Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-11-24
New moon.

New moon.
The Christmas Cake S being baked.
We shall soon have Congress with us.
Scott Hyde committed suicide in Park
ersburg.
The typhoid fever epidemic continues
without abatement.
Bootblacks may not do business IN
Boston on Sunday.
The CRYING of children in bed is one
kind OF sheet music.
Don't fail to attend the great Cloak
sale at Frank , Emmerts.
When a Young man learns TO waltz he
must expect reverses.
The man who is hors OF change might
get it out of the weather.
There are twenty cases Of fever report
ed on Winchester avenue.
The widow Of the late Commodore For.
rest died in Charles Town.
The population of the Cumberland Val
ley in Pennsylvania is Io5,74o.
The Baptist Congress of America met
in annual session at Richmond.
The hulk of the wrecked Maine will be
removed from Havana harbor
One hundred and fifty houses are in
course of construction at Fairmont.
Peter Eshelman's large bank barn in
Washington county, Md, was burned.
Have you seen the new line of Rag
CARPETS at Frank S.. Emmerts'.
MANY a man carries his total assets on
his shirt front in the guise OF diamops
pin.
Speech is silver and silence is golden
and there is more silver in circulation than
gold.
The political candidate doesn't want to
wait until he dies to ''join the great ma
jority."
The Judge charges the jury, but he
doesn't expect the jurymen to pay the
charges.
The woman who has nothing but an
old style hat is almost ashamed to hold
her head up.
The minister received ST. 900 for per-
forming Miss Louise Pierpont Morgan's
wedding ceremony.
Marvland's official vote shows that
President Mckinley received I3,o47 more
votes than Mr.. BRYAN.
An end of the barn of S. Flagg, near
Suttons School house, was blown in by
the wind Wednesday night.
A telephone war is expected in Hagers-
town between the Maryland Telephone
Company and the c. & P. Company.
The Car is very i'll and the Gar is not
very i'll. There is cable authority for both
statements and the reader can choose be-
tween them.
A marriage license was issued from the
office of the County Clerk to William A.
Hite and Elizabeth Lang, daughter of
Jonas and Elizabeth Shrimp.
The four-month-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. N. Weshans, of near Huntsville,
died Wednesday of Group. The body was
buried this morning at Smoke.own.
Mr.. Stephen r. Snodgrass, of this city,
has resigned his position in Florence, Ala.
and will return home about December 20
to spend sometime before accepting an
other position.
The wind blew down B. & O. tele-
graph pole at the "Y' Wednesday even
ing. The workmen had some trouble in
getting the tangle out of the wires and
raising the pole.
Messrs. Chris Stocker, Jacob Rimel and
A. StaubIey went on hunting expedition
and shot twenty-one rabbits in one day.
Their claim is that they hold the record
for the season so far.
1t was reported today that the barn on
the farm of c. w. Foltz, in the eastern
section of the county, was destroyed by
fire at o'clock this morning, set on FIRE
by boy with lantern, which was acci-
dentally overturned.
According to the contents of letter
written by Governor-elect A. b. White,
there is no longer any doubt that the
State Treasurer M. A. Kendall will get
the appointment of State Bank Examiner.
The position pays about $1,000.
A marriage license was issued from the
office of the County Clerk to w. F.
Scruggs. photographer residing at ROM
ney, and Jennie Pine, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George S. Pine, of Darkesville.
Wedding at Darkesyille Thursday.