Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-01-29
Personal Briefs of People at Home
and Abroad

up, but the Greenbank earthquake
will please excuse us.
Flour sold by Monterey Milling
Go. is warranted to be nice and
fresh.
Mrs. o. E. Sullenberger is report
ed very ill at her home, near Van
derpool.
Mr.. J. A. Walker, a well-known
horseman of Staunton, is at Monte
rey.
Mr.. o. Wilson, who has been
confined to his home for two months
or more, took a drive up town Mon
day.
President-elect Taft and party
sailed for Panama Tuesday morn
ing. The trip will end at New Or
leans Feb. Is.
DR.. P. D. Arbogast, of Durbin,
came over Wednesday to see his
sister, Mrs. Ella Fleisher, who has
been ill for a long time.
The Citizens Bank has a new as
sistant cashier. He weighs ten
pounds, and reported for duty last
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Josiah Farmer, one OF CRAB
bottoms leading farmer,cltlzens,
was in Monterey Thursday and
called to see US.
Mr.. F. C. Burns, while telling a
tree a few days ago, was struck IN
the face by a limb and badly hurt'
His home is in Little Valley, south
of Bolar Springs.
Rev. Thomas Cooper, pastor OF
Crabbottom circuit, M. T.. Chufeh
South, is expected to preach tor the
Monterey congregation next Sum
day, morning and night.
The Chapman-Alexander evan
eelistic campaign of three weeks
Closed at Richmond last Sunday.
II is believed to have resulted III
the conversion of 5000 persons.
Mr.. E. B. Whitelaw has force
of men employed in excavatlng for
a house-location on one OF the i1ts
nurchased from DR.. l. Fl. Trlmble,
lust west from the Masonic hall.
Miss Matte Campbell, who mas
been teaching in a private family
at Elkins, w. Va, has gone wit, wltn
them to spend the winter in florl'
da.
A citizen of Highland county
killed rattlesnake the other Gay
He not only saw one, mind you
he killed it. This ought to prove
conclusively that Highland county
is "dry" .--Harrisonburg News
All The same, we have about
three-ouarters of mile OF excellent
sewer and Monterey can pride her
self in that she is quarter OF a cen Ell,
tury ahead of other Virginia VII
lagos of the same class.
information reached here earl.
in the week that Mr.. John Lock
ridge, and aged gentleman, die'
suddenly as he left the supper tabl
Friday evening at his home o.
Rocky Ridge, in Bath county
We learn from private, reliabl
source that Messrs. Henry AM
Gideon Propst, brothers, who NV
in the Seldom Seen community
made 12O pounds of maple suga
during this month. This is Ver'
unusual.
We have heard of a few farmer
who opened their sugar trees las as
week. finding it impossible to de
sist in the presence of such warn
Weather. The absence OF frost
however, rendered the time inau
sn;cious. and no results are report
ed.
All persons knowing them ass,
;ndehted to the firm of E. B, White
law a Co. will please call and settl
a at" once as we wish to close up gu
business. ..,. o,r 10
irons for their liberal patronage G
the past. Respectfully,
WV F.. B. Whitelaw 4 Go
We are in receipt Of letter fror
Mr.. w. A. Hevener, Somerton
Ariz., inclosing new subscription
and telling us something OF ;, nj
m m in the Yuma Valley
where he has been living for NOR moi
than wear. He is pleased wit
the mild climate, and says that b
irrigation the lands about HIN
which were bought at SOU, nav
advanced wonderfully. He quote
eggs at SOC and butter at the SAN
price.
There is all kinds of wisdom an
knowledge in the world, and th'
which serves us in one quarter
nnayailing in another. For II
stance, the fellow who was tryil
~ cot o drink of water at the tlr