Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-07-04
Highland Recorder
LOCAL NEWS
Brief News Notes-People at Home
and Abroad.
MONTERREY, VA, JULY 4, 1919


Coming to town on the 4th-every
body!
Paul Slaven is on a business trip
to Luray, Va.
Beautify the town by cleaning up
in front of your own premises.
Ebert Gum returned Monday from
a trip to Charleston, w. Va.
Miss Bess Bishop is on a visit to
relatives at Thomas, w. Va.
Miss Grace Hiner has been serious
ly i'll since early in the week, but is
now better.
C. A. Dickson, CT Trimble, made a
trip to Staunton this week, stopping
over night in Monterey with his
daughter, Mrs. C. S. Swadley.
Winston Herold, of West Virginia
is building E. B. Whitelaw's new
house on South Spruce.
Wartime prohibition will get John
Barleycorn on the go, so that his IL
nal going next January will not be
SO hard.
C. B. Kyle has opened boarding
house at the old Commercial hotel
stand.
= Sunday and Monday nights were
quite cool for June, the mercury go
ing down close to the frost line.
One Mccormick Binder for sale.
V. 3. Bishop
Mrs. F. NJ. Conrad and son, Homer
Earl, of Norfolk, Va, are registered
>at Hotel Monterey.
Cut it out! The grass and weeds
growing between the pavement ano
your yard fence. 1t makes yom
property look ragged.
Mrs. II. b. Wood is spending
while in Washington, the guest OF
relatives.
Miss May Slaven, of Princeton, w
Va, arrived at Monterey Monday al
ternoon and will spend vacation OF
several weeks with Monterey rela'
tives and friends.
lack Hoffman. Paul. Parks ant
Fred Gibson, of Parksburg, Pa, who
were visiting at Mcdowell last week
spent Saturday night at the home o.
Willis Gibson, Vanderpool.
We wish-to call the attention OF
the public to the sale of the proper
ty of the late Martha E. Keistel
decd which appears elsewhere in this
paper. It is to be held on Friday,
July rs, 1919 at the home place six
miles north east of Mcdowell, Va.
have put in my store sanitary
Fountain, modern and up-to-date in
every particular. Call in and get &
cool and refreshing drink, ice cream,
etc. R. NJ. TRIMDLE
Among the veterans coming early
to the unwilling were ]. c. Pruitt, OF
Pinckney, and Capt. S. A. Gimor, OF
Mill Gap, the former arriving Tues
day, the latter Wednesday.
Miss Mabel Hall from Davidson,
N. C. is visiting Misses Carrie Eggers'
and Ada Patterson at Garry On"
Cottage on Jackson's River
Miss Mary Ryder is spending her
summer vacation at her sisters Mrs.
Paul Pullin at Deerield.
John Gillespie had his arm broken
last week by the kick Of his Ford
truck. The accident occurred on Bull
Pasture mounain. The fracture was
Il bad one, both bones Of the arm be-
ing broken.
Landowners about town owe it to
their generation to put some lots on
the market. The policy of forever
holding on to the same lands is
mistaken one from every viewpoint.
1t kills the town, blocks progress and
drives our own people to other Sec
lions where the landowner is less
narrow and selfish. Il could, but
don't have to- is the position of some
and the viewpoint is a morrow. one.
Pure Linseed Oil, Dutch Boy White
Lead and a good line Of ready mixed
paints for sale by Highland Mer GO.
All he Monterey boys are back from
overseas except John E. Slayen, and
he was promised home leave July l.
R. C. Jones returned Monday from,
a short vacation at Atlantic City.
r. H. Crummett, Of Crabbottom,
attended the V. P. 1. finals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Waybright,
who have been visiting the formers
father in Crabbottom, returned Tues
day to their home in Fayette county,
w. Va. The fathers condition does
not show satisfactory Improvement.
4 younger son, Dennis Waybright
was over Tuesday and took back
with him a new Overland touring
car.