Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-18
GERARDsTOWN.
Newsy Notes and Persona

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Cleaned from the Times.
| Mr.. Samuel Busey and daughtel
have gone to Chantauqua.
Mr.. Felto Harper is visiting rela
tives in this neighborhood
| Miss Emma Deter is on visit Il
the old village from Waterford, Va.
Miss Villa Denny returned from {
visit to Hyattsville last Friday night.
Rev. Jas P. Stump and wife return.
ed home to Woodstock Wednesday.
Mrs. Ben F. Durham, of Glengary,
visited friends here last week.
| DR.. NJ H. Carter, of Baltimore,
| spent last Sunday at his boyhood' 1
home here.
The Gerardstown Band filled the
woods with stirring music on Presby-
terian Day.
Rev. E. L. Wilson favored his old
friends and parishioners here with a
visit last week.
Miss Lillian Rawlins, of Baltimore,
is guest in the family of her uncle,
DR.. J. B. Willy.
The dwelling house of our across
Ithe-street-neighbor, Mr. W. E. Tabb,
has been improved with slate roof.
Big and beautiful was the tomato
given to us by Mr. w. P. Coe. 1t
weighed v pounds and is hard to beat.
Mrs. Mary f. Wilson went last
Tuesday morning on visit to her SON
Rev. E. L. Wilson at Waterford, Va.
About dozen ministers and fifteen
hundred laymen represented live Pres
byterianism at Inwood Park last
Thursday.
Mrs. Rev. John K. Nelson. "a daugh-
ter Of Hon. B. NJ. Kitchen, died rather
suddenly at her home in Rohrersville,
Md. last week.
Crock is being hauled to pike the
main street of the village. which we
hope will soon be done. and the good
work extended from the mountain to
Inwood.
Mr.. VIM. A. Baker, of Washington,
is in the old neighborhood. He is re-
covering from injuries received by be-
ing struck by cab'e car few weeks
since.
Among the many friends met on
Presbyterian Day we were glad to
greet our old school teacher, the ven
cradle John Sellers, of Martinsburg,
and to hear Of his good health.
Mr.. Taylor Edwards had a valuable
mare to die one day last week. A
post mortem examination showed that
she had swallowed nail, which had
cut through portion of the intestines
and caused her death.
As we saw the older and younger
ladies SO earnestly at work on Presby-
terrain Day at Inwood Park we thought
what good wives some. men had, and
what good wives other men might get
from among them.
There will be preaching in the Pres
byterian church at Shanghai every
night next week. Communion Sun
day morning, August 49, The pas
tor will be assisted by Rev. f Z.
Barclay, of Capon Bridge.
Mr. Wilbur Shrodes had his collar
bone broken by being crowded against
the Size of stable door through |
which he. was leading a couple horses
one day last week. DR.. Morgan rem
dered needed surgical attention.
Rev H. c. v Campbell was here
day or two last week. He attended |
Day at Inwood Park,
where he made an address on "Berk-
eley Boys i'll the Ministry which is
said by those who heard it to have
been very interesting
Mr.. Z. S. Henshaw has % stalks
Of corn which are growing in strange
land. The seed was brought by the
Rev. w. H. Shepherd from
the interior Of Africa, 1000 miles from
the mouth of the Congo river. The
plants are growing nicely, with one or
two ears on each stalk.
The music at Inwood Park on Pres
byterian Day is said by good judges
to have been very fine. 1t was in
charge of Prof. d. Gold Miller, who
deserves great credit for the zeal and
energy manifested in making this IN
teresting feature Of the entertainment
SO successful.