Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-10-05

Read Kahn's new adv and locals.

Read Kahn's new adv and locals.
Master Philip Cline entertained his
Young friends in handsome patty Fri
day evening.
He Getzendanner & Co have had an
Office building erected at their coal yard
| at the B & o railroad on North George
street
Mr. H A Carroll is exhibiting some fine
gas lights at the Office of the Charles
Town Gas Company on East Washing
ton street.
Mr. Fl P Cline has contracted to erect
the foundation walls for the new opera
house northwest corner of George and
Liberty streets.
Mr. ] M Hendricks, prominent citi-
zen of this county. fell from ladder IN
his orchard yesterday afternoon. and
fractured his hip.
A horse in a team owned by Miss Ju-
liza Terrill had his body pierced by bro
ken wagon tongue last Tuesday, and
died in a few hours.
The Misses Timberlake are having a
concrete pavement laid on both the Con-
gress street front and Charles street side
of their residence property.
MIR Adam Link. Jr, son of Mr. Thomas
Link at Duffields, had his face painfully
mashed and his ear split by jumping
from moving passenger train.
Mr. Frank Dipkle. of Bolivar, un der
direction of the Street Committee, is
putting in concrete cutters on both sides
of Washington street from George TO
| Lawrence.
Miss Mary Wilt, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Henry Wilt died at the home of her
parents, near Allstadts cross roads. Sep
TENDER IS, after short illness of brain
fever. aged IS years.
Tickets 10 Hagerstown Fair will be on
sale at N & w station from October IL
to IS. inclusive. Round trip fare 81 10,
not including admission to the grounds
Tickets limited to October IS.
Memorial services in honor of Grand
Master r D K obnson of the Colored
Masons. recently deceased. will be held
by Star Lodge of this place on Sunday
next, at 3 p m. in Mt Zion NJ Church.
The Town Council last night ordered
that concrete top be put over water way
across Mildred street at the B & o de-
pot and that various concrete crossings
be laid, and transacted other business of
a routine nature.
Properties of the late Emanuel Spang-
Ter. at Harpers Ferry, have been sold
publicly. as follows: Rose Cottage on
Camp Hill. residence of Jos Smith, to
George X Broadly. for $I,135. and house
on Union street to Eugene Shugart, for
1875.
DR. D B Bushong has been appointed |
medical examiner in the Baltimore & |
Ohio Railroad Company's Relief Associ-
alton. with headquarters in Cumberland |
His family will continue to reside at |
Summit Point.
Married at the brides home near Mo
ler's Cross Roads. Thursday afternoo n,
Miss May Lillian Knott, daughter of DR.
and Mrs Samuel 7 Knott. to DR. Clifford
c Johnson of Parsons. w Va, by Rev
H Stephens, of the Southern Method list |
Church. Shepherdstown
See adv of DR. B Chamberlain, OPTIC
metrist. who will visit Charles Town on
October 10, stopping at The Jefferson.
DR. Chamberlain has been appointed by |
Gov Glasscock member of the State |
Board of Examiners in Optometry, and
comes to Charles Town we'll recommen-
1ed.
DR. Marshall and Capt Getzendanner
made a trip IN the formers automobile |
from Charles Town to the latter's farm
at Castleman's Ferry and return. last
Tuesday, losing an hour there and max
ing the run there and back, a distance of |
thirtyfive miles. in two hours and thirty
Ave minutes.
The regular quarterly session of the
Eastern Panhandle Medical Society was
held in the courthouse on Wednesday. |
There was fairly good attendance from |
all the counties composing the soclety's
territory and number of interesting |
papers were read. DR. r E Venning en-.
tertained the society at dinner.
George Strother. colored, who was
prosecuted to conviction twice by Prose
cutting Attorney Geo d Moore, on the
charge of robbing an old man near H ar
pers Ferry, was refused a new trial by |
the Supreme Court of Appeals and has
been taken to Moundsville to serve a |
FIVE year sentence in the penitentiary.
The Sandy Cullen lot, containing two
acres along the Kabletown turnpike in
the southern section of Charles Town,
has been sold to Messrs Gerard ID Moore |
and A NJ S Morgan for $1,000. The sale
was made by the Gallaher heirs. who re- |
Gently established their title to the prop |
erty by winning in legal contest over
it.
Mr. Joseph H yesterday and his twin
brother. Mr. William ID yesterday, of
Washington City, celebrated their 10th
anniversary last Tuesday, by |
family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs |
Joseph H yesterday. Mr. VIM d Eas-