Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-11-11
LOCAL COLUMN.

The JEFFERSON Garage received
another car load of Ford ears las1
week.
Mr.. j. F. Mason has sold one acre
lot at Myerstown to G. M. Read. con.
sideration $500.
! Nancy Young, colored, died at the
home of Thomas Young, in Charles
Town last Friday night, of tuberco-
losis.
Billy Davis, son of Mr.. and Mrs
<. f. Davis, underwent a surgical
operation last Sunday for an infec-
ton of the ear.
Mt. Hope School, Mechanicstown
will hold an Oyster Supper FRIDAY
night, November 81, for the benefit ~
the school library, etc. y
All those who have articles for tho
Thanksgiving State Bazaar To he
given by the Methodist Aid Society
will please take them to Miss Glars
Leslie as soon as possible.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Sponsler. of
| Bolivar, announce the marriage of
their daughter, Grace Sponsler Lit
Teton, to John William Ramsdell
Friday, October 31st, 1919.
Lawson Bolts Chapter, u. d. g.
will meet at the home of Miss ORA
Tomlinson on Tuesday, November II
at 1880 p. M.
Prest. Miss Hannah Howell
Secy. Miss Emma Brown.
There has been a Pres-o-lite Ser
vice Station opened in the west
room of the Getzendanner building
on West Washington street under
the name of the Charles Town
Battery Company"
Jack Tharpe, Clarke county farm
er has rented Hardwood farm. three
miles out the Middleway pike and will
move there in the spring. Mr.. Horace
zoe, who has been farming Hardwood
this year will give it up on account
of his health.
Mr.. Frank H. Rouss, who has been
operating a stock farm in Fauuuier
county, Va, for several years will
move back to his old home near
Kabletown, his brother, DIR. A. H. S.
Rouss, who has been residing at the
latter place, having moved to Charles
Town.
Of the many hogs and cattle sold
by Wall last week were 25 yearling
to Mr. George B. Hooff; to Lynch
Brothers; 10 to Hardesty in Virginia;
65 to K. L. Hardesty; A to Edwards
Weverton, Md; car of mixed to Md;
car hogs to Waynesboro; u car
steers John RriScoe
Mr.. w. ]. Manning, formerly of
Boyce, Va, has accepted the position
of sales manager with the Washington,
Alexander & Cooke Company in Char
les Town, and has moved his family
here. They have an apartment in the
residence formerly owned by Mrs.
Howell Brown, South Mildred street.
Ben Wood, trouble man for the JEFF
ferson County Telephone Company,
suffered an injury to one of his eyes
a week or two ago when fragment of
steel from hammer used by fellow
workman struck him. An x-ray ma
chine was used to locate the fragment
which was found imbedded back of the
eye ball. Without having it removed
it is now believed by the specialist
who treated him that he will not be
the least Inconvenience by the injury.
Blue, the famous dairy COW, owned
by Mr.. Edgar d. Conklyn, at Wheat
land, became bloated from eating
green alfalfa recently and had to
be killed. The COW had been in
pasture less than an hour when
she was taken out and showed symp-
Of oh rf
was a Jersey with record of over
55 pounds of butterfat a month for
many months, her highest yield for
any one month being slightly less than
70 pounds. AS star member of a
herd in the Eastern Panhandle Cow
Testing Association, she was a big
factor in the production that placed
the Association second in standing
among all the associations east of
Ohio. The cow was ten years old.
The Spirit of Jefferson by an I'M
intentional oversight neglected to
mention the displays of c. F. Wall
and the C. F. Wall Company at the
Fall Festival. They had a very
creditable display of feeds, seeds and
necessary articles in their line on the
show cattle, bought of Charles Grit
fifth in Montgomery county, Mary
land, at Is cents pound on the hoof.
In the big parade on Tuesday night
their meat display was exception
ally good, as was their display of
wool from the Allegheny mountains.
The oxen used in "The Days of AZ"
exhibit were from the Sewanee
River. The C. F. Wall Company
and c.. F. Wall are always right up
to-date and can always be counted on
| for a creditable exhibit.
1t is with pleasure that we an
nounce a new agency in this and sur
rounding counties for the Nu-Ex
| Fire Appliances. Mr.. L. D. Nichols
of Harpers Ferry, was in town last
week and has a very good fire ex-
tinguisher on the market which bust
ness men, store keepers, factory and
garage men will be interested IN.
There are several types for homes
and business houses as well as for
automobiles. Nuexolene the liquid
that is used will not deteriorate, Will
not diminish it's strength. This
liquid will not stain the finest fabrics
and bears the underwriters labora-
tories stamp of approval upon the ex-
tinguisher. There are openings for
several youngmen, ambitious for get
ting into the sale field of this high
class specially. See advertisement
elsewhere in this issue.
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