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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1912
Page
4
Local notices list Grace M. E. with services at MidIxtown and Hirron's Chapel plus activities at Kilworth and other areas. Agricultural educator Koontz promotes alfalfa growing. many social visits, band return from Woodstock, and shopper notices for Edmonson's store.
Residents from Berryville and surrounding towns visit relatives and friends in Strasburg Washington Winchester and Martinsburg. Travelers include J O Perry Earl Guthrie and Herbert Rhodes visiting in Washington. Miss Elsie Edmonson returning home from Harrisonburg. Miss Nettie Willey heading to Strasburg. Matt Sperry from Washington PA visiting family near town. and Mrs Pete Hinkens visiting Fishers Hill. Local notices promote Edmonson Insurance and Edmonson Corset shop.
Stephens City and nearby communities list service times for Methodist Episcopal Evangelical Lutheran Episcopal and Colored churches along with Sunday School sessions prayer meetings and preachers. The report also mentions visitors from Roanoke College and Roanoke Womans College and local residents visiting towns and attending district conference events.
Mrs Virginia Campbell continues very ill. Mrs C W Cassell and daughter Rebekah visit J M Snapp near Opequon this week. Stanley Pifer of Middletown and daughter Moline stayed with Cleveland Adams last Sunday. Rev Walter Mitchel left for Henderson NC last Tuesday. Mrs Elizabeth Shryock injured by well pump recently.
Ground has been staked off for a new three and a half acre school site in Stephens City. The building will stand on the east side of Main street opposite Mrs. Lindamood’s home. Trustees bought the land from Mrs. P. B. Stickley and plan a modern facility with room for future additions, a playground, and hitching yard.
Strassburg residents Messrs McCarthy Eugene Chiles and Charles Dean of Stephens City drove to Strasburg on Tuesday. Miss Nettie Willey from Middletown visited Mamie Stickley. B M Bushong of Harrisonburg spent one day in town. George Hinkens of Wheatfield sprained his ankle while trying to hold his team after crossing a bumble bee nest. Miss Louise Totty visiting the Maphis home returned to Stephens City Saturday.
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