Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-15
Highland Recorder
LOCAL ~ EWS
Pointed Paragraphs Brief News
Notes--peopIe at Home and
Abroad.
The supervisors held an i'm
portant meeting Monday.

list, comes to Stanton March 81.
Are you planning for the biggest,
best garden ever this season?
Scrambled eggs follow a fall from
90 to Is cents the dozen.
W. B. Freeman, of Allegheny,
spent Wednesday in Monterey.
John Weeks is doing some car
penter work for E 7. Hevener.
But little sugar has thus far
been marketed.
c T. Shumate went to Marlin
ton Wednesday,.
Mrs. J. B. Bradshaw, of Nc
Dowell, was in town Saturday.
See R. Fl. Crummett's want ads:
single farm hand; stock to
range.
J. E. Arbogast made a trip to
Staunton Saturday. and was &C
companied by Paul Slaven who
will spend few days at Luray be-
fore returning.
Farmers say the wheat outlook
is fine. And many declared four
weeks ago that the crop could not
live under mantle of ice and
snow.
J. E, Kiracofe, of Doe Hill, and
J. C. Eagle, of Mcdowell, paid the
Recorder office visit Monday.
The eastern mail has been run
ming on summer schedule for a
week, arriving at Monterey at
noon.
W. E. Fleisher and G. T. Rob
son, of the Glover Creek neighbor.
hood. were in Monterey first of the
week on business.
W. T. Alexander and N. K.
Clayton. of Mcdowell, were bust
ness callers in town this week.
Steps have been taken looking
to the building of the new S. S.
room at the Methodist church,
and work will begin as soon as the
weather permits.
Fl. NJ. Slaven, of Monterey, has
been appointed chairman of tie
Liberty Loan Campaign which will
open in April. His appointment
came through the Central liberty
Loan committe, of Richmond, and
he is already laying plans for sue
cesful drive in Highland.
Note change in advertisement of
the Clifton Forge Marble & Granite
Works. Their agent, Harry F.
Slaven, is one of the first to take
up the business locally, and has
place several hundred designs in the
county,
Mrs. J. W, Boyer and sister,
Mrs. Chas. S. Roller, of Woodstock
and Fl. Defiance, respectively, are
visiting their mother at the Steph-
enson home in Monterey. Mrs.
Rollers little son, Charles, jr,, &C
companied her.
There was decided change in
temperature last Sunday morning,
the mercury going down below
freezing and the day proving to be
a typical March product.
Rev. J. C. Thrasher was called
to the home of his brother, near
= Roanoke, on Sunday, on account
of what was thought to be the
fatal illness of the latter, who has
been in bad health for more than a
year.
J. A. Whitelaw and Jack Bird,
of the Mill Gap mercantile firm,
Don Sullenberger, of the Highland
Mere. Co. and H. B. Wood, of the
Highland Recorder, left Friday for
Washington and Baltimore.
Rev. Mr.. Dixon, of Williams
Vile, preached from the Presby-
terian pulpit here Sunday night,
his subject being Stewardship. The
congregation was not large, but
those present enjoyed good talk
on this important subject.
Willis Gibson, Miss Orpba Glib.
son and Miss Bessie Gum left Monz
dav morning for Camp Green in
North Carolina. Miss Gum has a
brother in training there, and the
two former went in response to a
telegram stating that John r
Slaven was about to be transferred.
Miller V. Bishop, who has been
Lieut.. at Kelley's Field, San An.
tonic. Texas was promoted and is
now Captain of the Aviation Corps
there.
He has been Adjutant over Field
No. | and is now Aujutant over
Field No. 2.
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church, will
hold it's last meeting of the present
church year, at the manse, Friday
2:3O D. m, promptly, for the clos
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