Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-08-11
SHORT STOPS.
The days are growing shorter

1uuTSudy 10Th Is mason &c DAY az
Island Park.
Moonlight pic-nics will soon be
in order again.
The fertilizer men are just now up
to their eyes in business.
The latest cure for a snake bite is
the yellow of an egg mixed with salt.
The cholera is in the land-beware
of unrlpe fruit and stale vegetables.
The organization in this place,
known as the knights of Labor, is
increasing rapidly.
Read the big excursion advertise
ment of the B. d. o. Railroad, to be
found in this issue.
The Odd Fellows of this place will
have picnic excursion to Pen Mar
about the 2Sth inst.
Changers Picnic at Williams
Grove, on August Goth to 25th. A
good place to spend day.
Farmers complain that dogs are
killing their sheep. Why don't they
kill the dogs !?
What a live town we would have
if our capitalists would engage in
manufacturing.
Farmers and every body else should
be thankful this year. Good crops
abound everywhere.
Mr.. s. p. Douglas is having a new
curb and gutter put down in front
Of his property on Queen street.
What profiteth a man to come half
way round the globe to be knocked
into heap in soft glove contest.
The Grammar School building is
being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible. The brick masons will be
put to work shortly.
Are you getting something ready
for exhibition at the approaching
Agricultural Fair If not, don't
fail to do so in time.
The railroad operators were order
ed out by the brotherhood this week.
The operator of the B. & o, at this
place has quit work.
Dennis Kearney's "bad cold,"
which compelled his return home,
undoubtedly arose from the chilling
effects of Eastern cold shoulder.
The happy days have come again,
in which, for twenty-five cents, the
head of the family can buy green
fruit enough to guarantee $25 doc
tor bill.
A cool summer deepens the i'm
preston that there's no place like
home, and that the folks who are
spending money abroad are getting
a poor return for their outlay.
Hon. George Cotton, of Maryland,
is expected to deliver a lecture here
some time soon for the benefit of the
Southern Methodist Parsonage AS
ISOLATION.
The Lutherans have not yet COM
menced the work of remodeling and
charging their church edifce. We
presume it will be commenced in a
short time.
The buildings of the .Martinsburg
Manufacturing Company are about
ready for the machinery, which is be-
ing placed as rapidly as possible, and
work will be started in few days.
Mr.. John Fitz is building twenty
FIVE of the new Keller Wheat Drills
for this falls trade. This drill has
been recently patented, and it is
claimed that it will be the best drill
on the market.
The water board recommended,
and the council has ordered the
"Willow Spring. to be piped into
the "Boiling Spring" reservoir. This
will give an additional supply of
pure water for domestic purposes.
Young man, see that your girls
attention don't wander from the
fact that sixty persons were poisoned
by ice cream at a church festival in
Camden, S. c., Monday, and that
the first to die was young woman.
When you find merchant at
tempting to do business without ad-
vertising in the newspapers, you can
make up your mind he is not very