Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs Brief News
Notes-People at Home and
Abroad.
Highland grows sweeter, drop by

been on the sick list this week. ,
Mis-. Barbara Grogg left last
week for Durbin, w. Va.
A. P. Gum paid a visit to his
brother at Camp Lee, leaving here
Sunday morning.
Pierce Simmons, of Jacksons
River. was trading in town Tues
day. -,
Miss Josephine Bradshaw, of
Mcdowell, was a visitor to Monte
rey Monday.
A new lot of plows and pillow
castings just received at '. b.
Bishop.
Buy your hayrakes, corn plant
ers, spring tooth and disc harrows
of V. B. Bishop.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Soule, OF
Rockingham, are spending a few
weeks at the latter's old home near
Vanderpool.
Al. Pufinberger. of Deerfeld,
has been in town since Tuesday.
All kinds of garden seeds for
sale by V. B. Bishop.
Supplies on which local mer-
chants + ave been short, have been
Ginning in in , ample quantities
since the roads began to open up.
Burton Wooddell, Orion Siron
and Marvin Wooddell, of Burns
Vile, aid this office a visit We'd
nesday and gave US a new subscrlp'
ton.
Mrs. J. C. Matheny entertained
the Daughters of the Confederacy
Wednesday afternoon. Owing to
the bad condition of the roads the
out of-town members could not be
present. Hot chocolate and "war"
bread were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Campbell
wish to express their thanks to
their friends for their many kind
nesses and expressions of sympa-
thy during the illness and death of
their little son, Boyd Lacy.
A number of spring signs have
been observed. Wednesday Char
lev Gum saw garter snake taking
a sun bath, and Thursday flies and
bees made their appearance.
Floyd Simmons and family now
occupy the property east of Monte.
rey. purchased from H. M. Slaven.
They formerly lived on G. w.
Trimble's St, Creek farm.
A recent subscriber said they
never expected to leave Highland
again without knowing they had
the Recorder to look forward to,
as they had been without it on a
former visit.
Roy Kyle. of Staunton, who
came to Monterey Wednesday as
clerk of the Medical Advisory
Board, remained for short stay
with relatives here.
The trustees of Monterey Metho-
dist church and all others interested
in the proposed new Sunday school
room will please meet the building
committee at E. B. Jones' office
Friday evening, March l., 7 o'clock
New subscribers are being cor
staptlv added to the Recorder list.
Let others send in their subscrlp-'
tions. The time has come when
every one should keep up with his
Highland friends.
Flour, Bottled Corn Meal for
bread, corn meal for feed, granu-
lated and brown sugar, salt fish,
pure cidar vinegar, coal oil, loose
rolled oats, hominey, irish pota-
toes, apples, crackers and cakes for
sale by V. B. Bishop.
Miss Clara Barr, Miss Bess Bish-
CD and Mrs. Paul Slaven were pas
sengers on the Pullin east-bound
car last Friday. Miss Barr, who
has been with the Highland Mer-
camille Co., as m.liner,. for two
seasons, was returning to her home
in Baltimore, Miss Bishop on>a trip
to friends at Richmond, Va, and
Mrs. Slaven to visit Mrs. Ar
thur Long, near Luray.
A grocery salesman crossing
Shenandoah mountain Tuesday in
jitney slipped over the road on
the Augusta side of the mountain,
his machine landing against tree,
something like 40 feet down the
slope, but practically uninjured:
The gentleman, whose name we did
not learn, got out of the machine
when he saw the wheels skidding,
took hold of it, and could have
prevented the slide but for the
fact that his feet slipped. too: He
said that a few hours work with
pickfor ak, would make the place
safe for travel.
Lloyd Bird, who has been with
his parents at Valley Center for a