning home Tues
day.
Mrs l.. H. Stephenson and daugh-
ter, Miss Janet, were passengers on
the east-bound Staunton hack line
Tuesday morning.
Miss Lucy Wilson, for some time
in charge of the central office OF the
Mutual Telephone line, Monterey,
is now dividing tine between that
place and the First .Natlonal bank
with a view to filling peTmanen'
position in the Bank aftel july isV'
Miss Rachel Ogilvie, who has not
fully recovered from her long @ii'
ness of last winter, left last week
for visit to friends in Ohio, hoping
that a change would prove bene-
fetal.
Rev. Clay Sponaugle and wife,
of Alvon, w. Va, are visiting their
relatives in Highland.
Contractors, Gum and Hevener.
are doing some carpenter work for
Mr. Isaac Simmons, North OF Mon
terey.
Miss Mary Bradshaw, of the Clio
yer Creek community, who has just
completed term of school in the
Bluegrass district, was in town Fri
day on her way home.
LosT-Between Monterey and
top of mountain east of town,
court week, Waterman Fountain
Pen. Finder please leave at the
office.
From nu merous reports we have
heard there seems to be more ground
hogs this year than usual. They
are very destructive to the mead
,ows and many farmers are COM
PEELED to offer royalty for his scalp
in order to check these pests. Stock
will not Craze around burrows, and
if they are not killed off it is only
a few years until a once beautiful
meadow becomes unsightly-full OF
,ugly and dangerous holes.
Highland has put on her Sunday
clothes and is looking her very best.
Grass is King, and the reign is Ger
.tainly undisputed this season. No
finer prospect has ever been known
at this date. Cattle are not less
than one month ahead of the aver
q ore year in point of flesh, and are
stfaio ng ON at rate calculated to
satisfy the watchful grazier. One
farmer of so years experience re-
No IT'S that, for the first time in his
life he harvested a grass lot before
cor n-planting.
Mrs. Harriet Trimble, of Marlin
ton W. Va, has been visiting her
Mon terey relatives since last Thurs
day.
Lo, sr--On Jackson's River road
last S aturdry, between Stonaker's
mill E md Mr.. Eckard's house, tip
to a ishing pole and holder. The
tin is bamboo wood and is wrapped
with | purple thread in weak spot.
Finder please make known at this
Office.
Ira .mps and tramp-outfts are
rare Highland, but now and then
we ha We specimen which does full
Justice to the profession. Last
Monday night an outfit encamped
at o. Wilson's, using his barn as
sleeping quarters, and passed up