Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-01-08
Personal Briefs Of People at Home
and Abroad

Rev. Mr.. Dotson left Tuesday
via western hack to visit his family
in West Va. for two weeks.
If you think of it in time, the
first crook in the 8 may become
part of the 9 you ought to write.
If fifty per cent, of those New
Year resolutions remain in tact,
you are doing well,
Mr.. j. A. Whitelaw has been on
the sick list and confined to his
room for several days.
Mr.. +. G. Mauzy, of Durbin,
spent several days in Highland
early in the week.
Mr.. James Liggett, of Staunton,
who has been at Monterey for some
time, went to the Greenbrier Val
ley Tuesday.
Mr.. |. B. Bussard has moved to
the William Hiner house on Trim
BILE Hill, and Mr., Dan Ralston is
in charge of the telephone station
in the Shumate house.
Mr.. Don Sullenberger, who has
been employed in the Greenbrier
Valley for several months, return
ed to Monterey to spend Christmas
with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tate Hiner, of Po-
cahontas, spent several days dur
ing the holiday season with the
formers parents, near Monterey.
Miss Lucy Wilson accompanied
her sister, Miss Sallie, on her re-
turn to Marlinton, after pleasant
week at the old home at Monterey.
Mr.. L. A. Orndorff, of Wood
stock, is spending some time with
his many Monterey friends.
Will pay highest price for coun-
try produce. Cash for furs and
beef hides. r. NJ. Trimble,
downtown merchant.
Rev. w. s. Trimble, who has
been on an extended vacation in
the far West, returned last Satur-
day, filling his appointment here
on Sunday morning.
All parties indebted to me please
call and settle by LIST of February,
and oblige. j. R. Gillespie.
Mr.. Ray Wilson, who has held
position at Pittsburg for two years
or more, came home recently on
account of his fathers illness, and
will remain some time. His father
is improving rapidly, and hopes to
be out again soon.
All who want textbooks eX-
changed will please call on or be-
fore Jan. /, 1909. After that time
they will not be exchanged.
V. B. BISHOP & Co..
DR.. Roy Wagner, who is prac-
ticing his profession at Chesterfield,
S. c., writes to renew his subscrip-
ton, and says he is doing well in
his adopted home.
Mr.. E. w. Armstrong has moved
into the house on the Monterey
Stock Farm. Mr.. Armstrong will
prove competent manager, being
one of Highlands best stockmen.
We are instructed by DR., W. N.
Wagner, who recently got a trans
fer from this work to Florida
conference, to send him the Re-
corder at Apalachicola, to which
city he has been assigned by the
Bishop. He says they are we'll
pleased, and promises us letter in
q short time.
Mr.. R. S. Bird. of West Va, who
has been in Highland, his native
county, for several weeks, left
Tuesday morning for Eastern Viz
ginia in search of a location. His
sister, MIS-. Pullin, accompanied
him.
The pupils of the Monterey High
School resumed work Monday
morning. The teachers all report
ed for duty except Mrs. Paul Sla-
ven. who is detained at the Gar
field Hospital, Washington, on ae-
count of an operation performed on
the 2Sth of December. Her ply,
stefan and nurses report faTorable
progress, and that she will soon be
able to come home.
The gentlemen who have beer
at Montetey several weeks negotl-
ating the sale of the imported Bel
gian stallion, left Tuesday after
noon for the Valley, taking the
horse with them. A company was
formed and the twelve shares sold
but trouble arose over the form O.
settlement, and the deal fel
through. The horse was a splen'
did one, and many regret that nj
did not remain in the county.
I'll fill my appointment at Yves
ley Chapel on the 9TH Sunday at II
O'Clock a. m. and at Vanderpool a
p. m. on the same date instea(
of the second Sunday.