Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-02-12
Local MISCELLANY.

Local miscellany.
Don't forget Tuesday is "Pan Oak,
Day"
The sun is having powerful effect
on the Snow Flake Trail' and it il
rapidly disappearing.
NOTICE:-T Red Cross Button,
have been received. Please call at The
room and get yours.
| Catherine Williams, colored. little
daughter of Rodney Williams. dice
last Friday, aged 2 years.
About twenty young colored mer
left Charles Town yesterday to work
in the ship yards at Newport News
Va.
We make speciality of printing
attractive sale bills. If you intend
having a sale come in and see us
about your printing.
The Ladies Aid Society Of the
Kabletown Church will give 'The
Deestric Skule" in the Kabletown
school house on Friday night, Feb
ruary p.
The friends of Mrs. w. T. Whiting
will be glad to learn that she has inn
proved very much since taking treat
ment at the Sanitarium at Binghamp-
ton, New York.
The following names have been adj
ded to the Service Flag at the Charles
Town Graded and High school during
the past week: Davis Bane, Ellesly
Grey and Richard F. Venning.
Mr.. William Blackford, the young
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Blackford.
of Bardane, who enlisted for war SER
vice last summer has been promoted
to Corporal at Camp Shelby, Miss.
Lawson Bolts Chapter, U. D. c..
will meet at the residence of the vice
president, Miss Ella Fouke, on Tues
day, February II, at 7:3O D. m.
Mrs. Margaret Aisquith, Prest.
Miss Emma Brown, Sec'y., protein.
Mr.. w. F. Alexander, chairman of
of the Jefferson County War Savings
Committee, has announced his inten-
ton of offering a five dollar prize to
the boy or girl of the schools of his
county who writes the best essay on
Thrift, in connection with the w. S. S.
campaign now being waged.
Mrs. B. w. Jackson went to Balti-
more today to attend the Spring Mil
linery Openings. She expects to be
gone week and will purchase her
Spring and Summer stock while there.
Her Millinery Opening Days will be
Friday and Saturday, March Is and is,
to which she invites the public to at
tend.
Relatives in the county are in re-
eeipt of letter from Private Dennis
d. Link, member of trench motor
battery in France. He is well and APP
parently in the most cheerful mood.
He says he is forbidden to tell any
thing about things cover there" but
mentions the receipt of boxes and let
tiers from home.
Mr.. C. F. Wall who travels over
much of the territory surrounding this
county, holds the opinion that Jeffer-
son is ahead of nearby counties in the
quantity of corn the farmers have
gathered. In Clarke county, Va, and
in Montgomery county, Md, three
fourths of last years corn crop is still
in the field.
The United States Government is
in need of several hundred expert cost
accountants to fill vacancies in the
accounts section of the finance depart
ment of the equipment division of the
Signal Corps, War Department, and
in other branches, for duty in Wash
ington, D. c., or in the field, accord
ing to an announcement just issued
by the United States Civil Service
Commission The salaries offered
range from $2,400 to $4,000 a year.
Men only are desired.
Complete information and applica-
ton blanks may be obtained by COM
municating with the secretary of the
local board of civil-service examiners
at the post Office or with the United
States Civil Service Commission,
Washington. D. c.
The body of Mrs. Michael Bowler,
who died Sunday at her home in Shen-
andoah Junction was brought to Har-
persFerry Tuesday and taken to
st. Peters Chapel in rear of the
church where her son Rev. John Bow
Ter, of Richmond, held services over
the dead. Father Curran, pastor, de-
livered the funeral sermon. The de-
ceased was some ninety years of age
and is survived by three sons and two
daughters: Rev. John Bowler, Vicar
General of the Richmond Diocese,
Richmond; Michael Bowler, chief train
dispatcher of the N. & w. Railway,
Roanoke, Va, and Richard Bowler,
Road Supervisor of Lynchburg Divi-
sion of the N. & w. Railway; Mrs:
Margaret Welsh, Pottsville, Pa, and
Mrs. Mary Tapscott, of Shenandoah
Junction. Interment was in the Cath
olic Cemetery in Bolivar.
Geek Morris, the aged colored black
smith, living on the Summit Point
road four miles west of town made
narrow escape from freezing to
death last week. Some time in
the afternoon Sunday he left home to
visit Henry Douglass, a neighbor. In
returning home that night he became
confused and lost his way. Snow
drifts made walking tiresome, and
when he realized that it was useless
to attempt to find his way home, gave
himself up to die in the snow with the
temperature below zero. Searching
parties wandered over that portion OF
the county all night. At 3 O'Clock
Monday morning one party of search
ers that included Messrs. w. A. Dunn,
| Jesse Chapman and Forrest Custer
found him in the woods on the Huyette
farm, two miles from his home. HIS
condition has been serious since then,
| the exposure being more than he
could stand.