Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-12-12
LOCAL BRIEFS.


: little girl, December 6.
The regular annual Corporate
Election in Ransom, for Mayor, R,
, corder and five councilmen, will
! held on Thursday, January 4, 1923.
A festival will be held in the bass
ment of the Methodist Church 9
: Millville, Friday evening, Decembe
Is, beginning at z o'clock, by men
bers of the Ladies Auxiliary. Yo
are invited.
The concrete work on the mai
road bed of the road through Han
pers Ferry and Bolivar has bee
finished to the bridges, and it is ex
pected that it will be opened TO
travel in few days.
Fire early yesterday morning de
stroyed straw stack on the oil,
Hagley farm northwest of Leetown
The Citizens Fire Company respond
ed to the alarm, and it was only b,
effective work that the barn wa
saved.
Pupils of Wheatland school viii
give a short play, "Axin Her Fader,
Friday night, December Is, 1922, a
the school house, beginning at 7:3'
o'clock. Other entertainment will b,
provided for and there will also be
spelling bee after the play. Tn,
proceeds will go for the benefit O.
! the school.
Nicholas Strider Boxwell, littl,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. S. Boxwell
died at the home of his parents cas-
of Charles Town, this Tuesday morn
ing, aged Is months. Funeral ser
vices will be held on Thursday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at the residence
of MS parents. Interment in Edg,
Hill Cemetery.
The Miller farm located at Kear
lneysville, was sold last Saturday il
front of the court house here by
John w. Dodd, auctioneers, for the
heirs, and knocked down to c. j
Miller, one of the owners, at $67.2
an acre. The place is well improved
and has 10 acres of bearing orchard
Is years old.
II. S. Snyder who has been opera
ting a bowling alley and pool room
on North George street, near the
Opera House for the past four OF
five years, has sold out to James r.
Wilmington, who took charge on
tuesday. Mr.. Wilmington is vet
eran pool room man, having conduct
ed the business in the Beckwith
building for some years.
Fire last Sunday night about IL
o'clock destroyed the stable on the
Aldridge property corner of Con-
gress and Mildred streets, occupied
by DR.. F. F. Edgell, together with
Or. Edgell's automobile. 1t is not
known how the fire originated. The
building was insured with Washing
ton, Alexander & Cooke. The fire
men responded to the alarm with
their usual promptness.
The Christmas Flower, the Poin-
setta, have been of unusual size and
beauty this year. Miss Lillian Dinkle
reports the largest bloom on her
plant of blooms-one measures Is
inches from tip to tip of bloom. Miss
Ella Fouke has beautiful plant with
3 fine blooms. But if you want to
see window full of blooming poin-
settas, Is in number, go to Mrs. J..
w. Twins, on South Mildred street.
They are very handsome and well
worth seeing.
Bonnie R. Rodrick, local agent for
the Durant cars brought two Star
touring cars made by the Durant
company to Charles Town from the
factory at Long Island City, New
York. One of them was sold to
Capt. H. C. Getzendanner who went
to the factory and brought it home,
arriving here Tuesday evening. The
Star has long been heralded as an
attractive low-priced machine, and
the two brought in are the first to be
introduced here.
Invitations have been received
here from Mrs. Augustus Pembroke
Thomsan, of Summit Point, for the
marriage of her daughter, Miss Dor
othy Throckmorton Thomson, to Col.
James Carson Breckenridge, of the
United States Marine Corps. The
marriage is to take place at 7 o'clock
on the evening of Wednesday, De-
cember 27, in the Church of the Holy
Spirit at Summit Point. A recep-
ton is to be held Immediately there
after at Hawthorn" the home of
the brides mother.
What promises to be an interesting
suit to test the validity of the will
of the late ]. H. Dutterer, has been
instituted in the Jefferson Circuit
Court, by Attorneys Geo. M. Beltz-
hoover, Jr, and Walker, Kilmer and
Byrer, of Martinsburg. The plain
tiffs in the contest are Bessie NJ
Roger, D. 2. Roger, her husband,
Virginia f. linn, and Geo. B. linn,
her husband, S. Alberta Flynn, and
J. Irwin Flynn, her husband, R. Stan
ley Dutterer, and Mabel Dutterer, his
wife. They will endeavor to have
the will set aside on the ground that
undue inguence was used in its prep
aration.
The Charles Town Garage has de-
livered the following New Superior
Chevrolets in the past month; B.
W SiiSAy o0pSllOl SOup
NJ. T. Strider, Superior Coup; Tom
Ennis, Superior Touring; w. N.
Hesser, Superior Touring; Robert H.
Nicewarner, Superior Touring; Jas.
Bailey, Superior Touring; James
White, Superior Touring; Virginia
Fleming, Superior Touring; J. E.
Hardey, Superior Touring; Rev. T.
NJ. Swami, Superior Touring; Hiram
Goetz, Utility Coup; Roy j. Shirley
Utility Coup; NJ. P. Johnson, Utility
Coup; Henry Shepherd, Superior
Sedan.
Mr.. Madison Shocks, aged 7t
jears, retired B. & o. conductor
who had made his home with Arthur
Littleton, at Harpers Ferry, died il
a Baltimore Hospital on November
20, and his body was brought to tina
place for interment, following fun
eral services by the Rev. J. w. Parri.
at the home of Mr.. Littleton. De
ceased was a son of BENJAMIN
Snooks and was born in Harper