Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-11-06

! Oil Company LOT S2oo,ooo.
wears ago Shattuck offered the farm
for $500. but could find no buyer.
There are now in the deaf and dumb
and blind institute at Romney hfty-
eight deaf and dumb girls, sixty. Gig ht
deaf and dumb boys, twenty-six blind
girls and twenty. one blind boys, in
all one hundred and seventy three.
There are now in the neighborhood
OF four hundred men employed about
the Ensign shops. 1t beginsto sound
like other days to pass near the big
plant and hear the sounds Of the ham
mer and saw Huntington Bsrald.
The second room of the City High
School held an excellent literary en-
tertainment last Friday afternoon,
consisting of Rotations, debates, sing
ing, etc. They intend holding them
once a month the entire school term.
Mr.. John Sperow died at the home
of his son-in-law, Vim. Wolf, in North
Martinsburg, last Friday noon, aged
so years. The funeral services were
held at noon Sunday and the remains
deposited in the Falling Waters GEM
terry.
Matthew Jones, residing near town
was cleaning gun Saturday morning
which had been loaded for sometime
too long for HIM to remember. 1t was
accidentally discharged and burst.
Luckily Mr.. Jones was just where the
flying fragments didn't hit.
John Gordon, near Elbensville,
north of Cumberland, who was missing
some days, was found last Friday by
searching party in the mountain
with one of his feet wedged in a partly
split log. He had been held fast two
days and nights and was unconscious.
Fields & Hanson S up-to-date min
strels delighted a large audience at the
Central, Wednesday night. The mu-
sic and singing were excellent and the
Jokes and comic songs were new aud
catchy 1t ended in the golden Klon-
dixie and a swell dance by Dawson
City's 400.
Post Chaplain David H. Shields,
now at Fort Thomas, Ky, has had his
church membership changed from the
Baltimore Conference to the Central
Pennsylvania Conference, Nj. F..
church. Bishop Mallalieu made the
transfer at the request of Presiding
Elder Evans, of the Carlisle district.
Mrs. Mary Hyatt died at her home
near Winchester, Saturday, and her
remains were brought to this city and
buried in Green Hill cemetery, Su1-
day afternoon. She was 65 years Of
age and formerly resided in this city.
She was the mother of Mrs. Jacob
Swanson and an aunt of Mrs. John
/ Marstella.
JudgeFreer appointed the Wheeling
Jail as the Jail for Wetzel county, and
our fool criminals became alarmed and
broke out of the Wetzel Jail by pun
melting hole in the wall and falling
about twenty feet. II they had gone
70 Wheeling they could have unlocked
the door with a pine stick and walked
out.-Wetzel Democrat.
Martha Perkins, colored, while at
work in the canning factory last
Thursday afternoon, had her clothing
caught in the chain of the revolving
table, which drew her to tighter quar-
tiers. Luckily the bulkiness of het
clothing and body threw off the belt
that ran the table thus escaping with
a few scratches and bruises.
An important matter which par
ents should not overlook is to have
their sons and daughters taught
bookkeeping and penmanship. There
is now no excuse for them to be ig-
norant of these branches, as for few
dollars a month they can get the best
instruction at Turner's Business
College. II you can't send them dur
ing the day let them go at night.
A delegation of paper nanui~ctur-
ers from New York, Rhode Island
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jer
seyand other Eastern states will spenc
the first two weeks of November il
Randolph, Preston and Tucker coun
ties, this State, on the great tract re
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