Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-14
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heads to the sunshine.
Florists are rushed in supplying the de-
mand for Easter blooms.
A spell of rainy weather is promised as
a prelude to the Easter holidays.
Arbuckle Bros have advanced the price
of sugar ) cents per 100 pounds.
There's no place ike home, and it is
mighty lucky for the old bachelors.
One man counts for as much as another
when it comes to taking the census.
The crossing at the corner Of Burke
and College streets was repaired yester :
day.
Martinsburg's pretty girls say the an
nua failure of the peach crops libel on
them.
About SEQ hodcarriers in Baltimore
have gone on a strike, demanding higher
wages.
Mr.. Fred Baker, of North Queen St,
has improved his property by new coat
of paint.
A projectoscope entertainment will be
given May I, for the benefit OF the Fire
Department.
Live rabbits and chickens constitute
part of the Easter decorations in many OF
the store windows.
The controlling stock of the Winches-
ter Gas & Electric Company were pur-
cbacaI h., CT 7 ot7ic syndicate
The prospect for a fruit crop is very
good, but it is yet to early to forget that
Jack Frost wants only bite at it,
The University of Virginia Base Ball
team went down before the F. and M.
College Club at the rate OF ito 2.
1t is rumored that in the near future
the Pennsylvania Railroad will send
freight 10 the B. & O. VIA the c. V. r. K.
Emanuel Schaeffer, prominent Jeffer-
son county farmer died Wednesday,at his
home near Charles Town, aged 54 years.
Mr.. Thomas Nuckles is contemplating
adding another story to his one-and-a-
half story property on East Martin street
in the near future.
Half the ills man is heir to come from
indigestion. Burdock Blood BitterS
strengthens and tones the stomach;makes
indigestion impossible.
Mr.. F. d. Staley, of this city, was elect
ed Vice Dictator, of the Grand Lodge of
Knights of Honor, which was in session
at HuntingtonWednesday.
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rifced every year. DR.. Woods Norway
Pine Syrup cures little colds, cures big
colds too. down to the very verge of con-
sumption.
Frank Fazenbaker, a B. & o. brake
man living at Keyser, filed petition in
the United States Court here this morn
ing. His assets are $40 and liabilities
$773 SO.
Accidents come with distressing fire.
quency or the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings,
sprains. Dr. Thomas Electric Oil re-
lieves the pain instantly Never safe
without it.
A German mathematician has figured
that in programme of twenty waltzes,
four polkas and two quadriles a dancer
covers nearly twelve miles in the course
of an evening.
Mrs. Anthony Hedges left "Wednesday
the John Hopkins Hospital. His condi-
ton is improving and she will probably
bring him home for Easter.
There will be preaching at Greensburg,
w. Va, Sunday. April IS, at 2:3o p. m.
After preaching the reorganization of the
Sabbath School, This will be the first
services of the conference year.
An unknown man was run over in the
railroad yards at Grafton Saturday night
and killed. A letter found on him,
which had been address at some point in
Mercer county, w. Va, indicates that his
name was Thurman.
Intelligence has been received here of
the death at her home in Chicago of Mrs.
Annie H. Doolittle. Her mother was for
merly Miss Tabb of this county. She
has many relatives IN Berkeley and Jeffer-
son counties.
Mr. Clarence McGinnis, of this city,
was one of the ushers at the wedding of
Mr.. Bedford M. Downing, of Front Royal
and Miss Flora Alice Weaver, of Luray,
which took place Wednesday. He is a
relative of the bride
The Martinsburg Cornet Band and
the Violet Club, composed of 40 MEM
berS, gave cake walk at Fellers
Hall tonight. The entertainment was for
the purpose of raising money to purchase
uniforms for the band.
Deputy Sheriff F. M. Hardy and Rob-
ert Miltenburger, turnkey at the Jail, drove
to Mill Creek district Wednesday to get
a lunatic, Sarah c. Milton,wh lives three
miles east of Bunker HILL She was placed
in Jail until Friday, when she was taken
to the Insane Asylum. !