Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-09-17
The cool wave is here.

Fields and Hanson's Minstrels.
There was frost Monday morning.
Short days-Sun rises SAB a. M,
sets 6.14 p. m.
Queen Wilhelmina's enforcement
is all over at last.
Mr.. J. F. Reed celebrated his
seventy eighth birthday on Tues
day.
New Spindle Wagons from $500
up, for sale at JOHN HELLER's, West
King street.
Those miserable, unsightly holes
in the streets. How the rain did
expose them.
A tent has been erected 10 North
Martinsburg for the purpose of re-
ligious worship.
New Top Buggies, with set of
new harness, for $500, for sale at
JOHN HELLER's.
Don't fail to see Fields and Han
sons Ministries at the Central Opera
House, tonight.
Hotel Berkeley is being improved
by a new roof. Mr.. c. @. Keedy is
doing the work.
Hunting the squirrel is now a
fayorite pastiwe. They are report
ed very plentiful.
M. John McAneny has accepted
a position with the Evans Shaffer
Grocery Company.
Mrs. Jane Dellinger, living in
"The Neck lost thirty hogs from
cholera within month.
The patrons of the post office need
a parcel mail box at the corner Of
Martin and Queen streets.
Mr.. Everett E. Marshall has rent
ed the Baptist parsonage, and will
live there during the winter.
New Surveys, with a set of new
harness, for $4,000, for sale at JOHN
HELLER's, West King street.
State Senator Henry D. Flood, of
Appomattox county, was thrown
from a horse last week and had an
arm broken.
We are indebted to the Frederick
Fair Association for a handsome
catalogue of their coming fair, be-
ginning Oct. 18th.
q DIR. VIM. T. Henshaw, surgeon in
the Second West Virginia Regiment,
camp at Middletown, Pa, ia at home
with malarial fever.
The harvest moon is the moon
which is nearest the autumnal equi-
nox, and will be this year the full
moon occurring on Sept. 29th.
Manager Lambert has secured the
famous Fields Il Hanson's Minstrels
to open the season at the Central
Opera House tonight. Don't miss it.
Mayor Paulding is ining persons
for profanity on the streets. That
is right. Give it to them. Life is
rough enough without any cursing.
"a penny saved" said Uncle
Eben, sis o penny earned. But q
penny in debt is li'ble ter grow ter
bout 'leven dollars in purity near no
time"
Mr.. j. l.. Crdier, of the B. Il O.
engineering corps, who has been sta
toned here for several years, has
been ordered to locate in Whining
ton, Del,
Does your Buggy, Spindle Wagon
or Carriage of any kind need repair
ing and painting? Now is the time
to have it done at JOHN HELLER 8.
West King street.
A boy who smoked sixty cigarettes
a day has died at Cumberland, but
that fact will not stop any of the
young idiots around here who are
addicted to the habit.
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The many friends of Mr.. William
Rutledge, the popular proprietor OF
the Hotel Berkeley, will be pleased
to learn that he is about again since
his late protracted illness.
At the baby show at Morgan's
Grove, last Friday, Martinsburg
carried off two of three prizes,
One for the prettlest and the other
for the latest babies. Both were
boys.
j r. G. Wrenshall has been ap.
pointed Acting Division Engineer
maintenance of way, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, between Cumberland
and Grafton, succeeding Geo. L.
Hall, resigned.