Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-02-27
MONTEREY, FRIDAY FEB. 81, 1920

A. L. Jones went out to Stanton
on Tuesday.
Richard Dudley, of Augusta, died
on Wednesday.
Highland is getting ready to sweet
en- up in March.
Mrs. H. B. Wood is this week num-
bered among the sick.
DR.. A. S. Walden has an attack of
rheumatism and is on crutches today.
Mrs. ]. H. Pruitt has been on the
sick list this week.
Mr.5and Mrs. A, ]. Halterman, of
Meadow Dale, were trading III town
Monday.
Mrs. Malinda Hire hes beca spend
ing some time with her Monterey
friends.
H. C. Lunsford went to Barlow
this week to unload some thorough
bred cattle received from Kentucky.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Wi
mer, of Lower Strait Creek, died on
Monday after an illness of two weeks
or more. IT,
The combined forces Of Jupiter
Pluvius and Old Sol have made slow
progress in removing the accumula-
ton of ice and sleet.
Several Montereyans attended the
funeral of Miss Elsie Terry, held on
Saturday last. Rev. Mr.. Thumrl, OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, con-
Quoted the service.
J. H. Pruitt has taken over the fire
insurance business Of ]. c. Mathney
and will open his Office in the one
formerly occupied by Willis Gibson,
as Co. Treasurer on South Spruce st.
Mrs. Mary Swadley, of Dayton, Va,
in company with Miss Hazel Terry,
came to Highland last Friday to be
present at Miss Elsie Terry's funeral
Mrs. Swadley formerly lived at Van
derpool.
Jacob E. Beverage, of Bath, was in
town Monday His father, ]. W..
Beverage, CT Strait Creek, who had
been on the sick list lately, was also
here on Monday accompanied by Mrs.
Beverage.
E. X. Rexrode, who has been spen
ding the winter in Southern Virgin
ia and North Carolina, returned to
his home in Crabbottom on Thurs
day.
Henry Hiner, of Mill Gap, came up
Wednesday to meet his son, EWell,
who is returning from Montana with
his bride CT few months. Mr.. HI
ner has been gone from Highland
about three years, spending part OF
that time in Canada.
A fire 1t the Beverly Hotel in
Staunton Tuesday evening resulted
in two deaths, the very serious
injury of several other guests
and a money damage estimated at
$4,000. Mrs. Dawson and Ed Alex
ander were overcome by smoke, found
unconcious and both hove since died.
The body of Soloman Wilson, son
of the late John B. Wilson, reached
Stanton from Gridley, H., on We'd
nesday and will be braught to Doe
Hill for burial No particulars of his
death are known here. He was a bro
Their of Mrs. Hubert Smith and Mrs.
Jonas Hevener, of HightoWn, and
has many other relatives in Highland.
Miss Alice Dever and Hubert Ry-
der, Dunsmcre students, came home
Wednesday, the D. B. c. having been
closed along with other schools and
public places On account of the flu
Staunton lifted the cid" on Thurs
day but shit it down again Monday
morning on account Of a fresh out
break of the disease.
A subscriber from far-off Texas
renewing this week, says he enjoys
his paper and notes big improve
mcnt in it. These little boquets toss
ed at a fellow occasionally are more
to be appreciated than a big floral
offering on his casket. He also said
that it has been raining down there
every day, With the exception of three
since Oct 1St. There's consolation In
this, too, to section chatting under
the domination Of the ground hof's
edict.
In the case of J. NJ. Swoope heirs
VS.. ]. M. Swoope's heirs, vacation
decree was entered this week con-
firming the sale to A. ]. Terry of $50
acres in Big Valley, for the sum OF
s1s,425.OO md to R. V. Van Horn,
of s44.45 acres in White Oak Draft,
for s5,3OO.0O. But the home place
of 1854 acres to D. N. Brown for ST.
600. 90 was not confirmed, the Special
Commissioners declining to recon-
80 +lo ,rorpd that the