Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-09-16
LOCAL COLUMN.

Mr.. ana MrS. norman T.. Johnston
have taken apartments in the Bank
of Charles Town building.
Palmbaum's store will be closed
Thursday and Friday, September 25
nd 26. Also Saturday, October q.
A number of people from Charles
Town will motor to Washington to-
morrow to witness the parade of the
famous 1st Division.
Miss Eva Phillips, who taught last
year in Rockingham county, Va, has
secured position in the public school
at Chester, w. Va, north of Wheel
ing, and will teach there the coming
year.
A social event of interest on We'd
nesday September II, 1919, at high
noon, will be the marriage of Miss
Lorraine Annette Murphy to Lieut..
Colonel Robert Howe Fletcher, Jr..
U. S. A.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. T.SW. Reed
on Sunday last at the Charles Town
Hospital, son. Mrs. Reed is a
daughter of the late Eugene Shugart.
of Harpers Ferry.
Miss Ida Hall, the tacher, will hold
an ice cream and pie social at Mt
Hope School House, Mechanicstown.
on Friday night September 10, for
the benefit of the Junior Red Cross.
Public cordially invited.
The Belvue Orchard Company. five
miles out the Summit Point road, is
having a macadam road made from
the county road through the orchard
to the packing house. The distance
is about $50 yards.
The Wornan's Club of Harpers
Ferry District, will begin the after
noon meeting (2:30 p. n.y. at the club
room, September 10. A good atten-
dance is requested as important BUSH
ness must be attended to.
Mr.. Joseph Glassford who has been
the plumber and meter reader for the
Charles Town Gas Company for the
past eleven years has resigned, and
Tuesday entered the employ of the
Northern Virginia Power Company.
Mr.. B. c. Rely. who has sold his
Conrad farm near the Bloomery, will
make a sale of his personal property
consisting of live stock and house
hold goods, on Tuesday, October 21,
1919. See advertisement in Spirit of
Jefferson next week.
DR.. ]. M. Chamberlin, Optometrist,
of Martinsburg, will be at the Palm
Hotel Wednesday September oath,
from 10 a. M, to p. m. He will be
prepared to make a thorough exami-
nation of. your eyes and furnish
glasses if necessary.
The Rev. DR.. Philip Cooke, of st.
Michaels and All Angels Church, Bal
timore, Md, will speak in Mass
Meeting in the Parish House on Main
street, Wednesday and Thursday
nights of this week at 8 o'clock.
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend.
The old Bank of Charles Town prop
erty with large brick residence on
it at the corner of Washington and
Lawrence streets has been sold
by the Bank to Mr.. R. w. Dunaway.
The lot has frontage of 481s feet on
Washington street and runs back a
distance of 1874 feet.
Messrs. C. N. and William Starry
and sisters moved from their farm one
mile north of town to the d. c. Strider
residence property on East Washing
ton street, Charles Town. Mr..
and Mrs. Strider at the same time
transferred their place of residence to
the Beckwith Apartments.
Among those attending the 34th
Triennial Conclave of Knights Tenn
plar at Philadelphia last week from
Jefferson county were: Sir Knight,
Chas. A, Johnson, Charles Town; j.
S. Welsheimer, R. Rion Lucas, Chas.
R. Owens, Shepherdstown; Walter
Wilt and j. w. Hoffman, Kearneys-
vile; Milton w. Burr, Bardane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Harrison Baird
have issued invitations to the mar
riage of their daughter, Elizabeth
Brooks, to Rev. Francis John Brooke,
Jr. The wedding will take place on
Thursday September 25, at 4 O'Clock
in the Second Presbyterian church at
Norfolk, Va. Rev. Brooke is the only
son of Rev. Dr. F. ]. Brooke, of Rom
ney, W. Va.
Ownership of the Conrad farm OF
II acres at the Bloomery this county
has been changed. B. c. Rely made
sale of it to ]. M. Trapnell at inquire
not made public. Mr.. Trapnell Will
be allowed to sow the wheat crop on
the farm this fall. Mr.. Rely has
bought farm in Maryland. The sale
was negotiated through the w. y
| Norris agency.
Phil Porterfeld, two miles north OF
Charles Town, has female Collie dog
that has adopted four orphan pigs thai
are showing surprising thrift under
the nuture of their foster mother. The
mother of the pigs died when they
were only a day old. About the same
time Mr.. Porterfeld sold litter OF
young puppies from the mother dog
and the latter was easily induced &c
adopt the pigs.
The big revival which has been IN
| progress at the Kabletown M. h
Church conducted by Rev. DR.. Lee
Starke, noted Evangelist of Brook
| lvn, N. Y. came to close Sunday
night by an eloquent sermon by DR.
Starke, on "The Second Coming OF
Christ" Large crowds have been at
tending the meetings and much inter
est has been shown. The meeting re-
suited in large number OF converts
Mrs. j. w. Irwin received phone
message from Washington yesterda!
stating that her sister Mrs. Denny
Waters had been badly injured IN an
automobile accident, the car oyer
turning in some way. Mrs. Waters
was picked up in an unconscious con
dition and hurried to hospital. mrs
Cookus, another sister of winchester
went Immediately to be with her.
Bv advertisement in this weeks
issue of the Spirit of jefferson Mr
$. Fl. Lands announces that ne VII
close out his business in Char rI
Town. We understand that mr.
Lands expects to sell his real estate
here and move to Florida. Mr. Ian
dis is one of our most successful ahe
popular business men, and he ana M
family have host of friends VINO VII
sincerely regret their decision q q
leave our community and will WIS.,
them every happiness and prosperity
in their new location.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown H.. hlsslel
| na,,13v x,,eds were given a mlScellaie