Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-22
Local MisceIIany.

Inc store OF refer DFOOkS was DlVnC
!. into Sunday night and the gas mete
opencd and about Is ceuts taken there
from.
MIR, ! B. Huyett was elected vice
president for the beet aud cattle division
OF the Horticultural Society at their con
: vention held in Charleston.
I Tho Sunday School of Saint Jane
Catholic Church will hold their Chris
: mas entertainment Wednesday evening
Dec. 81, at clock. Everyone invited
Ia accord with the usual custom, the
Spirit of Jefferson will not be ISSUED
Holiday week. but will come out a.
usual the first Tuesday in January
However. the office will be open fol
business every day except Christmas
day and Sunday,
Miss Lutte Mae Weller was granted &
divorce from her husband Douglas w
Weller, and given the custody of theii
6 year old son. in the Chancery Court al
Chattanooga, Tenn Dec. IS,
Congressman VIM. G. Brown and
wife have gone to Florida for stay
of several weeks. Mr. Brown expects
to return in good health in time fol-
the final work of the session begin
ming the first of the year.
Over one thousand pretty cedar Christ
mas trees have bnen shipped from Shep.
herdstown to Baltimore the past couple
of weeks. They came from the Agliou.
by farm along the river north of the
town.
Mr.. Walton Suddeth, of WEIGH, w.
Va, and Miss Sallie Madden Hopkins,
of Nashville, Tenn, were married at
the home of the bride December 3
Mr.. Suddeth has often been the guest
of Miss Ella Fouke here They will
reside in Graham, Va.
The children of this place dance beau
tifully. In the Virginia reel with grown
ups they are graceful. George Wash
ington the most famous boy hunter
danced for three hours at ball in AL
exandrIa, Va. to the music of the
Harpsicord.
The Northern Virginia Power Com
pany was granted permission by the
| Public Service Commission in Char
lesion to increase the heights of its
| dams in the Shenandoah river by the
construction of a new dam. All other
applications for dam sites for hydro
electric purposes in the rivers OF
West Virginia were refused because
of lack of funds to employ engineers.
MIR. Claiborne Porterfield while on
his way home TUESDAY, evening slipped
and fell on the icy pavement near the
Graded School dislocating his hip and
otherwise seriously injuring himself.
He was taken to the Charles Town Hos
pital Wednesday morning for treat
ment.
The remains of Mr.. Thomas Crider
were inferred in Harper Cemetery the
7th. He died in New York several
weeks ago was the son of the late Gus
and Deborah Order of this place. He
occupied an important place in the
State Department under the Mckinley
administration.
Mr.. Richard Washington sailed last
week from New York for Rome,
Italy, where he will enter the Ameri-
can College Of Dell-Nord to study,
preparatory to entering the priest
hood of the Catholic church. Mr.
Washington who is the only son Cl
the late Mayor, George Washington,
of Charles Town, became a convert
to the Catholic faith three years ago.
He has been living in Richmond, Va,
for the past several years. His pre-
| paration for the ministry will require
nine years of study.
Mr.. R. H. Pearman, who conducted
a photograph studio in Charles Town
for several years, moved with his
family to Washington asst week
after having disposed of his business
to the New Era Studio. Mr. Pearman,
who is native of the county of Wilt
shire, England, has three nephews in
the English army in the war against
Germany and a brother-in-law, the
father of the nephews, in the service
of the Red Cross Society with the
army In letters from them, Mr.
Pearman IS assured of the ultimate
victory of the allies.
The insurance companies having
policies on Mr. Marshall Burns barn
that was destroyed by fire three
weeks ago, four miles southwest of
Charles Town, have recouped a part
of their loss by selling the wheat
damaged by the fire. There were
about 1000 bushels of wheat in bins
in the building at the time of the fire.
the greater portion of it being dam
aged just enough to make it unfit TOR
milling 1t has been purchased by the
farmers of the neighborhood for poul-
try and stock feed, some of it selling
as low as fifty cents bushel
The newly elected county officials
qualified Dec. 14th before the County
Commissioners. County Clerk Chas. A.
Johnson was re elected. Charles w.
Conrad, circuit clerk, succeeds John Nj.
Daniel, who has filled the office for q
years. A. S. cambridge succeeds Mar.
shall Mcdonald as County Surveyor
Ex- Sheriff Chas. D. Wysong succeeds
Nelson 7. Snyder as County Commits
sioner for Shepherdstown district. ant
Charles H. Moore John c. Burns ir
Charles Town district. James Granthan
who was reelected az County Superin'
tendent or free Schools, does not quail
ify until July 1915
Miss Virginia Shut entertained mos
delightfully."- at her home in Kabletowr
December II with card party
and dansant Mrs. Logan B. Shut as
sisted her daughter in receiving guests
Cards and dancing were enjoyed by thu
, guests, and at IL o'clock delicious sup
per was served. Those present wer'
Misses Barbara Campbell FrancesMoor
Mary Morris Mason, Margaret Getzen