Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-02-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mr.. H. R. Bunting underwent al
operation this morning at tn,
Charles Town Hospital.
/ Today is Shrove Tuesday and /
is also Pancake Day. (Do not for
get them.) Tomorrow is Ash Wed
nesday, the beginning of Lent.
The Choral Society OF CharlesTo w]
will repeat the Old Folks Concert a
Harpers Ferry Tuesday night for tn,
benefit of the American Legion.
Mr.. C. w. Clymer is putting up {
handsome ornamental plaster ceilins
and arches in the new United
Brthren Church at Winchester.
Little Louise Dunaway, daughte,
of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry o. Dunaway
is quite i'll at the Charles Town Hos
pital, and was operated on today BIZ
! Drs. Albin and Phillips.
The Jefferson County Court will
hold a Special Session on Wednes
day, at which time the matter OF
closing the road near the Horse Show
Grounds is to be taken up for recon
sideration.
Miss Ruth Reininger, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Reininger, who
lately suffered from an attack of an.
pendicitis, is again confined to her
home with neuritis, which has caused
her pain and suffering.
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bunting have
just returned from New York where
they purchased an extensive line of
dry goods and ladies ready-to-wear
garments including suits, coats and
skirts. The firm of HI. R. Bunting
& Co., will open for business in the
West room of the st. George Build
ing about March Is.
The play, "Abbu San, of Old
Japan" given by local talent at the
Opera House last night for the bene-
fit of the Citizens Fire Company, was
quite a success. All tickets were
sold out by Monday morning, and
many who wished to go were unable
to obtain tickets. The play will be
repeated next Monday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock for the benefit of the
High School Annual.
On Friday, March 3rd, Rev. w. H.
Woods, of Winchester, will give a
reading in the Presbyterian Chapel
at 7 p. m. He has written one act
play called ''The Dream of Pilates
Wife,. DR.. Woods was recently in
yited to read this little play in
Atlanta, where it met with much in
terest and pleasure. The enter
tainment is under the auspices of the
Business Womens' Circle. Admis-
sion rs cents.
Among the cases decided at the
last term of court by Judge Woods
was that of Southland VS.. the Balti-
more h& Ohio Railroad Company.
This suit grew out of the killing of
Mrs. Southland at Duffields about a
year ago, when she was struck by a
locomotive at the passenger station.
The court overruled the demurrer to
the evidence and entered up a judg-
ment against the railroad company
for $4,000. Mason and Porterfield
represented the Southland heirs.
The railroad company gave notice of
an appeal to the Supreme Court of
Appeals.
John L. Marcus and Sons, farmers
near Kabletown, have taken up the
manufacturing of handles as side
line. With a machine they have re-
Gently installed they can turn out 40
dozen straight handles day. Their
specialities are Ratchet, hammer,
sledge, ak and pick handles. Only
white hickory wood is being used in
the production, all of it obtainable
in the neighborhood. The new firm
finds ready sale for their output in
nearby towns in this state. Virginia
and Maryland, though recently a
large supply of war surplus handles
has been turned loose by the gov
ernmente Other competition given
them very little concern.
Rushed to the City hospital from
Harpers Ferry, and operated upon at
the City hospital in Martinsburg, for
appendicitis, Briscoe Rockenbaugh,
aged %, son of Shirley Roeken-
baugh, died there at o'clock last
Saturday morning. The remains
were taken to Harpers Ferry by
Funeral Director Daley for burial.
From the outset it was evident that
only a miracle could save the young
man, as bad case of gangrene was
evidenced when the surgical opera
ton was performed, but hospital at
taches did everything possible to
save him. 1t is interesting to note
that the young man possessed a
double appendix a very rare occur
ence in the surgical world.
A spelling contest that attracted
the folks of the neighborhood as well
as number from Charles Town was
given in the basement of the church
lat Kabletown Wednesday night.
Charles r. Langdon and j. Howard
Ware selected the opposing con-
testants with T. j. Yates as referee.
About twenty-five or thirty spoilers
lined up on each side, farmers,
school marms, college and university
alumnae, and school children from
the grades being arrayed in the COM
bat. After contest OF forty MIN
utes, the prize was awarded Miss
Mary Shut, of Kabletown. 'fEu-
charist," "Aniline" and "Crystalli
cation" were some of the words that
proved "fatal' to many on both
sides.
Copies of the indictments against
miners union officials and members
who will be tried in Charles Towr
April "a under a change of venue
order from Logan and Boone coun
ties, where an armed march OF
miners last August and September
gave rise to the charges, have beer
received here by Col. Forrest W
Brown, Attorney for the State IL
these cases. Fifteen indictments ar
drawn ranging from treason AM
murder to threats to do bodily harm
consummating rlurler. All of tn
indictments are against more thai
one defendant, one of them listini
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