Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-01
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs-Brief News
Notes-People at Home and
Abroad.

The weather man has not been
"doing his Bit
H. c. Lunsford made a trip to
the Capital city this week.
NJ. H, S. commencement exer-
cises to-night-Thursday,
Nineteen seventeen will 60 into
history as year without a spring.
Miss Mary Thrasher, a graduate
of the Buena Vista school, has re-
turned to her home in Monterey.
r Miss Pattie Mauzy returned to
her home in New Hampden after
few days spent with Monterey rela-
tives and friends.
Edward Ryder, of Vanderpool,
who has been working in Pittsburg,
Pa, returned home this week.
Miss Blanch Matheny was
passenger on the the Pullen east
bound auto last Sunday.
A meeting of the Farmers Loan
Bank Association brought a large
number of citizens to town OF Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Winner
motored to DAVIS, w. Va, early
in the week, where Mrs. Winner
will spent some time with relatives.
Miss Lucy Gray Bird, of Valley
Center, has been visiting in town
this week.
So March-Ike have been the May
winds that the intensive producer
has been kept busy carrying his
front yard pickets out of his back
yard garden.
See the land and lot sale in this
issue of Mrs. K. Fl. Trimble.
Miss Blanche Matheny's music
pupils gave musicale on Friday
night, and on SATURDAY. night Miss
Mabel Jones's class gave like en-
tertainment. On both occasions
friends and relatives of the class
membership were present to enjoy
the treat.
cit might be worse" would seem
to apply to everything except the
great world war.
The boy and we know of one
whose 2lst birthday comes on June
6, has the laugh on those reaching
their majority this week.
If, as some predict, the final
issue of the war is to be determin-
ed in the clouds, Heaven may not
remain neutral to the end.
A motor party drove from Rich
mond Tuesday, spent a night at
Monterey and returned Wednesday.
Think of it!
Rev. Josiah Beverage and daugh-
term law, Mrs. Frank Beverage,
of the Doe Hill side, were shopping
in Monterey last Saturday.
G. R. Reed and wife, of Green
brier, accompanied by Miss Eulah
Wade, Miss Lillian Wade and
Fred Gum, of Back Creek, were in
Monterey for a while Saturday. |
Mrs. Reed was formerly Miss Hazel
Matheny, of Back Creek.
Robert Matheny and Stuart
Dickson, business college students,
have returned to their respective
homes, Monterey and Trimble.
Somers HeveDer, who has been !
in business in Newark, N. j. is
now at his home at Hightown.
C. NJ. Lunsford made a trip to
Washington this week, returning
with a new Buick runabout for H.
H. Slaven, of Meadow Dald.
Philip Eagle, of Bath, has re
Gently been visiting his son, j. A.
Eagle, of Forks of Water.
W. F. Jones, of Hightown, has
purchased new Dodge runabout.
John w. Simmons, well-known
citizen of Forks of Water. was in
town Thursday.
F. M. Trimble, with a force of
hands, is doing some permanent
work on the turnpike east and
west of town. A number of cul-
v9rts have been placed, and bitches
blasted out where no manner of
drain has ever been made. This |
system may cost more at the time,
but it pays in the long run. The
Recorder has long argued for the
abolition of the wasteful, unsatis-
factory contract system.
Brown Campbell gave a party
at his home near town Wednesday
night, entertaining a large number
of the High School pupils and
teachers. The Campbell home is
one of the prettiest and most hos
pitablein the Monterey community,
and it goes without saying that the