Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-04
Personal Mention.

Grace Beard.
Miss Nettie Aglionby has returned
and is at Mansfield.
Mrs. George R. Vending and son
Mr.. George Vending, of st. Louis,
are in town.
Mr.: Jack Ramey visited his daugh-
Ter, Mrs. Preston Feagans, in BaIti-
more, last week.
We are glad to learn that Col. R. p.
Chew IS much improved at the Hospi-
tai in Baltimore.
Mr.. Charles Trussell has been up
from Washington day or two visiting
his mother here.
Editor Bivens, of the Wadesboro, N.
Y. Ansonian, has joined his family
here for few days.
Mr.. Richard Alexander came up
from Baltimore and spent the week
end with his family here.
Messrs. G. E. Hughes and w. A..
Hlggs We're in Stanton, Va, a few
days the first of last week.
Mr.. Ashton Phillips came up from
Washington for weekend visit to
his mother, Mrs. Bessie w. Phillips.
Mrs. W. H. Wagner, formerly Hiss
Mildred kessler, of Alpena, Michi ran,
is with her sister, Mrs. F. L. Bushong.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Alexander and
Miss Margaret and Miss Katie Ais
quth have come up from Baltimore to
spend the summer.
Mrs. Elsie Bales and children, and
Misses Mabel and Mena Hale, of Mar
tlnsburg, We're guests at their uncle's,
Mr.. Marshall Roper.
Mr.. A. Willis bearing is with his
parents here, back from the v. M. l., |
at Lexington, Va, where he stood |
fourth in his class of several hundred. |
Mrs. Withers, of Tampa, Florida, |
and children, are expected here soon
before marriage she was Miss Sadie
Tucker, daughter of Rev. Dallas
Tucker.
DR.. Thomas L. Harris, of the De-
partment of Economics, Ohio State
University, Oxford, Ohio, was in town
for few days visit with r. C. Rissler
and family.
Miss Ethel LaBoyteaux who has
been teaching school in Richmond,
Va, the past year has returned to
her home in Charles Town for the
summer vacation.
Private Woodford L. Boyd, who has
been at Aerial Cunning instruction
school, Ellington Field, Houston, Tex
as, is at his home, Federal Hill, on
sixty day farm furlough.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Edward Burns had
as their guest during Council, Mr..
PEBBLES Latum, of Wheeling, w. Va,
and DIR. j. Ed. Burns, of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
Mrs. Louis Diehl is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. William Parker, in
Philadelphia, on her return home she
will visit another daughter in Wash
ington, Mrs. Claude E. Haines.
Mr.. Ray Merchant was taken to the
Charles Town Hospital last week suf-
fering from ptomaine poison. He was
able to be taken back home Sunday,
and is now rapidly recovering.
Miss Mary E. Campbell who has
been a student in Columbia Univer-
sity, New York, has returned to her
home in Charles Town and will spend
a part of the summer vacation here.
Messrs. t. C. Green, Landon Quick,
G. 7. Stonesifer, Thos. R. More, James
A. Smith, D. S. Hughes, and E. L.
Wilson were witnesses in Court trial
at Hopewell, Va, on Monday and
of last week.
Mr.. S. Walter Washington, Jr., has
from the Virginia Military
Institute, where he was cadet the
past school year and left last Satur- {
day for Pittsburgh, New York, for a {
months training in the Officers Re- {
serve Camp.
w. A. Macomb, former Norfolk &
Western Railway Company freight
agent at Charles Town arrived IN
France last week, news of his arrival
having reached his family here. Since {
leaving Charles Town more than two
months ago, Mr.. Macomb has been in
a school of instruction at Princeton,
New Jersey. He will do Y. nj. G. A.
work overseas.
Messrs. Edgar d. Conklyn, Charles
C.. Conklyn, Ralph Higginbotham, w.
S. Merchant and James Albin went on
an automobile trip to Stanton, Va,
last week. They visited some of the
battlefeids in which Mr.. Merchant and
Mr.. C. C. Conklyn took part during the
sixties. and Mr.. Merchant visited the
house where his leg was amputated
at Cedar Creek. L.
A lazy liver leads to chronic dys-
pepsia and constipation-wea kens the
whole system. Doan's Regulets t3Occ
per box) act mildly on the liver and
bowels. At all drug stores.
Miss Lorraine Murphy, of Claymont
Court, was chairman of the second Red
Cross drive. Mrs. E. E. Cooke was
treasurer. The following were the
captains of the teams in the several
districts.
Charles Town-Miss Frances Moore,
Miss Rosa Baylor, Miss Etheleen
Davis, Mrs. Arthur Davenport, and
Richard Macomb, of the Boy Scouts.
Colored, Mary Ross. Nethersele Ross,
Cerelle Craven.
Harpers Ferry-James Ransom, Jr.
Millville-Harvey Robinson.
Halltown-W. G. Pringle.
Rippon-C. M. West.
Summit Point-Robert l.. Withers.
Kabletown-M. o. Rouss.
Leetown-James w. Strider.
KearneysvilIe-Miss Sidney Kear-
fott.
Shenandoah Junction and Duffields
Mrs. F. C. Littlejohn.
Middleway-James Grantham.
Bakerton-Milton G. Maiel.
Observation-Disclosures Gray.
Mountain Mission--Rev. j. w.
Quinton.
The farmers in this county have
been very lucky in escaping the num-
erous hail storms that have prevailed
in the valley. Watch out for Lightn-
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