Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-18
Personal Mention.

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We are sorry to learn that our good
friend, Mr.. n. S. j. Strider is on the
sick list.
Mrs. Francis Dubal, of Roanoke.
Va, is visiting her sister, Mrs. VIM.
M. Burns.
Mrs. M. A. Henson is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. L. N. Roetting in Char
lottesville, Va.
Mr.. j. Shirley Smith has been on a
business trip to Hagerstown, Balti-
more and Washington.
Circuit Clerk C. w. Conrad took a
vacation last ewek by making bust
ness trip to Mississippi.
H. E. Mundey, well-known in this
county was in the city on business
with the West Va. Wood Co.
Mr. w. H. Wagner, of Alphena.
Michigan, joined his wife at Attor-
ney F. L. Bushong's last week.
Mr.. Norval w. Gallaher came up
from Washington and spent a day or
two with his sister, Miss Louisa Gala
her.
Mrs. C. R. Coffman and two sons, of
EdInburg, Va, has been spending sew
eral days with her sister, Mrs. William
Cullers.
Mr.. George w. Rouss came up from
Washington and, as has been his Gus
tom for several years, will spend the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Fulton have re-
turned from Martinsburg. While
there they were the guests of Mrs.
Heiston.
Miss Sara Coe is a guest of the fam
lily of DR.. C. t. Richardson, of Omaha,
Nebraska. She will be absent about
month.
Mrs. A. H. Tanquary left on Friday
to spend the summer with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Gold Miller in Berkeley coun-
ty, w Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Washington,
formerly Miss Eliza Perry and Mr..
William Perry, are guests at Mans
field last week.
Mr.. Paul F. West has returned to
Baltimore to do government work.
The past school term, Mr.. West spent
at the Maryland University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Heivestine,
and Mr.. and Mrs. WilliamCrampton of
Clarke County spent Sunday with
their sister Mrs. Inez Walker near
town.
Col. r. P. Chew returned last week
from the Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, and is gradually improv-
ing 1t will be week or two before
he is able to attend to business.
Rev. H. NJ. Moffett is expected here
from Huntsville, Alabama, some time
this week and will probably preach in
the Presbyterian church on next Sun
day, June %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. w. Willis, of Nc
Keesport, Pa, and Mr.. Fred Thomas
of Washington, have been visiting Mr..
George Thomas in town. Mr.. and
Mrs.Willis will be here a couple of
weeks.
Mr.. j. Davis Bane, a Charles Town
boy who has been in training at Camp
Green, Charlotte, N. c., for several
months, arrived in France last week.
He is attached to the U. S. Signal
Corps.
Mr.. Cleon B. Moore who has been
visiting relatives in Charles Town and
at Kabletownfor the past week or two
has gone to Nashville, Tennessee, to
accept position with the Dupont
Company.
Mr. George Slifer who played short
stop on the Charles Town High School
Base Ball team the past season, left
Saturday for Baltimore, where he will
be given a try-out with the Baltimore
club of the International League.
Mrs. C. 7. Shugart accompanied her
son Leland as far as Washington on
his way back to Camp Mcclellan.
Then she went to Old Point Comfort
to see her son Theodore, who is at
Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va.
DR.. j. Ed. Burns who has been a
member of the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital Staff in Baltimore for the past
two years has been accepted in the
Army Medical Corps with commits
sion as Captain. He was ordered on
duty at Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
and has been spending few days
with his parents here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Carpenter, of
Brooklyn, n. Y, are in Charles Town
temporarily, stopping at the Charles
Town Inn, while Mr.. Carpenter is ar
ranging for shipping cord wood from
here to New York, to help the U. S.
Fuel Administrator conserve the use
of coal in New York. They are very
much pleased with Charles Town and
the Shenandoah Valley. Mr.. Carpen-
ter was acquainted in this vicinity 40
years. ago when he used to visit Har-
pers Ferry frequently.
In another column you will see the
advertisement of the West Virginia
Wood Co., Inc, of New York City.
They have made a contract with the
Standard Tie and Timber Company, of
Charles Town, for 10000 cords of sea-
soned wood on the east side of the
Shenandoah river, about 5-miles from
Charles Town, and want men, teams
and motor trucks to get the wood on
to the cars as the U. S. Fuel Admins
tration are anxious to get wood and
save coal this fall and they are ar
ranging with the railroad Administra-
ton so that the cars will be furnished
The West Virginia Wood Co., Inc, viii
buy any dry wood they can get loaded
at any station convenient. Also ex-
pect to purchase wood standing to cut
next fall and winter and will give en-
ployment to many men.
Thousands of Mothers Worry