Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

George Marker, the tollgate keeper
on the Winchester pike, near Inwood,
was assaulted and severely beaten BY
Hamilton Freeze, Wednesday, because
he refused to let him pass the gate
without paying.
Miss Ella Moler and II. Creigton
Kline were married at the home Of
the bride on New York Hill, Bruins
wick, last Tuesday evening. Rev. s.
NJ. Bowman performed the ceremony
and Miss Bessie Magalis presided at
the organ.
It may be that when fellow gets a
little unified and stops his paper he
imagines the bottom will drop ont and
the paper cease publication. OF course
he is astonished and disappointed
when he finds that it still continues
to be published
The Chambersburg Repository says:
The peach crop in Franklin county
will be so large this year that they
will be glut on the local market,
and advises growers to ship their
fruit, which Berkeley growers have
been doing for the past two or three
weeks.
Mr.. Louis Wolf is rapidly closing
out his immense stock of goods pre-
paratory to changing his location
from this city to Baltimore. 1t is
needless to add that bargains may be
had for the asking and that it will
pay to purchase literally while this
sale lasts.
Mr.. George Gregory, an aged resi-
dent of North Queen street, died early
Monday morning, aged seventy-hve
years. The funeral services were held
at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, at the
home, Rev. w. F. Gruver, ofIiciat-
ing. The interment was made at
Darkesville.
An exchange says: Breathes there
a man with soul so dead, who never
to himself hath said: "Pll pay before
go to bed, the debt owe the print
err" There are some we know full
we'll, who never such tale can tell
but they, we fear, will go to-well,
the place where there's no winter.
Miss Madessa L. Stottlemyer, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Stot-
tlemyer, was married Wednesday
evening at s o'clock at the home oil
her father on the corner OF Mulberry
and Jefferson streets, Hagerstown, to
Mr.. l.. Blaine Harp, popular young
clerk in Updegraf's store, by Rev: A.
c. Snyder.
Down at Exchange Place there is nc
buster establishment than that of Mr.
John Farrins machine and boiler
shop. 1t is not the most pleasant place
to loaf, because of the constant ham
mering, but Uncle John likes it, ant
from the way he pounds out dollar:
we do not believe he is worried very
much about the decline Of silver.
John Smull, living IN the Narrows
near Carlisle, Pa, while digging
stumps found a purse of gold contain
ing 5000. All the pieces were datet
more than 70 years ago, and are sup
posed to be part of the booty of the
famous robber, Lewis, who lived il
that section, and had his hiding place
in the mountains near there abou
1895.
Mrs. Jemima Lamar, widow of the
late Archibald Lamar, this city, died
at the home of Mrs. Charles A. Reid
in Westminster, Md, Saturday
morning, after long illness, in the
seventy-sixth year OF her age. Mrs
Lamar was a daughter of the late
John Howard, of Baltimore, and went
to Westminster shortly after the
death of her husband.
In Washington county, Md, dur
ing Sundays storm the large banl
barn of Mr.. Jacob Frieze, several miles
north of Fairview, was destroyed BY