Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-11-06
Messrs Rouss Bros. are making ar
addition IN their cold storage plant.

1880 .
Mr.. W. B. Davis has PAIN ted severa
neat ard attractive signs on the 9. F..
Wall Company's warehouse.
The bird season opened on Saturday
md quite number availed themselves
of the fact. According to all reports
there is plenty Of game this year
The Ransom Sunday School selected
Mrs. O. L. Watson and Mrs Ohio Wool
ley as delegates to the County Sunday
School Convention at Middleway.
The annual Farmers Institutes for
Jefferson county will be held at Nippon,
November IS and 10; and at Shenandoah
Junction. November 20 and FL.
The large addition 10 the M. E Church
South is being put under roof, and the
walls of the new Baptist church are being
rapidly pushed forward.
The ladies of the M. P. Church of
Middleway will hold an oyster supper in
the Masonic Hall on Friday aud Satur.
day nights, November ID and IS. Pro.
ceeds for benefit of church.
Owing to Miss Stone lecture the Ran
son Sunday School will meet at O'Clock,
instead of o'clock, Sunday afternoon.
Move mber q. There will be an interest
ing temperance program,
Mr.. j. D .niei Held vol,. who was re-
Gently injlre-i in a motorcycle accident.
was brou ght from his b:oil er's TO the
Oh aries Town II -,spital last week, but is
approving very slowly.
''Delta,'' the handsome little pacing
mare, owned by Mr.. L. D. Getzendaner
of this place, won three strsight heats
during the racing events at the Fred
erick Fair. thereby taking down first
money.
The new postoffice in Ransom is in
full su ing with Pest Master G. \
Stonesifer in charge. The cffice lt
equipped with new fixtures, having a
pumber of lock boxes as well as call
boxes.
N, G. r. LAB yteanx has presented
to the New High School gift ofsshade
trees and frs. The trees are sugar
and Norway naples. the students
planted them out. The gift was much
appreciated.
Mr.. Edward Baker Who has been EN-
ployed at the N. & ". Station for some
time past. left on Thursday for White
Sulphur Springs, W.: Va. where he has
accepted position as telegraph opera,
tor for the Western Union Tele raph
Co.
Dr.. Howard R. Moore formerly o.
this county, who has been rracsc:n:
medicine at Fairbanks, Alaska, ha.
changed his location to Iditarod, .
gold camp not far from ST, Michaeis
in the southwestern section Of tbs
territory. Iditarod has no church, NJ
preacher, and no doctor before DR.
Moore reached there,
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church Sout
will serve a Thanksgiving Dinner OF
Move mber 81. and Oyster Suppers o,
the nights of November ~ and IS. Viii
also have q Fancy Sale. This will =b'
the time to buy your Xmas presents; will
have something to suit all. Proceed
for building fund.
Miss Ethel Stone. the noted mission
airy, will deliver lecture in the Metho
dist church, Middleway, Friday. Nov. /
at 7:3o p. m. The thrilling story o
the capture aud ransom of Miss Stone
few years ago will be remembered b
many. She touches upon those exper
fences in her lecture on tThe Callof tn
Balkans" and New and Oldin the Bal
kaus." Admission free. A collectio
will be taken.
Charles e. Jones. a well-know n busi
mesa man of KearneysviIie. has on th
advice Of his physician, DR.. G. C.Lucas
gone to Washington Sanitarium. a
Takoma Park. where he win take treat
ment: and complete rest with the hop
that'hs may be entirely restored
health.
Lonnie Townsend. a colored man VIII
has been III at the Hospital for the pas
six months died there on Friday. Il
came here with show in the earl
spring and was-too sick to go on fartl
er. His home was in North Carolina