Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-03-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.


Mrs. C. o. Peer at their home in
Charles Town, Thursday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Marshall Burns
announce the marriage of their
daughter Martha LeFevre, to Mr..
James R. Mason, of this county.
The Women's Club will meet at
the Court House on Thursday after
noon, March 80, at $3.50 o'clock D.
M A full attendance is requested.
Dixon, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Baumgardner, east of town,
stepped upon rusty nail, and it was
found necessary to administer anti
toxin.
The Moore Insurance & Realty
Company report the sale of the farm
of James F. Burchell, formerly the
Alfred Riley place, containing 80
acres, west of Summit Point, to
Robt. E. Boyd, of near Summit
Point.
Mr.. ]. B. Brazier, Manager of the
Powhatan Brass and Iron Works, was
called to New York last week by the
death of his father, Mr.. William S.
Brazier, who was injured by an
automobile in that city about a
month ago.
Miss Laura C. Strider who has
taught in the schools of the county
for some years and has the esteem of
a arge circle of friends is i'll at the
home of her cousin, Mrs. Virginia
Harrison, in Shepherdstown. Miss
Strider was stricken with paralysis a
few days ago.
Hon. James NJ Mascon for many
years member of the Jefferson
County bar, and a resident of
Charles Town is i'll at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. E.. M. Page, in
Charlottesville, Va, where he has
been making his home for the past
three years. He is "a years of age.
Cal Mccoy, colored was committed
to Jail Wednesday, charged with as
saulting and robbing Mr.. John w.
Birkitt on the Harpers Ferry pike
near Charles Town, about midnight,
Saturday, March A. Mccoy waived
a hearing and was held for the action
Of the Grand Jury with bond fixed
at $1,000.
The firm of Callan & Foley, who
have been operating a general mer-
camille store in the Gibson building
in Charles Town for the past year or
two has been dissolved. Mr.. Cal
| Ian has sold his interest in the bust
/ ness to his partner who will continue
it in his own name, M. j. Foley. The
change becomes effective April L.
Ms. Charles Wise who has been
living near Peacher's Mill in Harpers
Ferry District, has bought the Mer-
rift property, house and four acres
of land in that neighborhood, from
/ w. G. Foreman, who has been
occupying it. Mr.. Foreman will
move to the farm owned by the Mar
list Seminary on the Potomac river
above Peacher's Mill, April st.
Three new stokers are being in
stalled at the steam plant of the
Northern Virginia Company, near
Melville. Three of the five stokers
in operation there had worn out in
the nine years they have been in
use, and the new installation is being
made to keep the efficiency of the
plant up to top-notch. The stokers
are prime labor savers, the battery
Of them in use there feeding a car
load of coal into the furnaces every
IS hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Hillary will
move this week to their home recent
~ purchased from the Ronemus
heirs
Miss Lalla Craighill has moved in
to an apartment at Mr.. Willie
Browns on Mildred street.
Miss Katie Aisquith has taken
apartments at Mrs. Charlie Baylor's.
Miss Badenhoop, the Community
Nurse, will move into apartments at
the Miss Weirick's.
Mr. and Mrs Richard Frazer are
visiting relatives in Loudoun County.
Mr.. and Mrs G. DIN Wiley and
daughter, Margaret, spent Sunday in
Niddletown, Va.
Capt. Charles H. Briggs, one of
the most popular citizens of Harper's
Ferry, and for years a Justice of the
Peace there, is on the sick list. An
attack of Lagrippe coming in the
early part of the winter Frustrated
him. His age has been a handicap
IN his recovery, though it is believed
that he is gradually gaining in
strength. Capt. Briggs bears the
sears of four wounds received while
serving in the Union army in the
War between the States. A saber
cut on the head and three gun-shot
wounds have left their marks upon
him a smute testimony that he be-
onged to some other than Company
q. in the days of the early sixties.
Mrs. John Koontz, former resi-
dent of Bolivar, died at her home in
Washington on Saturday, March Is.
Her six sons served as pall-bearers
at her funeral, services being held in
St. lgnatius Catholic Church, Wash
iAgton, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Irfterment was made in Ar
lington Cemetery. Two brothers and
two sisters survive. The brothers
are John B. Smith, of Canton, Ohio,
and Geo. W. Smith, of Bolivar, the
sisters: Mrs. John Leavy, of WASH
'lngton, and Miss Laura M. Smith, a
/. milliner in Grafton, w. Va. All of
lhe sons held responsible posltlonS'
Claude with Capitol Traction Co.;
Allen with a railroad company in the
West; Carroll in the Navy Yard;
Paul with an engineering corps in
Maryland; Joseph, a clerk in the
Navy Yard, and Harold in depart
. ment store in Washington.
In another column will be found
the announcement of Mr.. P. +.
Nixon as a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the State
I Senate form this, the Fifteenth Sena-
Z torial District. Mr.. Nixon is a
4 prominent merchant of Paw Paw,
Morgan County, and eight or ten
1 years ago ran for the House of Dele
Z gates in, Morgan county, and
Z although the County is strongly Re-
publican, came within less than
Z seventy votes of being elected. He