Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-03-19
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
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Netes-People at Home and
Abroad.

near future.
Hon. B. H. Hiner, Of Franklin
was in the village a short time
Monday.
w. T. Hamilton, John Rever-
comb and Walter Winner of Lower
Bullpasture. paid Monterey visit
on Tuesday.
S. B. Rexrode, of Mcdowell, was
called to Valley Center few DAYS
ago on account of the illness OF his
son, Samuel, junior.
We can't blame it on the ground
hog any longer. The six weeks
have passed.
Sugar-makers were busy again
first of the week.
Mesdames L. Homer Stephenson
and N. Woods were in town
today shopping.
The second quarterly meeting of
the M. E. Church will convene
March the 20, 21st at Asberry
Chapel. There will be all-day SER
vices on Sunday. Everybody come.
CD Rutledge.
&c. Hiner, of Morgantawn, W.
Va. and W. V. Hiner, of Cass, W.
Va, were in Monterey Tuesday.
They were called home on account
of the death of their father, W. b.
Hiner, of Back Creek.
MIR. and Mrs. L. S. Dickinson
and Mr.. and Mrs. Philpott of
Staunton, motored to Highland
Sunday and spent the night with
Monterey relatives.
D. G. Ruckman, whose trips to
Highland have been few during the
winter, was in the county early in
the week. Mrs. Jacob Hevener, OF
Stsunton, accompanied him to the
home of Mrs. Lovenia Hevener IN
Crabbottom.
Mrs. Louvenia Hevener, of Crab
bottom, was reported very ill last
week.
Misses Margaret and Malinda
Jordan have moved their household
effects to their new home near
Bridgewater. They have resided
AL their lives in the Monterey val
lev and will be missed as neighbors
and friends.
Miss Manila Wiley, of Mill Gap,
came up early in the week to keep
house for her father who now has
charge of the switchboard in the
central Office.
r. H. Crummett, of Crabbottom,
gave q demonstration with the
Babcock milk tester, before the
agriculture class of the Monterey
High School on Tuesday.
We are in receipt of a letter from
W. ]. Maloy, a former Highlander,
who request us to change his
p,stoffice address to Bowling Green,
Fla. Mr.. Maloy has been in the
drug business for some year IN the
Palm State and has recently bought
q business at the above named
place.
S. ]. Blagg, recently of Mt. So
lon, Va, directs us to send his Re
corder to Kerrick, ILL.,, where ne
has moved.
The Mcdowell High School
troupe gave rendition of dot,
the Miners Daughter" at Monte.
rev on Saturday night, and . full
house greeted the players. 1t so
happened that the Recorder did
not have a representative present,
but the play and players have been
spoken of highly by persons who
were there.
We regret to hear unfavorable
comment as to the behavior of
some of our boys, and, unfortu-
nately it is said not to have been
confined to the real small boy. In
almost every village there are
few youths who need a genuine
taking down in matters of this
kind whose disregard for the
pleasure of an audience should be
s1mmarily punished.
The locust grove in the court
yard has received a pruning from
which, many think, it will never
rally. Town and county people :
those who have seen the finished
iob-are divided in opinion as to
possible result. but most all agree
that the symmetry and beauty is
forever gone. This grove was the
pride of Highland, admired by
every visitor. and in view of such
diversity Of local opinion, it would
seem worth while to have gotten
the advice of some expert in fores-
try. 1t is case in which Davy
Gro .ket's motto might haye been
observed. The only thing of which
we are sure is that it is thoroughly
d;o6ourad