Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1916-05-23
Local MISCELLANY.

erson Garage.
Mr.. Roy Hooe has accepted apositiol
as Chauffeur with r. w. Alexander il
Baltimore.
Mr.. 0. M. Harris lost a yaluabl,
mare by death Monday morning at hi
farm on the Bardane road.
The ladies of the Leetown Baptis
Church will serve supper and refresh
ments at the home of Mr.. D. z Royel
near Leetown on Thursday 25. insteae
of Friday as stated before
In publishing list of candidates who
had filed their nomination certificates
for the primary election we omitted the
name of Mr.. Eugene Shugart. He is q
candidate for Justice of the Peace in
Harpers Ferry District.
A new barn As by 80 feet is being
built on the Amber farm where Mr..
Jno. E. Fritts is tenant northwest of
town. At one end of the barn will be
corn crib forty six feet long with a
wagon shed between the two buildings.
The baccalaureate sermon of Fort
Loudoun Seminary, Winchester, will
be preached in the Presby terrain Church
at II O'Clock on Sunday morning, May
%, by Rev H. M. Moffett, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Charles
Town.
The Rural Supply Company operating
store at Browns Shop on the Lee
town road has an auto truck bought a
few days ago for hauling produce. Mr..
Francis M. Littleton is the enterprising
proprietor of the store and aims to
keep his equipment up to date.
Charles w. Pendleton, one of the
most highly esteemed colored men of
Charles Town. died Thursday evening,
aged AZ years. For about twenty
years he has been in the employ of Col.
Forrest w. Brown and was well-known
He leaves one son and several STEP
children. The funeral was held Sun
day afternoon.
The ladies of the Catholic Church
will hold blue Bird Sale," on Fri
day and Saturday. May 26 and q, in
the store room of Mr.. F. w. Brown,
lately occupied by N. Ephraim. Will
also serve Strawberries. ice cream,
cake, homemade candy, salads. sand.
witches and coffee. The public Is ask
ed TO help make the sale success.
The Standard Lime and Stone Com
pany has added to it's real estate hold
ings near Kearneysville by the purchase
of tract of land containing seven and
two tenths acres from Milton S. Miller.
The consideration in the deal was
81, 800. Mr.. Miller reserves the timber
on the land sold and has two years in
which to cut and remove it.
Past Grand Commander Charles w.
Brown, Rt. Rev. W. l.. Gravatt and
Mr.. Thomas C. Bowling attended the
Grand Commandery of West Virginia
knights Templar at Clarksburg. MIR.
Boiling and Bishop Gravatt were elected
respectively Deputy Commander and
Grand Prelate. More than 5000 Knights
and their wives were in attendance at
the conclave.
Five children of Mr.. Marshall Burns
family were thrown out of the buggy
Thursday morning on the .Berryville
turnpike while they were coming to
school in Charles Town, the vehicle be-
ing upset when the horse they were
driving SHE'D as carload of stone was
being dumped along the roadside by an
employee of the county at work with
a stone crusher. The children escaped
injury, but the buggy was partially
wrecked.
Comfy Clerk Johnson requests u5 TO
say to the Registrars, Commissioners,
Clerks and Challengers in the county,
that the orders paying them for cleo
ton services are written up and ready
for distribution to whom they belong,
and that he will be very glad if the
beneficiaries thereof will call, or send
for them at once in order that they
may be paid, and in the hands of the
Sheriff before the end of the fiscal
year, to-wit, June 80, 1916. If this is
done it will save him lot of book
keeping.
In this issue will be found announce
ment of Hon Samuel V. Woods, of Bar
bour county, as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for congress at
the coming Primary Election. Mr..
Woods is we'll known to the people of
jefferson county. and is well thought
of here. he having carried the county
in the recent election by the greatest
majority ever given any candidate in
special election. If it had not been for
the heavy Republican majorities in the
counties of Berkeley and Mineral he
would hav won, and as it was his Re-
publican opponent only led him by I'M
der five hundred votes. If he should
be nominated in the Primary We feel
sure he will be elected next fall by a
good majority.
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