Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-10-03

Pumpkins pies.
October is here.
Chestnuts- will soon be ripe.
The weather is getting cooler.
Jack Frost will soon be around.
Rabbits are said to be plentiful.
The applause gwen Bryan was
very weak.
Hon. Curtis Guild, Central Opera
House, Oct. 5th.
The hotels and restaurants did a
big business on Wednesday.
Bryan is the first presidential can
didate that ever visited Martinsburg.
A newspaper advertisement talks
to the customer while the merchant
sleeps.
Get one of NJ. S. Burdette's choice
fountain pens. They are the finest
in the city.
A walk to the country these pleas
ant autumn days is indeed delightful
and invigorating.
The trustees of the G. & 0. canal
have posted signs forbidding bicycl-
ing on the tow path.
Turn. out to hear Hon. Curtis
Guild discuss the currency question
on Monday, Oct. 9Th.
The people who have beer wishing
for cold weather will soon be wish
ing it was warm again.
Bryan's hair has been cut short,
but he refuses to subject his remarks
to the same treatment.
Miss Josephine Lyons, of Burke
street, still continues i'll at her home.
We trust she may econ get well.
Tue authorities of the NJ. E.
Church, South, have decided to lay
a new carpet in the auditorium of
the church.
Stanley Goulden was bitten by q
large dog on Monday. His hand
swelled considerably, but he is now
much better.
The pickpockets did thriving
business in this city on Wednes-
day. The most Of that fraternity
believe in free silver.
Mayor Henshaw had number of
special policemen sworn in for the
large crowd on Wednesday, and
they did excellent work.
The Brooklyn Brass Company
made another large shipment of
goods on Wednesday. They are all
intended for the holiday trade.
Rev. Henry Thomas will preach
and administer the Holy Commun-
ion in Christ Church, Bunker Hill,
Tomorrow, Sunday at p. N.
Mr.. Brice W. Catlett has engaged
MISS Fannie JolliTe, who is WELL
known in this city, as a private tutor
of his children during the winter.
The Bryan circus has come and
gone, and it is the general opinion
that it was a one-horse show and not
worth the price Of admission.
The early oyster is fresh and I'M
satisfactory. 1t needs a touch of
frost. The autumn seems to be the
time for the ripening of its succu-
lence.
Miss Bette Boehm, of Mape ave-
nue., is still confined to her home,
with little improvement in her con-
dition. We trust she may speedily
recover.
Judge Stake has decided upon
complaint Of the State Board OF
Health, that hog pens are a nuisance
in Hagerstown, and will have to be
removed.
Holy Communion Services will be
held in st. Johns Lutheran Church,
next Sunday, Oct. 4th. Preparatory
Services will be held Saturday after
noon at o'clock.
The Statesman says there were 90,
900 people in town on Wednesday.
The editor must have had on his
l6 to l spectacles, which magnified
every person he saw into sixteen.
The peach growers in Back Creek
Valley have been hauling their crops
day and night to North Mountain,
from whence they have been shipped
to the various Eastern and Western
markets.
Mr.. P. Fl. Bristow, a lealing Sun.
day School worker of Washington,
D. O., will speak at the Jefferson
county Sunday School Convention,
to be held at Shepherdstown, Oct.
10th and 18th.
Mr.. James Finucan came near los.
ing his foot in an attempt to couple
cars west Of this city, on Monday.
AS it was that member was badly
injured, and be will be unable to
work for some time.