Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-06
LITTLE LOCALS.

Refreshing showers.
The picnic season fast approached.
Boom the celebration for the Fourth.
MANY strangers are visiting in Mar
tinsburg.
Let US put your name on our subscrip-
ton list.
There is a balance of Sr,oI7,995 in w.
Vas treasury
Strawberries are being offered for sale
bv our merchants.
The City Band will run an excursiont to
Rochester Beach.
Remember the City Band will hold a
strawberry festival in a short time.
The West Virginia Council of Red men
are in annual session in Huntington.
The horses do not seem to like the APP
pearance Of a horseless carriage upon our
streets.
The c. v. r. r. Relief Association in
April paid out S3o5 for sick benefits. 1t
now has S4652.oo in the treasury.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Busey have finish
ed moving and are now snugly liked IN
their new home, 3I8 w. King street.
Mr.. Gustave Matthaei, leaves today for
Baltimore and will again assume his posi-
ton which he held before being injured.
The underground cable has been re-
ceived by the Winchester Telephone Co,
and the work of laying it was begun this
morning.
Messrs. II. T. Cushwa, c. P. Matthael
and DIR. w. f. Minghini were in Charles
Town Tuesday night comforting a Mason@
&c degree.
A game Of baseball was played be-
tween the clerks and the High school team,
on the boom yesterday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock.
The West Virginia State Editorial As
sociation meets at Elkins beginning the
3Ist of this month. An interesting pro-
gram has been arraigned for the meeting.
Mr.. Elmer Harrington, of North High
street, formerly with the Quenzel Printing
house, has gone to Alliance, Ohio, where
he has accepted a position in a job office.
Mr.. Edgar S.. Pitzer has resigned his
position in the drug store of MIR. M. A.
S~nodgrass and will leave on Saturday, IS,
for Newark, N. J., where he has secured
a similar position.
DIR. Henry c. Robinson died at his
home in Grand Crossing, ILL.,, on Tuesday
night of a complication of diseases aggra-
waited by grip. He was a former resident
of this city.
A marriage license was issued by the
county clerk Tuesday evening to MIR.
Llovd Z. frederick and Miss Mary E.
Brown, both residents of the county.
The marriage took place Wednesday.
Miss Mary Garrity, Mr.. John Garrity
and Mr.. Herbert Myers of Waynesboro,
Mr.. Allen Shaw of Hagerstown, and MIR.
John Long of Brunswick, were among
the attendants at the Garrity- Young we'd
ding.
AT a meeting of the Inwood Park direc-
tors the date of the Inwood fair was set
for Aug. %, IS, "a and IS. The United
Brethren camp meeting for July % to 80,
the Conococheague Board camp for July
2 and 9 and the Methodist camp for
August IS and 20.
Mr.. Thomas L. Dunn, the superintend-
the Crawford Wooden Mills, left We'd
nesday evening for New York to purchase
the machinery for the new Cashmere
Mills. The building is now almost COM
pleted and the machinery will be immedi-
ately secured and shipped.
Mr.. w. o. Nicklas has let the contract
for the erection of his new four-story
building on Queen street, to Mr.. S. A. Yves
tenhaver. Mr.. Nicklas will begin tearing
down the old building the first of next
week and the work on the erection OF the
new building will be pushed forward as
rapidly as possible.