Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-03-03

Wi lam T. McOuillin. one Of Jefferson
countys weathiesl citizens, died al h!
home, mile west Of Shepherds 0. as
1day, after a long illness, aged II years
His VIE and three sons and Two dau2h'
/ ters survive him.
| Sheriff Smith will tear down the dwell
! ing house on his farm, five miles west o
own, and will erect in its place a fine
brick dwelling house in the spring. The
/ sheriff will live on his farm when his
e'm OF office expires.
A rear-end collision between two cas-
| bound freight trans caused wreck al
rawlings Station, near Cumberland Sat
trday night. Brakeman Harry Dmrelt
of Cumberland. bad an ugly cash cut in
bis cheek and was badly bruised.
The Elias M. Pitzer property, on south
Raleigh street. now occupied by the
family, was sold by auctioneer Doda in
iron Of the Court House Saturday after
noon. Mr.. NJ. A. Snodgrass boughtit for
S2,525. MI. SnoJerass will move intothe
house in the spring.
MI John Lovet, OF this city. who is
now IN Texas, iles organized company,
OF which he is president and is building a
railroad from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Territory, 10 Texas. When the railroad
completed MIR. Lovett expects to erect
a c,,nnery at one end Of the line.
Charles Pittenger, who formerly pitch
ed for the Martnsburg baseball team, and
who was one of the leading pitchers in the
Cumberland Valley League during its eX-
istence, has signed to play with the Bos-
ton National League Club the coming
season. He will accompany the Bostons
on their Southern trip. Pittenger pitched
here for the home train last summer.
A. r. De Fluent, editor of the Journal.
Doylestown, Ohio, suffered for a number
of years from rheumatism in my right
shoulder and side. He saws: my right
arm at times was entirely useless tried
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and was sur
prised 20 receive relief almost immeoliate-
ly. The Pain Balm has been constan.
companion of mine ever since and ii nev-
er fails" For sale at Matthaei's Phar-
macy.
The annual cut of lumber in the United
States now amounts to no less than 49,
coo, 600, 900 feet. OF this immense guam
tity the first place is held by white pine of
which ,, 900 900, 900 feet are cut every
year. Then come hardwoods, with TO-
900, ooo, 900 feel; yellow pine, with 1000,
900, 900 feet; spruce and FIR, with 5000,
600, 900 feet: hemlock, with 4 ooo, ooo, 900
feet; cypresswood, 100000, COO feet; red
wood, 100000, 900 feet, and 100000
600 feet OF other conifers.
Some of the boxes hung out on the
fences by the farmers along the rural
routes to receive the mail deposited by
the rural carriers do not fail to take the
eye of the traveller passing along the
routes. There are store boxes, cigar box
es tin cans, tin buckets with lids and a
hole cut in the side and feceptaces OF
every description. A few have the regu-
lar iron boxes with lock and key. Most
of them have homemade boxes. however,
which are more useful than ornamental.
"We have saved many doctor bills since
we began using Chamberlain Cough
Remedy in our home. We keep bottle
open all the tlrae and whenever any OF
my family or myself begin to catch cold
we begin to use the cough remedy, and
as result we never have to send away
for doctor and incur a large doctor bill,
for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never
fails to cure. 1t is certainly medicine
of great merit and worth. ID. S. NEAR
KLE, General Merchant and Farmer
Matte Bedford county, Pa For sale al
Matthaels Pharmacy.