Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-23
THIS WEEK THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO.
Condensed From the Issue Of Thurs
day, May rs, 1881.

S. j. Smith has brought on an as
sortment of carpets which he wishes
you TO call and see.
Chas. l.. Ellison. late County sup
erintendent OF Summers county, died
on the oath ult.
Jas. II. Miller was elected County
superintendent of Schools in Sum
mers county and Jos. Anderson, in
Nicholas county, in the election OF
school officers last week.
Maj. Jonn S. Rudd, Principal in
vites the public to the closing eXer-
cises OF the Graded School.
j. g. Hyden has fresh strawberries
at his restaurant.
Hon. Is. l.. Butcher, State Superin-
tendent OF Free Schools, informs the
Independent of u District Peabody
Institute, to be conducted by Maj.
John S. Rudd, at LewisDurg, July
25--29.
Prof. VIM. Mueller. of Washington,
: ID. c., teacher and composer or new
/ waltzes, will open d dancing school
, here in June IN connection with his
school at the White.
j. ID. Beckner was elected County
Superintendent of Monroe county last
week.
Governor Mathews is spending the
summer with his family at the White.
! &. II. Pickin, of Alexandria, is d
guest OF Richard Thomas. Mark l..
SPOTS and wife are at home from d
visit to friends in Richmond. J. T..
Bell and j. w. A. Ford are back from
the Eastern markets. Sherns VIM.
NJ. Tyree and Chas. ii. McClung are
here from tayette on Official Dusl-
ness. Capt. Jos. S. Crane, OF Green
Erier Era memory, was here from his
home in the Meadows this week
| Wintild Sanders a negro in the en-
ploy of Jonn Nuttall at Nuttalburg,
F'ayette county, is supposed to have
been killed and his BODY thrown into
New River by another negro, Henry
jenkins, who is now in jail here
awaiting trial. There were threats
of lynching him in Fayette county,
hence his removal to Lewisburg.
On Monday last about noon at the
Greenbrier Lumber Co.'S saw mill.
John J. Livesay, was shot through
'hS hSoi bhu hiiiSu ny OoS'
, Waterman at the mill. Livesay
threatened to kill Green with a rock
he had in his hand, for slapping is
little son, who had been annoying
Green. Green surrendered Mon
day and is in jail
Geo. A. Hurd has succeeded f. A.
White as proprietor of the Romeo
verte Hotel.
A brother Of Jacob Fritz, a federal
soldier, killed in the battle of Droop
assistance Of Jacob McCarty,
assistance of Jacob Mccartney.
found the grave in which his bro
ther was buried, exhumed it and
| took it to Cincinnati for final inter
ment.
Rev. Lewis A. Anderson native
OF Greenbrier and prominent member
Of the Anderson family. died Of
dropsy OF the heart, at his home in
Atkinson, Kansas. Thursday night
last. He was born at Palestine on
Muddy Creek. where his father lived,
on May S, 1912. and died in his 10th
year. He was the youngest son OF
JOS. Anderson. brother of Mrs. Patsy
Feamster. Of Lewisburg. and a
grandson Of Rev. John Anderson, who
came to Greenbrier in 1872. Mr..
Anderson graduated from the Univer-
sity of Ohio in 1892 among his class
mates being Rev. Moses ID. Hoge, OF
Richmond, DR.. ThOs. Creigh, Chas
and John Stuart and Chas. Arbuckle
all of Greenbrier. He entered the
Baptist ministry and preached his
first sermon in the old powder
Horn" church of Williamsburg. Va.
where Washington stored his powder
during the Revolutionary war. He
was twice married his second wife,
and the mother Of all his eight child