Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-25
Local MISCELLANY.

son, June l5l,h at the CnarleS Town
Hospital, daughter.
Mr.. I. M. Jones is laying concrete
pavement in front of the office and
yard Of William E. Reed & Son.
Mr.. G 4rland Nicewarner and Miss
Texana Strobe. two jefferson county
young people, were married in Hagers
town yesterday.
Mrs. James White has received a
card from her son Charles C. White.
of the United States Field Hospital
Ne. /, stating that he had arrived
safely overseas.
Little daughter of Mrs. S. C: Young,
Jr., was struck by an automobile last
Sunday afternoon, and was taken to
the Hospital, where it was found that
she was not seriously injured.
The Kearneysville Creamery Com
pany has bought the Cider Mill prop
erty at Kearneysville from F. o.
Trump, for $4,000. The lot on which
the mill stands contains over three
acres.
The Junior Workers of the Red
Cross viii have a sale of ice cream,
cake and fancy articles on the lawn
of Mr.. j. NJ. Trapnell, June 26, from
Z to 10 p. m.
The Junior Workers Of the Red
Cross will have a sale of ice cream,
cake and fancy articles on the lawn
of Mr.. j. NJ. Trapnell on Wednesday,
June 20, from to 10 p. m.
Craighill Perry who went as a vol
unteer to Camp Meade with the last
quota of seleetive men from this eoun-
ty has been transferred to a training
camp for officers at Camp Gordon,
Georgia.
DIR. J. b. Chamberlin, Optometrist,
Of Martinsburg, will be at the Palm
Hotel, Wednesday June 26, from 10 a.
M, to p. m. An opportunity to have
your eyes examined and glasses fitted
if necessary.
The Kabletown Sunday School will
hold their Children's Day exercises on
Sunday, July 7, at 10 a. M. That
evening at 8 o'clock soldiers day will
be observed with a special sermon and
appropriate music
Two Charles Town young people,
Mr. Robert yesterday land Miss Gladys
Andrews were married Saturday night
The ceremony that made them man
and wife was performed by Rev. Wal
ter C. Scott, at the Baptist parsonage.
The couple will reside in Baltimore.
Manager Henson, of the Opera
House, Announces that beginning next
week, the Opera House will open only
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights He is compelled to take this
step on account of so many of his pa
irons having been called in the draft.
A festival for the benefit of the Red
Cross will be held on the Baptist
Church lawn at Summit Point on the
night of July 4th. The people of the
neighborhood as we'll as those in other
sections of the county are invited to
lend their aid in making the entertain
ment success.
On Friday last Captain H. c. Get
zendaner had % of the colored soldiers
in the draft to line up on his colorado,
in front of his residence, and after
calling the roll and giving them in
structions had their pictures taken be-
fore marching them to the B. & o.
station to take their leave.
Mr.. Ward Conrad, a well known B.
& 0. engineer, died in Baltimore Hos
pital Thursday of last week, aged 45
years. He had been suffering from
diabetes for some time, but his death
was sudden. Deceased was son of
the late Alex Conrad, of Harrisonburg,
Va, and when he was a boy the fami-
ly lived in this county for a short
while. He leaves a widow, andone
daughter, three brothers and tire sis
ters.
Messrs. A. Moore, Jr., and H. c.
Warden left on Wednesday for North
Carolina, where they will look over the
large lumber and land holdings of the
Hyde County Land and Lumber Com
pany. They will be joined in Wash
.ngton by Mr.. Frank G. Carpenter, the
noted traveller and correspondent who
will accompany them on the trip
Clarke Courier.
C. F. Wall is Vice President and one
Of the four managers of this large en-
terprise.
Amos Cubbage, Jr., aged IL years
Of Rippon was committed to the re-
form school by Justice Sheets after a
hearing Friday night. Deputy Sheriff
Alder took the boy to the reforma-
tory, starting after midnight of the
day he was committed. The father Of
the boy as we'll as a number of neigh
bors testified that the youngster was
ncorrigible. He would run away from
home andbe absent several days re-
peatedly without the consult of his
parents.
Washington, Alexander & Cooke, the
Insurance people, report having adj
iusted the folloying losses by lightn-
ing in recent storms: Mrs. Mamie F.
McSherxy, mare killed; w. 7. Elliott,
one steer; E. H. Reiphart three sheep;
w. P. Lickhder, barn struck and dam
aged; Thos. H. Vanmetre, three horses
killed; Shenandoah Junction school
house struck and damaged; B. H. Rid
| dleberVer dwelling struck and dam