Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-12-09
LOCAL COLUMN.

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mers cars and Maxwell trucks
VIM. T. Ramey, formerly of thi,
county, bought the old Stone farm il
Clarke county, at public sale in Berry.
vile, Saturday at $106 an acre. The
farm has 268 acres in it.
Thornton Perry who was a Lieuten
ant in the aviation service in France
in the World War is now in the EN-.
ploy of the Goodrich Rubber Company
and is in Newark, New Jersey.
Mr.. C. T. Shugart, the well-known
Dry Goods Merchant, has new dou-
BILE column advertisement in this
issue. Read it and see what he has
to say about Christmas goods.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lynch, of the
Halltown neighborhood, are the proud
parents of a son. The little fellow
was born, Friday, November %, and
bears the name of George Lynch, Jr
If you don't know what to send
that absent friend or relative for a
Christmas Gift, send him or her the
Spirit of Jefferson for one year. We
are sure that your gift would be
greatly appreciated fifty-two times
during the year.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
nation for the County of Jefferson
to be held at Charles Town on Jan
uary 10, 1920, to fill the position Of
rural carrier at Kearneysville.
Mr.. Raymond William Fries and
Miss Mamie Ardella James, of
| Charles Town, were married in Mar
tinsburg on November 20, at the
Baptist Parsonage by Rev. DIR. Tay-
lar. The happy young couple will
make their home in Charles Town.
Regular meeting of The Eastern
Panhandle Medical Society will be held
at Harpers Ferry, w. Va, Wednesday,
December 10th, 1919, at IL o'clock a.
m. Programme:-Ocu Lessons due
to Focal Infections, Dr. Hunter H. Nc
CURE; Men and Microbes, DR.. w. w.
| Brown.
The store room in the Dalgarn
building at the corner of Main and
Lawrence streets, Charles Town, has
been leased by Mr.. H. E. Jackson, of
Front Royal, who will open a bakery
Town will then have two bakeries for
the first time in about ten years.
Work is now being done on a new
electric power line from the power
plant near Millville through Harpers
Ferry. Brunswick, and jefferson, Md,
to Braddock Heights, Nd, where it
will connect with the line of the Hag-
erstown and Frederick Railway Com
pany which now owns the Millville
power plant.
Capt. Marshall w. Mcdonald is in
the service of the Nebraska Public
Roads Commission. His headquarters
have been at David City, that state,
for the greater part of the autumn.
When winter weather forces a suspen
sion of road work, he will go to Lin
coin for Office work for the Commits
sion this winter.
NOTICE:-The ladies of Grace P.
E. Church, Middleway, will hold sale
of Fancy Articles suitable for Christ
mas Gifts, ETC., with supper and light
refreshments to be served during the
evening of December 10th. A cordial
welcome will be extended to all who
will come. Don't forget the date,
,, Wednesday, December 10th.
Messrs. Frank and John Appel are
remodeling the old Presbyterian
Church building at Harpers Ferry
for the interviewer Mills of Martins
burg. In tearing out the gallery
they came across a board with the
following inscription on it. Noah
Chamblin, Co. /. Post g." which was
probably written by soldier during
the war.
Charged with the larceny of lum-
Der from a Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road train at Shenandoah Junction,
three brothers, Charles, William and
Oliver Manuel, of that place, were ar
rested last Wednesday by Lieutenant
of Police Thomas C. Barnard and Pa
! trolman S. o. Anglin, of the railroad
police At hearing at Martlnsburg
the men were admitted to bond for
further hearing.
Mr.. ]. Albert Link has enlarged his
farm a short distance north OF Duf-
fields through the purchase of 63 acres
from DR.. VIM. J. Melvin. The tract
purchased adioins Mr.. Links farm on
! the north. He paid S125 an acre for
it. DR.. Melvin has bought the inter-
ests of the other heirs in the Stone
house farm owned by his brother, the
late Harry L. Melvin, east of Dufflelds
The latter place has about 100 acres
in it.
DR.. Benjamin F. Haines, of New
Castle. Pa, will shortly locate IN
Charles Town. DIR. Haines is grad
uate of the jefferson Medical Col
lege, of Philadelphia, and the Navy
Medical School, Washington, ID. u
After graduating he practiced IN NC
Allister, Oklahoma, and at the out,
break of the war entered the Unlteo
States Army, serving twelve months
in the A. E. F. with an antl-alrcrai'
machine gun battalion and later II
one of the large base hospitals II
France.
w A. Gallaher, a telephone engln
eer. representing the West Virginia
Public Service Commission has beel
in the county several days inspect
ing the plant and lines of the Jener
son County Telephone Company. III
work here was to assemble data con
corning the company's plant and ser ser
vice for the information OF the Som
mission which now has under ADVISE $,
ment the Company's petition Tor Z. a
increase in rates. He examined IN
switch boards, the lines in many parIs
of the county, and at Intervals Iiiau
tests of the service being rendered.
A number of deaths have been re
ported among the colored people :
the county. William Houke who wa
stricken with paralysis Wednesaa:
died Friday morning. Judge lhohl
son, one of the oldest colored men .,
Charles Town passed away at u
home of his son James Th0mpsol
November 81, aged n years. hepec.
Green, aged "a years, died lueSaay
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