Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-08-22

BOTH 10 MI. anu MIS-. JOS. ii
yesterday, in Baltimore, a daughter
Beulah Sunday School will hole
their Annual Picnic at Beulah
Thursday, August "a.
Dr.. J d. Pittman had the misfor
tune 10 break his arm last Ihursda,
whist cranklng his automobile.
The Fortieth Annual Session OF
tne SHENANDOAH DapIlst Association
viii De heIa IN Charles Town, W. va,
august 90 and 81, 1922.
Nix Lawrence Aiien,Jr., VINO mas
I been connned TO his nome IRON a
ilan ne sustained wnIIe worKlng al
hanCown ABOUT TWO weeks ago, IS
aDIe TO De about again.
Ihe league baseball game between
bay onore anu ratcnogue recently,
was piayea at PaIcnogue, score z 10
IN DAY shores Iavor. Little Jack
Drazier, OF Charles Town, w. va,
proved GOOD mascot Tor the BAY
OnOre ueam.-rfom the Long island
gun OF August IL.
There viii be a call meeting Of
" oman club at the home OIL the
treSlaent, MIS-. VIM. Campbell,
Ihui sday, august z4Ih, at Z D. m.
ali attendance desired. Inc regu-
lar meeClng was neld at Une Com
munity house, FRIDAY, august lotn.
at the regular meeting OF the City
Council last night, an ordinance was
passed prohlDlLng the parking or
automoDnes In front OF the JEFFERSON
Dank q Trust Co., and the Express
once on washington street. Bills
were passed and other routine busl-
ness transacted.
The two story frame dwelling
house OF Roland Mitchell, colored, OF
GdDsontown, about a mile from
Charles Town, burned to the ground
last Wednesday afternoon, with
furniture, etc. Loss was covered by
insurance with The Moore insurance
Realty Co.
The Annual Harvest Home Sup
per OF the Uvilla M. 4. Church, I,
south, will be served at the hall on
thursday, August oath. Public
cordially invited to help
eat chicken, ham, etc. Refresh /
nents Will be served in the grove. |
supper from five to eight o'clock.
Holmes Alexander, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Alexander, OF Balti-
more, Md, was severely hurt by a
lorse falling with him in the Steeple
.hase race last Thursday at the
Jharles Town Horse Show. The
lorse ran into a bobbed wire fence
md was badly cut. Whilst young
Alexander was stunned and consid-
rably shaken up, no bones were ,
,roken.
Mrs. Susan C. Pearl, widow of
apt. W. Louis Pearl, for many years
passenger conductor on the b. &
}. Railroad, died suddenly at her
ome at Harpers Ferry, about mid
light Monday night, following an
-lness of IA hours from organic
cart trouble, aged 67 years, 81
months and II days. Deceased was
n active member of the Baptist
,hurch, retaining her membership
p to her death in the First Baptist
,hurch Of Martinsburg, where her
amily resided before coming to
iarperes Ferry, 80 years ago. Her /
ody was taken to Martinsburg for |
urial after funeral services at Har-
ers Ferry.
Complaining only a week, and ;
i'll only short time, Mrs.
annie Locke Henry, wife of Mr.. ]
'harles w. Henry, died Monday af- '
ernoon, August IA, from acute
ephritis at her home on the Frazier
arm three miles northeast of Sum
nit Point. Mrs. Henry was daugh-
er of Nathaniel Locke, and was
orn in the Leetown neighborhood
2 years ago. Funeral services were
ED at the home on Wednesday
lorning at 10 O'Clock by Rev.
William Beehler, of the Baptist
,hurch, after which the body was
aid to rest in Edge Hill Cemetery,
,harles Town. Besides her husband,
wo sons and two daughters, Mrs.
ienry is survived by her father,
In. Nathaniel Locke and three :
and three sisters.
Clarence Kesner, aged rs years, a
esident of Pleasantville, in Mary
and, near Harpers Ferry, was almost
killed when he fell into an
excavation at the old Maryland
Ore Banks, after making misstep
N his way home from Two-Licks on
he canal about midnight Monday,
august IA. In company with Clar- i
nee at the time were his brother
George and another young man.
They took little used path to shorten
he distance home, by the edge of
he mine pit. Stepping out of the
oath in the dark, Clarence fell a
sheer drop of SO or so feet to the
bottom of the pit. Procuring a
antern at Two-locks, his companions
climbed down into the pit
where they found Clarence dying
from a fractured skull.