Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-02-14
NEWS.
SATURDAY, FEB. IA, 1891.
This is St. Valentines day.
Lent began last Wednesday.

The new incande>cent dynamo ar
rived on Friday.
Grounding weather is being car
ried out to the letter.
Mrs. L. G. Gerling, has been quite,
sick for some time.
Mr.. Richard Byrd of Winchester,
Va, was in town this week.
Last Wednesday was the day to
begin mending your bad habits.
The Contractors throughout the
city are full up with spring orders.
An additional list of new adver-
tisements will be found in this issue.
Mr.. Chas. Spillman has been con-
fined to the house tor more than a
week.
We want somebody to get corn
err on the apple trees and save the
bloom.
The four towers to support the
gates at the B. & o., crossing are in
position.
Mr.. Geo. S. Jennings has purchas-
ed the grocery business of Mr.. ]. S.
Trammel.
The water main on Burke street
bursted during the fire on Wednes-
day night.
Reader, you need not send us q
valentine this year. We have re-
ceived one.
A ten foot edition has been finish
ed to the store room occupied by
Mr.. G. F. Gibbs.
Wheat is bringing one dollar per
bushel in this city, delivered at the
elevators or mills.
The room vacated in the st. Clair
Hotel by Mr.. Wilen, will be occupied
by photographer
The congregation of the Baptist
Church are making arrangements to
own parsonage for their pastor.
Master Champion O'Byrnes has
been kept in doors for several days
on. account of a nail piercing his foot.
A movement is on foot to devel-
op White Sulphur Springs, W. Va,
and make of it q Southern Saratoga.
Quite a number of young ladies
from Winchester made a stay of a
few hours in our city on Thursday
last.
Miss Mary Watson, who was visit
ing the Misses Roderick, returned
to her home, near Fairmont, last
week.
Rev. T. M. Woods has returned
from Woodstock and will hold SER
vices in the Presbyterian Church to-
morrow.
Messrs. j. II. Miller & Sons have
just received two carloads of ma
chinery, consisting of harvesters
and mowers.
Quite number of our citizens
took advantage of the cheap rates to
Baltimore and Washington, on
Thursday last.
The Silver Cornet Band of this
city will 60 to Hagerstown to-day,
to attend a Band Fair now being
held in that city.
We learn that Messrs. Frank
Foreman and Robert Lamon have
secured control of the G. V. Eleva-
tor at Inwood W. Va.
Messrs. G. R. Hollis, Geo. L. Sem
cendiver and VIM. T. Noll, accom-
panied Delegate Lamon to Charles
ton, on Sunday last.
On our first page will be found a
very interesting reminescence rela-
tive TO some of the Commanders in
the Revolutionary War.
VIM. A. linn, the mail-carrier be-
tween Masontown and Newburg, W.
Va, has been arrested upon q charge
of rifing registered letters.
Miss Lilly Eichelberger, who was
called hastily to Moorcfeld, on ac-
count Of an accident to her little
riece, will return home to-day.
The U. B. Congregation in this
city made a special collection last
Sabbath for the benefit of the west
ern sufferers. And $l4 was raised.
The oyster supper held by the
Ladies of the NJ. E. Church, South
on Thursday and Friday of last
week, was quite a financial success.
The wedding of Mr.. F. Vernon
Aler, to Miss Mildred Thompson is
announced to take place on Wednes-
day, Feb. 18th at the home of the
bride.
Mrs. Fritz Haase, resid ing near
the B. & o. Railroad, in the East
ern suberbs of this city, sustained
serious injury on Monday last, by
falling down stairway.
The stone covering the sewer at
the intersection of College Street
with John Street, are unfit for such
purpose, and may involve the city in
a lawsuit by causing an accident.
The international Bible studies fol-
next Sabbath are from II Kings, @
LII. Title, Elijah taken to
Heaven. Golden text, "And Enoch
walked with God, and he was not
for God took him.
Mr.. S. Trammell's store has beer
purchased by Mr.. Geo. S. Jennings
one Of the study young men of our
town, and who viii continue to con
drct first class grocery and provi.
sion store in the room adjoining the
Luthern Church.