Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1926-11-10
LOCAL MENTION

A ten pound baby girl was born TO
Mr. and Mrs VIM. A Wilmington. at
reir home. on East Congress street,
IN asst Wednesday. The family sta
sis-ics now show boys and 4 girls.
The Ladies Aid Society Of the Lee
own Methodist Church viii hold its
annual supper in the public school
building al that place. on Friday
night. November 10, beginning at 5
o,eolck Soup. candy and fancy ar
-icles viii also be sold. Come and
bring your friends.
The teachers and pupils of the
Kabletown school will hold chicken
supper in the basement of the Metho
dist Church, at Kabletown, on Fri
5av night. November II. Proceeds
fer benefit of school. Public cordial
IL invited.
State officers Schill and Jack. and
officers Smith and Shepherd raided
me premises of Newton Hoff. on
North West street Sunday morning,
On coming up before Justice Wiley,
Newton Hoff plead guilty to possess
SION of moonshine, and was sentene-
ed to thirty days in jail and S100
fine and cost.
Mrs. J. Rush Snyder entertained
Wednesday afternoon at a beautiful
IL appointed luncheon at Wade Park
Manor, in Cleveland. Ohio, in honor
Of Mrs. J. NJ. Somers, of Cocoa, Flor
ida. and Cleveland: Mrs. Mary KEN
erer. of Manor. Pa, and Miss Maria
VI. SNYDER. of Shenandoah Junction,
West Virginia.
The regular meeting of the Wom-
ans Club will be held in the Parish
House, Thursday. November IL. at
$3.50 D. m. Mrs. W. H. S. White, of
Shepherdstown, will give a reading.
as a part of the afternoons program.
Mrs. White is the wife of President
White of Shepherd College, and is a
well-known and popular reader.
Horace Blunt, colored, for striking
a colored girl. at Rippon, with polk
by Deputy Sheriff Ramey and Police
man w. R. Shepherd, at Gibsontowh,
two miles south of town, and brought
to Jail. The warrant was sworn out
by Cooper Carter, of Nippon. Blunt
has lUH2 Uttll WdflSu Nv IIlt dubUOIl-
ties for liquor violations, but had sue
ceeded in eluding arrest until last
week.
Losing his balance on ladder
while painting the front of the St.
George building, on Main street, Mr..
F. D. Davis. employed by Mr.. W. W.
Johnson. contractor, fell thirteen feet
to the concrete sidewalk. Mr.. Davis
retained his presence of mind when
ne became unbalanced. and managed
to alight on his feet. Aside from
severe bruises on his heels, he escap-
ed injury. He is able to walk with
the aid of erutches.
An exhibit of pure-bred Dark
Brahma chickens sent to the Sesqui
Centennial by Chas. N. Becker, a
poultry fancier, living east of Mill
vile, have been brought back with
ribbons on them. Mr.. Becker won
third premium on cockerels; third
and fourth on pullets. and fourth on
hen. Considering the enormous ex-
hibit Of poultry at the Centennial,
Becker is to be congratulated on his
winnings.
Robert Lewis, colored, died at the
Charles Town General Hospital
Thursday morning. at the age of 80
wears. His death, which came at the
end of few days illness, was laid to
/ general old age. Lewis was native
Of Albemarle county, Virginia, having
moved to Jefferson county some years
ago. His wife preceded him to the
grave last May. Funeral services
were held Friday at 2:30 o. M, from
Zion Baptist Church in town. Inter
ment in Fairview Cemetery on Berry
vile turnpike.
Mr.. Lawrence Lloyd, Charles
Towns telegraph operator, and en-
terprising young radio salesman, has
installed an unusually large number
t of sets in the town the past week or
SO. Among those obtaining sets from
him during that time were the fol-
lowing: Alvin Ennis, T. G. Ennis.
Elmer Ronemus. Mrs. Williams,
Charles Smith and Merle Alger. Most
Of the sets have been those made by
the Radio Corporation of America,
while two were of Neutrodyne type,
Freed Eissman make.
At a special session Of the county
court the B. & o. r. R. Co. ton ae-
count of Cherry Run & Potomac
Valley R. r. Co.. was exonerated
from payment of taxes on $1,000 of
real estate in Harpers Ferry, the
property having been enormously as
sessed. Other generations on ac-
count of erroneous assessment were
allowed to the following in the Spec
al Orchard Levy for 1925: Henry
Snyder, tax on seven acres Of or
chard, amounting to $500; Nelson T
SNYDER, FIVE acres amounting TO
$500; and to the estate of |. P.
Lynch, in the Harpers Ferry district,
oH Z y ocres.
Mrs. Martha Cockrell Wallace. a
native of the vicinity of Harpers Fer
~, died at the home Of her son, Ar
thur A. Wallace, in Boonville, Mo-,
on Sunday. October 81, aged So
years. The greater part of her life
was spent on farm in Cooper coun-
", Mo-, where she was married in
863 to the late Thomas j. Wallace,
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