Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-09-12
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mrs. Sallie Emmert and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Bowling have moved here
from Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Henry E. Birkitt is ill with
typhoid fever at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Brown,
West Liberty street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Allamong
are the proud parents of a little
daughter, born on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 3.
Mr.. T. ]. Yates moved last week
with his family to the Tomlinson
property on West Liberty St., re-
Gently purchased by him.
A son has been born to Mr.. and
Mrs. A. D. Cockey at Pikesville, Md.
The new arrival has been named A.
D. Jr., and is the only grand child of
County Commissioner and Mrs. c..
H. Moore.
Mrs. Nettie holland invites all the
ladies to see her new line of Fall
Millinery on Wednesday, September
20, 1922. Sos advertisement in
another column.
DIR. A. O. Albin is a patient in the
Charles Town Hospital and will be
operated on there today for the re-
moval of gall stones, from which he
has been suffering intensely for
several days past.
An alarm of fire turned in yester-
day afternoon, about 2:30 was
caused by an electric iron setting
fire to an ironing board in the fiat
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
Ennis, in the postoffice building.
The Jefferson Cooperage Com
pany sold Is acres of timber on the
Green Hill Orchard tract four miles
northeast of Charles Town last week
to the Miller. Lumber Company. A
saw-mill outfit is already operating
in the timber.
Sarah May, little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Kelly, Jr., aged s
months died at the home of her
on West Washington
street this morning about IL o'clock.
Funeral arrangements had not been
when the Spirit went to
press.
Henry Bracket and wife who re-
side about a miles west of Charles
Town on the dark lane road, were
arrested by officers last week charged
with moonshining. A still and a
quantity of mash was found by the
officers in a search of the premises.
Edward Turner, arrested last
week for having more wine in his
possession than the law allows under
the Volstead act, was given a hear
ing before Justice Sheetz Friday
afternoon. After hearing the evil
dence in the case, the Justice sen
fenced him to Jail for 6 months and
he is required to pay fine of $500
dollars. Turner appealed the case
and was released on a bond of
$4,000.
George Frederick Kern who left
Harpers Ferry recently to work in a
coal mine at Burnwell, w. Va, was
killed in mining accident there the
first of last week No particulars
the accident are available
mere. The remains of the victim
we're brought to Harpers Ferry
Thursday on train No. Is for burial,
services being held in the M. P.
Church at 2:30 p. m. Young Kern
was 21 years of age.
The old platform scales in the
street west of the court house where
nay, live stock and other products
have been weighd for over SO years
we're removed last week, and the
pit filled by the town. The scales
were installed in 1871 by the late
Major J. Lawrence Hooff, and after
The equipment was taken up it was
to the farm of the Hooff
heirs out the Middleway pike
where it will be reinstalled for SER
vice in weighing grain and live
stock.
Mr.. Thornton Perry, formerly of
Charles Town, who was a flyer in
the World War is again utilizing his
in the interest of the
aeronautic convention in Baltimore,
% and %. AS publicity
for it, he visited Pittsburg,
Norfolk, Richmond and Washington,
using an airplane as a means of
travel to distribute literature adver-
Using the convention. Lieut.. Perry
while in the employ of the Baltimore
Sun holds a commission in the Mary
land National Guard, in the 104th
Observation Squadron.
The State Camp of West Virginia,
Patriotic Order Sons of America,
adjourned its seventeenth annual
at Piedmont to meet next
year at Martinsburg, after electing
the following officers:
State President, D. T. Powell,
vice president, S. S.
Cushwa, Martinsburg; master of
forms, G. R. Paskell, Moorefeld;
State treasurer, R. Hammersla,
North Mountain; State secretary,
c. E. Meredith, Salem; conductor,
G. o. Wiley, Charles Town; inspec-
tor, w. F. Wilt, Kearneysville;
guard, c. E. Harden, Berkeley
Springs; trustee, John W. Hershey,
New Creek, and delegates to the
camp to be held in Philadel-
phia next year, DIR. T. A. Ramey,
John W. Ewin, R. B. Price and F. o.
Trump.