Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1912-05-14
Local Miscellany.
Circuit Court Nav Fl.

Club on Friday morning.
Sheriff Charles d. Wysong has pur
chased large new automobile.
The C,ti.sn n, Fire c.. had their steane
out lor practice / thursday afternoon.
The big pant OF the Shenandoah Va
lev Barrel Co. is busy with the hum Q
industry, and is now turning aud 500
locust telephone pins daily.
Joseph Milburn, infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Roper, died at The
residence of his parents near Charlie.
Town on Sunday last, aged IA days
The Hodges elevator property al
Duffields was sold last FRIDAY, By
Special Commissioners, Martin, Beltz
hoover and Noll, to MIR. |. D. Myers
for $1,000.
MIR. J Wager Fritts has stocked the
Fritts store at Wageey's Shop with {
nice line of groceries. etc, and will serve
the people of that locality with good mer
chandise at reasonable prices.
Ga May 20, "a and rs the Powhatar
Band will hold a fair in Rouss Hall
There will be street concert on May %
A prize will be given every night. The
fair will be held to make money to bu,
new uniforms.
| There will be an illustrated sketch Of
the late Rev. DR.. A. c. Hopkins in the
Confederate Veteran in the near future
Those wishing to purchase copies car
get them by leaving their name with Mr.
Geo. H. Hagley at once.
On Memorial Day. Saturday, May Is,
sandwiches, coffee, ice cream and cake
will be served by the Ladies Aid So.
ciety of the Charles Town Baptist Church
IN the Maxwell rooms recently occupied
by DR.. Bender. Also homemade cakes
for sale.
]. Shirley Smith and Conrad Smith
have gone to Roanoke county, Va,
to look after their granite property
which is about to be promoted by
Eastern capitalists. A dressed SAM
pie of this granite can be seen in
the show window of MIR. George T..
Light.
Mr.. c. E. Ridgeway has purchased
of Hardesty Bros, the former Wig
ginton store property at Summit
Point, has rejuvenated same with
painting and other improvements, and
has moved his store there. Mr.. E. B.
Undertake is his efficient and .courte-
Gus manager.
Irwin Sechrst. of Washington, d. c.,
is supposed to have committed suicide
near here yesterday by shooting himself
in the head. He was in an advanced
stage of consumption. He had gone te
mail box for mai, and not returning
was found dead. He was % years old
His parents are dead
Messrs. Moore & Moore, real estate
agents, last week sold two building
lots on Preston street, near the B. &
| Railroad to DIR. C.. l.. Skinner for
| $500. The lots were the property oil
Mr.. H. P Whitmore, the local rep.
resentative of Glaize Brothers, the
Winchester contractors.
Mr.. Courtney Z. Riley, of Sunni
! Point, entertained an automobile
party in honor of Mr.. VIM. Ehrman
The guests included Miss Anna
Hughes and Mr.. "A. IS. Allen, OF this
pace, Messrs. VIM. Ehrman and Reg
inald Jenkins of New York and Mis-!
Leila Daskam, of Washington.
The Jefferson Cooperage Go. has com
pleted It's extensive plant bv tie erection
of its stAve and heading machinery build
ings some distance west Of all its othe
buildings, and thus reducing to mini
mum all danger of fire being communi
Gated to any other portion of the plan
from the engine or anything connecte
4 herewith. The plant as whole is i'm
mense, and thoroughly complete in ever
particular, and we congratulate the Ell
terprising proprietors upon their splend
new works erected upon the ashes of tn
Old.
Messrs. Woody & Baker have abor
comp eted the mammoth new cistern
for the c. l.. Robinson Ice and Col
Storage plant. on the Belt Line. TIL
cisterns will hold $4,000 gallons {
water, aud with the fine new cotton rt
trIgerating machine, already in place
Mr.. Robinson expects to be ready th
week to have an output of the best ma
ufactured ice far IN excess of anythn
done at this planl heretofore, and mot
than amply sufficient to meet the rapid
increasing demands for a frst-clas
product
Miss Ella Maxwell, we'll known an
highly esteemed resident of Charlie
Town. died at her home in this place
Saturday evening last after llngerin
illness. aged Is years, The decease
was a daughter of the late Mrs. Susa
Maxwell, who before her marriage was
Miss Timberake, and was the last OF NJ
immediate family. A humber of kindred
however, survive her. Funeral service
: were held yesterday AFTERNOON. IN Zio
Episcopal Church, conducted BY Rev.
= S. Alfriend. Interment in the Episc'
pal graveyard. Honorary pallbearer'
I Col. r. P. Chew, Cleen Moore, John N
Howell, S. w. Washington, N. ii. WI
2 lis and r. ID. Keerl. Active: Geo,
Light Thos. r. Moore, Geo. NJ, Bet