Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-10-17
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

surplus stock that Will include blan.
kets, shoes and clothing, will be
opened in the west room of the Get
zendanner building about Novembe,
1st
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Mack Dodson, died at the home Of
her parents on the M. X. Bowers
farm, near Kearneysville Wednes.
day. She was an infant two months
old.
Agnes Weakley, infant daughte,
of Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Weak
ley, died in Ransom last Sunday.
Services at the house on Monday
afternoon, Rev. T. M. Swami officia-
ting. Interment in Edge Hill
Cemetery.
DIR. ]. B. Chamberlin, Optometrist
of Martinsburg, will be at Hotel
jefferson, Wednesday, October 25th,
from 10 a. m. to A p. m. See him.
/ He will be prepared to examine your
eyes by the latest methods and fur
nish glasses if necessary.
Don't forget the "Pep Dinner" of
/ the Chamber of Commerce on Thurs
day night, October 26. Be sure to
get one of the tickets which are on
sale by the committee at $1.O0 each.
whether you are member or not.
You can spend an enjoyable evening
and at tn esame time help in the ad-
vancement of your town.
Deputy Sheriff and Constable
James A. Smith went to Hagerstown
and brought back on Wednesday.
John Newman, colored, charged with
criminally assaulting Julia Mitchell.
colored girl at her home in Charles
Town, Sunday, Oct. g. Newman
was given hearing before Justice
Sheetz and held for the action of
the grand jury.
Roll of Honor for the Mt. Hope
school, for the first month, 1929
Harry Bell, Rudolph Ware, Marie
Stewart, Josephine Brookey, Cathe.
Fleming, Elizabeth Fleming, Virginia
rine Myers, Lena Myers, James
Chapman, Walter Chapman, Calvin
Fleming, George Will Fleming, Dav.
i'd Hough, Pittman Russell, Robert
Sewers, Russell Sewers, Ernest
Ware, Joseph Ware.
Fifteen initiates were added to
the membership of Joppa Forest, No.
"a, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Thurs
day evening. mong the local men
joining the new order were t. C.
Green and John Porterfield, the lat
ter cashier of the Bank of Charles
Town. Joppa Forest staged a parade
with the candidates in line over the
principal streets of the town about
4 80 o'clock, Henson's K. K. band
leading the marchers. A BANQUET
was also feature of the entertain
ment presented.
The Setback farm formerly owned
by j. H. Ramey, and later by j. S.
Carr, three miles west of Middle
way, has been sold through the w.
0. Norris agency to George ]. Cru
Der who for the past seventeen
years has been farming the Beckwith
farm four miles northwest of Charles
Town. Mr.. Gruber paid $11, 900 for
the 1873 acres and will get possession
March /. In 1904, this farm was
bought by ]. S. Carr who later
bought the Benner farm near Lee
town. He paid $50 an acre for the
former.
The Jefferson County Chapter of
the American Red Cross has already
sent box of wooden clothing to
refugees in Smyrna, in Asia Minor,
recently pillaged and burned by the
Turks The shipment contained also
43 pairs of worsted socks and stock
ings, most of them having been knit
by the Leetown ladies. The box was
marked Rush" and wa some of the
first sent in response to an appeal
for help from the stricken city. Re-
lief supplies are being rushed to the
eastern Mediterranean, and the suf-
ferers will receive the Charles Town
shipment in few weeks.
Frank Lloyd Yates, son of Mr.. B.
F. Yates, of the Bloomery, this coun-
ty, has been admitted to practice
law in the District of Columbia The
oath required of candidates for adj
mission to the bar was administered
to 1924, of whom 20 were women
All of them had successfully passed
the bar examination in June last.
Mr.. Yates won his way to the bar
through difficulties. His only oppor-
tunity for attending lectures was in
the night school, he being employed
in departmental work during the day
throughout his term of study. He
graduated in June from the law
school of the George Washington
University.
The Jefferson County Telephone
Company has added to each of its
exchanges at Charles Town, Shep-
herdstown and Harper's Ferry sta
tionary converters, purchased from
the LEIGH Electric Company, of
Genoa, Illinois. These devices, which
are the latest improvement in the
way of telephone ringing at the ex-
changes, are equipped with twelve
storage cells. These are charged di-
rect from the town current, which is
stepped down to the desired voltage.
Heretofore the ringing devices were
oprated by the ordinary dry cell, of
which it took considerable number
to furnish the current. This was
an expensive proposition, inasmuch
as they had to be renewed often
The new converter is said to furnish
an even current at all times and will
always be in service, even during
electrical storms.
A Writ of Error has been granted
by the West Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals in the case of Roper VS..
Glassford, recently decided by Judge
j. M. Woods in the Jefferson Circuit
Court in favor of the plaintiff. The
Roper VS.. Glassford litigation has
been in progress several years. The
suit was first instituted to recover
dover in land that had been deded
by the claimants husband to his
sister on the eve of his marriage.
Judge Woods held that the widow
was entitled to dover in real estate
so alienated. The pending suit is to
! determine whether the widows dover
interest is subject to lien for
$4,000 placed on the land by her hus-