Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-12-20
LOCAL BRIEFS.

! Why mol come. III anu pay YOU
subscriptions up for the new year.
Nv w W. johnson butchered /
,ogs last week which weighed eigh
teen hundred pounds.
nv and Mrs. H. P. Cline have
3 Lareed their residence from News,
o r News, Va, to Miami, Florida.
I Tho Independent Fire Company
iii hold a Smoker in the Rouss Hal
w Thursday night, January 5, 1922,
/ Mr. Frank OFT and Miss Edna
voung. two popular Charles Town
,,onng people, were married in Ha-
Serstown last Saturday.
The tax on soft drinks has not
hoen entirely eliminated. There is
I'll q tax on the syrup and gas that
% into the making of it.
A telegram was received here Sun
dav announcing the death of Mr..
IoSn Cowan, of st. Michaels, Ari-
oona Mr.. Cowan was brother of
Ms Frank Manning and Miss Alice
Cowan. of Charles Town. The re-
Mains will be brought to Harrison
burg. Va, for burial.
Messrs. John, Logan and B. F.
uagaba. and Richard Manuel killed
nine hogs last week which weighed
IN the agrigate 4,142 pounds. John
Wagaha had three weighing SIC "a,
III and SAT; Logan Magaha had
three which weighed 4971a, 533 "
and SAT; B. F. Magaha had one at
.I84Is. and Richard Manuel had two
which weighed 377 Il and 360A.
We return thanks for an invita-
tion to be present at Recital given
at the Zeckmer-Hahn Musical
Academy in Philadelphia by Mar
garet Irwin, Pianiste, and Gladys
Thrush, Violiniste, on the evening of
December 20. Little Miss Thrush is
quite an accomplished violiniste and
is only II years old, and is daugh-
ter of Dr. NJ. Clayton Thrush, form
erly Of Charles Town.
Invitations have been received
here announcing the approaching
marriage of Mr.. Harry Rissler Phil
lips, of Washington, formerly of
Charles Town, to Miss Mary Lee
King, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Braxton Lee King, of Clinton, S. C.
The wedding will take place at the
brides home in Clinton, Wednesday
afternoon, December %, at 5 O'Clock.
The groom-elect is son of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Lee Phillips, of Charles
Town.
Mr.. Samuel o. Dunn, for some
years q resident of Charles Town,
Med suddenly in hospital in Mar
tnsDurg, December IL, six hours at
ter he mad been stricken with paraly-
SIS. de was native of Frederick
Va, and was 10 years old.
For some years he was foreman of
the stock room in the Dunn Wooden
Mills, of which his brother T. L.
Dunn is proprietor. Deceased leaves
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Nicewar-
ner, of Leetown, and Miss Maggie
Dunn, and one son, B. F. Dunn, the
last TWO named residing in Martins
burg,
Mr.. Robert H. Lewis, the last sur
yiving member of the family of the
late James Battaile Lewis, of the
Mornings" west of Myerstown, died
December II, in Baltimore where he
had been living for some time. De-
ceased was a Confederate veteran,
having served in the Clarke Cavalry.
Mrs Lewis, who formerly was Miss
Ann Carey Jones, sister of Mr.. A. T.
Jones and the Misses Jones, of Win
chester, died some years ago. His
nearest surviving relatives are two
Mrs. Charles Noyes Tyn-
Fall, wife of a clergyman of the Pro-
.estant Episcopal Church, of Will
Transport, Pa, and Mrs. Robert Bur
Well, of Annapolis, Nd.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella M.
widow of the late Rev.
E. Miskimmon, were held at Har-
oers Ferry at 2 o'clock December IL,
with Rev. E. W. Simms, of the M. P.
Church, officiating The pall-benrers
we're C. E. Marlatt, T. J. Burleigh,
NELL Marquett, F. NJ. Marquett, Will
lam Benjamin and d. H. Nichols.
Mrs. Miskimmon who lived practical
y all her life in Harpers Ferry died
~ fbn bopaa &C how CON D D Mickipo
non at East Orange, New JERSEY,
Heath coming after an illness of little
more than a months duration. She
was born at Harpers Ferry, May II.
1884, the daughter of Thomas w.
and Julia A. Beale. The surviving
members of her family are two sons,
Thomas Beale Miskimmon. of Alex
lndria, Va, and R. R. Miskimmon,
If East Orange, New Jersey.