Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-11-19

Mr.. c. w. elmer is pebledashine
the Jefferson Mill.

Mr.. 4. w. Cilmers1S pebledaShlnq
the jefferson Mill.
The Jefferson Circuit Court adj
journed last Tuesday for the term.
At the regular meeting of the CITY
Council last night, only routine bust
ness was transacted.
w. H. Baldwin has broken arm
due to a kick from the crank of q
Ford car in Charles Town Saturday
night.
James Potts operating Ford
runabout lost control of it while
showing speed on fine piece of road
near Bakerton. 1t was badly wreck
ed though Mr.. Potts escaped.
All those between 10 and 81 who
receive questionaires are requested
to fill them out, and those between
SO and As who receive them may re-
turn them without filling them out.
Private Robert S. Watson, son of
County Assessor F. L. Watson, is in
france, news of his arrival there hav-
ing been received by his parents on
the day that the armistice was signed.
Private Charles E. Gore who has
been at Camp Lee from the time he
left the county with quota of draft
ees in September has recently been
transferred to Camp Moultrie, South
Carolina.
DR.. ]. B. Chamberlain, Optometrist
of Martinsburg, will be at the Hotel
Palm Wednesday, November 9th,
from 10 a. m. to p. m. An oppor-
tunity to have your eyes thoroughly
examined.
Questionaires had been sent out by
the County Exemption Board to reg
istrants from SO to As years of age.
Registrars are not required to fill
them out. The Board requests that
all of them be Teturned.
DR.. w. Coyner, for some years
veterinary surgeon at Shepherds
town, died Wednesday at Sharps-
burg, Nd. DR.. Coyner was a native
of Staunton, Va, and was 38 years
old. His body was taken to Har-
risonburg, Va.
Ten bushels of peach seeds repre-
septing the accumulations of the child
rem of the Charles Town Graded
school were shipped from Charles
Town by the Red Cross on Wednesday.
The seeds will be used in the manu-
facture of gas masks.
The car of Norman Clabaugh of
Bakerton, became unmanageable on
the Shepherdstown pike near the
farm of Charles Ronemus, and run
ming to the roadside struck a tree.
The machine was seriously damaged.
Mr.. Clabaugh did not get a scratch.
A dairy herd OF l6 cows owned by
Mr.. E. ID. Conklyn, near Wheatland
was tested for tuberculosis on Wednes-
day, and every animal found to be free
from the disease. The tests were made
by DR.. Vauness, veterinarian from
the Federal bureau of Animal Indus
try.
Don't forget the annual meeting
of the Jefferson County Red Cross
Chapter at the Opera House We'd
nesday, November goth. A Red
Cross choir will sing and the various
ministers will take part. Reports
from all Dover the county will be
read
Mr.. Arthur G. Ramey who was
retained as instructor in g.nnery at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology after having gradu lted thee
has received his commissi on as En-
sign in the Naval Aviation Corps.
Ensign Ramey is son of DR.. and
Mrs. T. A. Ramey.
The Northern Virginia Power Co.
with offices in Winchester and power
plant near Millville, this county, APP
peared before the Public Service
Commission in Charleston on Tues
day and asked permission to increase
its rates by 25 per cent over the
present charge. No decision has yet
been rendered.
The annual meeting of the Vir-
ginia Synod of the Presbyterian
Church will open in Harrisonburg on
December and remain in session
four days. The meeting was post
poned from November IL on account
of influenza. The Synod embraces
all of Virginia and portions of Mary
land and West Virginia.
While going down the hill near the
farm of Chas. C. Henkle not far
from Engle Station, a Ford operated
by Thos. E. Howell skidded and turn
ed over. Mr.. Howell was the only
occupant of the machine and emerg-
ed from the overturned car through
its top. The wind shield was the
only broken piece about it. Mr..
Howell escaped unhurt.
Second Lieutenant Francis W.Daniel
formerly of Shenandoah junction has
been promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant. For the past month OF
two Lieut.. Daniel has been an instruc-
tor in a students training corps in a
college in Chicago, and along with a
printed report of his promotion The
Chicago Record-Herald published 9
photograph of the popular young Of
ficer.
The ladies of Rippon and Wheat
land Auxiliary will hold supper IN
Rippon Hall on the evening of the
9th from A until 10. Pies, cakes
and ice cream for sale. Here is
where you can get your pumpkin
pies for your Thanksgiving dinner
Cadet w. Edward Miller came
home from the Naval Academy to
attend the funeral of his father, the
late H. j. Miller.
The body of Alexander Baird whose
boyhood home was in Charles Towr
was brought here last Friday fol-
burial. Mr.. Baird died at the hons
of his half-sister, Mrs. j. S. Terrill
in Baltimore, Wednesday at an ad
vanced age. He was Confederate
veteran, having served in Bots
Greys, Charles Town Company IL
the Stonewall Brigade. For some
years after the war the deceased was
in the drug business in Baltimore.
All soldiers abroad whose Labels
have not been received by thei
families, can have a label and boz
by applying to the Red Cross room
after the 10th of November. TIL