Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-20
Local News.

viii meet IN the Charles Town Grad
ed School auditorium, Thursday.
May 81. at 7.SO P. NJ.
Decline Chapter. n. S. D. A. R..
Will serve ice cream strawberries and
cake, on the American Legion lawn.
Tuesday night June 2nd. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
At the regular meeting Of the City
Council on Monday night, various
restaurant and other licenses were
recommended to the County Court.
and only other routine business
transacted.
Elmer Greaver. son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Roy Greaver, of Ransom, was married
in Baltimore few days ago to Miss
Marie Krammer, of that city. Mr..
and Mrs. Greaver will make their
home in Baltimore.
The Womans Club of Charles
Town held their regular Thursday
meeting at the Parish House. A musi-
cal program was held. Those
taking part were Mrs. W. II. Best.
Mrs. Conrad Goodwin, Miss Laura
Campbell Miss Watson and Mrs
Ronemus.
We return thanks to Miss GLADYS
Thrush for an invitation to the Com
mencement Exercises of the Phila-
delphia Musical Academy. Miss
Thrush is member the Graduating
Class, and is an accomplished violin
list. She is a daughter of DR.. M.
Clayton Thrush, of Philadelphia, for
merly of Charles Town.
The Auxiliary of the Jackson Perk
Post of American Legion held its
regular monthly meeting last week.
The main business brought before
the planning of Memorial Day, which
is to be held with the Daughters of
Confederacy, Saturday, May 80. The
members are requested to meet at
the Legion home Friday, May go, to
make wreaths for the soldiers graves.
A report was circulated that the
plant of the Keystone Limestone
Co., at Millville, had been closed
down, which is incorrect. The man.
agement stated that the plant is
running four and five days a week,
and that the quarry is the only dolo-
mite plant the company owns. The
only plant to shut down in this sec
ton is the jefferson Cooperage Co.,
which stopped for the present in the
work of making barrels.
Mr.. d. S. Hughes is announced in
this weeks issue of the Spirit of
Jefferson as a candidate for Town
Councilman from the First Ward.
Mr.. Hughes is prominent and sue
cessful business man of wide exper-
fence and sound judgement, and has
the best interests of the town at
heart. He has served acceptably as
Councilman heretofore, and if elect
ed at the coming election. will, we
have no doubt, serve his constit-
uents just as faithfully and we'll as
he has in the past.
William Clay, colored, of Charles
Town, was arrested while coming
through Shepherdstown Wednesday
night from a visit to Washington
county. Md. In the car he was using
for thetrip was found ten gallons Of
moonshine. The liquor brought on
him fine of $247.50 when he was
arraigned before Mayor Miller,
Thursday morning. Clay told the
Mayor that the car was borrowed
from Henry Green, of Charles Town,
but this fact did not save the MAJ
chine from confiscation.
A bridge tea was held at the Dol
ly Madison Tea House last Wednes-
day afternoon. Those playing were
Mrs. j. B. Brazier, Mrs. E. E. Cooke,
Miss Rebecca Trapnell. Miss Imo-
gene Thompson, Mrs. W. Grove, Miss
Thompson, Mrs. Charles Crane, Mrs
P. P. Nelson, Mrs. j. Trapnell, Mrs.
Geo. M. Beltzhoover, Jr., Mrs. Char
les Johnson, Mrs. Arthur Daven-
port, hrs. James G. Shirley, Mrs.
George Moore. Mrs. Rolfe Gerhardt,
Mrs. H. J. Wiswell, Miss Frances
Packette, Miss Florence Morgan and
the Misses Alexander.
Mr.. j. M. Trapnell, whose reported
sale of "My Hope, fine horse show
filly to Waugh Glasscock, a horse
man of Fauquier county, at an at
tractive price, was announced last
week, has sold another valuable
jumper, this time to Mrs. Augustus
Riggs, of Cookesville, Md. The
jumper is widely known as "Hindoo
Maid". bav mare, and has been ex-
hibited at the Virginia horse shows
for the past few years, winning many
blue ribbons Hindoo Maid will be
shown at the Washington Horse show
this week by Mrs. Riggs. The price
paid by her is said to have been
about $4,000.
A surprise party was given Mr.. E.
G. 'Staubs, a popular farmer, of near
Thursday night, May 7,
the occasion being his birthday an
He was the recipient of
many valuable presents, one very |
highly priced being a gold watch and |
chain given by his children. Those |
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Alexan-
der Author and family, of Baltimore,
Nd; Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Maisel, Mrs.
Quinn, Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Keiter, /
IF Ma,-tip ohrrp. Mr. and Mrc A T., 1