Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-11-29
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Lawson Bolts Chapter u. ID. c.,
will hold Refreshment and Fancy
Sale on Friday, December End, in
Rouss Hall.
A car is going out from Reeds
Elevator for the Near East Relief.
Please bring your corn and wheat as
soon as possible.
A tenant house belonging to Mr..
Frank Roper, on the Berryville pike
two miles south of Charles Town was
burned to the ground last Saturday
night.
Dogs raided flock of sheep own
ed by Neill Hayslette, near Leetown
last week. Two ewes were killed
outright and several severely if not
fatally injured.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Ka-
bletown NJ. f. Church, South, will
hold an oyster supper on Thursday.
December l. Win also sell ice cream
and cake and fancy articles. Public
cordially invited to be present.
The Central Garage now has a
Manley two-ton crane as a part of its
equipment. 1t will be used in lifting
stranded cars and trucks out of the
cutters and from the foot of en-
bankments.
Mr.. Cleveland Smallwood came
home from Washington last week,
laid up with broken bone in his
foot. He fell while going up the
steps and broke it. Mr.. Smallwood
has been employed in the Washing
ton Navy Yard for Is years,
DR.. ]. B. Chamberlin, Optometrist,
Martinsburg, will be at Hotel Jeffer-
son, "wednesday, Nov. 30th, from 10
a. M, to 4 p. m. See him and have
your eyes examined by the latest
methods
Basket Exhibit and sale, Rouss
Hall Tuesday, December 6, doors
open at P. NJ. Benefit st. James
Catholic Church. Specialties, Coun-
try ham sandwiches and home made
ice cream. Baskets from North
Carolina.
Messrs. Jno. j. and C. H. Eby, who
have been farming on the Bates farm
near town, yesterday made as assign
ment the benefit of their creditors to
Jno. 7. Porterfeld, Trustee. The
trustee qualified and gave bond in
the sum of $4,000.
Mes5rs. B. w. Moore, of Summer
Vile, New Jersey, and j. Laird
Moore, of Norfolk, Va, came to
Charles Town to enjoy Thanksgiving
with their mother, Mrs. Berkeley w.
who is boarding in the family
Of Mr.. Geo. P. Shirley, Souh Samuel
street.
Philip Porterfield, Jr., six-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Porter
field, residing two miles north of
town fell off the roof of cow shed
while at play last Tuesday afternoon.
breaking the hip bone of his left leg.
The little fellow dropped eleven feet
in the fall.
1t will be of interest to many of |
his friends here to know that Rev. /
II. NJ. Motfett has had a call to a |
Presbyterian Church in Birmingham,
Alabama. Mr.. Motfett has filled a
charge in Huntsville, Alabama, for |
years. We have not been informed |
IS to his accepting the call to this |
new field.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Presbyterian Church will hold a tea
and sale of fancy articles on Friday,
December 9Th at ESQ p. NJ, in the /
Chapel
The ladies of the Beulah Church
will serve a ham and oyster supper in
he basement of the Presbyterian
Church, Charles Town, the same
evening. Supper soc.
Messrs. Geo. M. Deltzhoover, Jr.,
Forrest w. Brown, F. L. Bushong
and T. C. Green, Special Commits /
3ioners of the Jefferson Circuit
Court, on Saturday sold the L. L.
Watson farm of 143 acres, three
niles west of Summit Point. Lohr
Capper, of Winchester, Va, was the
highest bidder, giving $69.50 per
lcre for it. Mr.. Capper will get pos
session April /, next year.
A new frame dwelling of six rooms
With front and rear porches is near /
ng completion on the Robinson farm /
hree miles south of Charles Town.
The new house fronts on the road /
eading from the Berryville pike at
to the Kabletown pike
south of Weirick's mill, and is located
ess than a half mile from the latter
pike. 1t will be occupied by an
orchard employee to be engaged by
Mr.. Frank B. Robinson, one of the /
owners of the place.
Thieves broke in the Livery Stable
'tice on South George street occu-
ned by Mr.. H. A. Lockhart for the !
sale OF country produce last Friday
hight, and stole eggs, chickens, meats
and turkeys to the amount of two (,
hundred dollars. They took an old
market basket that belonged to Mr..
Lockhart's first wife's father and an
Did quart cup that belonged to his
father, which he priced for that !
reason, and he says he would APP
2reciate it if the thief or thieves
would bring them back.
The residence property of C. B.
Coleman, at the corner of Mildred
street and Third avenue, Ransom, has
been beautifully improved with
fresh coat of paint put on by con-
tractor Gilbert Quick. In addition
to the house painting, a concrete
fence of unique design has been built
on the street sides of the yard. The
fence is a solid concrete wall, Is to
"a inches in height on which at
intervals of ten feet solid columns of
the same material have been erected
extending a foot or more higher.
On top of each column a concrete
sphere has been placed The spheri-
cal top pieces are connected by metal
pieces Of substantial construction.
a new dwelling house being con-
structed for Misses Rebecca and