Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-04-08
LOCAL COLUMN.

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short notice.
Sixteen suits were brought in the
Jefferson Circuit Court at Anr;l
Rules, which is an unusual number
for one Rule Day.
DR.. Hildreth will move from Mans
field to Mrs. George oysters resi-
dence on Washington street, about
the middle of April.
If you are not subscriber of the
Spirit of Jefferson, why not. Send
us dollar for years subscription
and let us enter your name at once.
At the regular meeting of the Citv
Council last night the Mayor and all
Councilmen were present. ONLY
business of a routine nature was
transacted.
Mr.. John w. Irwin has bought the
handsome dwelling of Mrs. S. Howell
| Brown on South Mildred street for
5, $50. The sale was made through
the Moore Insurance and Realty Co.
The United States Civil Service
! Commission has announced an exami-
nation in Charles Town April 12.
1919, at 80 a. M, to fill the position
of rural mail carrier at Harpers Ferry
and Kearneysville.
The Potomac Commandery Knights
Templar will hold their Easter service
this year in Zion Episcopal church.
These exercises are always interest
ing. A large choir is preparing spec
ial music for the occasion.
The boys of the Charles Town Club
did fine at their first appearance at
the Opera House on Friday night.
Their entertainment certainly did
them credit as we'll as their Instruc-
tors Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Baker.
The Ladies of the Aid Society will
serve Tea, Chocolate and Coffee, on
Wednesday afternoon of this week,
April 9th, at the Presbyterian Chapel.
Also sandwiches, cake, &c. Hours
from 4 to 6. All are invited to at
tend.
The body of Edward Rockenbaugh
a former citizen of Haltown neighbor-
hood was brought from his late resi-
dence in Baltimore Tuesday morning
and was met by friends and relatives
and taken to Fairview Cemetery, West
Bolivar and buried.
A Junior Red Cross unit of forty
four members has been organized at
the Mt. Hope School. The following
officers were elected: Miss Hall
Chairman; Cora Jackson, secretary;
Bertha Johnson, treasurer. The Unit
was named Little Helpers" 1t has
$3016 in the treasury.
Pupils neither absent nor tardy at
Mt Hope for the month of March
were as follows: Dorothy Hough,
Clara Jackson, Virginia Stewart, Har-
~ Bell Melvin Barron, Harry Hough,
Clarence Marlow, Theodore Hough,
Harold NARROW, Rudolph Ware, Dav-
id Hough, Woodrow Walters.
The old Taylor Joe Brown house
recently purchased by Mr.. G. F.
Conklyn on Liberty street is being
torn down. We understand this
house was among the oldest in town,
being built by Tayloe Joe Brown over
century ago. Mr.. Conklyn viii
erect a brick building instead to be
A farmers meeting that is being
anticipated with much interest will
be held in the school house at Shen-
andoah Junction next Friday night,
the 18th. In addition to the regular
program four minute talks will be
made by local speakers on the League
of Nations. Mr. Richard Belts, of
Waynesboro, will preside at the piano
In the Eastern Panhandle Cow
Testing Association a Jersey COW
in the herd owned by E. D. Conklyn,
is shown to have made yield of 77.0
pounds of butterfat for March. This
is probably the highest test ever made
by cow owned by members of the
association. Mr.. Conklyn is the own
er of four other cows that yielded
44.4, 45.7, 1873, and and 42.1 pounds
respectively.
A number of friends and neighbors
gave a surprise party at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Johnson, near
Oakland Church Tuesday night, April
i. The day was the 25th anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson's marriage
and while the principals had forgot
ten that it was their wedding anniver-
sary, their friends had not, and by
their presence manifested their IN
terest in the celebration of it.
Relatives in the county were no.
titled Monday of the death of Mr.. ).
NJ. Douglass Brown, for years a resi-
dent here, at his home in Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana. The report of his
death gave no details. Mr.. Brown
was a brother of the late S. Howell
Brown, former surveyor of this
county He had resided in the West
and South for more than twenty
wears. He leaves a wife and daughter
in the South.
Dr.. Horace M. Banks, of Shepherds
town has located in Charles Town
for the practice of medicine. For the
present he and Mrs. Banks are occu-
pyng an apartment in the ST. George
building, having moved here on We'd.
nesday. DR.. Banks is a graduate OF
the medical school of the Johns Hop
l1ns University, Baltimore. His tram
ing there has been supplemented oy
two years experience in hospitals IN
Baltimore and several months In the
army.
Mr.. Theodore Dooley a native OF
Charles Town, and Confederate vet
eran died suddenly of heart trouble
at his home in Mansfield, Ga. Mr..
Dooley was a member of Gilmore e ;
Battalion, Confederate Army. ne
was seventy-two years OF age
Besides his wife and family in Georg3,
ia he leaves the following sisters ana
brothers.: Mrs. w. A. Young, Mrs.
f. V. Kercheval, and Mrs. Maggie
Saunders, and Mr.. John Dooley OF Of
Berryville; Mr.. Frank Dooley, Oh
Charles Town and Mr.. E. Z. Dooley'
of Colombus, Ohio.
The Athletic Association OF tne
Charles Town High School is ready
for the base ball season with a num- nun n
Der of interesting games scheduled
New suits are among the equipment
that its ball team will take prlde. IN N