Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-12-13
LOCAL. BRIEFS.


! Postmaster Young is having a neu
Parcels Post Window put in the
postoffice, which will expidsLe the
mailing of packages very much.
Infant and Child Welfare Confer.
ences will be held st the Red Cross
Community House from 2 to an. M
on Wednesdays, December 18th and
18th, 1921.
Lee Hough, of Mechanicstown. has
accepted employment with the Catoc-
tin Orchard Company at Leesburg,
and will move there the last of the
month.
The Junior Auxiliary of st. Johns
P E. Church, Harpers Ferry. will
hold a "Silver Tea" at the home of
Mrs. ]. E. Fosset, Saturday, Decem-
Der IT, from to 6 p. m.
Aimee Thompson, well known
colored woman of Charles Town. who
lived alone in a small house on
Academy street, was found dead
sitting in a chair at her home Wed
nesday morning.
We were misinformed as to the ex-
act amount cleared at the recent U.
D. c. Bazaar given in Rouss Hall in
on last issue. Miss Leslie the Chan
ter treasurer says that $2O7 includ-
ing donations was made at the sale.
Mr.. and MRS. Clifton Cooke. of
Fairshance, Pa, announce the en-
gagement of the daughter Sara
Louise Hoffecker, to Mr.. laval
Gravatt, Jr., son of Right Reverend
Bishop Gravatt, of the diocese of
West Virginia.
In the report of the Eastern Pam
handle COW Testing Association for
we Note:
Mcdonald Bros, Bud, 729 lbs.
milk; Ais lbs. butterfat.
E. D. Conklyn, Sally, 1872 lbs.
milk; 402 lbs. butterfat.
Officer James A. Smith went to
Engle last Wednesday and arrested
two men charged with breaking in
a shack of the Miller Lumber Com
pany. They were found asleep in
an old kiln, and handouts were put
on them before they woke up.
Two vacant lots containing about
a half acre on the east side of the
Charles Town road at Leetown and
owned by Assessor F. L. Watson
we're bought by Geo. C. Coils, ST..
at the sale by Mr.. Watson's trustee,
n. R. Roberts, on Tuesday. His bid
vas $3.50.
The Jackson-Perks Post of the |
American Legion have cancelled the ,
balance of the entertainments of the |
Winter Chautauqua in the High .
School Auditorium. Holders of the
Season Tickets can have them re-
ieemed by calling on Mr.. H. S.
Blessing, Jr.
Mrs. Charlotte Mcguire, wife of
Dr.. Hunter Mcguire, of Winchester,
Va, and sister of DR.. E. B. Clay
brooke, of Cumberland, died at her
lone in Winchester Sunday after
noon following brief illness, aged |
10. Surviving are one son and two
daughters, also her husband.
C. F Wall, the well-known stock
nan, was injured in an accident at
Akona, his home near town, We'd
lesday. In separating a herd of I
steers, part of the herd being sold |
% go away, one of them became /
and ran over Mr.. Wall, |
nficting painful bruises about his
shoulders and chest.
Frank King and George Lockly,
,olored, of kearnesville, who had
in a shooting ARRAY at
Kings home in Kearneysville, Sun
lay, November 20, are now INSTALL
I'd in the Charles Town Jail. State /
policemen picked them up at Kear-
neysville on Tuesday and brought
hem in.
Miss Minnie NJ Hopkins, by her
attorney Geo M. Beltzhoover, ,Jr.
has entered suit against the Jefferson
County Telephone Company, claim
ng damages to the amount of $4,000.
The action for damages is based on
he "Wanton and malicious cutting
If trees" in front of the plaintiffs
half mile east of Charles
Town, the cutting being alleged to
nave been done by the defendants
employees after the company had
notice that the owner objected to the !
removal of the trees.
Secretary of State Houston G.
Young, has issued a certificate of |
Incorporation to the Goetz Saddlery
Company, with its factory and prin-
sipal office in Ransom, w. Va. The
purposes of the incorporation as set
put in the certificate are to manu-
facture, buy, sell, distribute, export
and import saddles, collars, brides,
leather and hides, or any or all j
made partially or wholly of
leather.
The capitalization of the company
is limited to $4,000, divided into
500 shares of par value of 500
each. Geo. B. and H. A. Goetz,
Roger E. and Reva G. Rissler and
Forrest A. Brown are the incorpora-
tors.