Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-12-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Janet Berkeley is in Richmond
visiting DR.. and Mrs. G. r. Robins.
Prof w. A. Bowles and wife spent
several days in Richmond this week.
Mr.. A. J. Livick is spending some
time in Richmond.
Hon. A. G. Gordon was in Char
lottesville and Richmond this week on
business.
Mr.. H. w. Hilleary, of Charlottes-
Vile, spent Sunday here with his broth.
er, w. NJ. HiIleary.
Mrs. John w. Grove, of Waynes-
boro, who has been visiting at Mr.. ID.
A. Sniteman's, has returned home.
Mr.. John w. Meade has located in
Philadelphia, and his family left this
week to join him.
Miss Lettice Woodward, of Rich.
mond, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. S.
Cochran.
Mr.. S. G. Brown of the Swoope neigh.
borhood, was among the visitors here
on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mis-. Edward wright are Wis.
iting the family of their son, Mr.. Chas.
Wright, in Roanoke.
Rev. Father w. CASTOR Payne, of
Clifton Forge, was in the city this week
visiting among his old congregation.
Mr.. Jos. G. Glasgow has returned
home from an extended visit to rela-
tlves and friends in the north.
Miss Marian Arbuckle, of Waynes-
boro, has been visiting Mrs. w. p.
Kent.
Mrs Fielding Olivier and little daugh-
ter are visiting relatives and friends in
in Washington and Baltimore.
The next reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans will be held April
10th in Mobile, Alabama, according to
announcement of General Evans.
Monday was the worst day of the
winter. There being cold rain, turn
ing to sleet which made travelling al
most impossible.
Mr.. Samuel H. Hunter, who has
been visiting his brother, Mr.. Thomas
w. Hunter, near the city, returned to
Fairfield this week.
Miss Ida Burke, of Richmond, who
was called here by the death of her sis
ter, Miss Maggie Burke, has returned
home
Mrs. Hugh Hemp has returned to
Clifton Forge, after visit to relatives
here. She was accompanied by little
Miss Bette Fleming.
Mr.. w. J. Davis Bell of Lynchburg,
has been visiting his father, DR.. VIM.
Bell, at Mt. Sidney. Ie came to at
tend the McCue-BelI wedding.
Miss Villa Belle Hamilton has re-
turned home from an extended visit to
Ohio, Missouri and other western
states.
Mr.. +. A. Kerr, who went to Balti-
more last week TO take his brother to
Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment,
has returned to his home at Stuart's
Draft.
Mr.. II. G. Schawb and Mrs. Lennie
Clark, of Waynesboro, were married in
Washington on Thanksgiving day.
Mr.. Schawb is a well known moulder
in the 10th Stove Works of that place.
Al. G. Fields Ministries gave two
performances here Monday, and de-
spite the weather large audiences
greeted them. The show was said to
be better than ever, and it has always
been at the top.
Supt. w. A. Bowles and a number
of the Board of Visitors of the V. S. d.
B., were in Richmond this week before
the Senate finance committee, seeking
special appropriation for needed inn
provements at that school.
The young folk of the New Hope
neighborhood are now rehearsing for a
production of "Dot, the Miners Dangh-
ter" which will be presented in New
Hope on December q for the benefit of
the New Hope High School.
Mr.. Alvin B. Cline and Miss Estelle
l.. Wine, both well known and pop
ular young persons of the Messy Creek
nelghborhood, were married at noon
Tuesday in the Messy Creek Presby-
terrain church.
A charter has been granted
for bank at Mt. Scion, of which NJ.
Bruce Whitmore is president; S. A.
Stone, vlce-president, and w. B. Todd,
secretary and cashier. The capital
stock is from 100000 to $4,000.
Mr.. Henry Hutchinson, one of the
most prominent wholesale merch ants
of this city, died at his home ON West
Frederick street yesterday morning.
His wife and five children survive him
Funeral arrangements have not beer
announced.
Monday afternoon landslide occur
red on the B. d 0. road near Mt. Craw.
ford and delayed the trains between
Staunton and Harrisonburg. A quaint
Ity of rocks and earth, loosened by the
rain, slid from the bluff and blocked
the track.
Mr.. T. H. Antrim, of Waynesboro,
has sold 210 acres of his valuable farm
with Improvements, near Lyndhurst
to Mr.. ID. III. Brown, considerable r
$4,000. Mr.. Brown has been tenant
on the place for number of years and
is an industrious and progressive farm
er.
Mr.. Chas. w, Crawford, of Mt. Mer: