Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-26
PERSONAL MENTION.

There was large crowd in Stauntor
curt day.
Mr., w. H. Talbot, of Waynesboro
was visitor here Saturday.
A building permit has been granted
j. s. Judy for DIV cling on Thompson
street.
DIR. o. F. Gregory and Prof. w. FL
Kable attended the Baptist Association
meeting in Portsmouth this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Miller spent {
few days with Mrs. Harry Frazier in
Richmond.
Mr.. c. E. Doyle, General Manager
of the c. & o. Ry., passed through the
city Monday.
Mr.. R. H. Silling, one of the old Con
federate veterans of the county, has
been quite sick.
Mr.. j. III. Wolthington has gone t6
Nlmrod Hall to join the Staunton hunt
Jag party there.
Mr.. VIM. Wholey has returned te
Roanoke, after visiting his parents in
Staunton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Rohrer of Church
vile, have returned from their wedding
tour, and are now at home to their
friends.
Mr.. Jacob Ii. Williams and Miss
Madallne P. Smith were married here
last Friday by Rev. A. D. R. Hancher.
They will make their home at Swoope.
Hon, H. st. Geo. Tucker is reported
as saying he is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
in the campaign four years hence.
Fire at Warrenten Monday night de-
stroyed twenty-five houses in the resi-
Dental section, causing loss estimated
at 100000.
Mr.. Rice A. Weaver OF Clifton Forge,
and Miss Edna l. Montgomery, of Au-
gusta Springs, were married in Wash
ington last week.
Rev. Henry Mclaughlin was INSTALL
ed pastor of New Providence Presbyte-
rian church Sunday morning at II
o'clock.
Mr.. Jacob Fl. Arehart, former post
master at Middlebrook, who has been
quite sick for some time past, does
not seem TO improve much.
Jim Stewart was taken to Richmond
Monday to serve term of five years
Tor shooting officer J. Ii. Lupton. AS
Stewart was an eX-convict five years
vas added 10 his term.
The Supervisors met Monday with
al the members present save one, and
transacted large amount of business.
accounts amounting to S23, 800 were al
owed.
Miss Mary Berkeley has gone to
Louisiana TO spend some time with her
brother, Mr.. Edmund Berkeley, who
las for some years been engaged in
railroad work in that State.
The ad of Tom. Franey of Harrison
ourg, announces that Tom Smyth, L..
3. Masincup, J. n. Garland and John
D. O'Donnell, formerly of Stanton,
are with him.
Miss Maude Kinney left this week
for Rock Island, ILL.,, to be with her
sister, Mrs. Granville Sherwood, who
has undergone an operation for appen-
dicitis
Miss Mamie M. Blair of Churchville,
left yesterday for Amherst to be pres
ent at the silver wedding anniversary
of Judge and Mrs. G. J. Campbell,
which will be celebrated tonight at
Edge HILL"
Prof. Neff, ..and Misses.S hanholtzer,
Bickle and Bell of the city schools, and
Prof. Somervill and Misses Hudson,
Whitmore and Peck of the county
schools, attended the educational meet.
ing in Richmond this week.
Representative DeArmoud of Mis-.
souri,, one of the leading Democrats in
Congress, was burned to death i'll a fire
which destroyed his home at Butler
Mo-, on Tuesday. His little six-year
old grandson, was burned with him.
A series of meetings is being conduct
ed in the Methodist church at Basic
City, by the pastor, Rev. Harry P
Baker, assisted by Rev. Geo. III. Wiley
of Richmond. There have been ovel
one. hundred conversions.
The Supreme Court in Richmond
on Monday refused writ of error il
he case of Mox Hirsh VS.. the Com
nonwealth from Harrisonburg. Hirsl
struck and killed his brother-in-law
Louis Isaacs, and was given d peni
tertiary term of nine years. A fami
ly quarrel led to the crime.
Junius Douglass, a 1i-year-old negr
boy, was arrested in Harrisonburg las
week for rifiing the mail. By mean
'of postoffice key which he obtaine'
in some way, the boy is alleged to hav
carried on systematic robbery Q
packages addressed to d. e. Devier, &
darrisonburg jeweler.
Paul Gilmore, who played here las
Friday night in 'sThe Call of tn
North" was married that afternoon a
the Beverly Hotel, to Miss Ethel Car
ley, former member of his company
rrhe bride and her mother came froI
New York that morning and met NJ
Gilmore on his arrival here.
DIR. Richard p. Bell and Miss Mar
Grasty were quietly married at th