Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-03-05
Local MISCELLANY.
Mr.. H. o. Wilt is having his st,

some sign on the window of the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Companies. of
fee.
News has been received here of the
safe arrival in France of Mr.. William
Wallace Gallaher, formerly of this
place.
The Charles Town Garage has sold
to Mr. r. Shirley 400 Chevrolet tour
ing car, and to Mr.. ]. ]. Perks, used
| Ford touring car.
The jefferson Cooperage Company
have bought 3-ton DENLY motor
truck from the Neel Motor Company.
of Winchester and Martinsburg.
The great serial photoplay, Helen
Holmes, in ''The Lost Express" starts
at the Opera House tonight. Pictures
will be shown every night in the week
from now on.
Henry Berry, colored, aged 80 years,
died Wednesday, February 20, at the
Charles Town Hospital, and was
buried on Friday at Mt. Pleasant, near
Summit Point.
Mr. T. M. Mullett, of the firm of A.
I. Mullett d Company, architects, of
Washington, was in town Thursday
looking after the new Jail building and
other work in his charge.
Mrs. Mary Ann Haines, widow of
the late Jonathan Haines, died in
Kansas City, Missouri, last Saturday
morning. Her body will be inferred
at Winchester upon arrival there.
Mrs. Martha Ellen Twyman, colored,
died last Wednesday at her home in
Charles Town, aged about "a years.
Funeral Friday at Wainwright Baptist
Church. Burial in Fairview cemetery.
Marie, the little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Eben Trussell, drank some
carbolic acid last Saturday, which
made her very i'll, and come near kill
ing the child. She is now on the road
to recovery.
Frank G. Roper who has been occu-
plying the Simpson property in the
northwest part of town for the past
two years, has moved to the Herbert
property two miles south of town on
the Berryville pike.
Packette Brothers have sold a por-
ton of their farm with improvements
on it four miles out the Middleway
pike to J. NJ. Funk, of near Zoar. The
portion sold contains about so acres.
Mr.. Funk will move there on April l.
Mrs. Delilah Omps died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. P. C. DeHaven,
in Hampshire county on Thursday,
Feb. 21. She is survived by three
daughters and three sons, Mr.. Albert
Omps, of near Middleway, being one
of the latter.
John ]. Eby, who has been one of
the rural carriers from the Charles
Town postoffice since last fall, has
moved his family here from Shep-
herdstown. They are occupying the
Riddle house north of the B. & 0. rail-
road, on N. George street.
Mr.. Milford Slough, the well-nown
buggy man, of Shippensburg, Pa, has
returned from Albuquerke, New Mex
leo, accompanied by Mrs. Slough, who
has been spending some time there
for her health. Mr.. Slough will be in
Charles Town next Saturday.
Lawson Bolts Chapter, U. D. c.,
will meet at the residence of the His
torian, Miss Ora Tomlinson, on Tues
day, March 18th, at 1880 p. m.
Miss Emma Brown,
Secretary, protein.
The Jefferson Hotel has been Of
fered for sale or rent. Mr.. John
Hamilton, who is now proprietor, ex-
poets to take charge of hotel in Hag
erstown, which is now undergoing ex-
tensive improvements.
Work on the new addition to the
Jefferson Garage is progressing nice
ly, the girders being laid for the sec
ond story. 1t will be two stories. in
stead of one, as first planned. Mr.. H.
P. Whitmore is the contractor in
charge.
Mr.. A. S. Allen, proprietor of the
jefferson Garage, has rented to Mr.
Charles P. Weller his automobile re-
pair department. Mr.. Weller has
been with Mr.. Allen for seven years,
and is an expert in the automobile
business.
Mr.. John H. Bishop has received
word that the high wind on Monday
night of last week blew down large
outbuilding on his farm near Lovetts-
vile, in Loudoun county, Va, and kill
ed six ewes and seven lambs and one
yearling steer.
Louis R. Becker who operates a sue
cessful stock and fruit farm east OF
Melville, lost a valuable pure-bred
Hampshire ram by death a few days
ago. The ram was purchased by Mr..
Becker in November from the famous
Walnut Hall Stock Farm at Dunrail,
KY, at cost of $500.
The B. & 0. Railroad Company have
contracted with A. F. Fedeli Company,
of Baltimore, to put in a new fifty car
siding at Melville, and extend the old
siding for fifty more cars. Mr.. f.
Lozzi is the Superintendent in charge
of the work which will start at once.
See their advertisement for laborers In
another column.
Howard L. Clipp, jefferson County
boy who has been in the employ OF
the B. & o. Railroad Company for the
past eighteen years will quit railroad
work and come back to the land.
About April 1st he will start farming
on a portion of the Butler farm on
the Keys Ferry road, bought by him
several years ago.
Under the title of "Green Fruit"
Sherman, French & Company, of Bos-
ton, have published a charming col
lection of poems by John Peale Bishop,
of Charles Town. Practically all OF
the poems were written while Mr..
Bishop was a student at Princeton
University. The little volume is a
work of both promise and perform
ance.
Have you seen that beautiful knit
ted quilt in the window at the head
quarters of the "Red Gross" on exhibit
ton, the work of the willing Work
ers?" did you knit block ?" You
will still have another opportunity
for there is another one on the way