Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-08-31
LOCAL NEWS.
3 TURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1895.


Gilmore's Band, Tuesday after,
noon, Sept. 3rd.
MIR. Zoua Iardella is studyins len
tistry with DR.. G. w. Link.
Superior Drill'-the superior of
9"rjOrs, at HENsHAw & LICKLIDER's.
Mas LueIla Athey, of near this
@ ty, is confined to h home By sick
ness.
Gi'more's Band, Tuesday after
noon, Sept. 3rd, Central Opera
House.
A car load of cider mills, cheap,
ard none finer made, at HENsHAw &
LICKLIDER.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wm. Diffenderfer,
have been visiting relatives in Win
chester.
Miss Lille Mcdonald still con-
tnues critically i'll at her home on
North Queen street.
Miss Bessie Gibbs and sister, are
visiting their aunt, Mrs. Lucy Rosen-
lerger, in Winchester.
School begins Monday, and now
the school boy will have to get down
10 more work and less play.
Williams Grove Interstate Gran.
GERS picnic attracted many of our
PEOPLE to that place this week.
Mr.. j. W. Jennings, formerly of
his city but now of Brunswick, has
lr.cn very i'll for the past two weeks.
The Martinsburg and Hagerstown
hase ball teams willplay at Morgan's
Grove on Wednesday and Thursday
of next week.
Messrs. Henshaw & Licklider are
in position now to sell all grades of
Fertilizer for less money than any
firm in Martinsburg.
Last Wednesday Mr.. Garritt B.
NauMetre and Miss Maize H. Bill
mayer. both of this county were
married in Hagerstown.
Rev. r. H. Pitt, D. D., preached
ID congregation in the open air on
the lawn in front of the house of Mr..
A. j. Thomas, on Tuesday night.
An illustrated article on recent de-
velopment in the art of applying cleo
'rcity to railroads will appear in an
carly number of Harper's Weekly.
Buying for Spot CASH and giving
YOU the benefit of it is what HEN
SHAW & LICKLIDER are doing in the
Fertilizer business. G. V. r. R.
Elevator.
The remains of Mr. Nose Woods,
who committed suicide in Staunton,
an account of which was given in our
last issue were inferred at Shepherds
town, last Sunday.
The Continental Hotel has been
undergoing a complete renovation
rs to paint, etc. Amarked improve
Inent IS the building of water closets
in the hotel proper instead of having
them quite distance in the yard.
Governor MacCorkle has appoint
I'd Hon. Geo. NJ. Bowers of Berkeley
county, member Of the Board of
Regents for the Bluefield Colored
Institute; also Col. John 7. Colston
Il member of the State Board of Ag-
riculturc.
A pleasant evening social was
given at the residence of Mr.. Jacob
Bucklcman, on Raleigh street, on
Thursday evening last. The even
ing was spent in games and dancing.
y nice crowd was present, and all
lad jolly, good time.
There will be preaching in the
Presbyterian Church by the pastor
Rev. DR.. f. NJ. Woods, on Friday
August 3Oth, at O'Clock p. M, and
Saturday, at o'clock p. m. Pre-
paratory to communion on Sabbath
morning, Sept, lst, at II o'clock.
We return thanks to Mr. Jas. F,
Thompson for an invitation to join
him in a bass fishing excursion along
The banks of the Potomac. We are
sure we would have been nicely en-
tertained, but are compelled to forgo
The pleasure on account of business.
Miss Minnie Zimmerman enter
tanned q number of her friends at
her home, corner Maple avenue and
John street, on Tuesday evening
]ast. instrumental and vocal music
was the feature of the evening, and
q pleasant time was spent by all.
We return many thanks to Mr.. H.
A. Riddle, General Passenger Agent
of the G. V. r. r. for the ticket
furnished us TO the great and grow
ing picnic at Williams Grove. We
spent a very pleasant day on the
grounds notwithstanding the numer-
Gus crowd.
Tue G. V. r. r. announces that on
Thursday, July 18th and 25th, Au-
gust lst, 8th, 18th and 22d, Satur-
day, Sept. It'll, and Tuesday ,Oct.Sth,
personally conducted excursions will
be run to Niagara Falls, leaving
Martinsburg 500 a. m. Fare, round
trip, $1,000.
Miss Ellen Nora Boyd, the ten
year old daughter of Judge A. Hun
Ter Boyd, of Cumberland, died at
her home last week and was buried
ON Sunday. She was a promising
young miss, and their friends here
will be sorry to learn of this family
afilicuon.
We were pleased with short call
this week made by our friend Mr..
Robert L. Moler, formerly of the
Statesman, but now of Washington.
Bob looks well, is well satisfied with
condition of things, and says he is
doing well in Washington. Always
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