Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-20
LITTLE LOCALS.

GOOD growing weather.
Good fishing in the Potomac.
Parsons. this State, had $4,000 fire.
Pen-Mar will be opened on Decoration
day.
Houses were unroofed by the storm in
Cumberland yesterday.
Vacation time draws near. The young
sters are counting the days.
The commencement of MERGERS burg
College will be from May 1881.
Lightning did much damage throughout
this section Of the country Wednesday.
Albert Baker was badly scalded at the
Antietam Paper Mills, Hagerstown, Tues
day.
Mr.. Jacob Buckleman, Of Raleigh street,
has been laid up for some time with rheu-
matism.
Subscribers in arrears are requested to
please come forward and square up old
accounts.
The commencement exercises of the
Woman's College, Frederick, Md, will
begin on May 27.
Misses Katie and Edna Butler, OF He'd
eesville, spent Monday at the home OF
Mrs. Fannie Viewer.
Mr.. Thos. Goheen returned to Wash
ington Monday after spending Sunday
with his parents here.
The Hagerstown fair board has recon-
sidered its action and will only hold their
fair four days instead of FIVE.
John Berry, the murderer of Miss
Amanda Clark, Of Bowie, Md, was sem
fenced to death in Baltimore Wednesday,
The c. V. work train has been at work
for the past week Strengthening up the
cuts and the railroad tracksto the south
of this city.
DR.. Clarence 7. Kearfott and sons, Rob't
and Hugh, of Martinsvlle, Va. are visiting
his father, J. Baker Kearfott, of West
John street.
Former U. s. Deputy Marshal David
Beard is lying at the point of death with
rheumatism at his home on the Will
Transport pike.
Mr.. Henry c. Colbert, has sold to the
Standard Lime and Stone Company lot
in Arden district, adjoining the company's
land The price paid was 500.
Mrs. Bessie K. Lamon, who has been
visiting Mrs. P. H. Irwin, Westminster
Md, and Miss Bessie Lamon, Washing
ton, for the past few weeks, returned
home Monday.
f. H. Reinhart has purchased of Ex-
Senator Charles |. Faulkner the Kloth farm
formerly owned by the late Charles H..
Knott,nea Moler's, for about SIS per acre.
1t contains 1870 acres.
Mr.. Nat T. Solomons came over from
~Hagerstown to spend Wednesday with his
sister Mrs. Max Robinson Mr.. Solomons
is professional musician and composer
Of numerous musical pieces-and has
already won some renown as Southern
composer. Mr.. Solomons is also a
finished pianist.
The new club house of the Wetumpka
Outing Club is under roof and the work
men are now at work upon the interior Of
the building Iii expected that the club
house will be completed before the goth. of
NAV, and on that day the members of the
club will take day off and open It with
BETTING ceremonies.
In the Circuit Court of Jefferson county
Tuesday Judge Faulkner sentenced Percy
Jackson, a colored boy, aged seventeen
years, to the penitentiary for ten years for
placing an iron rail on the east-bound
track of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
near Uvilla, for the purpose of wreck
ing passenger train.
The Young men who were driving the
horse that died on the Winchester pike
last Sunday, wish it stated that the horse
did not die from fast driving as the impress
sion seems to have gotten abroad that it did
The doctors, who examined the horse, said
that the cause of its death was collie, and
Mr. Rutherford exempts the boys from all
blame.
Messrs. George H. Jarden,t the president
of the Hannis Distilling Company and
directors, las. T. Alburger, Jno. Buchanan,
!. Frank Ryley, Jacob Brennan and Z.
Bruce, of Philadelphia, came to this city
Tuesday, and after being shown about the
distillery by Mr. Alex Parks, they were
driven to Bedington, where they spent a
few hours.
The infant of Mrs. VIM E. Butts, of
Hancock, which was born about FIVE
weeks ago with hare-lip and cleft-palate,
was operated upon at the Kings Daugh-
tiers hospital Tuesday morning. DR.. N. ID.
Baker performed the operation, assisted
by Doctors Myers and Hedges, OF this
city, and DIR. Ward, Of Hedgesville The
infant is now is doing well.
The funeral OF Mrs. P. Siler, who died
in Staunton. Va, on Saturday afternoon,
took place from the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church Monday morning in Winchester.
Rev. w. A. McKeefry oficiated Mrs.
Siler was the wife OF a prominent business
man of Winchester. She was a Miss
Minghini, of Berkley county. w. Va, and
was of Italian descent, and her ancestors
were among the first settlers in Virginia