Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-01-07
Personal MENTION.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. X. Caldwell ar
spending some time at Atlantic City.
Mr.. VIM. A. Young. of West Virgin
ia, is in the city, having been called
here by the illness of his mother.
Miss Annis NEWMAN is visiting
friends and relatives in Huntington
w. Va.
Cadet Eskridge of the V. p l., wEe
spent the holidays here with his par
ents, has returned to school.
Mrs. G. +. Ashburner and children
have returned from Powhatan county,
where they spent the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. b. Woodward left
Tuesday for SanibaI Florida, where
they will spend some time.
Mrs. w. r. Newman has returned to
her home in Chester, S. G., after visit
ing her sister, Mrs. w. H. Barkman.
Capt. G.. e. Berkeley has returned TO
Newport News, after most delightful
visit TO relatives here and at Greenville.
Mr.. +. M. Hartman has returned to
Chicago, after spending the holidays
here with his family.
Mr.. J. S. Merriken has returned to
to the county, after spending ten days
in the city.
The city council of Harrisonburg on
Tuesday night added 800 to the cost of
liquor licenses in that town for the
coming year.
The City Council has orders an in
vestigation of the police force, follow
ing rumors that patrolmen have fire.
quented dives and gambling places.
Mr.. Arthur Valz has returned TO New
Jersey, after spending the holidays
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Valz.
Mrs. 7. o. Latham, after visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. f. A. Hamilton,
near Staunton, has returned to her |
home at Haymarket.
Mrs. Robert A. Palmer, who spent |
the holidays here with her sister, Mrs. |
John N. Opie, has returned TO her home
in Baltimore.
Mr.. Chas. H. Hall and Miss Minnie |
E. Summers, of Mint sSprlngs, were
married in the circuit clerks Office last |
Thursday by Rev. DIR. o. F. Gregory.
On Thursday last Mr.. Charles E.
Wright and Miss Martha G. EIlinger !
of Crimora, were married in Washing
ton by Rev. w. l.. Mckinney.
Mr.. f. III. Anschutz, who spent the
holidays with friends in Staunton,
where he formerly resided, has return
ed to West Virginia.
The annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society was held in Win
chester this week. Quite number of
Augusta fruit growers were in attend
ance
Mr.. Robert Chermside attended the
wedding of his brother, Mr.. Herbert
Chermside to Miss Daisy Eggleston,
which took place on Tuesday at Char
lotte Court House.
Our old friend, Alfred Plumb, of
Waynesboro, can never get on without
the SPECTATOR. His renewal comes
as regularly as the cycle of the sun.
May he long live to enjoy it, and make
us thankful.
Mr.. Albert Shultz left Tuesday night
for an extended trip west in the inter
est of the Beverly Manufacturing Co.
He goes first to Southern California,
then up the Pacific slope, and home by
way of the great northwest.
Monday witnessed the first case of [
the violation of the local option law in
Staunton. "Rel" Dunning was fined [
500 and costs, given 20 days in Jail and
pat under $500 bond, by the police JUS {
tice. 1
Mr.. Chas. f. ShulI of Jennings Gap, 6
on Saturday killed large bear, and on
Monday brought the hams to Staunton
and sold them. Each ham weighed J..
"a pounds. The hide measured eight {,
feet in length.
Last Friday the congregation of the
First Presbyterian church presented its
treasurer, Mr. Arista Hoge, with
beautiful silver loving cup in token of
their appreciation of twenty-five years
service as treasurer of that church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Craun of Okla
homa, have been visiting his brother,
Mr.. Geo. A. Craun, near Moscow, and
other relatives in the county. He left =
Virginia in 1882, and has been very
successful in his western home.
J. P. Reese was brought here from {
Waynesboro, Tuesday by Deputy t
Sheriff Hupman and lodged in Jail on {
the charge of betrayal, made by {
young woman of the county. On We'd
nesday the couple were married in the
office of the circuit clerk.
The many friends here of Mr.. James t
Ker, Jr., will be glad to learn that the t
Seaboard Air Line Railway, for which
he has been city passenger agent for 6
some years, has promoted him to travel
ing passenger agent. He will still have
headquarters at Charlotte, N. c.
The town of Mt Crawford, north of