Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-02-06
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.

Town has been livened up of late
with all sorts and sizes of entertain
ments, which goes to prove that op-
position is the life of amusement as
well as of trade. In the course of the
coming spring and summer further
Improvements will be added to the
opera house. The floor will be laid
on an incline, and some refurnishing
done; there will also be two suites of
dressing rooms on each side of the
stage; two upper and two lower ones,
neatly and suitably furnished.
The visit of the Waite Comedy COM
pany has demonstrated that the pub
lie will always sustain good compan-
les. We are play-loving and play
going people and have been long suf-
fering and merciful with the third
rate companies who have infested the
town in the last five years; looking
and hoping for the time when there
might be show for the legitimate
drama among us. 1t is something to
be able to say that in the large au
diences listening to the Waite Com
pany, there was little or none of the
stamping mania developed. Such an
earnest expression and indication of
either criticism or applause is very
unnecessary, and adds no more to the
pleasure of the actors than it does to
the comfort of refined and cultured
audience, neither is it any evidence
either of good taste or discriminating
criticism.
Feller's Hall has been occupied
nightly by company of noble Red
Men, who give a serious of war
dances and entertaining tableaux,
something on the Buffalo Bill order,
suppose. am told it is interesting
and draws full houses.
The Martinsburg Minstrels have
been giving nice entertainments in
Wysong Hall, and an excellent Oyster
supper inclusive. l learn that they
have been well patronized.
Every once in few years the Berke-
ley bar finds itself called to an account"
and INDUCED in joke at their own ex-
pense. They can afford it.
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Everybody is making puns now about
the Ground Hog. He is said to be only a
s. shadow-y" creature at best why pin
your faith on a superstition or if you
must and will, why keep to something
practical such as planting garden
sass" in the down sign or if you are in
possession of those abnormal excressen-
ces Familiarity known as warts rub them
with a dish rag, and bury it under the
caves where the rain drops down. and
the wart will go away-when you do.
Talk about natural superstition /; lots of
people in this town are full of it. heard |
for the first time the other day, that
spirits, ghosts, spooks, cannot cross over
a new door sill. There are any amount
OF people who have popular prejudice
against beginning anything on Friday, or
starting on journey on that day. But
the most grewsome fiesh-creepiDg of all,
is in the idea that the black and blue
marks sometimes developed on feshy
anatomy, are the marks left by the pinch
ing spiritual fingers, while we are off in
the land of nod. Ugh, its high time we
are cultivating a higher education.
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THE HERALD has bad habit of getting
itself printed upside down, tother end up,
reversed, so to speak of late. So many
epcomiums, haveiliterally turned its head.
l have no other excuse for what looks
bewildered in my column. It's a very
dark day when the boys translate my
as they are meant.
Rev H. j. McKeefry has been very ill,
and it is with pleasure that the people see
him able to be out among them again.
Miss Molly Deatrich, of Greencastle,
Pa, was guest of Miss Belle Hamill, on
Friday last, and spent very pleasant
evening in Martinsburg. Miss Deatrich
was enroute to Chicago, and left here
Saturday for that place.
The Faculty and pupils of Wilson s
College, Chambersburg, gave notable
entertainment on last Tuesday evening.
A number of Martinsburg's society boys
received invitations, but few were prompt
to accept. AS none of them are suspected
of being typos, we cannot accuse them of
having the same similtude of reason that
Capt. Colston says he has for declining
such invitations.
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The old established drug store of J.
L. w. Baker has lost none of its pop
ularity in the change of firm. Mr.. Fout
is an enterprising, pleasant and court
eous gentleman, who merits, and who
will undoubtedly receive, full share
of patronage.
Since the dissolution of A. L. Martin
and A. S. Goulden, Mr.. Goulden will
continue the business in his present stu
alton and his old friends will find him
there, with prices as low as any house
in town.
Cards are out announcing the wedding
of Charles Shocks and Miss Ronk. The
event will occur in the Presbyterian
Church, his city, at no distant date.
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Mr.. Geo. H. Osborn. the gentlemanly
manager for the Moss Family, was in
town Thursday, and engaged hall Sth
and 9th. They are a family of eight
members, and compose Band and orch
estra in themselves. They come with
the best of Press commentators from
towns and cities in which they have
appeared.