Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-01-10
LOCAL BRIEFS.

e Miss Lillian D1nkle entertaine,
0 some of the members of the Presby
f terrain choir on last Monday.
Mrs. William Neill was Hostess O,
Saturday evening last, giving Car,
: Party in honor of Mrs. w. W. Coe.
Miss Eleanor McCurdy entertainet
/ (circle number 50 of the Woman,
: Auxiliary of the PRESBYTERIAN
! Church at her home on Tuesday af
! ternoon at $3.50.
: County and State Corporation
, taxes this year in all incorporated
towns will be So, instead of 81, al
heretofore.
There seems to be quite a demand
p for small apartments and rooms il
town just now, and a good many tina,
want them are unable to find them.
Mr. w. S. Merchant, the vel
known Ex-Confederate veteran, OF
Charles Town has been quite sick
Being threatened with pneumonia
he has verged on serious illness
several days.
Mrs. Charles N. Campbell, wife OF
former Assistant District Attorney
Campbell, was operated on yesterday
morning at the Kings Daughters
hospital in Martinsburg. She was
reported to be coming along very
nicely under he circumstances.
Mr.. Richard Feltner was badly in
jured one day last week when an
electric light pole on which he was
working broke off at the bottom
throwing him to the ground. He is
moving about again but is consider
ably famed up.
An alarm of fire was caused this
morning about $50 o'clock by an
automobile belonging to Mr.. Ray
Merchant being discovered on fire in
Rodrick's Garage. The firemen push
ed it out of the building and extin-
guished the fire promptly. The car
was considerably damaged.
Lawson Goens, highly respected
colored farmer died at his home at
Rafting Springs, near Harpers Ferry
last Thursday from pneumonia, aged
As years. His remains were inferred
at Bolivar, after services in the
Methodist Church there.
Camp No. IL, P. o. S. of A., of
Summit Point, will hold an Oyster
Supper on Tuesday night, January
II, in the basement OF the M. E.
Church, South. No postponement
on account of the weather. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Turner are
now occupying their new home re-
Gently purchased on East Washing
ton street and improved by paper
and painting. 1t is considered one
of the most complete and attractive
of our many fine Charles Town
homes.
Little Katherine Wright, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. V. K. Wright,
celebrated her 8th birthday at her
home in the Beckwith Apartments
last Wednesday,. Her guests were
Sarah and Mildred Bushong, Maxine
SlIfer, James and Thruston Shirley,
and Anna Madison Wright.
Mrs. Frank Ronemus has sold her
residence property at the corner of
Mildred street and First avenue,
north of the B. & o. Railroad to
Russell F. Hilleary, who has been
living for the PAST year or two in
the property of Postmaster S. c..
Young, South Samuel street. The
price was $4,000. Mr.. Hileary will
get possession of the properly next
spring.
A wireless telephone apparatus
has been installed by the Northern
Virginia Power Company in the COM
pany's Office in the Coffman build
ing. The equipment is a simple af-
tar. Two upright metal posts pro-
ject above the roof of the building,
about so feet apart. A cross arm
on one is connected with a similar
arm on the other by two copper
wires. These are connected with a
receiving apparatus on the Office
desk.
The Hurwitz Creamery Company
paid up until December 81, 1921,
45 cents per pound for butter Fat in
cream and so cents per pound for
butter fat in milk. The Hurwitz
Creamery Company is one of our
most enterprising concerns, and
should be heartily backed and en-
Outraged by the farmers of Jeffer-
son County, as it is most material
help to their bank account, and is a
big help towards the development of
the dairy industry here.
c. d. Johnson, the Kabletown
merchant, has moved his stock of
merchandise into his rebuilt store
room. The restored building has no
living rooms over it as the old
building had. 1t also has a more
attractive front than had the other
building. Fire wrecked the store
building on May /, 1921, and Mr..
johnson had been conducting his
business in his residence property
adjoining while his own building was
being reconstructed.
Last Wednesday night between
1870 o'clock and 4, the Halltown
poStoffice located in the railroad
station there, was entered by rob-
oers. Cash, postage stamps and rail-
road tickets valued at about 500
were stolen. The robbers entered
the postoffiee from telephone
booth, cutting panel out of the
latter, They opened he safe by un-
locking a combination lock on the
outer door, and by using an explo-
siye to blow the inner door from its
fastenings. Tools found in the Office
the next morning were identified as
those that had been taken from
Propst's shop nearby.
DR.. Howard Moore, a native of
this county, who has been practicing
his profession in Alaska for the past
ten years is here to enjoy the re-
mainder of the winter with his rela-
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