Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-06

Juue-the month of roses.
The strawberry crop is short

; iool ouuudy evening lOI WHICH d It.
ward will be given if brought to this
Office.
Miss Lizzie McGill is now clerk of
the postoffice, at sub station, No /. in
North Martinsburg, vice Miss Maud
Gatrell, resigned.
Decoration Day in Martinsburg was
very quiet. The G. A. R., Fireinen,
Military and Curtis Band, visited the
different cemeteries.
| Mr.. G. S. Hill is laying new
pavement in front of his handsome
residence on West Burke street. Let
the good work continue
Farmers who want to plant pump
kins for the Canning Factory can get
seed OF Mr.. Lovett at his home on N.
Queen street, near Factory.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Feidt sympathize with them in
the loss of their babe. and sincerely
regret the illness of Mr.. Feidt.
Over two hundred lambs were
shipped to Atlantic City, from this
city Monday, over the c. v. railroad,
by d. A. Beard and Gray Silvers.
! Those who want to raise tomatoes
for the Canning Factory can get all
the plants they want from Rothwell
& Lovett or from Mr.. Robert Burkett.
A table has been compiled which
shows that during the month of May
64S people were killed and 1903 in
jured by cyclones in the United States. |
About thirty-five bicyclists, both
ladies and gentlemen, presented an
unusual sight Monday night by rid
ing all over the city in one contin-
uous body.
FL TEMPO, the government organ
in Madrid, declares that if General |
Weyler persists in rendering his res
ignationGeneral Primoribeva will re-
place him.
MARRIED.-On the 3rst. day of
May. at Vanclevesville, by Rev. w.
B. Evers, Mr.. Edward E. Lancaster |
and Miss Annie V. Stateman, both of
this county.
w. H. Burmau has purchased the
boarding stables of Walt. Lambert,
on Burke street, recently run by S.
H. Freeze, and will run them as liv-
cry and feed stable.
Kate Field, the well-known writer
and formerly publisher of Kate Fields
Washington, died on May 70. in Homo
lula, where she had gone in search
of health, of pneumonia.
Dennis Butts was taken before
Squire Harrison, Saturday morning,
where he plead guilty to the charge
of cursing S. H. Butts, and was fined
81 and costs, which he paid.
Rutherford & Drenner have made
their meat market on Queen street
bright with new paper and paint
They have also put in two new meat
blocks and a marble top table.
Ice is being sold at retail at $I4 90
ton, and it is poor stuff at that.
Manufactured ice is being furnished
saloonists at 25 cents a hundred
pounds or S.. 90 a ton. More anon.
Evangelist Yeagley has pitched
his tent near High street, North Mar
tinsburg, where he is holding daily
services. The congregations at first
were small, but continue to increase
in size.
George Zepp has purchased the
building adjoining Mrs. Quenzeps
confectionery store, on Martin street,
and has been engaged for several days
tearing down and moving it away.
The colored band turned out Thurs
day night to attend the church festi-
val at the Central Opera House.
They played a number of pieces in
front of the hall, which were very
good.
During balloon ascension in Mar
tinsville, Va, an old colored man
named Archie Brown, was caught in
the ropes and carried up distance of
800 feet, when he fell, and was in
stantly killed
The committee in charge of the
great Christian Eudeavor meeting in
Washington next July are arranging
for excursions to Harper's Ferry, Pen
Mar and other points.
A number of members OF St. Pat
rick's Benevolent Society decorated
the graves of their departed men,
bers in St. Joseph's cemetery We'd
nesday, after which they went to the
Reunion at Boydville.
Scottie, the 4-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. Gibbs, of S. Queen street,
who was knocked down by horse on
Wednesday evening, has a very ugly
wound on his head, but the doctor
thinks it will not prove serious.
The Crawford bicycle factory at Ha-
gerstown recently put off its night
force, and will only run during the day
until next fall. Among the several
hundred persons who were discharged |
were number from this city.
Mr.. EdgarB. Stewart has our thanks
for an invitation to the commence |
ment exercises of the West Virginia
University, at Morgantown, which
occur June to TO- Mr.. Stewart will
graduate from the law department.
The Electric Light Company is
making arrangements to replace the |
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