Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-04-26
CHARLES TOWN.

Charles Town April 25.~-Rev. W.
NJ. Compton, for four years pastor
of Jefferson Circuit NJ. f. Church,
South, left with his family on We'd
nesday for his new charge at Jar
rettsville, Md, his furniture being
on motortruck. JarrettsYille is IN
Hartford county. twenty-five miles
north of Baltimore
Mr.. S. P. Birkitt and family who
have been living in Roanoke, Va
the past two or three years, have
moved back to Charles Town, and
have taken the house vacated by
Mr.. l.. r. Custtr near the Harpeps
Ferry pike, east of town. Mr. Gus
ter has moved to the house he
bought of Mr.. W. c. Cltpp farther
south on Charles Town Heights
Mr.. Hunter Kent, a former Char
les Town resident. who has beer
in business in st. Louis. Mo. where
he has prospered. is here visiting
his aunt Miss Florence Hunter. In
his boyhood days Mr. Kent attend
ed the old Charles Town Academy
but went to Louisville. Ky. to en-
ter business when he was twenty
years old He has been a resident
OF St Louis since 1899
Mr.. and Mrs Y. G. Moore. whe
went TO New York three weeks ago
after spending the winter In Wash
ington, have returned to their home
near Kearneysvile for the summer
They were accompanied from New
York by Mrs. Moore's daughter
Mrs. Doane, wife of Maj w. G
Doane. u. S. A. Fort Jay. Staten
Island
Mr.. f. NJ Bushong and son, vii
Liam G. Bushong. of Woodstock
Va. stopped in Charles Town over
night Wednesday to visit Attorney
Frank L. Bushong and family
They were on their way to Wash
ington and will stop in Charles
Town on their way back to witness
the Aerial Circus on Tuesday next
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Loehmillel
and little Hazel Wilmington. motor
ing to Washington from Star Tan
merry, Va, where they had spent the
winter on Mr. Lochmiller's farm, Wis
tied Hazel's grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs Richard Martin in Ransom
over the week.end
Mr.. Robert Fry and son, William
Fry, of the Bloomery neigh borhood
went to Shenandoah county Monday
having been called there because oI
the Illness OF the formers brother
Mr.. Elmer Potts, a we'll known
young resident OF Harpers Ferry
died on Sunday last. after an III
ness due to typhoid fever At the
time he was taken sick he WAS EN-
ployed in the transfer sheds al
Brunswick He leaves a widow and
one child. The funeral was held on
Wednesday, Rev A. r. Snedegar
conducting the services. lnterment
was made at Ebenezer ehurehyard
in Loudoun.
Miss Lallie Graighill for some
years one of the most capable tea
ehers in the faculty of the Charles
Town High School where she spec
ialized in teaching English. is quite
i'll. Taken sick the first Of the weel
while engaged in her school duties
she grew worse, and on Thursday
was removed to the Charles Towr
hospital Mr.. H. X. Amber is sub
stitutng for her In the High School
c. c. Henshaw. a farmer OF the
Middleway neighborhood, has a Jer
sey COW that he is mighty proud of
She was born February 2. 1918. and
on March 81, this year, gave birth
TO her third calf when she herself
was only 3 years and 2 months old
A play rendered by the pupils OF
the Middleway school in the Mason
ic Hall at Middleway, Friday night
last, yielded $50 The receipts will
be applied to the purchase of a
school library,
william f. Daley, residing on
the Reinhart farm, south OF Shep
herdstown, was kicked in the
breast by horse few days ago
sustaining injuries that kept him in
the house several days.
Mr.. Joseph S Bragonier for more
than forty years member of the
jefferson county bar. with a resi-
dcnce in Shepherdstown, is report
ed to be seriously i'll in Roanoke
Va, whore be had gone for medical
treatment a month ago.
In the presence Of few friends
Of the couple, Mr. Lawrence ".
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