Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-06-22


Our market Is booming
The picnic season is here.
Is it -?
Hurry upwith the new town clock.
Many improvements are going on
in this city.
Who said Martinsburg couldn't
play ball?
Yesterday was opening day at To-
wood Park.
The front doors of tue Lutheran
Church have been reprinted.
We woald like TO hear from some
of our delinquent correspondents.
Winchester, Va. merchants close
their stores at 8 o'clock every even
ing except Saturday.
Rumor has it that the street cars
will soon be put in operation. We
hope the rumor has firm tounda-
ton.
The children of the NJ. E. Church
of Bunker Hill will hold day service
in the church on next Sabbath, 23rd
inst, at o'clock p. III.
The old rivals, Hagerstown and
Frederick, are at It again. This
time it is which place is going to
have the largest 4th Of July celebra-
tion.
Mr.. Paul Gassman, son of Jacob
Gassman, who resides near Falling
Waters, has accepted a position in
the drug store of A. NJ. Gilbert &
Bro, on Queen street
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Hoke has been criti-
cally ill for several days at her home
on West King street we are able to
say, however, that both she and the
child are getting better.
At the preliminary trial Of Joseph
Farrin for assault upon Edward Car
roll on Thursday last, Justice Har-
rison held the prisoner to await the
action Of the grand jury.
EX-Mayor G. O. Lambert lost
valuable horse last week. The horse
was caught between the boards in
his sUall, and in struggling to force
himself out, died from exhaustion.
The Crawford Bicycle Company,
of Hagerstown, has purchased four
hundred lots in the suberbs of that
place which it proposes to sell to its
employees, who now number nearly
seven hundred.
In this State the height of fences
is regulated by law. A worm fence
must be A feet high post and rail,
4 feet high stone fence 9 feet wide
at base and 81 feet high, and hedge
fence feet high.
The ladies of the Junior Auxiliary
of the Episcopal Church gave
musicale at the home of Mr.. N. W,
Jones, corner Of Maple avenue and
Burke street on Wednesday night.
An excellent program was rendered.
Mr.. c. w. Wisner is now the Gen
eral Agent of the State of Maryland
for the American Union Life Insur.
ance Company, of New York He
has comfortable and pretty offices at
the Daily Record building in Balti-
more.
Scientists now claim that indiges-
ton is caused by a microbe. This
discovery makes the poor little mi
crobe responsible for almost every
thing except the expanded sleeves
that take up two-.hirds of our side
walks.
The funeral of Mrs. Frank H.
Grimm took place from her home on
Water Street, last Sunday at 2 p. m.
The services were conducted by Rev.
c. P. Staley, and the interment was
in Greenhill Cemetery. A husband
and one small child survive her.
A special train will be run from
HagerstOwn to Winchester on Sun
day next. There will be special
meeting of the Masonic order of that
city, Mt which time special sermon
will be preached to the order by a
prominent Kentucky divine.
George w. Bishop, of West Vir-
einia, died last Sunday at Quantico
from a rattlesnake'S bite. Bishop
was a Snowman, and few days ago
received a RATHER from Florida. On
Saturday night the snake bit him in
the left hand. He died in great ag-
ony.
There will be special term of the
Circuit Court for this county on
Monday, June oath. Judge Faulk-
ner will preside. AT this term the
writ of certiorari lately granted by
the Court in the case of Proctor VS..
Martin, resulting from the late cleo
ton for councilmen, will be returna-
BILE. 1t is not known il the Court
will decide it on the 24tb.
An Indiana man committed sui
eide the other day because cut
worms ruined his corn and his wife
had threatened to leave him. He
might have planted more corn, and
it is almost &c tain that in time he
could have found another wife. But
that excellent, if well worn, precept:
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try
again, doesn't seem to have much
weight with some people.