Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-01-05
HusTLlNG FOR DOLLARS.
A Trip Among the Business and Pro.
fessional Men.

ness dull. concluded to take stroll
around town and see II something
could not be stirred up. 1t was but {
few days until Christmas and what
could be more natural than to DROP
into jewelry store, especially wher
such an one as w. l.. Jones < Co s is
near. 1t is not good place to loaf il
one has money, SO we got out of there
and into the neat establishment Of
Frank Doll & Co., where one can
clothe either head or feet with good
goods for very little money.
The rain continued and call at the
large furniture house of P. Nicklas,
Bro. & Co. fully convinced us that
city goods can be had here at prices
which cannot be affected by free trade.
1t was just across the alley to the gro
Gerry store of John w. Walker & Co.,
where green or dry, evaporated or
canned goods may be had in their pur-
ity. Then to the ever popular Con-
tinental Hotel, presided over by that
prince of good fellows, w. Newton
Inch, the best place imaginable to
get square meal. The nearest ap-
proach to museum is around on the
Public Square, where can be had any
thing in the hardware line from bum
die OF barb wire to sausage suffer of
II. l.. Doll & Co. Moving on. Flick
& Westenhaver sign was an attrac-
ton and contrary to the usual rule we
got out OF the office a dollar richer
than we went in. No one passes
Robt Lannon's corner without stop
ping and a pleasant place it is because
he HI good goods at low prices.
Up King street to Kilner's China
Hall we wendell our way, but the re-
ward was ample as it is always pleas
ure to see pretty things and that S
where they are. That snow which we
had promised for Christmas was COM
ing and ]. w. R. Fishers is the place
to go to get something to warm by, or
if it's a picture, c. Fred Barr can take
it to perfection, and then A. L. Mar
tin is very handy with store filled
with almost everything from prunes
to cheese and crackers, while Herbert
L. Alexander can insure you so as to
make you or your property perfectly
safe. 1t is very difficult matter for
an editor to pass the Court House
without calling on Grant Pitzer, for
he's genial good fellow and though
young,a lawyer who has already made
rather large mark.
John Lyons says he is a shoe maker
and sells boots and shoes, but some
things we saw there did not look like
shoes. they were ladies hats and bon
nets with feathers, ribbons, and such
Charley Shaffer with his books and
stationery is always picking at a mus
ical instrument and he is quite an ex-
pert, too.
No use to talk about passing the
old reliable drugstore of NJ. A. Snod-
grass. That would be the height of
folly and might result disastrously, so
we did not, but stopped and was treat
ed to a handful of Havana cigars
Mag always keeps the best of every
thing.
Up at the corner Baker & Rearick
make a speciality of the men. Just now
they are selling wonderfully cheap.
Beyond the market House Emmert &
Fiery have as neat store as there is
any use for and the ladies say their
goods are very good and reasonable in
price. We think so, too.
Thompson & Tabler had Santa
Claus in window and they now have
suits to suit the most fastidious. which
they sell at prices to suit buyers.
Getting interested in the locality,
we investigated L. E. Lambert's barber
shop and found it all right, likewise
Geo. d. Lambert's butcher shop next
door where sausage and puddin' and
beefstake and ham grow on hooks all
around the room. Inquiring about
the hooks, we went into Gerling Bros.
hardware store to find some and in
stead run across a box of dynamite
cartridges which we did not care to
buy, but asked to be excused and
went into Hydes to see about a watch
and found whole store full of silver
and gold. Having enough of that To-
cality we went down to see the Young
dry goods merchant, Stuart Boyd, and
found him too busy to talk There was
rothing to do but to pass on to the
large establishment of Mrs. w. w
Crump where our very good friend,
Mr.. John w. Pitzer presides. There
was plenty of hardware, but nothing
more dangerous than key of powder
on the counter.
Down at the corner of Queen and
Race streets A. NJ. Gilbert has a drug
store which is we'll patronized Ar
thur is a careful pharmacist and sells
the pure article. Just below is the
foundry and machine shop of John
Fitz, one of the best things the
town possesses. Those Tuscarora
plows and steel water wheels are not
equalled anywhere. Across the
way is the immense emporium of J.
II. Miller & Sons, wholesale grocers
and dealers in coal, wood, wagons,
buggies, sleighs, sewing machines
and everything else, while their neigh
bors, Geo. F. Evans & Son, handle to-
bacco at wholesale exclusively always
keeping the best brands.
At Swope & Frazer's they make
pearl hominy and graduated corn
meal as well as a full supply of ground