Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-16
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs-Brief News
Notes-People at Home and
Abroad.

w. G. Hull, who has been with
'. B. Bishop for several months,
has been confined to his room since
last week as the result of fall.
4 L. NJ. McClung and son, H. S.,
y of the Bullpasture were in town
Wednesday.
The room occupied by Hender-
son Bishop at the University caught
fire one day last week and consider
able damage was done.
The many friends of Miss Lura
Hiner will be pleased to learn of
her return to Monterey.
Miss Maud Ryder, after weeks
rest, left for University hospital
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Samples, of
Mill Creek, w. Va, passed through
town Tuesday evening on there
way to Eastern Highland, where
they will reside.
Miss Eva Beverage, of Strait
Creek, is spending the week with
Mrs. A. W. Miller.
H. H. Hevener. of Augusta, is
on a trip to Highland this week.
Robert Pufinbarger has moved
into rooms in the old Commercial
Hotel.
The PulIin passenger automobile
went out to Staunton Tuesday hav-
ing as passengers Miss Evelyn
Jones, J. F. McNulty and John
Lowman.
Most everybody will give credit
to the calendar makers in that
they only gave % days to February.
If subscribers who pay in Wood
knew that editor Wood was out of
Wood and the wheels Would not
turn without Wood. Would they
bring in the Wood? They Would.
Friends of DR.. Miller will be
glad to hear that he stood bis OPP
Grafton at the Rockingham Memo
rial Hospital well, and that he
hopes to leave the institution in
few days. He will spend some
time at his old home near Bridge
water.
Mrs. l.. G Bowers, of Lower
Strait Creek, was operated on in
Staunton last week for appendicitis.
Mr.. Bowers was in Monterey Tues
day and reported his wife getting
along nicely.
Faud Trimblc returned Friday
from a visit to relatives in Ellen
boro and other sections of West
Virginia.
]. C. Matheny attended the
meeting of the Virginia Grand
Lodge of Masons in Richmond this
week.
Luther Rexrode, of the Crsbbot-
tom valley, brought to the Recor-
der office few days ago a couple
of 1915 apples. They are in fair
ly good state of preservation.
H. H. Pullin is putting a coat
of paint on the store room soon to
be occupied by D. Fl. Peterson q
Co.
Miss Virginia Graham and Alfred
Eagle, of the Monterey High
School, won the prizes in the read
ing contest offered by the Rich
mond Times Disp atch.
She won the prize, offered by
this same paper, week ago in the
spelling contest.
1t is generally understood that
the bidding on the Staunton-Monte-
rev star mail route is to be reopen
ed, the reason assigned being some
irregularity as to one OF more of
the bids formerly submitted. The
further statement is given out that
specifications are to be changed
recurring motor service on the
route for q given number of months
during the year. This requirement,
at this age OF the world, is impor-
tant. With improved roads on the
Augusta end of the line, which is
sure to come in the near future,
year-round modern service may
reasonably be lookek for.
Messrs. Hubert Anderson, Ma
son Boggs, Baxter and Harry,
paugherty and Harry Criger, of
Franklin, motored to Monterey
early Monday morning. The last
named remained at Monterey while
the rest of the party went on to
BkHot Springs, and while here pur-
chased several horses, among them
one from Rev. J. c. Thrasher and
one from Jesse Hiner.
unusually large white Leighorn
egg was exhibited in Monterey
Tuesday. The egg weighed 3 SIS
ounces and measured 81 inches in
circumference. Mr.. George Swad-