Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-07-20

west Of MartinsbHrg and miles from
Cherry Run Station, on the B. & O..
r. R. We have two stores, two
churches and a. school with an emu
meration of over one hundred school
youths. rs
Mr.. s. FL. Butts, onr leading mer-
chant, has been doing business at this
place nearly twelve years and carries
large stock of goods. Mr.. Butts COM
menced business in a store room be-
longing to MRS. Murphy and after
several years he built a larger room
and within the last year he has built
large two story house, / believe the
largest store house in the valley and
our citizens all say Silas is good
fellow"
Our churches are of the U. B. and
M. E. denominations we have Sun
day Schooland preaching at the U. B.
church in the morning by Rev. Horn,
and Sunday School and preaching at
the Chapel in the afternoon by Rev.
John Seiber.
Onr school at this place is we'll
worthy of note and will be taught the
coming term by A. G. Keesecker.
We have wagon maker, coach
builder aud general repair shop. Cab
met making and undertaking done by
s. A. Keesecker. Mr.. Keesecker has
recently bought hearse; we believe
it is as fine as there is in the county,
we recommend Salnie as clever
young American and genteel work
man. r aeef f at ~
Edward r.. Girault is Post Master
at this place. Mr.. G. is scholarly
gentleman and square Republican.
Mr.. Girault's father was professor of
mathematics in N. Y. Military Acad-
envy for a number of years. The
leading farmers who get their mails
at Oakton P. O. are ]. E. Norrington,
Peter Albright, A. t. Harper, Jacob
Keesecker, Geo. r. Keesecker, j.. w.
Keesecker, John Shriver, Henry c..
Candy, John w. Tabb, ]. A. Pitcoe,
Joseph Shriver, w. E. Albright and
others. -; .3 $50 1eu22e4 .t
The land is of a red mountain soil
and produces moderately fair crops !;
as far as we know the best crop of
corn in this section has been grown
by Jacob Keeseeker, in which the
entire field averaged 65 bu. per acre. +
II There have been several transfers of
real estate in the last year.
1. w. Wood, our genial County Sur
veyor, who now gets his mail in Mar
tinsburg, successfully taught his first
term of school in our district. Since
that time Mr.. Wood has graduated
at the Cleyeland, Ohio, School, and
proved himself by actual work a sue
cesssful teacher and we have frequent
ly heard him complimenteda as Survey
or. Only few days ago. we heard of
an incident in which the surveyor did
himself great justice; after running
line for w. Tedrick he was asked
by John Murphy to find. what was
claimed to be a lost corner in that line !;
the Surveyor then went to known
corner at the other end of Murphy's
line and running nearly back to Ted
rick's line, then had one of the par
ties to cut stake, I. w. then step
ped to his compass, and says now
will show you where that corner
ought to be and after waving the flag
man where he wanted him to stand
says there is where your corner is and
the 1agman was found to be standing
on the heap of stones mentioned in a
survey of about 1918, though they
had been there so long they had be-
come entirely covered with leaves,
and after finding the corner with
seemingly SO little trouble to the sur
veyor, one of the eye witness said,
81 told you this morning. if Billie
Wood didn't find that corner it
wouldn't be any use for any other
surveyor to look for it; for he found
corners to our farm that we never
knew where they were at, until he
showed them to u.s."
We have two saw mills and large
amount of lumber and bark is ship
ped from this place. Fe..
C. w. Keesecker and P. L. Keeseck-
er have taught our school for years,
both being students Of Mt. Union
College. ol..I .H vsl 6
A. IT, Harper is building a fine
house on his farm. q
i We have not heard much of the
huckleberry crop but presume it
will be light 81 a'9
The festival for the benefit of the
M. e. Churchpassed off quietly about
S25 being realized.
Mr.. S. Brabson spent few days
with us last week. ID S. -
Miss Fannie Tabb has returned to
her home in Louisville, Ky.
Quite a number of our citizens
spent the 4th in Martinsburg. Some
are of the opinion the Mingo Greasers
could play the Martinsburg club a
closer game of Base Ball than the
Charlestown boys. OAKS. r