Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-11-24

the residence of her brother, last
Tuesday. She was pleasant. Chris
tan lady, and her death was u great
surprise to her friends and loved
ones.
PEOPLE stop their paper, and i'm
agine they break the editors heart.
They are generally the first person
to play joke, or start a laugh on
some one else; but they dislike the
tables to turn. We feel sorry for
them-school days and boyish ideas
abide with them forever. Amen.
Mr.. HENRY MILLER, an assistant
inspection hand on the B. & 0. X. X,
was knocked down and seriously
crushed on Tuesday evening. Being
quite an aged man, the injuries sus-
tanned were of too serious a nature
to permit recovery, and death ensued
the same day.
THE G.. A. r. fair will commence
at Central Opera House on next
Thursday night, and continue thro'
the following week. We hope the
BOYS will be we'll patronized, as the
money secured is to be devoted to a
charitable purpose.
HELP the poor from your own
abundance. If every family la town,
who are removed from pressing want,
would send to some poor persons a
nice, warm plate of food, or thrown
aside garment, what happiness and
rejoicing would dwell among US.
THE practice of running trains on
the left hand track is now being
largely put in force by railroad cor
porations throughout the United
States. The custom originated in
England and affords the engineer
better and fuller view of the tracks
ahead.
WE tried 20 make our genial friend
Jim McKown appear solemn in the
salt river trip, out of sheer force of
feeling for the rest ofthe routed sim
ners. Now the editor of the States
man gets him in the company of
devils. This is mistake. Jim never
fingers in the postoffice, and seldom
stops in the Office of the Statesman.
THE next session of the West Vir-
ginia State Grange will be held in
Martinsburg. 1t convenes on We'd
nesday, Dec, 5, at 10 O'Clock. This
will be big thing for our farmers,
and we have no doubt, will bring to
our city number of prominent West
Virginians.
JUDGE J. T. HoKE has been elected
Judge of the Circuit consisting ofthe
counties OF Barbour, Randolph,
Tucker, Preston and Taylor, by the
snug majority of 1904. We congrat-
ulate the people in elevating our old
friend. No man in the State will
bring to bear in the discharge of the
duties of a ,judgship, more dignity,
fairness and learning.
A WESTERN medium has interview
ed Adam on the question, ais mar
risge a failurel?" 81 don't exactly
say that marriage is a failure" re-
marked the materialized first man,
as he sat down on a materialized log
just outside Of the Garden of Eden
and looked hungrily at the fruit on
the other side Of the wall, "but if I
had remained single this wouldn't
have happened"
A LOCAL DoDaE.-You get Lady's
Opera Slippers at SOC.
You get Lady's House Slippers at
l5c,
You get Lady's Oxford Slippers
at75c.
You get Boys Sunday Shoes at
$l.00.
You get Mems Plow Shoes at
Is.
at G. P. HEARINGS Cash House
NEXT year you will need and want
a good agricultural paper. Before
subscribing for any be sure and see
a copy of the West Virginia Farmer,
Kingwood, w. Va. It is the best
farm paper in the two Virginias |; it
does not shoot over the farmers
head. A White Sewing Machine and
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
are to be given away to some one of
the next $50 subscribers. Now is
the time to subscribe. Only IS cts.
year. Send for sample copy and
circulate.
CONSIDER the source. "-StatesmGn.
IT was from all over the county.
It killed all the old one-eyed, sway
backed ROSTERS in the Statesman
coop, and still leaves lingering
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