Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
LITTLE LOCALS.

The biker is sc0rchlng.
Vote the Republican ticket.
Fill ND the ruts in the streets.
Fishing trips are being planned.
Read the new ads in this issue
Now we begin to hunt the shade.
MANY pavements should be repaired.
Let us do your job work-low prices.
commencement essays are getting
ripe.
The municipal election Tuesday, May
27nd.
All roads will lead to Hopewell to-
morrow.
Bikers, keep to the right and avoid
accidents.
A drive to the country these days is
very enjoyable.
The biker had another day off on ac-
count of the rain.
The Hagerstown Herald want a push
less baby carriage.
Camping parties are looking forward to
a good time along the river.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. George Phillips,
Yesterday afternoon, at Little Georgtown,
a on.
Subscribers in arrears are requested to
please come forward and square up old
accounts.
An electric light was placed in the new
semaphore signal at the G. V. station
Wednesday.
The Maryland State Firemen's associ-
alton meeting at Westminster, Md,
promises to be a large affair.
Mr.. Geo. Kilmer's barn on the VIM
chester pike was struck by lightning on
Monday, but no damage was done.
Great bargains in Mattings just re-
ceived this week, direct from the import
ers. FRANK S. EMMERT.
lanes S. Johnson, South Cumberland,
paid his city saloon tax with 900 dimes
which took the clerk thirty minutes to
count.
Charles Aulick, the three year old son
cidentally drowned Wednesday by falling
in a tub of water.
Mr.. John L. Durham and Miss Cora
DeHaven were quietly married Wednes-
day evening at the parsonage Of the First
Methodist church by DIR. J. A. Price.
Mr.. H. s. Cushwa left Wednesday to at
tend the meeting of the Grand Com
mandery, Knights Templero of West Vir-
GINA, which convened at Huntington.
Ex-President and Mrs. Benjamin F.
Harrison were the guests of Senator and
in the Waldorf-As Astoria "Wednesday night.
Nh. A. G. Wolfes, who has held a posi-
ton as painter in the u. S. Fish Com
mission department for the past few
months, has resigned his position and re-
turned home.
Water moter fans were placed in Lewis
Bells tonsorial parlorsW "wednesday and the
whiskers of the patient waiter will 10 be
famed to the breeze while he is patiently
waiting for next
]. w. Stakes, a printer, was shot twice
by a policeman, who became insane, in
Norfolk, Tuesday night. He has two
bullets in his lungs, and his death is ex-
pected any moment
While handling a pistol in Berryville
Wednesday, a young nan by the name of
Roderick, of Charles Town, accidentally
shot himself, the ball entering the leg be-
tween the thigh and knee.
A license was issuedW Wednesday for the
marriage of Mr.. r. E. L. Nadenboush to
Miss Edna Earl Smaltz, both residents of
Hedgesville. The marriage will take
place in Hedgesville On May Is.
Mr.. James Fl. Fulk, Of Early Dawn
Dairy, has placed a new delivery wagon
on the streets to furnish his customers
with milk. The wagon is very attractive,
and is the most modern vehicle of its
kind in this city.
Mrs. Chas. S. Trump, delegate elect
and Mrs. Geo. S. Hill left Tuesday morning
for Baltimore to attend the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Convention of the General Synod of the
United States. 1t commences in St.
Marks Lutheran church this evening.
William Paris, a colored youth. was
shot Monday afternoon by John Myers,
neal Cumberland. Paris was in the act
of criminally ~assaulting Mrs. Heir, when
he was discovered by Myers, who shot
him as he fled. Myers was acquitted by
the Coroners Jury.
The Young Peoples Society of Chris
tain Endeavor OF St. Johns Lutheran
ShuiSA, heiu d hiSCIhS uCSudy ihSll III
the church. Much business was transacted
and arrangements made and discussed
for the coming district convention of the
society which is to be held here May Is
and Io.
Mr.. Robert cambridge Hughes, son OF
Mrs Charlotte +. Hughes, and of the late
Rev. James B. Hughes, and a brother of
the late Blackburn Hughes. formerly man
ager of a lead pencil factory in this
city, died Monday at his home in Balti-
more. His remains were brought here
on No. 5 Wednesday and nterment will be
made direct from the train.