Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-11-20
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 90, 1886.
THE Band fair tonight.

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THE Band fair tonight.
THANKSGIVING next Thursday.
BAND fair continues next week.
NoTE change in G. V. r. r., time
table.
SOME of the stores already wear a
holiday appearance.
JUDGE FAULKNER held Court in
ChaTiestown this week.
So far. forty-five conversions haAe oc
cured during the M. e. revival.
PATRoNIzE the Band fair. Money
spent in so doing, will be appreciated.
CHRISTMAS is drawing near. How
swift has been the fight of the past
eleven months
REV. F. p. Robertson and wife at
tended the Baptist Congress at Balti-
more, this week.
THE democratic club organized III
this city last Thursday night, under
very favorable premises.
Mr.. GEO. w. RAINIER has purchas-
ed Mr.. G.. G. Janney's property on West
King street for $4,000.
BY all means attend the band fair to-
night. Plenty of enjoyment and num-
bers of entertaining people.
HI HENRY's gigantic, consolidated,
majestic, stupendous, h-provokipg
MINISTRIES at Feller's Hall tonight.
THE big turkey would like to feel
small, but he cannot. The decree has
gone forth ''Fat turkeys must die"
DARE to speak your convictions.
Dare to denounce evil. The man who
fails to do either, is fit to be oppressed.
THANKSGIVING services will be held
in the First M. e. Church, on next
Thursday the 25th, inst, to commence
at 1870 a. M.
The Largest, Best, Cheapest greatest
variety, Best style of Ladies, Misses
and childrens wraps you will find at,
HI. C. BERRY & Co.
HI HENRY's $4,000 diamonds will
be on exhibition in Mr.. w. l.. jones'
jewelry store window from until 5
O'Clock this evening.
BUTCHERINa has been general this
week. The Cholera succeeded however
in cheating the knife of more than one
victim.
THE Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation work is still progressing. Now,
do your duty, fellow townsmeu, and the
organization will flourish here.
Long wraps, short wraps, small
wraps, medium size wraps and wraps of
all kinds and styles you will find at,
II. G. BERRY q Co.
SCARCE AS HENTEETH.-Mo
Hard as rocks-the times. Rough as a
pIoughed -feld--the weather Lively as
March wind--the INDEPENDENT.
SUNDAY night last the family of Mr..
Edward Horner, on John street, came
near smothering to death by gas from
the stove. All were dazed and sick.
THE members of the Sherman In
vincibles," are especially requested to
be present at the next meeting. Very
important business must be transacted.
HUNDREDS and thousands of cattle
and sheep have passed through this
city within the past week cia the B. IL
o. r. r. for Baltimore and the eastern
markets.
DIR. &. ". LEIGH, of Saratoga, N.
Y, for years pastor of the First M. E.
Church, will deliver his celebrated lee
ture on "Ingersoll," in that building,
next Friday evening. Do not miss
sueha rare intellectual treat.
MEssRs. Ed. MATHEWS and John
Farrin, Jr., have started a new butcher
shop, next door to w. w. Crump's
hardware store. Both are young men,
and deserving of the patronage of the
public We wish them success.
"HEzEKIAH BUTTS" deals in phan-
toms in another column. 1t is i'm
mensely humorous, when compared
with the iStatesman's article. The lat
ter seemsto have been clipped from the
Baltimore Suns obituary column. 1t
will be seen that we correctly located
Brother Siler. S.