Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-08
NOTES AND CONTENTS.

The coal merchant wears smile.
All is we'll that ends we'll, except
the termination of we'll paying
office.
What change the ice dealer will
experience when he shuffles off this
mortal coil.
Miss Blanche E. Hewitt, of Will
Transport, Md. has been spending the
past week with Miss Lille Russler in
this city.
Some OF the soldier boys who have
come home on furlough do not look
the pictures of health that they did
when they enlisted. Change of diet,
climate andsleeping apartments works
wonders.
The annual union meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary to the Order OF Rail-
way Conductors, was held in Cumber-
land, Md, last week. There was
very large attendance, including the
following ladies from Martinsburg:
Mrs. E. Crawford, Mrs. Dan'l Nc
Ginnis, Mrs. c. Daily, Mrs. w.
Hipsley, Mrs. +. Kearns, Mrs. ].
Hartley, Mrs. A. T. Russler, Mrs. F.
McBee, Mrs. Z c. Caskey, Mrs. F.
Kesler, Mrs. +. f. Entler, Mrs. w.
Westrater and Mrs. G. Poisal. After
the regular routine of business was
over a grand banquet took place at the
Windsor hotel, followed by an excur-
sion over the city; the ladies went in
trolley car in the afternoon to
Narrows park, where refreshments
were served. The car was beautifully
decorated in drapings of the Amerl-
can colors. Green, red and white
lanterns, the we'll known railroad
signal colors, also adorned the car.
Conductors Shipley, of Cumberland,
and Hartley, of Martinsburg, enter
tanned the ladies at refreshments at
Matthaei's ice cream parlors. The
ladies of Cumberland also entertained
their guests in Odd Fellows hall to
luncheon of elaborate and elegant
design, to which all did justice. The
kindness and hospitality of those
ladies extended to their sisters of
Martinsburg, was highly appreciated
an6 a kindly feeling engendered that
time itself cannot erase the pleasant
memories of.
The huntsmen's season surely must
be upon US. Recently in inhabiting
a forest upon which we pay the taxes
we were for the time surrounded by
r. ma
wondered if we were on the islaud of
Cuba and was the centre of attraction
Being unarmed we were not in fighting
trim, and could only look at the
intruders chasing the game, not their
own, from hill to vale and vice versa.
Whit an imposition this is and how
much damage is done they neither
know or care about. In pursuing the
columns of the Stockmau and Farmer,
one among the best of stock journals
published, a correspondent in writing
of the sportsman nuisance has this to
say: II wonder how long it will be
till the sporting public will recognize
the fact that our farms belong to us
who have bought and paid for them,
and continue to pay taxes on them
year after year. fail to see why /
have not as much right to control the
hunting on my farm as have to say
who shall gather the fruit and crops,
or who shall remove the timber from
my grove, or use the pastures in my
fields. The public does not look at
it in this way, however, as they claim
or take the privilege of roaming at,
their own sweet will, all over oY
pastures, orchards, berry pate
tramping down and tearing ul
suits their convenience, frigh
and damaging our stock, all tn
NAV have the sport of chasj
killing our game. l have IA
term our advisedly, tor who s
any rightful claim on it" r