Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
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Notes-pe, pie AT Home and
Abroad.

IN DufO'n.
Miss EVELYN Jones left last week
to visit relativ in Washington. 7
Mrs. Willis Botkin left Sunday
to visit her husband at Camp Lee.
B.I. Chapman, of Richmond.
was in Monterey few days during
the week.
Last Monday, Supervisors day,
a number of county people were
in town attending to business or
otherwise engaged.
1t is said that footwear has
reaahed the top and is coming
d,wn again.
R. M. Trimble will buy your
raw fur' of all kinds and pay the
highest market price in cash.
Remember, the Y. NJ. c. A
campaign is on, and Highland
should Ego over the tsp" with her
part.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Smith, of
the huntsville section, paid their
Highland relatives visit early IN
the week.
Mesdames V. B. Bishop, Ida
Starrett, H. B Wood and Miss
Bess Bishop spent Sunday at
Crabbottom visiting Miss Pattle
Mauzy. =
Miss Eugenia Doyle, of Rich
mond. came in to-day on the
Staunton mail car and will spend
short vacation at her home neal
Valley Center.
Miss Grace Hiner has been very
i'll since last Saturday at her bone
in Monterey. She is said to he no
better. Her brother, Glide
Hiner, Of Stanton. came out
Sunday
On hands a large assortment
CT mems sweaters, will close out
at greatly reduced price:
2t R. M. Trimble
The Blue Grass High School
basket ball team met second de-
feat at the hands of the M. b. 5.
last Monday, the score being II to
2. TIE first game, played the
week before, was a closer one, the
score being II to 10 in favor OF
Monterey.
W. NJ. Boggs and son, of Frank
lin, W. Va, were IN Monterey
Thursday. He said Federal and
State engineers are surveying for
the new road between Petersburg
and Franklin. A part or possibly
all of the road will be let to con-
tract this fall. tits up to US to
get busy and meet them with a
similar road at the Highland-Pen-
dleton line.
W. H. Freeman. of Top Of Allie
ghany, returned latter part OF last
week from a visit to Camp Lee
where his son, Edward, is in train
ing. He said he failed to see any
of the Highland boys; that, in their
uniforms, "they all looked alike to
him." and it was with some diff
Guilty he fouId his own son.
]. Hull Kramer has completed
his road work west Of town, and
the State Highway man was here
Wednesday to inspect it. The
opinion of the State official has
not been made known, but the i'm
provement looks good to the ordi-
nary layman. 1t extends from the
bridge above town to the residence
OF J. Lee Hiner, formerly a very
bad piece of road.
Ed Hiner, whose home is shor!
distance north of town, received an
ugly cut on his arm last Saturday
while chopping close by his broth
er. The axe that did the damage
was in his brothers hand, ahd the
cut was on the elbow of the right
arm. He came to town to have
the wound dressed, and while in
the doctors office, his horse took |
fright at a passing auto truck,
broke the hitch rein and ran away
stripping itself of harness and bug
gy by coming in contact with 8
telephone pole on one OF the DarA
streets.
Hagerstown, Maryland, is the
largest and most progressive city
in the great Cumberland Valley:
II is $, ending over ONE MI lion
DOLLARS on it's new SEWER
SYSTEM. This work is now be
ginning and will last several years
The contractors for tits big I'M
provemet re The Fl. c. Brooks
Company. They are PAYNE tip
wages and giving regular work the
war round. Boarding and living
in Haselstown are very cheap, and
much less than in NEST other com
munities The contractors on this
work could use some good men as