Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-07-11
Huckleberries.

Presents his bill-the mosquito.
Watermelons are in the market.
The Fourth was very quiet in this
city.
Reformed Church Reunion at Pen
Mar Thursday, July Is.
Mr.. VIM. Lantz is eighty indis
posed at his home on John st.
Mrs. John ". Pitzer is suffering
from an attack of cramp collie.
Mrs. Washburn remains very i'll
at her mothers home on Raleigh st.
Washington Lodge No l, <. of P,
installed their new officers Tuesday
night.
1t is quite amusing to see a young
lady play on the piano and fight flies
at the same time.
Inwood Park captured the major
ity Of the people who went ou5 OF
our city on the Fourth.
Rsv. Henry Thomas will ID. W
preach in Christ Church, Bunker
Hill, next Sunday, July I2th, at 3
p. m.
Cincinnati is becoming a danger
Gus factor in the National League
race, being only few points behind
Cleveland.
On July 2, 1896, Mr.. VIM. Rigge
and Miss Mile Hill, both OF Berke-
ley county, we're marred by Rev. J.
A. HofIhelns.
The Singer Manufacturing Co., OF
the world-reuowned sewing machine,
are in want of local salesman and
collector. See ad.
A young man named Burns, who
fred B. & o. engine SOL, was drown
ed in the canal at Brunswick while
bathing on Saturday last.
Martinsburg should have had a
team in the Cumberland Valley
League. 1t was the only thing that
kept the town alive last summer.
The Board of Education for Mar
tinsburg District has fixed the levy
for the coming year at SOC on the
500, 30c of which is for the teach
er's fund and zoe for building fund.
Mr.. Robt. Riddleberger, foreman
of the Statesman, is now rider of
the bike" Bob says he only
wiped up the dust" about dozen
times.
Young Peoples Society Christian
Endeavor Prayer Meeting, at St.
Johns Lutheran Church, tomorrow
Sunday evening, at 6.45 p. m.
All welcome.
Mr.. Samuel Felker, the obliging
West End grocer, has purchased a
new delivery wagon, and is now
ready to supply his customers in all
parts Of the town.
There are thirty cases OF typhoid
fever reported in the Virginia peni-
Tertiary. Strange to say that all the
employees in the tobacco department
have escaped the disease.
The representative of Leech, Stiles
& Co, eye specialists, will be at the
Continental Hotel on Thursday, July
10th. He will he here every two
weeks instead of every month as
formerly.
The number Of young men who
formerly loafed on our streets has
greatly decreased, many Of them
having secured employment in the
different plants which bave recently
located here.
Martinsburg drew better crowds
to the ball games last season than
any other team ia the league, yet
we have no team this summer. With
proper management it can support
good club.
What caused the fair maid of
North Martinsburg to Iookso sad on
Tuesday evening last? Why-her
best fellow failed to come with the
tandem" and she had put on her
best to take the spin.
The "white man" will possibly be
the nomen or cognomen Of our friend
the pharmacist, Mr.. L. G. Matthaei.
He is having his entire establishment
painted white,and Adolph Wolfes is
doing the work in artistic style.
Mr.. CT. Kenney, of E. St. Louis,
ILL.,, writes us short but graphic
description of the terrible calamity
which befell that city on May 81.
We thank him for his letter, as well
as for the remittance it contained.
In few days the Chautauqua
Meeting, arranged for Iawood, will
take place under the auspices of
Rev. Sam Small and DR.. Shields.
The opening date is to be July 18th,
and the meeting will last nine days.
The colored Baptists of Virginia,
West Virginia and Maryland will
have a campmeeting at Shenandoah
Junction, beginning July 18th and
closing the 18th. An effort is being
made to make this one of the most
successful meetings ever held at the
Junction.
The picnic of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers at Inwood,
on Saturday, the 4th, was great
success. While the attendance was
not so large as the 4th of July of
last year, yet the crowd was quite
large and every one who attended it
had a pleasant time.