Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-06-05

Vacation time is here.
Fix up the pavements.
Tomorrow-Whitsunday
The month of roses is with us.
The school boy is now happy.
Strawberry short-cake-Y-yuml
The half Of 81 will soon be gone.
The trouble with Cupid nowadays
is his cupidity.
Ice.cream and strawberry festivals
are now in order.
Brunswick is to have big Fourth
of July celebration.
Make way for the June bride and
the sweet girl graduate.
Get one Of those $50 wheels at
BARR & LANTz' for $35.
Moonlight strolls will soon be in
order-new moon again, you see.
Mrs. Jeremiah Zepp still continues
seriously i'll at her home on Raleigh
street.
A valuable horse, belonging to
Mr.. Moses Tabler, died on Tuesday
night last.
White flowers of all kinds wanted
on a certain day. Liberal price will
be paid. Enquire at this offlce-to-
day.
The graduates of the High School
will make their debut at the Central
Opera House, on Tuesday evening
next, at O'Clock.
The public schools of this city
closed yesterday for the summer va
cation. They will open again for
instruction Sept. lst.
Did it ever occur to you whose
hair IS thin and constantly falling
off that this can be prevented? Halls
Hair Remover is q sure remedy.
The young people of the First NJ
E. Church held strawberry and
ice-cream festival in the basement of
the church, on Tuesday evening last.
June-the brightest month of all,
With love meath shady bowers;
With wedding bells and honaymoons,
IT'S the month ofbrides and flowers.
The Jr. 0. L. A. NJ. decorated the
graves OF their deceased members in
Greenhill Cemetery, on Monday
evening last. Appropriate exercises
were conducted.
The Niagara River is now said to
be the habitat of gold fish in enor.
nous quantities. 1t is only within
the last year that any goldfish have
been observed there.
Now is the time to begin putting
the city in 4 clean condition. Visi-
tors for the summer months will soon
be arriving, and let them have a
good impression of the old Burg.
The rite of confirmation will be
administered in St. Johns Lutheran
Church, tomorrow Sunday morn
ing, at / O'Clock, to a large number
OF applicants for church member
ship.
Communion services will be held
at the Presbyterian Church, on next
Sunday morning. Preparatory ser
vices will be held tonight, (Friday,)
at 8 o'clock, and Saturday afternoon,
at $50 o'clock.
The tower Of the old B. d O.
round house at Cumberland collaps-
ed, making great racket, but doing
no damage, The men about the
building ran for their lives, and were
badly scared, but no one was hurt.
Children's Day will be appronri.
ately observed in St. Johns Luther
an Church, Sunday, June 18th. Elk.
tensive preparations are being made
for a choice program of music, reel.
tations, etc. The decorations will
be elaborate.
Three new bridges are to be erect.
ed this summer on the main line of
the b. & o., between Relay and
Washington Junction. The pres
ent structures were built at a time
when the motive power was much
lighter than it is now.
At Frederick, Nd, on the B. so.
r. r., is freight station that was
built over sixty years ago. A tower
on the top contains an old bell that
was tolled in the days gone by when
a train was sighted. In those DAYS
horses were the motive power.