Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-01-03
Personals.

LOCAL DEPAk NJ MI.
Personals.
DIR. ]. M. Kibler has gone to Mis-
souri,, on business trip.
Mrs. M. NJ Little is visiting her SOD,
Rev. L. Peyton Little In Amherst.
Mr. Louis T. Peck of Pittsburg, lie
here visiting his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry D. Peck.
Miss Lena Stoutemyer who was with
friends in Staunton for Christmas has
returned home.
Miss Mary Harmon of the UNIVERSE
ty of Va, is the guest Of Miss Lucy
Bowles.
Mr.. Frank Walter has gone to Rich.
mond, Norfolk and New York on q
business trip.
Mrs. Heiskell Argenbright and her
son, Master Hugh Colston, are In
Washington, visiting relatives.
DR.. Bertha Berger, of w. s. Hospi.
tai staff, is visiting her old home near
Baltimore.
Mr.. r. E. Tyler has returned from
Concord, Va, but bis wife and daugh.
ter will remain awhile longer.
Mrs. VIM. A. Mathews has returned
to Richmond, after visit to relatives
here.
Miss Hortense Loeb has been spend.
ing some of the holidays with friends
In Richmond.
According to the report of Second
Auditor Dew, which has just been
prepared for the printer. the total Vir'
ginia State debt is 1926 ,259, 1856 16.
MIR. Ebert Hoover and his son, Lee,
of Roanoke, have returned home af
ter pleasant visit to his father, Mr..
D. +. Hoover, near Adlai.
Miss Mary Guy has returned to
Marion to resume her duties In Ma
rion College. after q pleasant Christ.
mas spent with her parents.
Mrs. M. r. Timberlake left Monday |
for Jacksonville, Fla, where she will |
spend the winter with her daughter.
Mrs. Hubbard.
The store of colored man near the |
works of the Va.CarOlipa Chemical |
works was destroyed by fire Tuesday |
night about eleven O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Peyton of |
Charleston, w. Va, were guests this |
week in the home of Mr.. PeytOn's IA
ther, DIR. E. o. Peyton at GreenvilIe.
Prof. Livingston W. Smith of Lex
ington, spent several days here during |
the holidays with Maj. Francis II.
Smith.
Mrs. Estelle V. Hawpe OF near
Greenville, spent some time here dur
ing the holidays with her brother, Mr.. |
Newton Argenbright.
Mrs. w. G. 'Geiger, suffered a |
partial stroke of paralysis on Christ
mas day, but her friends will be glad
to know that she has greatly improved
Or. and Mrs. w. f. Deekins. who
have been spending some days in the
county with relatives, have returned
to the city.
Mr.. Geo. R. Bell. who spent several
days here during the holidays with bis
sister, Mrs. j. o. Hospital, has gone to
Richmond,
Mr.. 8. j. Castle and Miss Mamie
Armand were married on the 18th ult.
at Thinking, Lunenburg county
Their future home will be in West
Virginia.
On January LIST, the city of Lynch
burg became the third city in size in
Virginia. The annexation order of
Judge Anderson becoming effective on
that day.
Miss Mary Lightner, pupil at the
Mary Baldwin Seminary, spent the
holidays at her home near Swoope.
Her brother, Frank, is at home from
California on visit.
Prof. w. G. Norton, superintendent
of public schools at Newport News,
has returned to that city. having
spent the holidays at his old home
here.
The young society ladies of the city
gave fancy dress bail to their friends
Tuesday night, in the ball room at the
Virginia Hotel. Quite large number
of young people participated.
Mr.. and Mrs. John q. Keller and +.
son of East st. Louis, who spent sew
eral days with Mrs. M. E. Keller, have {
gone to Richmond and other points in ,
Eastern Virginia.
Robbers entered the b. 4 o. station, |
at Clarington, near Wheeling, w. Va,
on Sunday morning and after robbiDgi
the safe, murdered the operator and
threw his body into the wareroom and | ,
sent fire to the building.
Mrs. Paul Tucker Sayre. mother of
Mrs. p. FL. Trout. died suddenly
Christmas morning at her home in
Montgomery, Ala. Mr.. and Mrs.
Trout went the next day to attend the t
funeral.
Mr.. w. Eskridge Gilkeson and bride
have gone to their home in Bluefield,
w. Va. Mrs. Gilkeson, who was one t
of the most popular young ladies of q