Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs-Br News
Notes-People at Home and
Abroad.

j. Il. Splaun, OF tue HeauWalers
community, paid Monterey visit
Wednesday, the first in twelve
years.
H. H. Terry, of Jacksons River,
bought new five passenger Dodge
this week.
DR.. A. W. Miller and A. F.
Cline, of Rockingham, were IN
Monterey Tuesday.
" Mr.. Ebert Brown, of the Valley
City, spent Monday night at Hotel
Monterey.
+ There will be meeting of the
Directors of the Highland Live
Stock Association Tuesday. May 20.
All interested are urged to be pres
emit.
Miss Bess Bishop and Mrs. H.
B. Wood spent several days In
Crabbottom this week, the guests
of Miss Pattie Mauzy.
Mrs. M. L. Ogilvie, who has been
living in Staunton the past
winter, passed through Monterey
Wednesday on her way to Valley
Center where she will spend the
summer, with her daughter, Mrs.
W. D. Wade.
Two valuable COWS have been
lost recently by residents of the
town and community, the first one
being the property of Vim Simmons.
north of town, the second that OF
Mrs. j. E. Arbogast.
Highlanders have seen but little
to remind them that the nation is
at war, but it will be we'll to re-
member that the army registration,
June 5th, is no joke.
Mrs. Jared Hiner, of the Doe
Hill section, came to Monterey
Monday after her daughter, Miss
Lura, who spent Sunday with her
sister, Miss Leta, one of the High
School seniors.
CA. Dickson, of Trimble, who
has been down with an attack OF
sciatic rheumatism for nearly two
months, was able to pay a visit to
Monterey latter part of last week.
Mrs. J. F. Fidler, of huntsville,
W. Va, who has been visiting
Highland friends for a week or
more, is now in Monterey, after
week spent here she will 60 to San
Bernardino, Cal, to make her
home. Mrs. Fidler was formerly
Miss Eugie Campbell, was born
near Hightown, and has many
relatives and friends in the county.
WANTED A girl to do light house
work in family of two. Apply to
Mrs. A. P. Gum, Monterey.
The entertainment at the High
School auditorium last Saturday
drew full house, and the large
audience present had an evening
of real enjoyment. The leading
number on the progam was a play
entitled "Tomkins' Hired Man,
and all the characters were most
cleverely personated by members OF
the senior class. Those who com
pose the graduates this session, are
How Rexrode, J. G. Lightner, Al
fred Eagle, Halle Herold, Grace
Gum. Eva Eakle and Leta Hiner.
Mrs, Elizabeth Liggett, who
spent the winter with her daugh
ter in Monterey, returned to her
home in Staunton last Friday.
J. H. Lindsay, of the Daily
Progress, Charlottesville, accom-
panied by Mrs. Lindsay, paid a
visit to Highland last week, spend
ing a day with relatives in the
Bolar community. Several years
of Mr.. Lindsay's early life were
spent in Monterey and he has
many friends and acquaintance
here.
A much needed rain visited
Highland Tuesday night. accom-
panied by storm and hail in some
sections, and followed by big
drop in temperature "Wednesday
morning.
Herbert Carpenter, of Jackson S
River, caught the boss trout OF the
season the other night on an eel
hook. When he went to look at his
line in the morning both the pole
aid line were gone, but on looking
along the bank of the the river he
found it fssten in some willows:
after game fight he landed SIX
teen inch trout.
I wish to thank all who were
so kind and considered during the
illness and death of nv beloved
wife. Respectfully,
N. A. Whitelaw
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