Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-11-21

Delightful weather this week.
Torch light parade next week.
Next Thursday-Thanks
The turkey is in his last throes.
Old papers for sale at this office.
Those eggs thrown at Carlisle in
Kentucky, came home to roost.
The corrected time table of the
Z. V. r. r. appears in this issue.
The city lookup is to have new
steel doors. Bids are now being ask
ed for.
Bryan's campaign for 1900 will be
a greater failure than his campaign
for 1896.
Mr.. Charles Marstella, who has
been quite sick with pneumonia, is
able to be out.
A disease resembling hog cholera
is killing off lots of the swine tribe
in this county.
The advanced women say female
suffrage is bound to come. But the
question is, when?
Corbett and Fitzsimmons are again
Ginning. Neither one shows an in
clination to get together.
The many friends and customers
OF Mr.. L. E. Lambert are sorry that
be has retired from the barber bust.
ness.
Rev. DIR. Woods was absent from
home last Sunday, and no services
were held in the Presbyterian
Church.
Prof. Gerhardt You can easily
find me if | am not on the main
street, just round the corner of the
Peoples Bank.
Mr.. D. P. Ray, of Altoona, Pa,
has accepted position at the Brook
Ign Brass Works. He will work as
pattern maker.
The Brooklyn Brass Company con-
tinues to work several of their de-
partments at night, in order to keep
up with other departments.
Employees of the Middlesex Knit
ting Mill quit work at four O'Clock
on Tuesday, owing to the failure OF
the boiler to generate steam.
There was a special term of the
Circuit Court of this county, over
which Judge Faulkner presided. We
will give particulars next week.
Mr.. Henry Bentzel, of Winches-
ter, aged 50 years, died very sudden
ly oG Monday last. He was the faith
er Of Mr.. Oliver Bentzcl, of this
city.
Mr.. John Towner has purchased
the barber business Of Mr.. l.. E.
Lambert, and has opened his shop
on East Martin street, in the Dorm
building.
Mr.. q. Fl. Ptzer, who was elected
policeman in the place of George W.
Johnson, resigned, has been on duty
for week, but has not yet received
his uniform.
Mr.. Frank Doll has opened his
shoe store on North Queen street, in
the room recently occupied by Mr..
John w. Homrich. Sam Young is
his salesman.
Mark Hanna gave dinner in New
York on Saturday night TO a num-
Der of newspaper men, during which
gold medal was presented to each
of the guests.
Within the past week several ar
rests have been made for carrying
concealed weapons, and in all cases
the parties were found guilty and
properly punished.
Vice President-elect Hobart says
already eight hundred babies have
been named after him, and the end is
not yet. And this was not baby
kissing campaign, either.
The gain in the Republican vote
in four years in Pennsylvania was
two hundred and fifteen thousand.
How did Bryan expect to do any,
thing ia state like that -?
The aged father of Senator Elkins
is critically ill at his home in Elkins,
having been paralyzed. A son of
the senator is also seriously i'll at
Yale College with typhoid fever.
Tonight Friday, Nov. 2Cth,) the
ladies OF Trinity Episcopal Church
will hold an oyster supper and sale
of fancy articles at the residence of
Mrs. Buckles, on West Burke street.
Gerhardt's Book Store, where the
Post Office used to be-there is tie
place to buy cheap for cash. Pay as
you 60. Credit without pay is
loss to the seller and sin to the
buyer,
Consul General Lee says that
Weyler pronounces his name Vyler,
as though it began with V. The
insurgents are willing to admit that
viler captain general never was
sent to Cuba.
Mrs. Castle, the "kleptomaniac,'
recovered her health instantly on her
release from prison, all OF which goes
to show that if you have money aud
steal, it is kleptomania, but if you
are poor it is robbery.
Mr.. Bryan returns 70 private life
with the good will of his opponents.
HIS power as an orator is beyond
question, the earnestness of his con-
victions is undoubted and the cour-
tesy OF his manner is admirable.
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