Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-21


Snowbirds have vanished.
Apricot trees are in bloom.
Now for the fishing tackle.
Earth worms are plentiful now.
Peach trees are ready to blossom.
April showers bring forth umbrellas.
A large peach crop is expected by ex-
perts,
Boys will soon turn their feet out to
grass.
To every ], 900 marriages in Japan there
are 40 divorces.
Wheeling has awarded the garbage
contract at SI2,4oo.
The singing Ct birds is adding to the
beauty of the mornings.
The coming man is sometimes the one
with bill to collect.
All the spring signs have shown up ex-
cept the hand-organ.
checked before it will go.
Burglars cleaned out the entire contents
of a Cumberland saloon.
Work on the new annex to the Pants
Factory is progressing rapidly.
Mr.. Chas w. Smurr is again on the
sick list, confined to the house.
There are 6, 564 exhibitors on the pro-
gramme of the Paris Exposition.
Butler is likely to have the opportunity
given him of going home in disgrace.
The growing grass pushed up full
half inch and this isn't stretching It.
Our navy will be doubled by over 6co
war vessels now being built at cost of
$25o,ooo,ooo.
Miss Amanda Ltteton widow of Chas.
Littleton, died at her home near Leetown
Jefferson county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Horner have
rented the Wisong house on Raleigh ST.,
where they will go to house keeping short
ly.
Mr.. Charles A. Young, assistant cashier
and bookeeper in the Citizens National
Bank, is the prond father of bouncing
son.
Messrs. John F. Staub and James
Markle, of lnwood, have gone to Pitts
burg, where they have secured employ
ment.
Mrs. Sorden, Bridesburg, Pa, IoI years
old "Wednesday hopes to live another year
so that she is sure that she has lived in
three centuries.
Keenan, College Hagerstown, Nd, has
been leased to Profs. Maier and Shank
for one year from June 1, with the privi-
lege of three years.
Deputy County Clerk A. c. Keesecker
took an examination in the u S. Fish
Commission Department in Washington
Tuesday for the position OF fish. culturlst.
Messrs Outflow, Samuel Young, Charles
Orr and Charles L.Sencendiver left Thurs
day for Bryan Point, Md, where they
will work for the U. S. Fish Commission.
The capitalists who contemplate open
ing the slate quarries on the Whtmore
land, near Bedngton, expect to begin
work by May /. Some more slate was
cotton out this week for test.
Youngstown, Ohio, now boasts of the
largest blast fLrnance in the world. The
furnace is Io6H feet high, IS feet in
crucible and 20 feet in bosh. Its capacity
is 600 tons every twenty-fonr hours.
County Superintendent of Free Schools
John w. Shirley has broken ground for
the erection of new house OH the land
recently purchased by him from Hon.
Geo. M. Bowers, located on the Win
chester pike.
The Pillsburg Chess Club is negotiating
with the West Virginia State Chess AS
ISOLATION preparatory TO joining. If the
club joins the association it will partici-
pate in tourney to be held in Wheeling
in the near future.
Rev. and Mrs. John Hawk and child,
who have been living at Elkton. Va, are
here on a short visit to her sister. Mrs. M.
G.. Tabler They are on their way to
Bridgewater, Va, to which place Rev.
Hawk aas been transferred.
The Natures Remedy Company have
through their representative, Mr. Crowley
engaged Feller's Opera House for two
weeks commencing April "a. Those con-
nected with the company are we'll known
here, having been here several times be-
fore. They bring with them a band of
genuine Indians, who will camp and give
exhibitions in the Opera House for two
weeks.