Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-08-13
Local MISCELLANY.

AThe Spirit of Jefferson is DELAYED ,
couple of days this week on account q
the County Levy Estimate.
The Ladies Aid Society will hold .
lawn party Thursday night, Angus
p, for the benefit of the new church.
at Kabletown.
All your friends will be at the Bio
Red Cross Horse Show, Charles TowT
e Wednesday and Thursday of this week
OF course you will be there too.
The Jefferson County Camp or Con.
federate veterans held their regular
annual meeting at the Court House on
August 3rd, and after rejecting the
old officers, decided not to hold any re-
VI ion ills year.
Mr.. B. E. Beavers, popular member
of the Board of Education of Charles
Town District, was given a delightful
birthday dinner last Friday evening.
to which few of his relatives and
friends were invited.
There will be lawn party at the
home of Mr.. D. E. Sites, near Leetown.
on Friday night, August 16. Ice
cream, cake and candy will be on sale
for the benefit of the Mthodist Sun
day School. Everybody invited.
Many Garages purchase parts for
Ford automobiles from jobbing houses
who buy these parts from various
quarters at cheap prices and they are
only limitations and of poor material
When you get Ford parts from the
Jefferson Garage you can rely upon
it that they are genuine parts from the
factory.
The writer in walking through the
business section of our town Sunday
morning observed much litter scat
tered over the pavements. When a
boy myself and clerked in a store my
last duty on Saturday night was to
sweep the pavement and gutter out.
Why not all try this.
OBSERVER.
At a lawn party held at the home
of Miss Lilly Ramey, near Middleway,
on Thursday, August 8th, sixty dollars
was raised for the benefit of the Red
Cross. Middleway, like other sections
Of the county is showing its patriotism
and eagerness to help in the great
work
The JohnsOntown Auxiliary of the
jefferson County Red Cross Chapter
its first month of war work
in making garments for the refugee
children of Belgium and France. Fiji
ty garments represent the output of
the labors of ten of twelve colored
women comprising the auxiliary. For
women who have home duties taking
the greater part OF their time this |
record is hard to beat The auxiliary
hold meetings in the colored school |
Of Charles Town.
Miss Alice Needy, daughter of Mr. !
and Mrs. Frank Needy, of near Shop |
herdstown, died Wednesday night of |
last week, two days after an operation !
for appendicitis. Unusually sad cir !
cumstances attended her death. She |
was just eighteen years old, had grad |
uated at Shepherd College inJ une and |
had contracted to teach in the public |
schools at Arden in Berkelt county. |
Besides her parents she lea es d little |
sister. The funeral was h ID SUI day |
morning in the Reformed church. |
Shepherdstown, with bur al in Eli
wood Cemetery.
The consolidation of the express
companies of the country under con-
troll of the government is at last In /
evidence in Charles Town. The two
express companies here, the Wells |
Fargo and the Southern, will be under |
one management with Mr. L. Abner
Phillips as the agent in the future. |
Mr.. Phillips has been local agent for
the Wells-Fargo Company in Charles
Town for several years. To central |
ize the business of the join |
companies, the west room in the Hooff |
building has been leased The office |
and storage rooms will be located
there.
Miss Jennie Phillips, daughter of the
late William Phillips of Charles Town,
died at the home of her cousin, Mrs. |
E. G. Coyner, in Berryville, Wednes-
day morning, after prolonged period |
of i'll health. Since the death of her
mother some years ago, Miss Phillips
resided in Berryville. She made fire.
quent visits to her relatives in Charles
Town, thereby keeping up an intimacy
with friends who always appreciated |
her genuine worth and who keenly sor-
sow over her death. There are five
brothers surviving: Messrs. S. Lee
and Newton Phillips, of Charles Town; |
Edward w. Phillips, of Hagerstown; |
Charles, of BerIyville; and William, of
Failmont, Pa. The funeral services |
was conducted in the Berryville Pres |
byterian church, by Rev. Painter, the |
pastor, Friday morning. The inter
ment was in Edge Hill Cemetery.
The colored members Of the Red
Cross at Kearneysville has recently |
been organized into a working unit
and has enrolled q members in its
Auxiliary to the jefferson County
Chapter, with Mrs Mary E. Fry as its
Chairman. These members, having
paid their dues, meet once a week to |
sew and knit, often taking with them
work to be done at home, and III spite
of the fact that most of them are al
ready leading busy lives, accomplish
a remarkable amount of work.
Charles Town and JohnsontoWn also
nave their colored AuXiliarie6, which
are doing splendid work. The bur
den of this war should fall alike ON
every man. woman and child in the
country, whether black or white, and
that every real patriot should be not
only willing, but anxious to do his OF
her bit, however small, toward the
comfort and support of the men who
each day are giving up everything IN
defence Of the people at home. Their
sons and brothers have gone to fight
and perhaps lose their lives, for the
sake of their country and the Taople
at home, kept safe from da' ger by
those upon the firing line ca mot 100
soon realize that their help too is
necessary in the winning Of the war,
and the Red Cross wants cad needs
every worker it can get. There IS
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