Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-22
Feels like winter.

0pcheQ.
Wilson College, chambersburg, opens
next week.
Electric fans won't be putting on airs
much longer.
One touch of cool weather made the
whole town happy.
Fine rains a reported from various
sections Of Virginia.
The water supply Of both Hagerstown
ard Frederick is short.
Hagerstown is to have another mail car
rier, making seven IN all.
Dickinson College at Carlisle opened |
with increased enrolment.
At last the spell is broken and the am
bilious mercury is declining.
The next reunion of the Army of West |
Virginia will be held at Charleston.
Hotel Powhatan, Charles Town will be
opened next week as boarding school,
The pumpkin pie will be delicacy this
year, as the crop of pumpkins is a poor
one.
Col Randolph Harrison, wel-known
Airginian, died at his home in Cumberland |
county.
Two heads are not better than one If !
they happen to be in the row ahead at the
theatre.
Girls employed in tinplate mill have
gone out on strike against employment |
Of males at their labor.
The pink carnation has been adopted |
as the emblem of the Republican party in
the National campaign.
A number of moonshiners were arrest
ed in Greenbrier and Pocohontas counties
by Government Off ,ials.
Ex-senator Faulkner is introducing |
pure water from Patterson Spring by pipe |
and ram on his new farm.
Mr.. ]. w. Kastle and family desires to
thank the neighbors and many friends for
pheir kindness during the sickness and
death OF their child.
Messrs. Henry r. Gaver and Jas. Hollis
went to Chambersburg Monday morning
TO arrange booth, which they will occu
Ply during the Street Fair.
lie uTlOU CplOTGu plCulC dl WI. fAllO [
almost drained town of the coiored popu-
lation today. ITO tickets were sold at
this station and 22I at stations north of
here.
Mr.. Tohn Frank, who was taken sud-
denly i'll at Chas. Fines clothing store on
Thursday morning, and taken 10 the
Kings daughter Hospital, is much i'm
Yroved.
There was considerable drunkenness on
the street Saturday night and there was
lively time in spite Of the rain. The night
passed, however. without anyone landing
behind the bars.
Charles Logue,, of Back Greek Valley,
was arrested Thursday by Constable Rus
sler on the charge of assaulting VIM. d.
Butts. He was taken before Justice Byers
and fined SIS and costs, which was paid.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company charged $50 in advance for an
engine TO haul VIM. J. Bryan's cars. from
Shenandoah Junction to Shepherdstown
and return-twelve in all, or over 81
nile
The horse Of Henry Zepp, the drayman
anu al DdGC tldAlNls Nill@iA IN was 49,
ing 10 a cart, was paralyzed Friday
afternoon and collapsed in the shafts in
front OF the store OF A. T. Hess, in North
Martinsburg.
Mr.. T. Ashby Potts, of this city, will
leave on Monday for Memphis, TENS
see. where he viii mango the cutting OF
thousand acres of pine and oak timber
recently purchased by the Hagerstown
Spoke and Bending Company.
Mr.. w. II. Kantner, the we'll known
marble cutter of Martinsburg, was IN the |
village one day last week, putting up Tor |
Mrs. /. B. Morgan tombstones at the |
grave of her mother, the late Mrs. Iare
Gold, in the Presbyterian cemetery at this /
place GerardstoHn Times.
William Miller, Of Spring stree, was
painfully injured at the quarues OF the
Standard Lime ard Stone Quarry Fiji
day. He had his right leg caught between
TWO trucks, badly bruislng 1t above the
knee. He was taken home in a carriage
and will not be able to work for some
1ime.
Doc. the big black dog always seen
Tounqing around Mrs. Matthews board
inc house and the B. s. o. depot was
seen alite for the last time "a urda>.
He was lying on East Martin street when
the u. 5. express wagon came along and
passed over his body. The dog goJ up.
walked across the street and dropped
dead.
The annual picnic Of the Tuscarora
Gun Club, which was to have been held
IN Kilmer's Grove, near town, on Satur
day.was postponed until next SATURDAY on
account Of the rain. Some little shooting
was done. but the weather was 50 inclem-
ent that it was soon stopped and the
qunners went home TO clean up their guns
Tor next Saturdays shoot.