Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-08-21

"A Breezy lime.
Colds are prevalent.
Peaches are pleatiful.
Picnics are about over.
Fix up your pavements.
Wallace Shows-next Tuesday.
Fishing is good in The Potomac.
Did you attend the Inwood Fair ?
The theatre season will soon open
in this city.
Go to Barr & Lanrz and get BIZ
cycle for $35.
The Baltimore base ball team is
again getting a hump on itself.
The youngster eagerly counts the
hours from now until the circus gets
here.
Keep out Of the way of the ele-
plant on Tuesday-the Great Wal
lace Shows exhibit here.
The tomato crop for the Cannery,
so far, promises to be a good one.
Lots of them are now being deliver
ed.
Weinberg & Co., tailors, will open
up a new store Sept. Ist, in the
Lambert building, opposite this of
fee.
A new wing TO the W. Va. Uni.
versity building, at Morgantown,
will be erected this fall to cost about
$4,000.
Mr.. Adolph Zsiglor lad horse
badly injured on Monday, by getting
caught in a wire fence on the farm
of Mr.. Geo. D. Lambert.
Messrs. Willis C. Freeze, George
Poisal and Lynn Lemon are in camp
at McCoy's Ferry. They will re-
main there about ten days.
Prof. Blakemore, who taught the
second room of the Gram mar School,
in this city, IS now employed as
clerk at Cacapon Springs Hotel.
OF all the generous persons it has
ever been our pleasure to know, the
foreman of the Statesman is that per-
son. He is one in a thousand. Many
thanks, Bob.
Keep in mind that the Central
Opera House will be opened for the
season Sept. 10th, by presenting that
popular and laughing comedy, "a
Breezy Time"
Mrs. II. S. League, of the Everett
House, who has been seriously i'll
for some time, but who was daily
growing better, We are sorry to note
has suffered relapse.
Mr.. Leslie Sprinkle, who has
charge OF the watch inspection of the
B. & O., under w. l.. Jones g. Co.,
watch inspectors, has completed his
annual inspection.
The Dingley bill has raised the
wholesale price of musical instru-
ments from 20 to IS per cent, but
Prof. Gerhardt proposes to sell at
his old price for the next 30 days.
Now is your time to buy.
On Saturday last Officers Creque
and Freeze arrested three colored
men and placed them in the lookup,
as suspects of the robbery commit
ted at Shepherdstown. Two Of them
we're shortly afterwards released.
Officer Hollis arrested Wade West.
colored, at Cherry Run, on Satur-
day, and placed him in the Jail in
this city. He has been wanted for
yer, nearly a year for robbing the
store of Mr.. Vermilyea, in the coun'
ty.
On Tuesday last Gov. Atkinson
appointed Mr.. W. B. Lindsay, of
this city, notary public OF Berke-
ley county. He will not be able to
act in this capacity, however, until
his appearance before tue County
Court, giving bond.
The International Bible studies
for next Sabbath are from I Corinth
ians xiii: lib. Title, "Tbe Excel
lence of Christian Love- Golden
text, Sand now abideth faith, hope,
charity, these three. but the greatest
of these is charity"
AS two sisters at the seashore
were about to retire, the younger
said she was sure there was a man
under the bed. "Well,' said the ell
der, let's lock him 10 ard keep him
Tor show he's the only man who
has been Lere this summer"
John Harris, OF Mason county,
this State, returning from a hunt on
Tuesday, leaned his gun against his
breast while talking to his sweet.
heart, Mamie Preston. The gun was
accidentally discharged, the shot
entering his breast, and he died in
his sweetheart's arms shortly after.