Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-06-27
HICHLANDRECORDER
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs-Brief News
Notes People at Home and
Abroad.

george, uCtle son OF Mrs. FRANK
Wilson, has been very i'll for ten
days.
Little Miss Alma Johnston has
gone to Augusta to visit her aunt.
Highland came out of the severe
drouth "good as new"
Our former citizen, S. Tate Ster-
rett, is now member of a Rich
mond real estate firm.
A meeting of the L. W. Shoulder
creditors drought number of East
ern Highlanders to town Wednes-
day.
Sturgeon Doyle, of Valley Center,
was passenger on the Barlow mail
machine Wednesday morning. y
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernie Crowley, of
California, are the guests of Mr.. and
j. H Pruitt.
Mrs Margaret Seybert is visiting
Mrs. Kincaid at Hightown.
Mrs. H. NJ. and Miss Elsie Slaven
are spending to day Thursday-at
the Monterey Stock Farm.
Rev. Walter S. Thomas, Of
the Crabbotton circuit, spent We'd
nesday in town,
Messrs. G. L. Siple, Dan Hiner
and Alpheus Jones of the eastern
side were in town Wednesday,
Mrs. H. B. Wood left Thursday
morning over the eastern line. She
will visit Charlottesville and other
points in Virginia, and will then go
to Burlington, N. c, to visit her par
ents.
Misses Saville, Lula Davis and
Maggie Peterson, of Mcdowell, who
were on hike to Meadow Dale,
spent few hours in town Wednes-
day.
C.. H. Hammer, Of Harrisonburg,
Referee in Bankruptcy, accompan-
led by Mrs. Hammer and little
daughter, came to Nor terey We'd
nesday.
William Bird, of Mill Gap, went
to Charlottesville Tuesday, return
ing Thursday accompanied by Mrs.
Bird, who has been at the UNIVERSE
ty Hospital for treatment. Friends
of the family will be pleased to learn
that sheis greatly improved.
Do not buy "trashy" fountain
pens. Get a Waterman's Ideal
from H. M. Slaven, Jeweler
VIM. Winner has been awarded
the contract for mail service on the
Monterey-Bartow route for the four
year term beginning July l.
TheState Board of Health an
nounces that it has on hand large
supply of typhoid vaccine for distri-
button at cost to persons who wish
to secure immunity from this dis
ease.
Allen Dever, Highland veteran
who has been at the soldiers home,
Richmond. for several years, was
in Monterey this week.
The new store at Mill Gap is
ready for business.
Geo. T. Graham, who lives two
miles below Mcdowell, reports
having seen belled buzzard on his
farm a few days ago. Who claims
the bird?
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Whitelaw,
of this place, and Mr.. and Mrs. H.
F. Herold, of Mill Gap, spent Sun
day at Minnehaha Springs in Po-
cahontas. D. H. Peterson went as
far as Meadow Dale with them,
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Gum.
Mss Sallie Wilson, of Marlinton,
has come to spend her SIMMER
vacation with her father 0. Will
son, Esq.
That little squib about a hen
egg, in another column is pro bono
publico. Lock it Up.
Those who attended the Forks
of Water picnic last Saturday re-
port an orderly crowd and a very
good sized one.
Lon Floyd, bustling machinery
salesman, of Staunton, was in
town last Friday.
J. Lowman, the garage con-
tractor, went to his Dayton home
to spend Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Gibbs, OF
Bolar, spent Saturday night in
town.
Weather conditions have nc
bearing on the June wedding crop
Come to town and see the game
of ball between the scrubs and the
benedicts. July 18th is the date.