South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-05-17
OUR NOTE BECK.

Hon. John +. Pierce or Miueral
county was in town Tuesday.
Mr. J. w. Short &c North River
Mills vas in town Saturday.
Msrtinsburg proposes to have q
big 4th OF July eel. brs,ion.
Tie friencs Of Mr.. Parsona Tay lor
were glad 10 see him in our village
last Saturday.
Mr.. Ephrsim n. Inskeep son Of
our friend, the late Jss II. in.kcep.
psid us PIC cali last Tuesday
Mr.. John Kahrick Of RidgevilI e,
Minersl County. paid US a pleasant
call Monday evening.
Misses Nellie N, finger and Irene
Houser will 20 thi. week to Keyser
to attend the Normal School.
Rev. J. II. Lrps Of the v;rpinia
synod died in Roanoke on the 3rd
iLet.
Dir. John J. c, mhs. enc Of our
ccmPositors, 70 on the sick list. MI.
Will Mytinger has alse been com
planning
Mr.. w. j. Aider,on has bought
the Mt.,Alro Hotel property in Min
.Isi County. ubiil recently 1wned BY
Mr.. ID. G. Tabb.
A man named John. Burke vas
last week arrested in fitsburg. brought
to keyter and placed in Jail. charged
with having robbed Dunbrack's Jew
elry store on the 20th Of April last.
A treat Is in store for all who will
avail themse:vesIo the oppor uns' Y
Of hearing the lecture by Rev. ". A.
Carroll in the NJ. f. Church next
Monday nigh. week.
We see it stated ;tat Bishop A
W. Wilson viii preside over the next
session Virginia nj. +. Conference
South, which meets IN Richmond,
November 18th.
Mrs. Nimrod Alkire from rear
keyscr spent last week with her sis
ter Mr.. Nina Kuy kendall in this
place and is now visiting her brother
and other ro'a ives in size cou ntrv.
Mrs. Harriet High from near
Moor, Held JUNCTION visited her
daughter Mls. Il. o. High. in this
pl ace last eek, we had biief bu;
very pleasant call from her.
Airs. j. NJ. Pancake Of Texas who
was in Wheeling for medical treat.
menu passed tho gh this place las
week on her way To- her ia,hcr's
Isaac Parcake, E.q. up she river. We
understood. perfectly restored to
ht alth.
Sir. anil MrA. Edward sWushinpton
accompanied by Mrs. M chael Blue
passed through here on Friday las,
enrou,e 10: honr' d-l.i to visit Mrs.
II. w. ta'epbell nee Miss Mamie
Washington.
Last Saturday night sn attcmp'
was made by some unknown party
TO break into tho residence OF MR..
Rcnb,n Offner, in this plsc". A.
the time nc one WIS u. home but Mrs
Onner. whose screams aroused the
noighhors and frightened the would.
DE burglar away. there seems 10 b.
little work around this town for @
detective.
SIR. Juhr T. Sites lung limsel
with n rop last Monday in Clint Mon.
goid's barn. Nr. Sites wos iI0w-
or, aged about 55 years, AMI live
with Clint MoDgold. on Harvey Yam
keys farm, on South Mill Creek
Grant county. He had been dys-
Pep ic for some tine and was addict.
-h To the use of morphine. which had
unbalanced his mind Muo'efed Err,
dminer.
There seems To- he ~,rong reason "a
believe that big sn0e factory will
be esiabli, hed here in short time
and also that cur railroad will soon
tie extended TO Moore6elI. Tho-c
who sre aei atlng lbeso matters are
keeping them quiet. which fact is
thought to add TO The likelihood 81
their real Zttion. The capital requir.
ed to start the shoe factory is $780, 900
and Of this amount $40 900 has been
subscribed. A site, also, it IL said
has been donated ty one Of our public
apiritpu pitizene