Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-13
PERSONAL MENTION.

Laurel ranges were $50 to $50. Now
$I5 to $50. At Eskey's A bargain.
Mrs. A. NJ. Valz is visiting relatives
in Washington and RapGan.
Rev. Frank J. Brooke of Romney, W.
Va, was on brief WISH here this week.
Eskey Is certainly selling the goods.
Quality aud prices talk.
Miss Bessie Brcwn of Centerville,
Md, has returned home, after visiting
Mrs. \. Erskine Miller
Miss Mary Root has returned to
Stokesville, after Il visit TO friends in
this city.
Eskey has line of double heaters.
Prices away down.
Mrs. ]. Fred. Effinger and Miss
Katherine Effinger went TO baltimore
on-a visit.
Mrs. Frank T. Holt aud children
have gone to Baltimore and Philadel-
peia to spend some time.
Miss Mamie Jones has returned to
Washington, after visiting her sister,
Mrs. II. p. Hamil.
Mrs. S. bradley Lyle of otaunton,
has gone to Lexington for a few weeks
visit her sister, Mrs. A +. Wade.
Mr.. Jos. B. Woodward spent few
days in Washington with his brother,
Mr.. A. w. Woodward.
Eskey is over stocked with cooking
stoves, and will offer great bargains for
the next 10 days.
Mr.. ]. Lewis Bumgardner of Beck
ley, w. Va, was at his old home last
week.
Hon. II. St. Geo. Tucker and wife
have gone to Old Point to spend the
winter.
President-elect Taft and wife are at
Hot Springs and will spend two weeks
there.
If you want cooking stove, heating
store or range, see Eskey's place. They
are giving bargains.
The residence of Rev. Frank j.
Brooke, on Vine street was sold at auc
ton on Tuesday to Mr.. r. w. Menefee
for S2,625.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hogshead ex-
pect to leave here next week for Pine
vile, KY, where Mr.. Hogshead will
engage in the drug business.
Mr.. John 5. Lupton, one of the most
prominent fruit growers in Virginia,
died on Friday at his home in Win
chester.
The town of Honaker, Va, has pass
ell an ordinance filming any boy under
16 years of age, caught smoking cigar
cites.
Mr.. w. A. BiXler of Stollesville, has
purchased from Mr. A. Lee Knowles,
his farm near town, and will shortly
move there.
Mrs. John Il. GUNNER was called to
CORTLAND, New York Monday, by the
critical illness of her niece, Miss Toner
Fuller.
The Woman's Missionary Union of
the Synod of Virginia, at its Danville
meeting, decided to meet in Staunton
in 1909 with the congregation of the
Second Presbyterian church.
DR.. J. McChesney Hogshead, form
erly of Middlcbrook, but now of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, will on November 18th,
be married at Dalton, Ga, to Miss
Johnnie Hardwick of that place.
Mr.. NJ. A. Johns, a valued friend of
the SPECTATOR from West Augusta,
was in the city this week. Mr.. Johns
has been at AIillboro for some time,
but is now at home,
The new Presbyterian church AT Har
risonburg will be dedicated Sunday,
Dec 18th, and Rev. DR.. G. b. Stricken
of Union Theological Seminary, will
preach the sermon.
Sunday morning, while engaged in
play with some of his boy companions
Opher Lee Rhodes, the eleven-year-old
sen of Mr.. and Mrs. John f. Rhodes,
of Mt. Crawford, suddenly dropped
dead
Lieutenant Albert Tucker, brother of
Mr.. Randolph Tucker, ofthis city, and
son of the Hon. Harry st. George
Tucker, spent few days in Richmond
last week and left later for Fort Sam
Houston. Richmond Journal.
Rev. John Ruff, for many years pas
tor of Cook Creek Presbyterian church
in Rockingham, died last week in Bed
ford county, where he had been located
fer some time. The funeral took place
Friday at Thaxton.
State Senator John G. Noel OF Pen
nington Gap, Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Nir-
ginia, was married last week in Knox
vile, Tenn, to Miss Kittie Allen, for
merly of Pennington Gap.
Harrisonburg Times, 4th: Mrs f. B.
Crawford, accompanied by her little
child, is visiting her parents in Rich
mond.-Mr. John A. Turner, who has
been visiting in Staunton, returned to
his home in Broadway yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore f. Shuey of
Washinaton, ID. c., announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Katherine
Goode, to Mr.. Holbrook Bonney of