Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1926-09-15
LOCAL MENTION

have the opening days September
22nd and 2Srd.
Contractor w. H. Hill was taken
Suddenly i'll on Thursday of last
week, which kept him housed up for
several days. He has since improv-
ed and is now going about again.
A portion of the long back porch
If the High School building is being
enclosed for the benefit of the foot
hall team. The enclosed room will
contain showers and lockers.
The hospital board of the Charles
pown General Hospital met Tuesday
morning to discuss the routine bust
ness of the hospital. Those present
were A. s. Allen, President: L. C
Briscoe. Secretary and Treasurer,
and members, NJ. t. Strider. P. P
Nelson, B. B. Ransom, I T Perry and
Mrs. Arthur Davenport.
J. t. Kitchen, of the Flowing
Spring vicinity, has bought the resi-
denee formerly occupied by the late
W. A. Riggs, at Seventh Avenue and
George street, together with ten lots
adjacent to the property for $3.50.
The salewas made by the Jefferson
Bank and Trust Company and John
r. Lewis, executors of Mr.. Riggs
will.
A party of four Charles Town
ladies, Misses Anna Riddle, Laura
Campbell, Phoebe Getzendanner, and
Carrie Wilson, are going over to the
Forest Reservation. between Gettys-
burg and Chambersburg, TO spend
week in a cottage lent to them there.
Fine scenery, braoing air, and the
beauties of the forest promise them
good time.
Milton Shaull is at his home, near
Leetown, from Baltimore, nursing
painfully injured arm sustained few
DAYS ago, while cranking a truck in
that city. The muscles of his right
arm were wrenched loose from the
bone at the elbow. when the truck
crank kicked while attempting to
start the engine. He will have to
carry the arm in a sling for some
time.
An automobile used in taxi SER
vice by w. B. Alder. of Charles
Town, was damaged in a collision at
the top of Camp Hill about $50
o'clock, Sunday night, September 5.
His machine, although two feet in
side of the white line that divides
the road at the crest of the hill. was
hit on the left rear fender, the blow
making an ugly dent in the body of
the sedan just about the left rear
wheel by a car owned and operated
by Harry Myers, of Brunswick, Md,
who agreed to pay for the damages.
Jennings Brothers, of Roanoke,
Va, have bought the apples in D. 2.
Rogers orchard, two miles south of
Kearneysville, for $4,000. The pur-
chasers are to pick and pack them
at their own expense. The three va
rieties in the Roger orchard of twen-
ty acres that proved of most interest
to the buyers this year are King
David. Grimes, and Delicious, there
being several hundred barrels of
each there.
An appraisement of the estate of
the late James A. Robinson by
Messrs. E. E. Allen, James A. Smith
and w. H. Baldwin. was filed for
record in the County Clerks office.
The value totaled at S9,091.17, of
which $4,000 is represented by loans
on property on Washington, D. G.,
real estate. B. w. Grim, C. n Coyle,
and George w. Rowland, appraisers,
valued the estate of the late Geo. B.
Wyndham. of Summit Point, at
$2,293.77. Mr.. Wyndham's house
at Summit Point was appraised at
$1,000.
Mrs. Margaret Fields. believed to
have been the oldest colored woman
in this county, died at her home near
Duffields, on Wednesday, September
8. The record of her birth shows
she was born in December. 1925. Old
people of the Duffelds neighborhood.
who have known her all their lives
credit her with being over hundred
years old Margaret belonged in the
Henkle family in slavery days. Her
funeral was in the church at Reed
son, last Friday at 2 D. M, with bur-
ial in the cemetery at Stroup's Cross
Roads, near Uvilla.
Reuben Twyman, one of Charles
Towns oldest colored men, died at
the home of his daughter in Harris
burg, Pa, Sunday evening, Septem-
yer OH, Two HOurS dlCel he HdQ al
rived there from Charles Town. In
his young manhood he was a hostler
in the Confederate army, the greater
part of the time being with Capt.
George Baylor's company in the 18th
Virginia Cavalry In later life he
was in the employ of the late Lewis
P. Starry, who was in the andertak-
ing business in Charles Town. The
weight of years had greatly en-
feebled him, so that he could scarce
ly get about, and went to Harrisburg
where he could be cared for by his
daughter.
st. Andrews Mission School on the
east side of the Shenandoah river.
reopened on Monday, after vaea-
ton of over three months. Miss
Halle Dorsey, who has been princi-
pal of the school for the past several
years, taking part in the instruction
of classes, will this year supervise
the work. Three teachers will be
employed to dc. the classroom work.
Miss Mamie Spates, of Clarke coun-