Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-10-20

Wafer is something we can DO WIN
ons
Dickinson will build new preparatory
school
As rule people who think too little
aalk too much
Oysters have the call on ice cream and
soda water now.
The woman who fishes for compli-
ments shouldn't cast slurs.
The frost is on the pumpkin and the
iodders in the shock.
Now the time when the annual wres-
he v1th the stove pipe IS on.
Ring off said the telephone girl when
she cancelled her engagement
lanes f. Stanton, OF Preston county,
died a fearful death from rabies.
Tie busy housewife is doing her fall
shooing of the comfort loving fly.
The business men of Charleston have
organized a chamber OF commerce.
There will be sharp decline in the
phsaseoiogy market after November ..
One of the laws of nature is that heat
asre3ds. And coal continues to 60 up.
HaQerstown football team defeated the
Waynesboro team by the score OF TO o.
Tgr0e for reflection, from a woman's
point of view, every time she sees mir
TDT.
An enormous nut crop. high weeds and
lbick corn husks are accepted as signs OF
a hard winter.
Efforts will be made to open new
caves which are believed to exist around
and under Luray Gave Va.
The improved building owned by Mrs
Anna Rutledge. n. Queen ST., looks well
wiah new coat OF pant.
E5gh,y-two from this city took advan-
tage OF the Al excursion to Washington
DyeTthe b. & o. Sunday
The new Hotel Berk ley brick stable
Is rapidly going up The bricklayers are
BOW working on the second story.
Some people are like hens they no
sooner accomplish anything then they
make an unnecessary fuss about It,
Superintendent of Schools Trotter has
issued proclamation designating No
s-1Nher * for observance by the public
schools of the State as Arbor Day, and
December : for observance as Library
DAY.
The q. < O. tracks between Cherry
Rrx7 and Hanc ]ck have been put in ex-
reliant repair and are now about perfect.
A large sum of money has been spent on
theul fully hundred men having been
al work for three months,
Oscar Snyder, a fireman or the b &
D.. came home on train No. Satur-
hay with his left foot mashed. While
8ring the engine drawing freight train No.
rs re tell off the engine in the Cumber-
land ward, a piece of iron falling on his
left foot He narrowly escaped being RIM
pRer.
The Republican rally at Bunker Hill
Thursday was an unusually enthusiastic
one. over two hundred people crowded
M2o Wright's Hall and listened TO the dis
dusSions by the orators. +. K. Henson
presided and introduced the speakers
Capt. mo. g. Capers, of South Carolina,
WAS The FIRST speaker, followed by Pro e
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Van .uetre Gates, of Washington.
The second game to reach a conclusion
in the Pllstury Chess Club vs. BALTIC City
College Club match has also terminated
5a1o5abiy to the local players. The
5-ahn-Dugan game was a very even
roHtest unul the thirty-third move, when
a serious blunder by Stain allowed DuQan
TO effect check-mate in two more moves.
An effort will likely be to get either a
cTOss-b0ard or a correspondence match
with tbs ChamberSburg, Pa Chess Club
who also received severe treatment at the
hands Of the olndfolded Pisbury
Al. s. Fish Commission distributing
ra- arrived in town on train No. 20 over
B.& O. Saturday night with several Mart
insburgers on it. The car is enroute from
EOhnstown. Pa, to Wytheyille, a, where
a viii take on some trout and then 90 in
to Pennsylvania again. The car is in
rharga Of Capt. G. w. Burnham, j. Yves
Aey Johnson A G.. Keesecker and w II.
LG1chman with Thomas Ellis, colored,
as cook. The latter three are Martins
buTPer3 and are glad OF the Chanrc 20 lay
over here The car will be attached 70
arain No. 20 tonight and taken South.
T. 3. Thompson, a school teacher at
Orleans road, was struck by the engine
dra~iug Baltimore and Ohio Passenger
araio Ne. ~ Monday morning while walk
ing from his home at Great GAG pom to
scno.ol and was instantly killed. The &C
xifena happened at Turkey-foot Curve. II
: taouqht Mr.. Thompson had stepped
our Of the way of freight train and tnus
GOT in front of the express train. The de
ceased is survived by widow and sever
Al children. He was chairman OF the Re-
pub,ioan committee Of Morgan county
w. va. and was formerly. assessor at Der
k=ey Springs.