Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-06-24
Local Miscellan v.

The wheat in Jefferson. it is Thought
will not make near full crop.
South George street and portion o
East Washington street have been oiled
Miss Estelle Carter, of Front Royal
has entered the drug store of Messrs
Brown & Hooff.
The Charles Town NJ. f. Church Soutf
has raised the salary of its pastor. Rev
!. c. Hawk. 500.
Mr.. James Benuer. of Leetown. ant
Miss Mabel Graves. of Winchester, were
married Wednesday in Washington City
Mr.. w. E. Outcalt, of Martinsburg
was married on Friday in Washing tor
to Mrs. Catherine Smith. of Middleway
in this county.
Rev. R. |. Johnson. of North Carolina,
preached in St. Phillips Episcopal Church,
colored, Sunday. and is considering a
call to that charge.
Mr.. John Kizner and Miss Ethel Will
hanson, both of this place, were mar.
red by Rev. !. c. Hawk at the Metho.
dist parsonage Wednesday.
John NC. Fox and Miss Viola Tharpe,
both of Kearneysville, were married at
the Presbyterian Manse in Charles Town
on Wednesday last. by Rev. H. M.
Moffett.
The Session of the Charles Town
Presbyterian Church has granted Rev.
H. NJ. Moffett months vacation. and
he will go about the 9th of July to visit
his father at Pensacola, Florida.
Louis Baltimore. much respected
colored man of Charles Town, died on
Monday Of last week. He was 62 years
old, and for the past 20 years had been
employed by L. P. cambridge. near
Leetown.
Miss Emma Eggleston, daughter of
the late Rev. w. G. Eggleston, years
ago pastor of the Charles Town NJ. E.
Church South, died on Tuesday at Lex
ingtou. Mo-, where she had been wi SIT
ing relatives.
The marriage of Miss Susan Chure hill
Griggs, of Ridgeway, Va, and Mr..
Wright Wysong, eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. ] .Wysong will take place on
Wednesday. the 25th of June, at the
home of the bride.
On the morning of the 18th. in Grace
Baptist Church. Shenandoah Junction, in
the presence of crowd of witnesses, the
Rev. E. L. Sumpter, of Rchnond College.
and Miss Mary Trussell. of this county.
were united in marriage, Rev w Cole of
fciating.
The Jefferson Garage recently deliv.
cred to Mr. A. l. Withers. of Summit
Point Ford touring car; to DR.. c. L.
skinner a Fsrd runaboui; to Mr.. Wal
10 Baker, of Sum init Point a second
land Maxwell. and to DR.. Edgell. OF
Harpers Ferry. a secondhand HLpmo-
ole.
Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr.. Elias Riggs,
IF Middleway. died June ID. Surviving
are her husband, three daughters and
one son. Funeral services We're held by
Rev. Nicholson of Harper's Ferry, in
he Old White Church, interment in the
amily lot in Masonic Cemetery at Mid
lleway. Mr.. Higgs is an uncle of Mr..
W. A. Riggs, of this place.
Linemen of the Jefferson County Tel.
'phone Company have about completed
he P'acing of another trunk line between
Charles Town and Shepherdstown, max
ng the third now connecting the two
owns. The third trunk now makes il |
possible for any phone patron connected |
With the Charles Town exchange to talk |
iirect to Martinsburg without the neces-
ity OF calliog the Shepherdstown ex-
,hange.
Miss Emma Laugdon who has been
aklng training course for nurses al
he Hebrew Hospital in Baltimore was
| member of the graduating class this
'ear, the commencement exercises OF |
he school being held last week. At
ending the graduating exercises from
his county We're Miss Langdon's moth
sr, Mrs. James H. Langdon. and grand |
mother, Mrs. Bette Aibin, from neal
Myerstown.