Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1926-07-07
LOCAL MENTION

J J.. W. WIZ was SCHtGUC
ed 10 80 days and fined for the pos
session Of LIQUOR by Justice Moler, o.
Shepherdstown. two weeks ago, ha
been paroled by Governor Gore.
James Turner. the young lad who
shot himself with a shotgun near hi:
{ home. east of the Shenandoah River
four miles east of town, the morning
of June ID. has returned to his home
to reeuperate.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of the county clerk Thurs
day afternoon to Clifton Edward
Shipe. a native of Rippon. and Mary
Ann Popkins, born in Clarke county,
Va. Bob are residents of Bunker
Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert NJ. Bassford.
of Washington, D. C., are the proud
parents of fine son, born to them
on June 25th, at the Mercy Hospital.
that city. Mrs. Bassford was former
ly Miss Caroline T. Boyd, of this
county.
John William Dotson, colored,
aged SO years, died at the home of
his daughter. Annie Davis. at Me-
chanicstown. Tuesday night. Fun
eral services will be held on Friday
morning in Zion Baptist Church. In
terment in Fairview Cemetery.
Mr.. j. Paul Blundon, of Keyser,
engineer in charge of the survey and
plans for the Charles Town sewerage
system, was here Wednesday and
Thursday, going over the plans and
the ground with number of con-
tractors who were interested in bid
ing on the proposition.
Mr.. Clyde Russell, of Charles
Town. who has been in the employ of
the American Railway Express. a
part of the time travelling between
Washington and Philadelphia, has
been promoted to the position of
cashier for the company in Fred
erick, Nd.
"Delrose," running horse owned
by Frank Brooke, manager of the
Charles Town horse show, was sent
to Culpepper, Va, where it was en-
tered in the running races at the
show there Monday and Tuesday.
Queens Own" another of Brooke's
running horses, is at present in
Pennsylvania, entering races in that
state.
James Lovett, widely known as a
cook in the hotels and restaurants of
Harpers Ferry and vicinity for many
years, died in the Charles Town Hos
pital on last Tuesday. Jim's last
was as cook in Mr..
Leo O'Beirne's restaurant in Har-
pers Ferry. Deceased was about rs
years of age and was brother of T.
5. Lovett, proprietor of the Hilltop
House.
We have letter from Mr.. B. C.
Jr., directing us to
change the address of the Spirit of
Jefferson sent to him from Oteen, N.
c.. to 1249 Lawrence St.. N. E.,
D. c. His many friends
here will be glad to learn that he has
been discharged from the Govern
nent tuberculosis Hospital at Oteen.
after being patient there for five
years.
Trustees of Edge Hill Cemetery
are having the lodge house at the en-
rance to the cemetery enlarged. A
brick addition. about Is feet square
and two stories in height is being
built at the south of the present
building. which will give superinten-
lent Wilmington two more rooms to
MS dwelling. The enlarged building
Will be covered with a hip-roof TO dis
place the fiat roof that has made the
second floor rooms almost unbear-
ably warm in the summer months.
A marble marker lettered in black
Presbyterian Church, Or
yanized 1897" has been placed on
he southwest corner of the Charles !
Town Presbyterian Church. The |
original deed, with the signatures of |
charles and Mildred Washington at
ached, hangs in the vestibule of the |
'hurch, giving this date of the pur- !
'hase of the lot in the western end
II town on which was built the first |
h>ch of this denomination in Char
estown, Virginia. Since that time
mother church was erected on the |
anne lot. and in 1852 the present |
hurch and manse were built.
Prosecuting Attorney John T.
'orterfield, as Special Commissioner,
IN last Tuesday afternoon. sold two
louse owned by the estate of
Abe Longerbeam, one of them To-
ated at the corner of Boundary and
'henandoah streets: and the other
lear the intersection of Union and
'henandoah streets. in Harpers Fer
y. Offered separately, the houses
rought the same price. S41O each.
esse Daley was the highest bidder
n the one, while John Longerbeam
vas the top bidder on the other. The
wo properties were then offered to-
ether, and were knocked down to W
l., Savory, for $3.50. The sale was
cid in front Of Hotel Conner.
X, A. Jones, of Harpers Ferry, was
ED for the September Grand Jury
y Justice G. o. Wiley, in Charles
own, on Thursday afternoon. when
nearing was held on the charge of
'ansporting liquor. and having a re-
olver IN his car. His bond was fix !
l at $500. Officers in searching
ones' automobile, near the carnival ,
rounds. in Charles Town, Saturday
gnt last. found under the cushion
the front seat two ale haftlas ff11