Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-11-17
Local MiscelIanx

The pupils of the Leetown Publ,
/, school will hold a festival in tn
school house on Friday evening. Nc
vember 20. Public cordially invite,
MIR. Kearsley Wysong, with his bro
ther-in-law, Mr.. Chas. Wysong, ba
gone on a hunting trip to Essex Coun
ty. Va.
DR.. j. ]. Pittman of this place is hav
ing two wells drilled on his farm nea
Ridgeway. One we'll at the house an,
one at the barn.
| The Farmers Institutes for Jeffer
son County will be held on Decembe,
| and z at Rippon, and December
and 4, at Shenandoah Junction.
Married at the NJ. P. Parsonage al
Harpers Ferry. Nov. S, by Rev, R. Y
Nicholson, Mr.. Carl H. Clevenger OIL
| Halltown, to Miss Esther B. Lunceford
of Charles Town,
In the program of the December
meeting of the Road School to be
held at Morgantown, Mr.. Marshall
Mcdonald, our county engineer is to
read a paper.
Misses Cecily and Anne Catherine AL
exander, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
F. Alexander, entertained their young
friends on Saturday November z, with
fancy dress ball.
Mr.. l. w. Dick of Charles Town, is
the Metropolitan insurance agent in
place of Mr.. Beard Of Bolivar, who has
been agent and collector for that CON-
pany tor more than two years.
Prof. T. c. Miller, of Shepherd
College was visitor at the Charles
Town High School Friday morning
when he conducted the chapel exer-
cises and delivered short address.
The ladies of the Nippon vicinity
viii hold soup and ice cream sale
in the hall at Rippon on Thursday
evening, November 49, Proceeds for
benefit of Charles Town Baptist
church.
Mr. Wilson Moler one of the
Charles Town letter carriers has
moved his family from farm north
of town to Ransom. They occupy
Mrs H. S. Woolley's house on the
west side of Mildred street
Mr. Samuel R. Phillips, who taught
school last year in Florida, has ac-
cepted position in the U. S. Naval
Preparatory school at Annapolis. He
will teach mathematics and English
and will take the position Nov. q
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E,
Church South, of Middlewav, will hold
Parcel Post Sale and serve an old time
Virginia supper in the Masonic Hall,
Saturday, November 81. 1914. Public
cordially invited. Proceeds for the
church improvement.
The public is cordially invited to
attend a spelling bee at the Mount
Hope school house, Mechanicstown,
Friday night, November 20. Refresh
ments will be served and should the
weather be unfavorable on Friday
night, it will be held on the following
night.
The Ladies AID Society of the Charles
Town Baptist Church will hold an oyster
supper and fancy sale in the dining
room of the church on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights, December 3rd, 4th
and 9Th. Dinner will also be served on
Saturday. Public cordially invited.
Benefit new building fund.-
A marriage license was issued We'd
nesday morning at the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court of Fredcr-
lex county, Va, to Mr.. Charles
Wesley Polhamus and Miss Ninl
Pinta Orndorff, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morgan A. Orndorff, both of
Summit Point. Miss Orndorff form
erly lived in Frederick county.
Manager E. G. Henson, of the New
Opera House, Charles Town, has adj
ded to his duties here by accepting
the management of the Maryland
theatre, in Brunswick, Md. His
Brunswick connection, however, will
not interfere with his duties at the
local play house which he has made
so popular with amusement lovers.
With Fec ral Reserve Banks open and
the election over and satisfactory, bust
ness Is improving We loaded two car
loads of building material yesterday aud
sent out on teams 10, 900 feet of lumber.
Had four-horse teams from Sharpsbur9,
Md, and Rippon, w. Va. This is more
buying for one day than in the last IS
mouths. We have all kinds of hard
wood flooring brick and oak
Phillips Lumber & Mfg. Co.
Prosecuting Attorney Moore, of
Charles Town, has accepted the IN
vitation to address Tuscarora Tribe,
No. so, Imp. 0. R. NJ, at a special
meeting to be held at the local tribes
wigwam on the night of December ),
The occasion will be the first semi
annual reunion of the tribe and will
be of more than ordinary interest. A
banquet will be served. 1t is obliga-
tory upon all Red Men to be present
at this meeting, unless absolutely pre-
vented by illness or some other ex-
traordinary cause.--Martinsburg Jour
nal.
The spelling bee at Uvilla November
under the direction of Miss Ola Conner
and Miss Mabel Hill the enterprisine