Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-05-30
SATURDAY. MAY 80, 1896.

Flower strewing day.
The election was very quiet.
High School C Commencement, next
Friday.
The hand that rocked the cradle
is now guiding the bicycle.
We republicans are now trying to
''hgger how it came about"
Many strangers visited this city
on Monday last to hear Sousa's
Band.
The slight rain developed some
small holes in streets and pikes-fill
them up.
The Post-OGice will be closed to-
day Decoration Day. from 10 a. m.
until 5 p. N.
The colored camp-meeting will be
held at Inwood, on the first two Sun
days in June.
Communion services in the Pres
byterian Church tomorrow (Sun-
day. morning.
The election counter is still at
work, and Is now wondering where
his mistake is.
Foundations for more houses are
being staked off on the Winchester
pike, south ofthe city.
Senator John W. Daniel will be
the orator st Leesburg, on Conteder-
ate Memorial Day, May 90.
Mr.. H. A. Riddle, General Pas
senger Agent of the c. V. r. Roo,
was IN this city on Wednesday.
Mr.. Fl. D. Baker, son of Dr.N. D.
Baker, is in charge of store for Mr..
Charles Rouss, at Portsmouth, Va.
The Martinsburg Fire Department
has concluded not TO go to Cum
berland to their big demonstration
to be held next month.
The typos got US wrong on the
meeting of the Winchester Presby
terry. 1t should have read Charles
Town instead of Martinsburg.
"What kind of dress will l wear
at the commencement z" has been
agitsting the mind of the average
sweet girl graduate during the past
month or more.
The ladies of the M. E. Church of
Bunker Hill will hold strawberry
festival on the nights of June 9Th
and 9Th, the proceeds to be for the
benefit of the church.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Guild of Gerardstown, will hold a
strawberry and ice-cream festival in
that place on Friday and Saturday
nights, June 5th and 9Th.
Children's Day at the NJ. E.
Church of Bunker Hill will be ap.
propriately observed on Sunday,
June 18th, az 3 p. m. A nice pro-
gramme has been arranged.
The Pendleton AdUocate, Vol. l.,
No. /, is on our table. Tt is edited
by c. NJ. Jordon and G. L. Kiser, is
brim full of news and will make an
excellent paper for that county.
A New York paper contains an
advertisement offering TO exchange
q bicycle for a cemetery lot. No
doubt the advertisement was insert
ed by the executor of the late rider
of the wheel.
Some rumors are going around
that two new organizations will soon
be formed in this city-a Y. M. G.
a. and a bicycle club. From the
looks of things neither appear to
create any stir.
s. II. Eby, of Greencastle, Pa,
has q full bred Holstein cow, four
years old, fresh several months ago,
that now gives thirty-two quarts OF
milk daily and has record of if
teen pounds, six ounces and q frac-
ton of butter in one week.
Mr.. Jacob f. Lemen, who remov-
ed from this county 80 the Ripple
farm, near Willlamsport, has fixed
up the buildings on the farm in q
handsome manner. Mr.. Lemen is a
model farmer. Berkeley county lost
good citizen when he left the state.
Ho winners Of Council honors !
We congratulate you, and hope that
in the exuberance of your jubilation,
you and your friends feel like max
ing your wives or sweethearts a nice
present. GERHARDT's Book AND VA
RIETY STORE is the place to geS it.
Come and see.
A Sedalie man started a chain-let-
ter begging system, calculated to
bring in several billion dollars, when
Uncle Sam interfered with his beau
tifol plan and stopped the letters.
Five dollars had been received on
the first billion when the scheme
came to an untimely end.
Young Peoples Society Christian
Endesvor Prayer Meeting, at st.
Johns Lutheran Church, to morrow
Sunday evening, at 6.45 p. m.
The topic for the evening will be,
Ready for Death.' The meeting
will be conducted by Misses Virginia
Hess and Maud Gatrell. All vel.
come.
Ho losers of Council honors We
sympathize with you and your friends
and advise you in order TO drive
away or drown your sorrows, to go
to GERHARDT's Book AND VARIETY
STORE and buy either violin,g guitar,
banjo, ACCORDION, or even q fife and
play for dear life, for music hath
charms-ete.
ASSISTED IN A CONCERT AT VIM
cHEsTER.-Messrs. Prof. j. O.Brock-
enshire and W. 7. McAneno, of this
city, went to Winchester and assist
ed local talent of that place in con-