Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1892-06-11


Commandments.
Squirrels are plentiful.
Harvest time draws near.
Read Louis L. Browns adj.
The INDEPENDENT, $3.50 year.
Summer weather and bountiful
showers.
Try the INDEPENDENT if you want
all the news
Master Jas. Faulkner has return
ed from school at Romney.
Mr.. j. E. Fasset, of Harper's Fer
ny, spent Sunday in this city.
Miss Jessie Hlnkle is visiting the
family of Mr.. j. B. Kerfott.
Mr.. John Colbert has been ill at
his home on East John street.
WANTED.-A Good Cooper, to do
tight work, sec V. A. SEE.
The number OF lives lost la the
Titusville disaster is now estimated
at $50.
The town has this week been brim-
full of politicians, building their
fences.
Mr.. Calvin Tabler was in this city
Tuesday circulating among his many
friends.
Mr.. VIM. S. Snyder has returned
from a trip through the Western
States.
Miss Annie Gilmore, of Piedmont,
is visiting the family of Mr.. John
Farrin, Jr.
Miss Lizzie Schlotterbeck, of Hag.
e.stown, is visiting the family of Mr..
A. Quenzel.
Miss Bette Sperow, of Falling
Waters, is visiting Miss Mary North
in this city.
Miss Halle Lemen, daughter of
ExSheriff Robt. Lamon, still re-
mains seriously ill.
Miss Ella Potter, of Waynesboro,
Pa, is visiting the family OF Mr..
JAS F. Thompson.
Miss Rena Ridgway, of Ridgway,
was visiting friends and relatives in
this city this week.
The City Band made an open air
drill on Monday night preparatory
to their trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Magalis, of Harrisonburg,
Pa, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
j. S. Mathews. in this city.
Mr. G. G. Bennett, the photogra-
pher, has made a group picture of
the High School graduates.
Monday last was Decoration Day
at Winchester. Quite large crowd
OF people attended fro m this place.
Letters for Jere Bricker, /. w.
Wood and A. j. Beard are adver-
tised as lying dead at the post-office.
Mat Bowdey's wife held him at
Anderson, /. T., while Walter Muir
ply, her paramour, shot and killed
him.
The pupils of the High School
of this city, held their annual picnic
this year at Bedington, on Tuesday
last.
Miss Ella Bevans, of Brunswick,
Md, spent the latter part Of this
week with Miss Lula Long, in this
city.
Miss Ella Siler, of near Berkeley
Station, spent several days of this
week with Miss Aida Whitson, in
this city.
Services preparatory to the Holy
Communion will be held in the Re
formed Church, this afternoon at
half-past two.
The Baptist Church, has been
much improved in appearance by
the tearing down of the fence which
surrounded it.
Mr.. John West. who has lately
been living at Bluefeld, in Mercer
county, has returned to live in this
his native home.
Mr.. A. J. Thomas, on the part of
the Baptist congregation of this city,
has purchased lot fromJ. N. Abel
for a parsonage.
Rev. Father Drake, of Keyser,
Mineral county, was the guest of
Rev. Father II. j. McKeefry, a por-
ton Of this week.
AT Elzabethtown, KY, a mob is
hunting for II. A. James, who elop-
ed with woman while his wife was
on her death bed.
The Mt. Zion NJ. f. Church, col
Ored, will hold a bushmeeting, at
Berkeley Grove, on Sunday, June
10Th. All welcome.
Mr.. Geo. Izatt has been appoint
ed Coroner of Berkeley county, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Mr.. II. n. Deatrick.
BY a collision of freight trains on
the Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad,
a loss of $4,000 worth of goods was
sustained on Saturday night.
The Board of Education, at its
meeting last Monday night, re-elect-
ed all the teachers employed at the
close of the schools this year.
The orchestra of the Reformed
church has been invited and will at.
tend lecture to be given by Rev.
D. G. Clever, at Kearneysville.
Mrs. L. Dew. Gerhardt and chill
dr0n will leave to day for Getty
burg, where they will spend few
weeks with Mrs. Gerhardt's mother.