PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON IN CHARLES TOWN, W. VA.
BY THE JEFFERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
Thursday, May 21, 1959
OUR GRADUATION ADDRESS
• This is ~an eventful mon,th for some ten score or more of the youth
of our county: Wiekhln ~ne next $ew weeks 'they will ,be receiving ,their
'l-~ig~ se(hool dlplonms and one era in ,their ~ves ~111 end ,and anOther
will begi..n. To many the evenit ~¢ill mark bug a ~x~int of transetion from
one ,type of formal education to another, wt~ile to many others the
event will mark ~he pu~vting away of books and the beginning, of life
work. To aJl .the graduates we extend our congratulations on ~he corn-
pletion of a required cou.rse of study.
We have but a sirrrple message for the graduates of 1959. It is this:
" ~fter more than 2,000 years crf so-called c'ivlliza~ion the greatest secret
of ~vhe world remakns uncwptured. Call ft a formula, call it whwt you
will. It is the secret of kn(~wing how people on this troubled planet can
- live ~togeq~her in peace and har~nony. Capturing ~his knowledge ~s ,more
v~tal now (uhan at any other era in history qor ~t~ne ,plain and simple
reason .thas our (~ther fields of knowledge have become so advanced
tT~.t we are now literally c~p~ble of destroying ourselves completely.
The piety of our 0!,rues is tha~ we know so much technically and ,so lit.
tie spiritually. As scientists we are supermen well on the course of ex-
plorin,g the whole universe. As ,hummnitarians we are aS bes,t barbar-
ians little advanced from ~a~ve men. The survival of civilizaSlon is ut-
terly dependent upon ~d~vunces in the sciences and advances in the
&uman~ties keeping reasonably ,a~reast. To close cthe ~ar-reaching g~p
betnveen .these t~vo is the problem and ,the challnge for those who are
~ow ~about £o em~bark on ~a course of li¢e. At the risk of sounding pious
~nay we say ,thwt we who have failed in this task have long known how
~t can be done, but have Sot o,ne reason or another been unwilling ~o
do it. The ar~swer was given ~to us 1959 years ago. The name of ~the
Man who gave at to us was ,called Jesus.
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Ambrose Bailey Dies
Ambrose Bailey, 71, better
know~n as "Jum" died early Wed-
nesday morning in the Charles
Town General Hospi~ai where he
had been a pa'tien% for the pas~
'Melvin T. Strider Colonial Fun-
eral Home until Sasurd,ay vehe~n
services will be held as 2 p. m.
The Roy. Homer Bullet, t, pastor of
Zion Methodist ~harge, will of-
ficiase. Burial wllt be made in
Fair~iew Cemetery.
ardly orth enti0n
By Henry W. Morrow "
Tainted Justice
come of t~he triM.~If he finds the
man guilty he gets paAd, ou.t of
the costs. IS he finds l~im inno-
cent. or, more properly, not guil,ty
he gets paid ,noth4ng. The mo~
:honeSt of men would find it diffi-
cul,t to me~e out impartial justice
under these tempting carcumstan-
ces.
kept one of them and the arrest
in g officer was given half of t~hem.
Since this correspondent was
one of the ~t.tor, neys involved i.n
l,t~h~t litig~ation he wo~xld have nor-
molly felt some hesi~t~ancy abou~
wri,tAng abou,t Vhis ,m.at~r, in spite
of t)he fac)t thas the tri,al was a
public tri,ai and the proceeding's
,are in no way privileged. Bu~ an-
other newspaper has already re-
ported the ineiden.t, and t~'s ob-
server feels he need no~ refrain
from com.men~ simply because of
~his persormi connection wi~z the
case.
Any f~r constder'x~ion af th~s
subject should b~ prefaced wi,th
~he fair and objective co~nmen~
~h~ ~haS the mayor in the par-
lit is frequently argued by the
the cosks went he stated th~ he: un~''nff°rvned that j.ushices of the
peace receive coqn,per~a~on out
of the cos~ Vhey assess aga.inst a
man found to be guilty, and this
is true. And this too would be il-
le~a:l but for ~he sa~,~g fact that
i'f a justice of the peace finds an
alleged vi(H~tor not gui~lCy the
county court pays him exactly the
same fee for holding the trio,1 that
the defendant would have pa~d
him in costs had he been found
guiSty.
It is also argued theft nmyors
are clothed wi~h powers corres-
ponding to justices of the peace;
but t~s is so only fur crimes corn-
,trotted wit~n ~he munimpal lira-
.its, ~nd if a rnuyor chooses to aot
as a~n ex-offlcio jtmtice (rf the
Ipeace the fines and coat, s mus~ be
tpa~d irrto the courrty court.
,titular case cited above admitted The point of tbAs whole t2~lng is
to doing is a practice ~t is fol- ,~ha~t municipal officers ough% not
~lowed throughout many srn~tl
,towns in Wes~ Vi~gk-,Aa. In at least
~vhree of the five muvl~cipali~ties in
Jefferson County, including Char-
]es Town, i~ is known that in mos¢
~oases the mayor receives a port-
,ion of "the costs" for his trottble
in disposing of cases brougl-~ be-
fore him.
The average layman, who is gen
er~liy u,nsktlled in the way~ of the
law, does not realize ~ a mayor
acting as a judge, ha~ no ldg~t,
direotly, to any pot%ion of the pro
ceeds pa4d as a fine or costs for
violasion of a mumcipM ordinan-
ce. The reasoning be~nd this is
,to be permuted to be a)oove and
beyond the escape of the very
laws t~hey are sworn and obliged
~,o execute, defend and protect.
We have reached a preVty point of
,affairs when the l~aw itsel¢ is used
as a racket to ~uri,ch those Who
,are su, pposed to be its Oh.ampions.
In many of our smaller towns In
West Virgima one reads of the
sma]~l salaries paid to mayors and
marvels as the sense of public
dt~ty Vlmt mot4v~tes them to take
su.c~n a seen~in~ly troublesome job
,for so it,tile pay. Bu~ the unvar-
rushed truth of the m,a~er is ~t
beah~nd the bleak and official tin-
Middleway spen~t the d~ay recently I ergtown, iMd. ~as a supper guest
,in Arlington and a~ the Seven Cor S~t,xrday of his nephew and neice,
hers Shopping Ceater near Fa~lls Mr. and Mrs. /Eec Coste~lo. On
Churoh, Va. Sunday, dinner gues'ts of Mr. a,nd
Mrs. George Cdasscock is spend- "Mrs. Costello were the formers par
ing tl~is week visiting width her ents, ,Mr. and IMrs. H. E. Costell,o
so~n and daughter-,in-law Mr. and of Loudoun Heights, Va. and (Mrs.
'Mrs. Glasscock and their daugh- Costello's parents Mr. and Mrs.
ter Betty Lee. Edwin Clevenger and daughter
Visitors on Sunday aS the home ~haron.
of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Grove ,Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ott and
were the loiters sister Mrs. Louis family of ~Millvflle spent Friday
LEgist "and her daughter ~V~iss with Vhe formers paten,is ~Vir. ~'nd
Mary Louise Light of Martins'burg Mrs. Bernard Ore.
Also visiting with the Grove's on Visit, ors Sunday at t'he home of
Monday was their son Mr. 13~v~,d Mr. and ~Mrs. Wil:l~am Hoak and
Grove 'and his son Gregory of ,fa~ni~ly were ~VIr. and Mrs. J. L.
Charles Town. Ch'a~pman of Ri,ppon, ~rs. Berfffra
~Messrs. John and Addis~.'~ Tim- 'Morgan and Mrs. Florence Pope of
berl'ake who were overnight guesrm H:~rpers Ferry, Mrs. James Lan,cas
on Tuesday of las,t week at the ~er and fasT, Ely of BoHwar. ~VIr. and
home of their aun.t Mrs. W. O. "Mrs. Aust4n Bowers and family of
Macoug~htry Sr. left on Wednes Charles Town, Mr. a,nd ,Mrs. Wood
day ~fternoon to re~urn to their of Oecoquan, Va., Mrs. Bernard
,homes in Ctarksburg, W. Va. The Ot~t ,and Mrs. Winerd Bowers of
~Messrs. Tin~beriake were here toH,alltown.
,~0tend ~2~e funeral of their uncle ~Mr. and Mrs. Gi:Ibert Kranen-
qVIr. George T. Shirley which was berg have moved in$o ~ne W~tson
'held on Wednesday mor,uing from property recen¢01y ~acated by She
ibhe Church of the Holy Spirit. Braithwaite,~ faxnlly, ~rom CA~arles
(Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Poston Of Town.
Oaithersburg. (Md. spent:, Sunday Mrs. William Trail and sons,
v~s~ng wleth the formers sister Mark and I~vld o'f ]3olivar and
and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. ~Vir. Joe Irat, o of Tarrye~v~, N. Y.
Howard Fellers his sister Miss were visitors at the home of Mr.
S~I~e PoSton and his broVher Mr. and (Mrs. Edwin Clevenger and
Skinner Poston. daughter on Saturday.
IV~ss Kay Davey was o~e of a Mr. ~nd Mrs. Joseph l~,nalli of
grou~ of studer~ts frown the Ctmr- Mi.l,lville and Mr. Fred Gut~.rie of
,les Town Junior HA~h Scho~l who Charles Town accoxrrpanied Mrs.
spenlt Tuesday sigh~eeln,g in Nat~haniel Grey, Jr., son Irv~n,g
Washington, D.C. ,and (Mrs. Elmer Wright ,to l~ch-
Musical Program mend, Va. on Tuesday where ~hey
Mrs. James H. Snyder of "East ,~ttended ~he graduasl,ug exercises
Shenstone" wi,~h (Mrs. John Por-
~er Burghs and Mrs. Owen Conklyn
of C~arles Town presented a mus
ical program on "Spring" at the
twer~tieth ann,iversary eeiebrasion
of the W~zard Clip Farm Womens
Club w~ch was held on F~day
evening as the home of Mrs. Don
~ld SchiH in l~ddleway. Mrs. Gee
rge Crim was also a guest at the
celebration which reviewed the
aoh~evements of ~he club duri~ng
the ~ taven~y years.
P. T. A. Meeting
The Su,rmni.t Point Paren~-Tea-
chefs Associasion met a~ the home
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON-FARMERS
4---A ..-- THURSDAY"" MAY
g,t Union Theological Seminary.
Mr. Harry Thomas, a former ~%u-
denlt minister here, was a mem'ber
of the graduasing class ~thi~ year.
"Mr. Samuel Strickler spen~t Tucs
day wit;h his son and daughter-in
law Mr. and (Mrs. Bill Strickler
,and dau~h,ter near Bem'yville, Va.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Arthur Wilhide
and daughter Mr. and ,Mrs. Gee- WAGAM
rge Pe~.nner and son of Hagers-
town, ~Md. were visitors Sunday
~fternoon as ~e homes of Mr.
and ,Mrs. Na~aniei Grey, ~Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Clevenger and Mr.
and Mrs. Alec Cos~llo.
t~eeent visitors at the home of
,Mr. and ,Mrs. David Penwell ,and North ~
family ,have been Mrs. Nettle W~let
,Mr. Mwtthew Wilt and s(m of Bol
~var, Mr. and Mrs. ~Marv~n K~mesl~2"~i~O~_~i~D~rc~r,
of Oharles Town. Sunday, the Pen
well and Kimes families along
with MT. and Mrs. Lee Friend and
f~milyofP~verdale,'Md, enjoyed
June 13th
a picnic dinner ~t ,Memorial Park f
in Charles Town.
Mrs. I:)avid Penwell and ~h~ild-
re~ and Miss Jennifer Grey visE- For Details See
ted Mr. and (Mrs. Bill Strickler
.and duug~h~er near Berryvil,le, Va. vertisement E
Tuesday evening. "Mr. ~amuel
S tri,ckler returned home wi,th paper.
~hem after spend,ing ~the day with
,his son ,and family.
Miss Jennifer Grey vpen~t the May 21-1t.
,weekend in Bolivar with her class
matte, (Miss (Molly De,Dauter.
~wo weeks. He had been in ill heal
eh for some years.
Born in Charles Town, he was
a member of Mt. Zi~t Met'hod~st
Church,
Surviving are h~s wife, Mrs, Lou
lse Carey Bailey at the home on
East North street, a sister, Mrs.
Jane Carter of Oharles Town;
,and a nuarrber of nieces and ne-
phews.
Friends will be received as the
25*/, STRONGER
EACH STAVE
PRECISION MADE OF
VIBRATED
CONCIEI[
~REATER STR[NGTH
LASTING BEAUTY
NEVER NEEDS
PAINTING
RODENT ItE$1$TAI;T
B[Tl'l~ SILAGE
WlUT[ TODAY
LYLE C. TABB
Kearneysville, W. Va.
Phone Charles Town 24-F-011
Funeral Rites Tuesday not difficult to perceive. If the
For Aneta Nelson Turner ~mayor is to receive as compensaS-
ion a portion of the costs, w~fi.~h
Mrs. Aneta Nelson Turner, Ne- ! ca~.n only be assessed if t~he a'lleged
gro, wife of Lynn R. Turner of iviolator is found guiRy, the alleg
Keanneys~ille~died as noon So,fur-
day in General Hospital here,
Born on Dec. 18, 1891 in Ben-
t~nvilIe, Va. she w.as a dauah~er
of the late l~bevt and Ida Puller
Nelson.
~Bhe was the last of her immed-
Ease family.
Survi~ng are her husband and
several nieces and nephews.
Services were held Tuesday at
2 p. m. at the Smith and Strider
Funeral Home here with the Rev.
E. L. McDowell of Marti,nsburg,
officiating.
Burial was in the ,Methodist
Cemetery in Kearneysvflle.
Bearers were Jus(bin Anderson,
George Sm4,t~h, David and Hunter
Nelson and John ,and Charles BaH
Bake Sale May 25 For
i Benefit Hillsboro PTA
A bake sale for the benefit of
the Hillsboro, Va. P. T. A. will be
~held Saturday, May 23 in ~he old
Charles Town Garage show win-
dow on Main Street, abarting at 9
,a. m. All foods home made. Court
try c~ickens, eggs, bu.tter, home-
made rolls a speciali,ty. A skare of
the public patronage will be very
'much appreciated.
Patience is the art of solving
problems by letting them alone.
'ed ~ola~or c~annot possibly have
a fair trial since the man %'ho is
aotang as judge (,t~e mayor) l~as
,a pecuniary interest in the ou,t-
an¢ial statement, kept from 8he on Monday evening wi,th about
records, is the evidence of hun- thirty in a~tendance. The meet-
dreds of dolaars padd by unsuspect ing was opened wiith Devotions
THIS WEEK'S NEWS IN
By Mrs. Stuart Crim
4ng persons iw "cour~ costs" that
never reaches the city treasury
where 1,t be'/ongs, but goes into
~he pockets of city olTici~ls. It is
,a racket tha~ should be pt~t to an
end.
~Farm Club Meeting
The Summi~ Point Farm Wom-
en's Club met on Thursday even-
,rag at t~he home of Miss Shirley
Macough,try with seven,teen mem-
bers and guests in ~ttendance.
The mee~i,.ng was opened v+ith De-
vent,ions led by Miss Maeou~htry af
ter Which the roll was called, the
minutes of the last meeting rea/d
and approved and report on the
recent card party made by the
~reasurer. Several items of busi-
ness were d4scussed and "a collect
ion made of "Pennie for Friend-
ship". F,~llowing this Mrs. Robert
:H. Hardesty presented a very in-
iteresting Iesso,.n on "The Care of
New Fabrics". The meeting was
concluded with a pleasant social
(hour during wh~oh recreation was
enjoyed and delicious refresh-
Phone 47-F-032
menq, s were served by the hostess
assisted by her mother Mrs. Rob-
e~ Macough~ry.
In Summer Training
Howard L. Ware Jr. a mem,ber
of ~he United States Air Force Re
serve left on Sunday for two
weeks of summer traini,~g at Cape
Cl~arles, Va. He yeas accompanied
there by WIessrs. Re,bert LEg(hi,
Ri¢hard Schmidt. Skinner Poston
and James Lemen who re,turned
to their homes lose the same nigh,t
Mrs. W. C. Hackman who had
spent the paxt several weeks visit
~ng wi~h her cousin Mrs. R. C.
ColSton left on Wednesday Of last
week to retura to her home in
Hershey, Pa.
~Vlrs. Robert Macougl~try, her
dauffh~er Miss ~hirley M~coug~t-
try and Mrs. Carl Gra~.-~tl~axn of
led by Mrs. Ful%~u Wintermoyer.
During the bus~ness session sever
al ma~ters were discussed includ-
ing the proposed enlarging of the
~sghool playground. Also installed
~t this mee~ng were the recen¢ly
eleoted officers for the next school
~erm. Thse are presider~t Mrs. Rob
ert C_~aod~l,1; 1st vice presiden~t,
'Mrs. JOhn Laycock; 2nd vice pres
ide~.nt, Mrs. Josel~ Starkey; sec-
retary, Mrs. Elwood Cheshire and
treasurer, Mrs. J. T. Crane Jr.
An ,enjoyable social hour fol-
lowed adjournment and during
'this deli~ious refreshments were
served by the Messrs. Harvey Ker
Chev~,l, Rober$ Goodell and El-
Wood Cheshire.
By Miss Dorothy Bowers
Mr. and ~Irs. Charles Grey, dau
ghte.rs Carla and Donna, ,Mr. and
Mrs. Nathaniel Grey were in Win
chester, Va. Sunday afternoon
Where they visited Mrs. Vergie
Rumbarger, a patient ,in Memorial
Hospital .there.
ffVIrs. Roger 'Milbourr~e and Mrs.
Daisy ,Moler of Charles Town were
visi,tors Thursday e~fternoon with
their brother .and s,isterQn-law
Mr. and (Mrs. Lester Meier.
ff~Ir. ~Sydney Clevenger of Hag-
TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE
Charles Town-Ranson
Residence Property!
20 Inch
Thermostat Control
Reg. $29.95
NEWBERRY
\
LOW PRICE
$2.49 Ladies Sleeveless Dresses $1.99
Girl's Jamacia Shorts .... 99c
$1.39 Girl's -Piece Play Suits - 99c
ALUMINUM
VELON WEBBING
4-Feet by 6-Feet Rigid Frame
KIDDIES PLASTIC NEWBERRY
NEWBERRY
Reg. $5A9 LOW PRICE
$1.29 Plastic Cutlery Tray - - 66c
$1.00 Plastic Dish Pan - - - 66c
98c Plastic Wash Basin - - - 66c
WOMENS SLEEVELESS NEWBERRY
WAD HG
Reg. $10.98
By virtue of the authori.ty ves-
ted in him by the deed of trust
~hereinafter referred to, and in pur
suance of the provisions of said
deed of ~rust, ethe undersigned
TruStee will offer for sale at pub-
~ic auc~on in front of the Court
H~a'se in Charles Tow,.n In Jeffer-
son County, West Virginia, on Sat
urday, June 13, 1959, beginning at
11:00 o'elock A. M. that certain
lot or "parcel of land situate as the
LOW PRICE
Womens Sport Caps .... 39c
Mens Sport CrapS, Reg. 39c
Girl's Sleeveless Blouses
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LOW PRICE
STYLES AND PATTERNS. 32 to 41.
GIRL'S RAYON
PHONE 314
corporate line between Charles
Town and l~a,nson, with dwelling
house and other improvements
there on, described in said deed of
~trust as fol,lows:
"AI,1 that certain lot or parcel of
land width dwelitng house thereon,
sieu.wte in Charles Town (Ran-
son), Jefferson Cou,nty, West V4r-
- - 25c ginia, frop2dng 25 .feet on the west
side of Reymann Street in the
block between First and Second
- - - 99c Avenue, extending back of ev~.~
width 125 feet to l~n alley, desig-
NEWBERRY
Reg. $1.29 LOW PRICE
49c Rose Bushes ..... 33c
98c Rose Bushes ..... 57c
$1.98 Low Loop Rugs - - - $1.67
GIRL'S TWO PIECE NEWBERRY
Reg. $1.39 LOW PRICE
CHARLES
~ased as LOt No. 28 in Block 70 on
,the plat of the lands of ,the Char-
les Town Mining, Manu, faeturlng
and I m p r o v e m e n ~, Corapaay,
which is of re~rd in the Office of
the Clerk of the C0un¢y Court of
Jefferson County, West Virginia,
in Deed Book "X", page 1, to
O,NS
which said plat reference is here-
by made."
AND BEING the same property
conveyed to said Trustee, by Wil-
liam A. W'hitmore and Mary W-~-
son V~hitmore, hustmnd and ~vife,
by deed of trust du~red Jz,.nuary 20
1956, recorded in the Office of the
Clerk of the County Court of Jeff
erson County, West Virginia, in Pri
Deed Book 209, Page 364, to which
trust deed and the references
contained, reference is
for furt[her description of
sa~TLe.
TERMS OF SALE
One-~hird cash o~u day of sale,
,balanee in equal in.¢~ta!lmen,ts evi-
denced by the notes of the pur-
chaser bearing even d~.te with
dose of sale, payable on or before
one and two years Mter da~e re-
spect4vely, bearing in~terest from
date a.t six per c£~n~ per annum,
payable semi-annually, secured by
deed of tru~ upon the property
sold and assignment of fire incur
ance in a reasonab~le amount upon
t~he buildings there on, with ,the
privilege to the purohaser of pay-
l,Tlg al,l cash on day of sale, or in-
creasing the c~h payment as he
,may ,desire.
Said Trustees i'eserves the ri~h,ti
At Such A
ALL COMPLETELY
WASHABLE !
TOWN STORE
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THE POTOMAC
LIGItT & POWER
Patti Forrest A. Brown, Ttxl~tee
Mailer, Auctioneer
2~ay 21-4~-
Charles
Phone
to accePt or rejeot any and all
ebids.
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