Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-25

the county seat OF Jefferson county,
West Virginia. This beautiful lit e
city marks historic spot az the foot
of the Blue Ridge mountains in the
Valley of Virginia, through which
contending armies marched and count
teImarched in the days Of the great
civil conflict of half century ago,
stopping ever and anon for one of
the battles which were fought at FREE
quefit intervals from Antietam to
Appomattox
The atmosphere Of the old South
still fingers about Charles Town.
\ There are tai white columns IN front
of the house. and IN the yards the
/ fayorite flowers of our grandmothsrs
winter winds sigh through thE boughS
/ and negro servants keep the homes III
order and work the farms, as they
did before the Elevation of Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidency,
| The town is a center OF culture,
/ hospitality, refinement and sentiment.
| Writers, lecturers, students, states
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/ day. The hand Daved iii its me- NJ NJ.
beers were exhausted The bushes
section Of the civ was decorated
-,itizens opened their homes n re sziifsvel
/ the Congestion al the hofe, and
everybody. in Charles Town seemed
! to be on the recention comr,rttee
Champ Clark as he smoke IN front ~
| the court house where Tohn Brown
was sentenced to death. faced the ctii
where the man from Ossowatanl;e was
Confined ia await his exec.,tioy All
around him were American and Con
! federate flags From most AZ 4fhe
/ buildings fIoated the ststars and hars,,
I of the Confederacv. ON some If them
/ the Confederate emb' EN- o,,.nTu,her
i ing the American f.ags Even il the
little cemetery. the Confsderate dead
were NOT sfor1otten and oyer5 FIR
graves of MANY an I'D soldier of ths
South the f;ag he Mad fo,,rht A 1aSs
: fiftv years AGO was Ewing. MITE levis
dence of the unchano;ns sentinlefSt -
! The comYnunifv which sti3I zcl;y,gs@gfg
I the Owed emblem of the fas,se a.ll.c;n
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and offarad rant; &C. ~ $780, aiu ~