Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-09-13
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Shenandoah Junction.
Mr.. Bane Brown has accepted the
agency for Jefferson County of the
Hupmobilc and Gardner automobile
Mrs. o. L. NJ. Wiltshire has been
appointed teacher of the Pine Grove
school in Kabletown District.
The old tin shop building on West
Main street, formerly occupied by B.
F. Dooley is being torn down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Stonsifer are
the proud parents of another little
girl born last Sunday morning.
! A baby boy arrived in the family
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Fadeley at
their home in Ransom on Saturday,
August Bird.
Mrs. C. P. Miley is a patient in the
City Hospital, Martinsburg, where
she underwent an operation for APP
pendicitis Tuesday morning.
The Housekeepers Alliance will
meet at the Court House Thursday,
September 18th at 1880 P. M. A
| full attendance is desired.
Mr.. C. w. Taylor has new adj
vertisement in this issue calling at
tention to the latest monograph
records just received by him. Read
it.
The Charles Town District Board
of Education has appointed Mr..
Jack" Seldom to teach the public
school at Bardane. He will begin
work there on Monday.
New concrete pavements are being
laid in front of the residence of Mr..
Rawley Dunaway on East Washing
ton street and Eby Brothers and d.
S. Hughes and Brother on West
Washington Street.
Mrs. George Hough was taken to
the Charles Town Hospital Friday
and underwent serious operation
Saturday. The report from the hos
pital says she is getting along as well
as could be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bunting expect to
move this Fall into an apartment in
Mrs. Jackson's residence and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Wilson will take posses
sion of the house vacated by the
Buntings.
The finishing touches were put on
the completed portion of the Berry
Vile pike last week, with a coating of
oil, several tank cars of oil having
arrived for the purpose. The old
pike looks like new now from near
Gibsontown' to the top of the hill
north of Beulah Church.
Mr.. Earl Rodeffer, of near Hall
town, who served as a private in the
artillery service in the World War is
taking treatment for rheumatism at
the hospital at Fort McHenry, near
Baltimore, going down every few
weeks. His ailment was contracted
when in service in France. :
Mrs. Clara Young announces the
marriage of her daughter, Helen, to
Nj. Fred Mason Riddleberger, on
Saturday, August 9th, 1921, Can
ton, Ohio They will be at home af-
ter September LIST, Cleveland, Ohio.
The groom is the only son of Mrs.
Florence Riddlebe-ger, of Charles
Town.
Roy w. Hooe, Charles Town boy
was in the crew of one of the bomb
ing planes that took part in the re-
connoitering for the U. S. troops en-
gagged in quelling disorders in Logan
and Mingo counties the past week.
The airplanes went to the scene of
the West Virginia war from Langley
Field, near Norfolk.
Miss Ora Thomlinson and Mrs.
Frank Manning were delegates to the
State Convention CT the U. d. G.
which met in Keyser, W. Va, last
week. Fairmont gets the next U. d.
c. State Convention. During the
Convention at Keyser Pilgrimage
was made to Romney where the first
Confederate Monument was erected.
The firm of Zinn & Janney, engag-
ed in the plumbing business in
Charles Town for the past several
years, has been dissolved, Mr.. linn
quitting the business. Mr.. linn has
been succeeded by Mr. Gordon Bald
win, son of Mr.. w. H. Baldwin. The
new firm will be Janney & Baldwin.
They will continue the business.
The new member of the firm has been
designer for the Pangborn Corpor-
alton in Hagerstown, Md.
What is probably the deepest well
in the county has just been complet-
ed for Mr.. R. T. Browse, at his new
farm buildings on the Duffields road,
three miles northeast of town. 1t is
400 feet deep. All but twelve feet
! en- the surface was drilled through
rock A small stream was encount-
cred at a depth of about 100 feet.
This not giving the required supply,
the drilling was continued without
striking water in sheer drop OF 3O0
feet.
Nathan Bradley, aged IA years,
son of Rev. and Mrs. w. II. Bradley
of near Leetown, was brought to the
Charles Town Hospital Wednesday
evening, suffering from a severe
scalp wound. The lad was struck on
the head by part of the blower pipe
of an ensilage machine which came
off while the machine was In opera
ton. 1t was at first feared that ms
skull was fractured by the blow, but
after an examination at the hospital
his physicians said his injuries were
less serious.
A beautiful engraved Certificate
and Receipt were given to each per
son donating $1.00 toward the JET
ferson Davis monument erected a
Fairview, Kentucky. The certificate
has a good picture of Jefferson Dawn
; and also the monument which is 80
feet high, the second highest monu
ment in the world and resembles tn
, Washington Monument at Washing
ton, D. C. The Lawson Bolts Chap
ter u. D. C. here appreciates tn
quick, and willing response OF tn
, people, solicited and soon raised thei
quote of Subscriptions.
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