Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-06
MONTEREY, FRIDAY AUG. 8, 1920

Miss Kemp from Norfolk is visit
ing Miss Genoa Swecker.
Misses Curry and Bowman OF
staunton are visiting Mrs. A. S.
Walden.
Miss Lucy Hiner, of Baltimore, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Han
sci.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Crummett, OF
Little Egypt, were in Monterey We'd
nesday. .....
Miss Ann Wilton, Of Waynesboro,
attended Chautauqua, and was guest
of Mrs. H. B. Wood. She returned
home today.
Rev. A. Vandevender, wife and
children, of Shenandoah, Va, who
have been visiting relatives en- Back
Creek, passed through town this
morning on their way home.
Mrs. R. B. Campbell who was very
i'll for several days last week, is re-
ported better
Mrs. c. A. Blakemore and two
children, of Staunton, are spending
the week with the formers sister,
Miss Emma Peaco.s
Miss Clara Warwick was passen-
ger on the Pullin Incoming automo-
bile last Monday, and will visit her
father and sister in Monterey.
Max Sullenberger, of Hammond,
w. Va, is visiting his Highland rel
atives, having arrived here Monday.
The case of Jno. Robson VS.. Mary
NJ Brown was decided in vocation
since the July term in favor CT the
plaintiff.
Miss Loula McNeer, teacher in the
Morris Harvey College, Barbours-
vile, w. Va, is spending short va
cation at the home of her brother,
Rev. R. D. McNeer, Methodist par
sonage, Monterey.
William Simmons, who volunteered
for one year with the regular army
after the world war, is at home, his
term of enlistment having expired.
He is son Of Mrs. J. H. Samples, of
Strait Greek.
The Mcclure will case that was
set for trial at Franklin last week
has been continued until the Deem
Der term, on account Of the absence
of some of the witnesses.
Mr.. and EIrs. J. P. Lunsford and
little daughters, Virginia and Nancy
Lee, of Pompton Lakes, N. j., are
visiting their parents and other rela-
tives in Monterey.
Miss Rachel Ogilvie, who holds a
government position in Washington,
is in Monterey on her summer Vaca-
ton, arriving Saturday night.
The hay-harvest is in full swing
this week. The crop, which two
months ago gave such poor promise.
must be fairly good, because we hear
no special complaint.
The chautauqua season brought a
number of visitors to town from all
sections, some to remain during the
festive week, others coming and go
ing.
Rev. C. r Lacy, formerly pastor
of the Franklin Presbyterian church
and now located at Glade Spring,
Va, spent Sunday in Monte
rey and preached for the Presbyter-
ian congregation at II o'clock.
DR. C B Fox returned Sunday after
noon from a short visit to his old
home, Shadwell Va, accompanied by
Mrs. Fox and children, who had pre-
ceded him or a visit to the Valley
and other points east.
Road work on the Meadow Dale.
section has been suspended until af-
ter hay-harest, foreman James Gum
finding it impossible to get men and
teams during the busy season. The
grade from the bridge to H. H. Sla-
VS. ven's residence is now complete and
ready for the limestone Gaping.
James H. Eevener was in town the
other day and reports the growth of
a stalk of corn. He had heard Of a
Pocahontas man who had measured
the growth or corn stalk for one day
and it grew Fine inches skyward. Mr.
Hevener as al experiment measured a
stalk for five days and nights and it
grew 27 inches. At this rate how
long would it take to have "rosen
ears?
Louie Dawson, colored, a tenant
on L. Homer Stephenson's farm, was
the victim of singular accident while
at work in the hay-meadow last week
He was pitching hay to the top of
stock, when q jagged rock weighing
several pounds that had been raked
up with the nay, fell from his fork
and Strrck him m the head He