Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-06-19

Mr.. j. F. Templeton of Waynesboro,
was visitor here this week.
The Virginia Bankers Association is
in session at Hot Springs.
Mr.. w. A. Black and family have
gone to Stribling Springs to spend a
month.
Tennessee, Mississippi and Colorado
this week instructed their delegates 10
the national convention for Bryan.
Messrs. J. H. Rohrer and James +.
Diamond of Churchville, were here this
week on business.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Earman, who has been
quite SEX with stomach trouble, is
regarded as in serious condition.
Rev. DIR. Finley of Thinking Spring,
was here Tuesday and presided over the
meeting Of camp that night.
Misses Sarah and Susie Robertson
will join party and sail July Ind for
two months tour of Europe.
The friends of Mrs. +. w. Bissell,
who had bad fall last week, will be
glad to know she is able to be out again.
Miss Ida G.. Summers and Miss
Pinkie Calhoun of Deerfield are in the
city shopping. They are stopping al
Mr.. Edmondson's.
Mrs. O'Ferrall, widow of the late eX-
Gov. Chas. L. O'Ferrall, died at hel
home IIr~Richmond on Sunday morn
ing, aged about IS years.
Mr.. John May of GrOttoes, had two
fingers Of his right hand cut off at the
plant of the Fravel Sash & Door Co. in
Harrisonburg this week.
Among the officers elected by the
State lodge of Elks at Lynchburg, was
Mr.. Hulst Glenn of this city, who was
made second vice-president.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity has
been conferred on Rev. III. p. Hamill
of this city and Rev. f. J. Prettyman
of Baltimore, by Randolph-Macon Col
lege.
Postmaster r. A. Fulwiler, who is g
delegate to the National Republican
convention and who was in Chicago
was called to Buchanan Tuesday by
the serious illness of his father.
Miss Nora Kilgalen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Kilgalen, was the only
graduate at st. Francis School this ses.
sion. The closing exercises took place
Tuesday.
A conference of college and high
school teachers will be held June e
and ~ in connection with the Univers-
ity Summer School. Its object is to
act upon the report of the committee
on high school courses of study.
Mr. James +. Jordan and Miss Lula
Greiner of Churchville, were united in
marriage Wednesday at the home OF
Rev. Geo. w. Slower, who otficiated.
They will make their home at Church
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Frazier an
nounced the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth, to Mr.. Lloyd Free
man of Norfolk. The wedding will
take place at ''Thornwood," the hand
some home of Mr.. Frazier near Lewis
burg, w. Va. Miss Frazier is sister
of Mrs. A. f. Miller of this city, and is
very popular here, where she has been
a frequent visitor
In the Democratic convention held
at Cripple Creek, Col, June 10th,
among others Mrs. Nellie CARRIER Esk-
ridge was appointed delegate to Den
yer. Mrs. Eskridge was born and
reared in Staunton, and is daughter
of the late Albert CARRIER, and has two
sisters living here, Mrs. Arista Hoge
and Mrs. Addie Baldwin. She spent a
month here not long ago.
Mrs. Slemp, widow of the late Rep
resentative Campbell Slemp, of the
Ninth Virginia district, and mother OF
Representative c. Bascom Slemp, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. }. P.
Edmonds, at Stonega, Wise county, on
Thursday of last week. Mrs. Slemp
was stricken with paralysis just prior
to the death of her husband, and for
weeks the news of his sudden death
was kept from her.