Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-29
LITTLE LOCALS.
n Mar will be closed Sept. %.

Pen Mar will be closed sept. %.
Football hair will be getting slonger
shortly.
The closing Of the open door will soon
become popular,
One of the troubles we can't make light
Of IS :he gas bill.
Even the thermometer has been known
20 take drop TOO mueh.
Miss Aunie Heck is very i'll with typhoid
lever at the home of her sister, Mrs. H.. {,
Corn
The drouth has almost caused sus-
pension Of navigation on the Mononga-
ksla river.
Webb Haws captured a large bald
eagle floating in the Potomac near the
Hines Island at Brunswick.
The police of Baltimore have been
ordered to drive from the streets all
women of questionable character,
MIR. A. w. Lemon has resumed his
position as time keeper at the b. & o.
alter an illness Of two months.
4Bip Doc" the well known umbrella
mender, is reported to have died in barn
on the other side of Winchester recently
Nearly every saloon keeper in Pied
mont was indicted by the Mineral county
grand jury for selling liquor to confirm
ed drunkard.
Capt. f. w. Smith, of Bluedeld who is
assistant surgeon in the Second Regl-
ment, National Guard, has been examined
Tor promotion.
Samuel Poole, a B. & Q. repair hand OF
Green Spring, was lodged in Jail in Rom
ney on the charge of criminally assaultng
I2-year-old daughter.
Ellen Orrick, the little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fl. F. Smith w. Burke street,
died at 7. 80 Friday morning. Funeral from
the house Saturday morning at ten O'Clock
MIR. Robert Brantner, of North Mart
insburg, who has been seriously Ill with
appendicitis, appeared on the street tot
the first time since his illness Wednes-
day.
John Carnell and Miss Laura Layton
were married in front of Fairfax Inn. a
Berkeley Springs in the moonlight, before
q large gathering. They returned to Han
cock TO reside.
For the first time in years every APP
pointment in the cadet corps OF the West
Virginia University is taken. There are
gA4 of these appointments and they carry
Il IL, f~... tt,,tfnN af1I hnnEg
P. NJ. Light, of Spring street, has foui
hogs which he claims, tip the scales "a
the largest in town They weigh abol
400 lbs. each. They are attracting q
large number of people and the owner /!
kept busy exhibiting them to his numer
Gus callers.
One hundred and one tickets were sole
at this station for the B. a O. excursion
TO Washington Sunday. Thirty-fve were
on the train when it arrived here. An eX
cursion was also run from the East L
Harpers Ferry. The train came on to thi
place to turn around and take on water.
Two colored men named Jones ant
Anderson employed as repair hands Oh
kIlC ID, q ~. dlll Odci, WNlC Stt uCh ~
freight train between Monrovia and Mt
Airy Saturday. Jones was killed ant
Anderson fatally injured. Both of tn
men were from Fredericksburg, Va.
Undertaken Kosleschaiz has had ftte'
up white hearse. making the thirt
hearse' he hiss in use. The mountings ant
fnishings on the hearse are very fine ant
the newly finished conveyance for tn
Younger dead is a beauty. The hears
has not vet been used since it has bee
overhauled and finished up in white.
A peach grower stated that the recer
rain was not sufficient 10 be Of any bene
fit TO peaches AID that more rain is need
ed to make the late fruit, The Smock
and Salways are on now and several whit
varieties, known as October peaches, vi
follow. The drouth, the grower says,
the cause Of a great deal of small fruit.
MIR. and Mrs r. d. Shepherd, th
noted actor and actress, and Mr.. A. n
Shepherd, left Shepherdstown on Wee
nesday for Orange, New jersey, whel
they will spend a month in rehearsin
preparatory to an extended tour Of II
United States and Canada They WI
support Madam Modjeska in varie
repertoire and will open the season Octt
Der goth at Montreal.
e-,.rad os CbrO,;c n;arrhoea after Thii