Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-08
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs News
Notes-People at Home and
Abroad.

was in town Tuesday.
The tomato crop was almost 8
total failure in this community.
Just received at Highland Mel. &c
line of early fall milliery,
Miss Audry Girard, of Staunton
is visiting her aunt Mrs Harvey
Ryder of Vanderpool.
Letcher Mclaughlin, of Jackson's
River, was among the visitors in
town Tuesday:
You can buy Victrola and
Victor records from H. M. Slaven,
on the installment plan.
Frank G. Harris and Bessie M.
Halterman were married Sept. I'd.
Both are residents of the Meadow
Dale nei ghborhood.
Warren Campbell. Claude Sim
mons, Mckinley Sipe and Alfred
Warner left Tuesday to enter a bus
mess college at Roanoke.
The Monterey Stock Farm deliv-
cred some nice peaches in town
Tuesday.
MissEugenia Doyle, trained nurse
of Richmond, is at her old home
near Valley Center for a vacation.
Will have at Barlow next week
one car fertilizer to sell and will
want wagons to haul-phone or
write to us. Highland Mer Go.
N. K. Trout, a native of Staun-
ton, but for a long time resident
of Colorado, is visiting his friend
G. A. Dickson at Trimble.
Franklin baseball team got an
other trouncing at the hands of
Monterey last Saturday, the home
team winning the double header,
10 to 7 and 9 to 2.
II. S. Johnston and family at
tended the Rural Carriers picnic
at Grottoes, Augusta county, on
Monday, Labor Day. They went
out Sunday morning and returned
Monday evening, reporting an en-
joyable time.
When you come to the Stock
Show bring your old watch and
trade it in on a new up-to-date one.
n. M. Slaven, Jeweler.
Miss Josephine McNulty, daugh-
ter of P. H. McNulty, of Pocahon-
tas, is now at the home of her
uncle, J. F. McNulty, and will en-
ter as a pupil of the M. Fl. S. for
the ensuing term, which will open
September 18th,
Come in and look at our new fall
hats for ladies Missea and children
a nice assortment of white and COL
ored soft felts and new street styles
--also new ribbons and auto wells.
Highland Mer. Co.
DR.. and Mrs. G. B. Fox went out
to Rockingham latter part of last
week after Robert, their little son
who spent the summer with his
grandparents. They returned via
Staunton and were joined there by
the DOCTORS sister, Miss Mary Fox,
of Shadwell, Va. and Prof. Chas
Hancock, of the University of Vir-
ginia, who have since been guests
in the Fox home at Monterey.
Board of Review will meet on
Saturday, Sept. 9th to complete
work on personal property list and
examine land books.
H. Fl. Seybert, Chairman
The opening of schools does not
long precede the opening of the
chestnut burs.
Congress has declared that the
union men shall receive a ten-hour
wage for eight hours work. The
railroad heads are asking whether
a merchant has the right to charge
for SO inches of cloth after he has
shortened his yard-stick.
Wanted-Teams Monday morn,
ing to Barlow for fertilizer. Phone
us. Highland Mercantile CO.
Surely the cheek of every Monte
reyan burned with shame as the
large funeral cortege assembled
last Saturday at Monterey ceme-
terry. 1t has more the appearance
of jungle the home of wild ami
mails than the sacred resting. place
of our loved ones. Oh, the shame
of it!
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. V. B.
Bishop is this week the scene of
reuNion of the Miller family, of
whAeh the hostess is herself mem
her. Those present are DR.. and
Mrs. J. L. Miller and three sons,
Ireland, Henderson and John, of
Thomas, W. Va, Mrs. Henderson
Miller, of Louisville, Ky, Ireland
Hampton, of Fort Worth, Texas,
and Mrs. Sam Couch, of Belhaven,