Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1910-05-24

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The big Fireman's Carnival this
week.
Barkoot's Worlds Greatest Shows to
he here all this week.
Codtrac'or H. 2. Cline has put metal
ceiling in Mayor Lights drug store.
Memorial Day in Charles Town. Sat
urday. May 2s. Exercises at 2 pr
Mr.. John o. Johnson is having the in
terror of his dwelllng-house much i'm
proved.
Mr. Daniel Claig killed ground hog
with a stone whilst on the road with his
team few days ago.
President John Strother. of the Valley
Brick Company. has taken an Office in
the Post Office Building.
There was not much doing in the way
of seeing the comet here last night. but
the eclipse of the moon came off all right
anyhow.
BY change in the N. &, w. time table
trains now pass Charles Town southwark
at s:43 a. m. and 6:I5 p. M; and north
ward at So a. m. and 7:26 p. m.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Charles
Town Baptist Church will hold an ice
cream and strawberry festival on the
church lawn on Monday evening. May
80.
| An infant son of Mr. and Mrs Jas A
Dearing, of Shenandoah Junction. died
while they were visiting relatives IN
Rappahannock county Va. recently,
and was buried there.
Councilman Thornton r. Perry has
h ad large lot of stone crushed and has
improved the roadway in front of theCon.
gress street entrance to his farm and al
so put stone on the lower portion OF
Congress street.
Mr.. Thos. Eagan who retired from the
railroad business nearly three years ago,
has returned to the service OF the Nor,
folk and Western Company with which
he held the position of Roadmaster for
twenty-five years.
Miss Christine Tingling. National
Lecturer of the w. c. T. u. will deliver
lecture on Civic Rig hteousness. in the
Court House in Charles Town, on Tues
evening, May 81. at o'clock. Public
cordially invited to attend.
Ten members of Class No. 9 of the
Baptist Sunday School of Charles Town.
under direction of Mr. A. d. Barr. went
to Shepherdstown and organized Bap-
fist Sunday School near that place, en-
rolling slxty-seven members.
Fifty-eight tickets were sold at the
Charles Town station oe the b. & o.
railroad last Friday for the excursion to
the Worlds Sunday School Convention
in Washington City. The train returning
was hung up for nearly an hour after
midnight on the Harpers Ferry bridge,
on account of the pony truck of the en-
CINE jumping the track.
A certificate authorizing an increase
in the capital stock of the Citizens Fire
Insurance Compay of Charles Town has
| been filed for record in this county. The
increase for which authority has been
given is 1000 shares par value $50 each,
This allows the company to double its
capital stock. the original issue of stock
beirg 1000 shares.
Rev. Mr.. Carter, student of the
Virginia Theological Seminary, ha:
succeeded Rev. w. H. Cumpston as rector
of St. Johns church. Harpers Ferry
and ST, Johns church, Rippon. Rev
Cumpston who is member of the grad
uating class at the seminary will go Yves
to take up ministerial work upon hi
graduation in June.
Mrs. Elizabeth West, widow of the lat,
Thomas West of this county, died Ma,
10. at her home in Logansport, Indiana
where she went to live about twent
years ago. She leaves three sons ant
two daughters in the west, besides tw'
stepsons, Messrs. Thos. ]. and Geo. W
West of this county, and two step daugh
tiers, Mrs. X. V. Mcdonald, of nea
Shepherdstown, and Mrs. Harriet Ben
ner, in Washington City.
MICE Blue, of Wheeling in this Stat
has. through the agency of Messrs Che,
4 Norris. bought the farm formerl
owned by DR. James Logic, con tainin
100 acres. near Kearneysvllle, and W
learn it is the intention of Mr. Blue t
plant an orchard on this estate and otf
erwiss improve it. Mr.. Blue is one {
Wheeling's foremost business men, an
we welcome him to our county. We ais
congratulate him on getting such spler
did farm for an orchard proposition.
Capt H Z Getzendannert has, throug
the agency of Moore & Moore, purchase
the Rogers land an the east side of tn
Shenandoah river, aggregating abot
2ooo acres. tits estimated that 500 acre
of it is cleared land. the remainder bein
in chestnut and pine timber. and m o.
of 1t easily accessible for clearing. TT
price of the entire estate was $4,000.
is the intention of the purchaser to ere
a stave mill on it for the purpose
converting the timber into material fl
the manufacture of barrels.
Telephones have recently been Unstable
by the Jefferson County Telephone Cor
pany as follows In Charles Tow
Messrs. William o. Rau. John Strothe
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