Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-08-15
LOCAL BRIEFS.

/ Born 10 MI. ana MIS-. Hamp
Ramey in Ransom, August 8, a
daughter.
The party who took the flowers
from the porch on West Congress
St., is known. If they will return
them, no questions will be asked.
Miss Dallas Russell has resigned
her position as sales lady with Mr..
G. o. Wiley and accepted a similar
one with Mr.. Barsell in his new
confectionery store.
Miss Louise Mock, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Mock, of
Charles Town, has matriculated in a
nurses training class in the Kings
Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg.
Attorney Frank j. Beckwith. as
trustee sold the Oscar Fauver house
and lot located on Bolivar Heights.
in front Of the Court House Thurs
day. to NJ. w. Carter, at a bid of
S651.
In our report last week of the
amount Of the levy by the Board of
Education Of Charles Town District.
the amount Of the sinking fund TO
retire bonds should have been four
and a half cents instead of four
cents.
The Annual Harvest Home sup
per Of the Uvilla NJ. Z. Church.
South, win be served at the hall on
Thursday, August Gath. Public
cordially cordially invited to help
eat chicken, ham, etc. Refresh
ments viii be served in the grove.
Supper from five to eight o'clock.
The Board of Public Works has
fixed the State levies for the ensuing
year at ten cents for road bonds
and five cents for general purposes.
Last year the levy was ten and ten.
Therefore the levy is cents less
this year for State purposes.
Justice of the Peace Thomas Mere
dith, who was shot to death by a !
negro a few days ago at GAINESVILLE,
Va, where he attempted to arrest
the man for wife-beating, was the
husband of Jefferson county girl.
Miss Rose McGlone, formerly of
Bolivar.
Mrs. John A. Emmert, the widow
of a former well known painter. of |
Charles Town, and who has been
living in Washington for the past
ten or twelve years, has rented
dwelling owned by Miss Edith Hoff |
master on South Samuel street, and
will move here about September l. |
Her son-in-law and daughter will
come here to live with her.
The Middleway public school will
be taught the coming year by Mrs.
C. D. Dolly, of Charles Town, as
principal and Miss Blanche Pine, of
assistant. Miss Ger
trude Polhamus who was principal
of the Mt. Hope school at Mechanics
town, last year, will teach at |
Swimley's, four miles northwest of
Summit Point this year.
The K. X. K. Band from Charles
Town received many compliments
at the Berryville Horse Show for
their fine appearance and also for
their delightful music. On the last |
evening of the Horse Show their
were "The End of a Per-
feet Day., Home Sweet Home" and |
America" and when Dixie was
played, there were rounds of |
applause from the hundreds of
people that filled the Grand Stand.
Harpers Ferry District will be
lllOWnd 70 onllaa+
ton of $250,000 placed on the
Magnesite plant of the Standard
Lime and Stone Company at Mill
vile by the Board of Equalization
and Review for this county in 1921. |
The Standard company excepted to
the assessment last year, on the
ground that the building and equip
ment were an experiment, and had
not then yielded anything of value.
When taken to the Court of Appeals
the case was remanded to the Jeffer-
son Circuit Court, the former Court
holding that the action of the Board
of Equalization and Review in fix
ing a value on the property was
final. Judge Woods accordingly an
nounced that no further proceedings
would be taken; and that the assess
ment of $250,00O had been made
according to law.
Mr.. S. Edward Grove, we'll
known newspaper correspondent, of
Harpers Ferry, dropped dead in the
lobby of a hotel in Washington,
August 10, aged SO years. With no
way to identify the man, the hotel
people had his body removed to the
morgue where on Monday, a nephew,
Locher Grove, of Washington, and
William Edwards, of Harpers Ferry,
Identified him. The remains were
shipped to Sharpsburg, Md, his old
home for burial. Mr.. Grove who
was a bachelor had been complain
ing of feeling i'll for some time.
Leaving Harpers Ferry two weeks
ago, he told friends there he was
going to hospital in Frederick, Md,
for treatment. The Frederick Hos
pital could not accommodate him,
and he was next heard of in Wash
lngton, two men who knew him,
having seen him about the Union
station there. The next report
from him was that he had died sud-
denly of apoplexy in a hotel in
Washington.
WHEN HER BACK ACHES.
A Woman Finds All Her Energy
and Ambition Slipping Away.
Charles Town women know how
the aches and pains that often come
when the kidneys fail make life a
burden. Backache, hip pains, head
aches, dizzy spells, distressing uri-
nary troubles, are frequent indica-
tions of weak kidneys and should be
checked in time. Doan's Kidney
Pills are for the kidneys only. They