Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-03-22

LOCAL BRIEFS.

noon.
At the regular meeting of the City
Council last night the Mayor and
most of the councilmen were present,
only routine business was transacted
DIR. F. P. Edgell had the misfor-
tune of rogue taking a basket of
eggs. butter and meat from his
norch in the rear of his home on Con-
gress street on Friday night.
Mrs. N. F. holland had her Spring
Opening of Millinery last Friday and
Saturday. All the hats of the latest
fashion were on display, which made
one of the best openings Mrs. holland
ever had.
There will be a series of Teas at
The Community House every Friday
afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. The
teas are for the benefit of the Com
munity work in the schools and the
Child Welfare work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jordan and
Mr.. and Mrs. Briscoe will move back
"a their homes in the country April
list and the Misses Hopkins will re-
turn TO their home (Mansfeld) by
the Middle Of April.
Fby Brothers, who have been con-
Quoting a shoe repair shop in the
rear OF their store, have installed an
Electric Shoe Finishing Machine,
which now gives them one of the best
equipped shop in this locality.
DIR. J. B. chamberlin, Optometrist
Of Martinsburg will be at the Hotel
Jefferson, Wednesday,, March Both,
from 10 a. M, to p. m. He will be
prepared as usual to examine your
eyes, and furnish glasses if neces-
sary.
The Charles Town fire Companies
were called to Bolivar yesterday
shortly after noon. The stable of
Mr.. Louis Rick had caught fire from
a burning brush pile in the garden,
and his brick dwelling adjoining was
totally destroyed.
Mr.. Frank H. Drish, of the Jeffer
son Junk and Coal Company has
bought the lot of the Standard Oil
Company along the railroad east of
the B. & o. Station in Charles Town,
formerly used by the Standard Com
pany for its storage tanks. The lot
fronts on the railroad for nearly 200
feet. The consideration was $500,
Mr.. l.. R. Custer, who has been liv
ing in the Birkitt house on Charles
Town Heights, has bought home of
his own from VIM. C. Clipp, farther
south on the Heights. He pays
$4,000 for frame house of six rooms
and five acres of land. Both of the
above sales were negotiated by the
Moore Insurance and Realty Com
pany.
Shenandoah Tribe of Red Men of
Charles Town held their Annual
BANQUET last night. Great Sachem
of West Virginia, John T. Porterfield,
was POSTMASTER, and addresses were
made by Hon. Geo. NJ Bowers, Con-
gresham from this district; by j. R.
Poland, of Martinsburg, c. K. Cham
beers, Editor of the Tomahawk, and
by Mr.. Wilson, of Martinsburg.
Mr.. Horace Gardner had good
sale last Thursday, one horse brought
1903, one $500, one $685. and one
$3.50, and others equally well. The
four-horse team brought $1,138.
Cows sold from $75 to Sill. The
sale totaled $6,475. Mr.. Gardner
used the fine large three color sale
bills printed at the Spirit Office and
advertised his sale in the Spirit OF
Jefferson.
The Hilltop House at Harper's Fer
nv had a narrow escape from being
DESTROYED by fire last Thursday morn
ing. when the woodwork around a
chimney in one of the rooms caught
on fire. Timely discovery of the FIRE
and several well-directed buckets of
water put the fire out before much
damage was done. The new Hilltop
Hotel has not been in use year yet
and it would have been regretable
occurrence had it been burned again.
Mr.. John Hosler, near Manning's
School House is using an Ottawa
portable saw outfit operated with
4-horse power gasoline engine. The
machine is handy both in telling
trees and in reducing them to cord or
stove wood. Two men are needed
to handle it to advantage. They can
easily saw up twenty cords day.
Mr.. Hosler hopes 10 supply customers
in Charles Town with their firewood
as soon as he can season Few
hundred cords of it.
The Charles Town Office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
which has been located in the corner
room of the second floor of the JEFF
ferson County Telephone Building,
will move to the west room on the
first floor of the building April l..
Justice Sheetz who has been occupy
ing the first floor room as an office
has fitted up an office adjoining his
home on Lawrence St. The Tele-
phone Company will use the room
vacated by the Western Union.
The body of the late Miss Mary E.
Myers, native of Middleway, whose
girlhood and early womanhood days
were spent there, was brought there
March IA, from Lenoir City, Tennes-
see, where she died on Saturday in
the Saith year of her age. Miss
Myers was the last of the family OF
the late John G. and Susan Macough,
Jury myers remembered ny Ihe Oiu1
people of Middleway as residents
there many years ago. -
For the past several years Mis-:
Myers made her home with her niece
Mrs. Averill Norwood, at Lenoir City
Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood accompanied
the remains to Middleway where thu
funeral services were conducted II
Grace Episcopal Church by Rev. A
B. Mitchell. The burial took plac'
in the Masonic Cemetery.