Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS


The Exchange Bank, of Wheeling,
has res umed business.
c. p Herring made business trip
to Baltimore, on Monday.
Coming in the columns of the HER
AID: A story of Stockton.
Charles Miller, of Annapolis, is Wis
iting friends in Martinsburg.
DIR. G. B. Hedges and wife started
for the Worlds Fair on Monday.
w. c. Huber spent Sunday with
his parents, in Chambersburg, Pa.
Council will please not forget a
crossing at Burke and Raleigh streets
Miss Jane Boyd has returned from
an extended visit to friends in Old
Virginia.
Judge Faulkner is back with us,
Judge Daley having returned to his
own circuit
John w. Neer was called out of
town this week to attend the funeral
of his father.
Tell your friends about The Great
War Syndicate" which begins in next
week S HERALD.
John Brindle, who has been at Fort
Pendleton, Md, for several weeks,
has returned to his home in this city
The Presbyterian Church was closed
last Sunday, the pastor, DIR. Woods,
having taken a trip to Berryville, Va.
DIED. - At Neersville, Loudoun
County, Va, George Neer, father of
John w. Neer, of this city, aged 50
years.
John S. Smith, of Wheeling, was
here on Tuesday to attend the funeral
of his niece, Miss Mamie Netzel, of
this city.
A war of the future! The story of
such a conflict will be told in the
HERALD next week. Tell your neigh
bors about it.
Bent. Frederick, of Chambersburg,
Pa, dropped off in Martinsburg the
other day and made a short call OH his
old friend, w. c. Huber.
Miss Florence Garrison ofWashing-
ton, d. c., is visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Emma Garrison Jones, at Maple
avenue and Burke street.
Those were wonderfully fine tona-
toes which Adam Proctor presented to
us Saturday last. Such favors are al
ways appreciated. They help to bridge
over the rough places.
c. w. Keesecker, of Soho, favored
us with pleasant call Saturday. Mr..
K, is staunch Republican and good
citizen, fair sample of the men who
live in Back Creek Valley.
Postmaster Trump, Of Kearneys-
vile, while in the city Tuesday, ia
vored us with a pleasant call. Like
his brother, Pastor Trump, he is a
man whom it is pleasure TO meet.
Mrs. Jennie Powell-Larrabee nee
Little, formerly of Martinsburg and
Hancock, but who has for several
years lived in Australia, is here on
a visit to her cousin, Mrs. Geo. +.
Evans.
]. H. Striue, ofthe Greencastle, Pa.
EchO-PiLOf, dropped into our sanctum
the other day and extended the hant
of fraternity. Mr.. Strine is Martins
burg 10y and is well known in thi
locality.
1t is singular what all attraction tn
new post office building has for on
people. All day Sunday the sidewalk
as well as the interior, was filled will
citizens inspecting the rapidly pro
crossing work.
Rev. A. Q. Wheat, of Strasburg
Va, who has been visiting the famil,
of Mr.. G. w. North, on West KIM
street, preached a very interesting
sermon, Sunday, at Trinity NJ. +
Church, South.
The clever work of U. S. G. Pitze
secured the conviction of five out O
twelve parties indicted for sellini
liquor to minors, this court. He dc
served and will receive the thanks {
the community.
From a card received from Harr
Moore, of Baltimore, we have the sa
intelligence that our townsman Wi
liam H. Rouark is quite ill of malari
in that city; that he was taken sic
on the train going on the goth; tha
he is attended by two physicians, ha
been Frustrated for several days, bu
is now improving somewhat.