Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-09-14

Halltown Is improving rapidlv
Ground has been broken for anothsr
new store building for Mr.. Garland
OFT.
/ The Junior Auxiliary of the Sum.
NIT Point Episcopal Sunday
School will hold a lawn party on Fri.
day evening, September II. Attend
and bring four friends.
Mrs. Nettie holland will have her
millinery opening on Friday and Sat
urday, September "a and rs. to which
the public is most cordially invited
See her advertisement in another
column.
Mr.. B. H. Riddleberger has re-
turned from a business trim to Naw
York City, where he purchased a fun
line of fall and winter millinery and
other seasonable goods for his hic
department stores in the st. George
building.
Mr.. w. G. Campbell, while WORKING
with surveying crew at Millville last
Saturday morning fell in one of the
pits that are being constructed To
set the big turbine wheels there. q
distance of fifteen feet, spraining his
right wrist and sustaining minor in
juries.
Roy Reed, colored, who is wanted
in Charles Town for stealing a num-
Der of cattle from Mr.. Marshall
Burns, some months ago, was arrest
ed in Atlantic City on Monday, Sept.
6. He will be brought here for trial
as soon as the necessary papers can
be executed.
c. D. Carter, one of Bakerton,s
most enterprising residents, has cree
ted business building at that place
and will open a general merchandise
store within the next week or two.
Bakerton is live little town and as
the lime works are now running at
full blast, business is very brisk.
The Union religious services on
Sunday night at the Chautauoua
Tent were conducted by Rev. T. M.
Swami of the M. E. Church South.
Dr.. J. II. Lacy, of the Winchester
Presbyterian Church, delivered the
sermon. Miss Frances Campbell
presided at the organ and Mr.. C. w.
Taylor led the singing.
The WO Norris real estate agency
has sold the Mount Hammond Farm.
lying in the southeastern part of the
county, belonging to Mr.. William T.
Roper, to Mr.. George M. Hough, at
the price of $14,500. This is the
fourth farm that Mr.. Hough has pur-
chased through this agency in the last
eight years, and it only goes to show
what an enterprising man can do with
Jefferson county land.
Notice of suit has been filed in the
County Clerks Office by the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Com
pany, of Baltimore against C. B.
Wentzell, of Harpers Ferry, for $4,000
with interest from March IS, 1916.
The notice also gives the information
that the building and lot known as the
old Presbyterian church. property on
Shenandoah street, HarperS Ferry
will be attached and sold to satisfy
the claim that is the basis of the suit
Sharpsburg, Md, will have big
day on Friday, September 18th, when
the New York State monument on the
battlefield, near the Dunkard Church
will be unveiled. A number of dis
tinguished men and many veterans
who fought in that great battle will
be present, and it is expected that the
occasion will be one of the most i'm
portant held on the battlefield in
many years. The veterans will re-
main couple of days. The State of
New York has made an appropriation
I1xv 60 +ho
nected with the ceremonies, includ-
ing the entertainment of the veterans
The Sharpsburg people will take care
of couple of hundred of the old
soldiers.
A large manufacturing building at
Millville has been finished and turned
over to the Standard Stone and Lime
Company. The exterior is very
handsome and the interior of the
building, so well equipped with its
massive machinery, is awesome as
one gazes upon the results of the
brain of man to conceive OF such
works. 1t is well worth the trip to
Millville to see it. This plant is one
of the only four of its kind IN the
world and it is almost inconceivabie
that it can be operated by 1--WE are
told) only eight men, so well has IT
been completed. This saving of man
power aids in relieving the congestion
of laborers, thus giving the men an
opportunity to go back to the farm
if they will. Millville is improving
very much all around the vicinity and
one of the most attractive features
is the playground recently fitted up