Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-11-05
Local MISCELLANY.
Be sure to vote.

: day Schools on Sunday.
: Ernest l.. Johnson, colored died las
d Friday aged 18 years. Funeral will
! Twill be held this Tuesday.
Go to the polls today and vote foi
! Watson and Hiner and support oul
! ! great President, Woodrow Wilson.
Rev. Morrison Brown, of Charlotte
; N. c., will begin months supply in
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
November II.
Lawson Bolts Chapter, U. D. c., will
meet at the home of the Secretary
Miss Emma Brown, Tuesday, Novem-
Der 18th, at 7:30 p. m.
i There will be congregational meet
ing in the Presbyterian church or the
third Sunday, November IL, to call a
pastor if the way be clear.
Arriving tomorrow, two cars of high
bred steers. Shipping fat stock next
Friday, November 9Th. C. F. WALL.
To my patrons and friends:
Miss Janet Young and her father
Mr.. Young, have taken the furnishd
house of Miss Lallie Craighill on Con-
gress street for the winter months.
Brown & Hooff's Drug Store will
close at 8 p. M, for the balance of the
nights. BROWN & HOOFF.
| Charles Town, Nov. 9Th, 1918.
Mrs. Martha Johnson colored, wife
of Toots Johnson, and daughter of
| Frank Smith, died Sunday, aged "a
years. The funeral was held on Mon
day afternoon.
The Opera House re-opened on Sat
urday night. Manager Henson will
run regularly now, and expects to
show the best grade of pictures OBJ
tainable for his patrons.
You can buy more sugar now than
you could have bought last month.
Three pounds are now allowed to each
member of family. More than that,
you may purchase months supply at
one time.
We understand that Miss Amelia
Hopkins who is visiting her brother,
Mr.. Lawrence in Texas, offered her
services and assisted in nursing in
the Camp there during the epidemic
of influenza.
H. P. Harrison, Norfolk and West
ern telegraph operator at Rippon, died
Thursday of influenza, aged 40 years. |
He is survived by his widow and four
children. His body was taken to |
Martinsville, Va, for interment.
The 18th Annual Convention of the |
National U. ID. c. scheduled to be held |
in Louisville, KY, November 1916, !
has by ruling of the Board of Health, |
been postponed indefinitely by the Ma
tional President General.
A pumpkin large enough to capture |
blue ribbon at any country fair in |
the county has been on exhibition in a |
show window at G. S. Cailan's store |
last week. 1t was grown by Daniel |
Clegg out near Wiltshires school house |
and weighs 81 pounds.
Two daughters, both grown, in the |
family of Mr.. George Jones It the Vir- |
ginia Ore Bank on the Pot mac river,
died from influenza few days at.
Miss Myrtle Jones died on Friday De- |
tober 18, and her sister, Lillian Gil |
Saturday of last week.
Two airplanes high up among the |
feecy clouds passed over Charles |
Town Thursday morning, steering in q |
northwesterly direction. People on |
the streets were attracted by the noise |
of the motors and got a fine view of |
the travellers. They left no cards with |
US.
You are cordially invited 20 attend |
the devotional services to be held every 4
evening, except Saturday, at eight
o'clock, for the week starting Monday,
November 4, for the purpose of invok
ing Gods blessing upon the coming
revival to be held in the Baptist
church.
The funeral of the late Geo. G. Box
well, who died in Elizabethtown, Pa,
October 26, was held in Winchester,
Va, Thursday. The deceased is sur
vived by his wife in Baltimore; one
son, Raymond, now serving m France,
and a married daughter living in /
Cleveland Also two sisters, Mrs. I.
A. Russell, of Williamsport, and Mrs.
Laura Brown, Winchester, and one
brother, W. M. Boxwell, Charles Town,
w. Va.
Former State Senator William
Campbell has received verification
from the War Department of the re-
port of the death of his brother, Cor
poral Peyton R. Campbell. With Capt.
Gillian and fifteen men of his COM
pany, Corporal Campbell was killed by |
a German shell in the fighting on the |
Vesle river in France in September. |
They were members of the 500 mach |
inc Gun Brigade. Corporal Campbell |
enlisted at Rochester, N. Y.
Fred Riddleberger, a Charles Town
soldier enroute to France was injured |
in a collision between the transport on |
which he was travelling, and another !
boat The accident happened in a |
dense fog near the French coast. Fred |
was rendered unconscious for three
DAYS and has since been in a hospital |
though it is not believed that he IS
permanently injured. Sergeant Gil |
bert Quick of the Engineers Detach- |
ment was also on the same boat but
escaped injury.
Mr.. J. Strider Moler who recently
sold his farm near Uvilla to Mr. j. ID.
Dutterer will move to Shepher lstown
where he will go in business. He has
bought from Armistead S. Lucas the
latter's interest in the Shepherdstown
Garage, and took charge of the estab-
lishment on Tuesday. Mr.. MolNr has
also bought from NJ. Reynolds Moler
the latter's handsome new residence
in Shepherdstown, paying 5000 for it:
He viii get possession the 18th OF
November.
Miss Elizabeth Alice Link, the eldest
daughter of Deputy Assessor and Mrs.
T. D. Link, died at the home Of her
parents at Dufields Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, from pneumonia, follow
ing an attack of influenza. MISS Link
was highly regarded and her passing
away will bring sorrow to many homes
in that neighborhood. Besider her