Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-07-13

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1895.

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Sunday, l4th inst, at p. m.
Lipp, Hagerstown's fine pitcher,
received telegram from the Peters
burg (Va.) Club, Offering him 500
a month. He refused.
Miss Annie Belle Houck was
married to Mr.. James G. Eversole,
on Thursday, July 4th. Both are
residents ct this county.
Miss Katie Matthaei has kindly
consented to preside at the organ
in the Presbyterian Church during
the absence of Miss Striblpo.
The Council of Chambersburg has
decided to submit to q vote of the
people whether the town shall be
provided with sewerage system.
Mr.. w. N. Chambers has returned
from Weston much improved in
health, and has resumed his position
at the B. & o. r. r. shops in this
city.
Mr.. Vim, NJ. Hollis gave a party
at his hospitablc home on Monday.
1t was in honor of his 48th birthday
and the event was pleasantly cele.
hratcd.
Work has been commenced on the
new bay window OF Messrs. Wien
Brothers, on the front OF the second
story Of tneir building, on North
Queen street.
The annual picnic of the B. & O..
Y. NJ. G. A. will be held this year as
usual at Island Park. The date fix
ed is July 2G. The round trip fare
is only 80 cents.
The c. V. Sunday School Assem-
bly, opens at Williams Grove on July
10. Rev. 2. S. Henson, D. D., of
Chicago, and Rev. NJ. L. Canoe are
among the lecturers.
Mr.. Kinsey Creque went to Cham
bersburg yesterday morning to make
arrangements for Martlnsburg's Base
Ball Club to play with the league the
scheduled series of games.
A refuse vault is being built at
the Government Building. Contrac-
tor Jack, who has been in the city
several days is now at work com
pleting his part of the work.
Mr.. Geo. L. Martin, a highly
recommended pharmacist has &C
cepted the position in Gilbert's drug
store recently made vacant by the
resignation of Mr.. Will Harper.
Messrs. W. Fl. and John A. Wilen
have made application for permits
sion and will shortly build a bay
window in the second story of their
place Of business on Queen street.
Messrs. VIM. E. Tebo & Co., have
erection of a residence for Mr.. Gil
bert W. McKown, of Grrardstown.
He will build on the Brown" land.
Eleven carrier pigeons belonging
to Adam Seippel, of Cbambersburg,
Pa, we're taken to Shepherdstown
last Monday and liberated. They
arrived in Chambersburg in 81
minutes.
Mr.. John W. Martin has been
awarded the contract for carrying
the mails to and from the post-office
and he began his duties on Monday
morning. The contract price Tor the
year is $500.
The ladies' of the Reformed Church
Of kcarneysvilIe, will hold q lawn
festival and supper, in the yard of
Mr.. Daniel Getzsndanncr, on Satur-
day, July 9th. All cordially invit-
ed to be present.
Manager Henningcr, of the Cham
bersburg Base Ball Clue, has engag-
ed W. E. Schoenhut as pitcher. He
i, the Pennsylvania University Clubs
crack twirler snappy fielder ard
heavy batter.
Martin Shell has sold his barber
shop at Sharpsburg and moved to
this place, where he is working at
the same business. Thomas Hope
well, colored, is filling Mr. Shells
place in Sharpsburg.
Mr.. Paul Gassman who has for
some time been connected with the
drug store of Gilbert Bros, on
Queen street, near the Merchants
and Farmers Bank, has accepted
position in Baltimore.
By the late REIMBURSEMENT ten
postmasters in West Virginia will
have an increase of salary, and only
three are reduced. The postmaster
salary at Charles-Town is increased
from 81 700 to 81 800.
In the Southern Methodist Church
at Winchester, Va, June 26, 1895,
by Rev. w. II. D. Harper, Miss M.
Bruce Hyde, daughter of Rev. DR..
John P. Hyde, and Mr.. Charles NJ.
Hart, of Clarksburg, W. Va.
The C. V. r. R. announces that
on Thursday, July 4th, Friday, July
18th, and every Friday thereafter
during the months of July, August
and Sept. Excursion tickets will be
sold to Mt. Alto Park, good to re-
turn on day Of issue, at 80 cents
round trip.
M. Wiasemski, a gentleman, we'll
known in Partisan fashionable circles,
has made a wager that he will ride
trow Paris to America on horseback.
He proposed to ride through Siberia
30 Behring Strait and cross to Alas
ka on the ice.
The G. V. r. r. announces that on
Thursday, July 18th and 25th, Au-
gust LIST, 9Th, 18th and 22d, Satur-
day, Sept. 7th, and Tuesday Oct. 9Th,
personally conducted excursions will
be run TO Niagara Falls, leaving
Martinsburg 500 3. m. Fare, round
trip, $1,000.
Mrs. Thad deus Bell, of North
Maple avenue, on Wednesday even
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