Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-07-02
Local MISCELLANY.


The Red Cross Surgical Dressing
Glass is filing an order for the gov
eminent for the Italians wounded il
the recent conflict.
Children's Day Services at Beulah
were quite a success, the children die
we'll and the collections for Mission!
amounted to S72.20.
The Charles Town Fire Department
headed by the Powhatan Band, viii
attend the big Firemen's Celebration
at Waynesboro, Pa, July 4th.
About twenty-five army trucks went
through Charles Town yesterday af.
! ternoon, coming in from Berryvillt
and leaving by the Harpers Ferry pike
Lawson Bolts Chapter, U. D. C.
viii meet at the home of Miss Ora
Tomlinson Thursday, July 9th, at s
p. m.
Miss Emma Brown, Secretary.
Hon. Virgil L. Highland, candidate
for the Republican nomination fol
United States Senator, and Captain
Sperry of Clarksburg, were in Charles
Town last Saturday.
Thomas and Laura Parker, a worthy
colored couple af Charles Town, have
received word that their son, John
Parker, was badly burned by hot steel
and had his arm taken off.
Th Red Cross Club of Shenandoah
junction will hold Patriotic Rally or
the evening of July 18th. The Charles
Town Quartette will furnish the music
| Good spanking and ice cream served.
Messrs. w. B. and Geo. w. Packet
have received a card from their nep-
hew, Foster Gilbert Moss, LIST Lieuten-
ant Co. F. 32d Engineers, announcing
that he had arrived safely overseas
Theodore Bros. the clothing men
were the first merchants to lay in a
supply of War Savings Stamps for
their customers and others who may
want them.
MIR. B. H. Riddleberger has rented
the east store room of the st. George
building formerly occupied by the Red
Cross, and viii move the Big Racket
Stores there as soon as the room is
put in shape.
Elmer Homer Kemp, of near Kable-
town, and Ernest Lee Hough, of Me-
chanicstown,who went to Camp Lee
in April with the County's quota Of
selected men were discharged after
the physical test was given.
Hon C. w. Ossenton, of Fayette
county, will speak in the Court House
next Saturday night, at s o'clock, in
tn interest of the candidacy of Sena-
tor William E. Chiffon for United
Senator.
Mr.. Robert Earl, former State SEN
ator from this District was brought
to the Charles Town Hospital on Mon
day from his home five mile vest Of
town for treatment. He was taken
i'll on Saturday. Mr.. Earl is il his
85th year.
1t was inadvertently omitted II 1T
weeks Spirit to mention the sple { d
address of DR.. J. Layton Marsc, CT
Huntington, w. Va, on the War SAY
ings Stamps. at the Coz t House
Every sentence of his address was
beautifully expressed ard was listened
to by the closet attention Of his
audience.
While a thunder storm was in
progress few nights ago,
lightning struck the farm dwelling OF
A. o. Davis, west of town. The plas-
tering was shattered on the walls Of
a bed room, but there were no marks
left on the outsid Of the house any
where.
Mrs. Mamie Grim has received
word from her brother, John Lacy
Webster, that he has arrived safely IN
France. He was one of the men call
ed in the first draft and left Charles
Town for Camp Lee on September 9Th.
He says he enjoyed the trip overseas
and is feeling fine and all he wants
now is a shot at the Hun. He is with
the 313th Field Artillery, SOth Dlvl-
sion, National Army.
Charles Town Road District Super
visor, VIM. NJ. Burns and the Cor
poration of Ransom are at odds over
the ownership of a lot of stone quar-
ried out by the District on Third
Avenue. The stone were gotten out
before Ransom was Incorporated, the
District Supervisor intending to use
them on the County roads. They are
still on the streets in Ransom, and the
town lays claim to them. Their
ownership may be decided in court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph w. Perks re-
siding on the Cedar Cliff farm five
miles south of town held family re-
union Sunday, June %, on the eve OF
their son Joseph's departure for the
army at Camp Lee. They had with
them all the members of their family
including Mr.. and Mrs. R. r. Bayles
with their two children from Martins
burg: Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Perks
and two children and grandmother,
Mrs. Bryan, from Charles Town; Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Holden, from Summit
Point.
The real estate agency of W. o.
Norris has sold to Mr.. Thomas 5. Hes
kett a tract of twenty-five acres IN the
southern end of the county, adjoining
his property, formerly owned by Mr.
B. F. Ware, at the price of 5000 pei
acre. The same agency has sold &c
Mr.. Charles H. Kable tract OF about
fifty acres adjoining his farm neal
Mverstown, also at the price of 5000
per acre. The same agency mas
sold the old Beale property in Wash
lington street, Harpers Ferry, to Mrs
Mary McCorkle, of Norristown, "a
at the price of 10000.