Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-09-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

~ painted and lettered.
A band of gypsies have been camp.
ing on North Mildred street in Ran.
son, for the past several days.
Mr.. d. S. Hughes has sold his
property corner of Washington and
Johnson streets to Mr.. C. L. Haines
The fire companies were called on,
yesterda yby the burning out of 4
chimney at the residence Of Mr.
Philip Dorsey on West Liberty street
| 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.
| Miss Lillian Stump who formerly
taught In the Charles Town graded
school and has been engaged in
school work in Kansas the past two
years, is teaching this year at FL
Dorado in the Sunfiower State.
Mr. E. Zmobro, of near GAYLORD
has purchased the Brown property
on North Main street in Winchester
Tor $500 cash. Mr.. Zombro
brought the property for an invest
ment.
t Lieut.. L. o. Shut who has been
with the 4Tth Infantry regiment at
Camp Lewis, State of Washington,
since July, has been assigned to the
35th Infantry. His regiment was
ordered to Honolulu, Hawaiian Is
lands, about September 1st.
The Moore Insurance and Realty
Company negotiated tn esale of the
O'Bryan dwelling owned by Hyman
Wiener, near the postoffice in Ransom.
Henry Miller was the purchaser, the
consideration being $4,000. He will
get possession of it next April.
| The annual jefferson County Sun
day School Convention will be held
at kabletown November Sd and 4th.
President j. ID. Muldoon is already
engaged in preparing for an interest
ing and helpful convention.
There will be large political
meeting in the public square at Mar
tinsburg next Saturday September
10Th at a p. m. Hon. Newton D.
Baker, Secretary of War and Col.
Forrest w. Brown, candidate for
Congress from this District will make
addresses.
The Miller Lumber Company has
acquired two more bodies of timber
in the county. A tract of Is acres
has been bought of 7. o. Everhart on
the old Turner farm near Kearneys-
vile. and one of the same size on the
farm of Mrs. Annie Johnson, east of
Leetown. Saving operations have
been started on both tracts.
Millville has made gratifying prog
ress. Some funds have been accumu-
lated, and a site has been donated by
Mr.. Baker, president of the Standard
Lime and Stone Company. Those
promoting the improvement hope to
be in position to erect a building in
the spring. Services have been held
in the school house there for a num-
Der of years.
George w. Coils, well known
thresherman of Leetown, was
brought to the Charles Town Hos
pital last Wednesday afternoon to
have an injured leg treated. He was
struck by motor truck driven by
Granville Macatee, of Charles Town
on the Leetown road near the j. E.
/ Watson farm, the ligaments about
the knee joint of his right leg being
torn from their normal position.
Miss Virginia Daily, daughter of
Mr.. E. W. Daley, of Shepherdstown,
and Mr.. Charles c. Robinson, of War
rem county, Va, were married last
Thursday afternoon at home of the
bride, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. ], H. Haley, of the M. E.
church South. The groom is tele-
graph operator for the Norfolk q
! Western Railway at Front Royal,
and the bride is che of Shepherds
towns most popular young ladies.
Friends will join in every good wish
for their future happiness. They
will reside at Front Royal.
The Eastern Convocation of the
Episcopal Church of the diocese of
West Virginia will convene in the
church at Leetown Tuesday evening
of this week, September 21st, at 7:30
o'clock, and will continue in session
throughout Wednesday and Thursday
| Business sessions will be held morn
! ing and afternoons, and at 4 O'Clock
each day devotional services will be
held. At the evening sessions, which
begin at 7.30 o'clock, addresses will
be delivered on special subjects. On
Wednesday at noon the ladies of the
church will serve luncheon, to which
are invited members of the convoca-
tion and all visiting friends. Bishop
| Gravatt will be present at the con-
vocation. The people generally are
cordially invited to attend the ses-
sions.
The prospects for the election OF
Col. Forrest w. Brown to Congress
from this district are exceedingly
bright. and there is no doubt that he
will run strong in the republican
strongholds of the districts. There
fore all that is necessary to insure
Ibis election is that the voters in the
Democratic Districts do not snirK
their duty but turn out IN 1uli Iorce
on election day. So let the men and
the newly enfranchised women OF
jefferson County, who Will feel a
pride in having their brilliant ana
able son of old Jefferson represent,
them in the Congress of the unlteo
States, turn out enmass on the Sec
ond of November next and roll UP a
majority for him and the entire Demo
cratic ticket that will keep Jefferson
County far in the lead as the Dnanei
Democratic County of the district
Richard Welsh, aged 10 years, sor
of Albert Welsh, near Kabletown
was kicked in the face by work horse
ON Rouss Brothers farm there a few
J DAYS ago. His skull was fractured
and jaw bone broken, the upper teetl
on one side of his face being knocked
, out. The horse kicked the boy short
lv after it was unhitched from pio"
at the end of days work. His father
had gotten on the animal to ride e
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