Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-10-07
LOCAL COLUMN.

bougnI new Chevrolet truck from
the Charles Town Garage.
The manager of the Great Freaar
lex Fair has employed C. F. Wall -
judge the sheep and hogs and award
the premiums. y
Mrs. Virginia Souders slipped ON
an apple peeling at her home ves+a al
day, sustaining injuries to her hi,
wrist from the fall. p
Mrs. Edmond Taylor will occrn,,
the Wynkoop residence this w;ntars
Mrs. Winkoop expects to spend A.
winter in Washington. ny
DIR. and Mrs. Hildreth have lo.soa
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Alexander and will move there
for the winter months.
Mr.. W. w. johnson ~bas f;p;sbaa
painting the Club House on the VIZ
ginia side of the SHENANDOAH r;var
below Harpers Ferry.
Shepherdstown seems to he wall
supplied with sugar just now. Mr. {
l.. Cooley, a merchant there. hav;no
received car load from the govern.
ment.
The Hotel Jefferson reports a verv
profitable summer. There are no
better accommodations to be found
anywhere in the Valley than at the
jefferson.
Smiths Greater United Shows will
exhibit on the Goetz lot the week of
October IL to Is, for the benefit of
the Citizens Fire Company Truck
Fund. Come out and help us buv
the new truck.
Announcement has been made of
the approaching marriage of Miss
Francis Bradley, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. N. Bradley, to Howard
Sechrist. The wedding will take
place October rs.
Miss Mrgaret Schlich and Miss
Margaret Muller, expert instructors.
from Baltimore, are here as instruc-
tors for the Town Mfg. Company.
The company now have twenty-five
young ladies under instruction, and
are taking more on each week.
A telegram was received here last
week from Capt. and Mrs. H. C. Get
zendaner stating that their daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Williams, was
buried in Oakland California. The
names given to the twin sons sur
viving are Henry Clay and George
Morgan.
Mr.. G. E. Lancaster who has been
acting postmaster at Summit Point
during the absence of the regularly
postmaster, Mr.. Randolph
Colston, who was drafter into the army
and served some months in France,
vacated the office October 1, in favor
of Mr.. Colston who was discharged
from the army about month ago.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Harry Johnson and Katherine
Russ, Charles Town; Robert Gatrell
Stuart and Martha Jane Cummings,
both of Harpers Ferry; Thomas My
ers and Caroline Lion, of Clarke
county, Va Rutherford B Thompson,
Newport News, Va, and Elizabeth
Butler Boswell, of Shepherdstown.
Diptheria has broken out in the
school a tMechanicstown and it has
been closed because of the outbreak
Children in two families in the neigh
borhood have been sick and physi-
clans in charge pronounced the NAL
ady dyptheria, at the same time or
dering that a district quarantine be
observed. Several cases of the di-
sease are reported in the neighbor-
hood of Millville also.
1t. Logan Shut enroute to an
army camp in Georgia, stopped off in
Charles Town long enough for a
short visit to his parents, County
Commissioner and Mrs. Logan B.
Shut, at Kabletown. Lieut.. Shut
arrived from overseas last week after
an absence of three months. He had
been abroad with large contingent
of his class men of the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point to inspect
the battlefelds of France and Bel
GUM.
Lawson Bolts Chapter, U. d. c.,
will meet at the home of the Misses
Campbell Tuesday, October 14th, at
8 D. m. The Twenty-Sixth Annual
Convention fthe United Daughters
of the Confederacy will convene in
the city of Tampa, Florida, on Wed
nesday, November 18th. The fol-
lowing delegates and alternates were
elected by Lawson Bolts Chapter:
Delegates Mrs. R. P. Chew, Mrs.
]. j. Wysong, Miss Ora Tomlinson;
Alternates Mrs. G. M. Beltzhoover
Miss Frances Campbell, Miss Chris
tine Washington.
A new dairy barn, 76 by sc feet, IS
being built on Woodbury. farm owned
bv Col. r. P. Chew, six miles north OF
town. The new barn will be scrupu,,
lousy sanitary in every detail, and VIII
accommodate forty or fifty mixers.
Near the barn a new silo is IN course
of construction-large enough to hold
80 tons of silage. Contractor FRED
NJ. Myers, of Middleway, is dong the
work. Mr.. Myers also has the CON
tract for two double corn-cribs both TO
be completed this fall, one OF them
being for ]. N. linn, on the wyatt
farm north of town, the other Tor ..
Truman Roper on the Berryvllie PIKE
south of town.