Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-06-06
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Notes People at Home and
Abroad.

evening.
G l.. Eagle and family, of Elk
ms, are taking their accustomed
outing at their old home, Bolar
Spring.
The two Harrisonburg dailies
have been merged.
Capt. S. A. Gilmor, of Back
Creek, spent Tuesday night at Ito
tel Monterey, going on to Staun-
ton Wednesday morning.
The High School days of 1928
will soon be only a memory.
SIS. Waybright, of Crabbottor,
was among the visitors in Monterey
on Wednesday.
Hunter Shumate, who holds a
position in the Capitol City, is
home on a months vacation.
Latest in Pendants, Lockets and
Chains and other new style JeWelry.
H. Nj. Slaven, Jeweler.
The improvements going on in
Monterey are not of boom"
PROPORTIONS, but that healthy, en-
c1uraging order that indicates
gradual growth, and gives a black
eve to the pessimistic assumption
that this is a finished town.
Those who subscribed to the
fund to aid the unfortunate Tom
Jones, and have not yet paid, are
requested to do so at once.
1t is gratifying to learn that the
Nav freeze did not make a clean
sweep of the fruit crop, a locality
here and there escaping, at least to
some extent. Immediately IN
Monterey there is, however, no
fruit that escaped.
Rev. c. J. Boppell, of Spokane,
Wash, came to Monterey last Fri
dav and went down to w. T
Campbell's on Back Creek. Mr.,
Bcppell was a former pastor OF
Stony Run and Beulah churches.
]. P. Lunsford, of Pompton
Lakes, N. j., is on a visit to his
former home in Monterey, arriving
Wednesday evening.
DENTAL NOTICE-Dr: G. c.:
Trumbo will be in Doe Hill tor III
days or two weeks, beginning June
10th prepared to do all kinds OF
dental work.
The "Big Ben" is the National
Alarm Clock. Always ION the
lob" when time to 60 to work
Call and buy one from Il. M. Sla-
ven, Jeweler.
Favorable reports come from
Staunton as to the condition OF
Tom Jones, the unfortunate victim
of the WOO i-saw accident two week
AGO. The surgeons at the Augusta
Sanitorium found it necessary to
nerform a second operation. and
the injured leg was amputateo
higher up, the operation being per-
formed last Sunday.
Some one tells this "whopper" as
to little Highlands resourcefulness,
etc.: Where the blackberries are
killed the disappointed vines are
loaded with gooseberries and where
the gooseberries were bitten
TO death blackberries have
taken their place and are develop
ing in all their wonted luciousness
and somber uuiciness.
if. McNulty, of Crabbottom,
lost two fine cattle out of his herd
grazing on the H. A. Slaven place
near Meadow Dale early this weeE.
Six others took sick but DR.. Miller,
who was called in, succeeded in
arresting the progress of the dis
else, and they were saved. DR..
Miller saws that the two dead cat
tie had been buried and he did not
make any tests to ascertain definite
~ the trouble, and is in some doubt
as to it's exact character.
Robert Payne, editor of the Bath
County Enterprise, died at his
home at Warm Springs Monday
night. He returned recently from
a hospital. Mr. Payne was a
hrother-in-law of Mrs. 0. Wilson,
OF Monterey.
Miss Emma NJ. Prufer, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. Prufer, oil
this city, was graduated as a train
ed nurse on last Wednesday from
the Chestnut Hill Hospital, of Phil
adelphia, winning the prize for thu
highest general average ninety
five and four-tenths-in class o
seven. There were elaborate grad
uation exercises Staunton Leade
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