Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-01-05

The goth century
Happy New Year.
Did you begin right.
Remember The date
There vas a rustling Of new leaves.
The swear off joke has the floor to-
day.
Miss Ellie Cantner is Ill with typhoid
fever.
TIE past week has been busy one in
so-ieiy.
Amos Ash, aged 50 years, died in Cum
berland.
The proof OF the pudding is in the di-
gestion.
Even dull fellow can bore his way
through life
II love is blind, how can there be love
at first sight?
A girls maiden aim is to change her
maiden name.
The wise turkey don't breathe freely
uutH atdaly
A serious drouth prevails around
Woodstock, Va.
Did you stay awake to see the new cen
fury make It's bow
Be up TO date and fall in line with the
twentieth century push.
Only the poor honestly bflieve that it is
better to give than to receive.
disappearing parties can be seen any
where on the reefs at night
Tramps are giving the Cumberland
authorities great deal of trouble.
The man who can't take joke would
never do as editor of comic paper.
A Toledo man has been sent TO jail fer
kissing girl Possibly it was worth it.
The doll CHANGED off by d. M. Kimer
at his store was won by Stuart Cnshwa,
Bartholomew Brewing Company has
placed new delivery wagon on the
street.
Hon. Frank H. Harrison is danger
ously ill at his home at Berkeley Springs
with dropsy.
The nights in Greenland are six months
long, but fortunately there are no cats in
that country.
Group instantly relieved. Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil Perfectly safe. Never tails
Az any drug store.
1t is proposed to extend the Hagers
town electric road through Boonsboro to
the Antietam battlefield.
The bes: protection against fevers,
pneumonia. diptheria. etc, is in building
up the system with Hoods Sarsaparila.
Mr.. Howard Roush, who has been
working in Pntsburg came home to spend
the HOLIDAYS and has been taken i'll with
typhoid fever.
Burdock Blood Bitters gives a man
clear head, an active brain, strong
vigorous body, makes him fit for the bat
tie OF life.
Mildred the eldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. +. Vernon Aler, was taken sick
on Wednesday and it is thought a bad
case of TYPHOID is developing.
Itching piles? Never mind il physicians
have failed to cure you. Try Dosn's
Ointment. No failure there, 50 cents,
at any drug store.
las. H. Kesecker, who has been en-
ployed in the Auditing Department of the
Pennsylvania r. R. Co., Pittsburg, has
accepted similar position in Washing
ton, d, {. with the Southern Railway Co.
Tough looking men of all natl Qualities,
mostly negroes, are arriving in town every
day 10 work on the new railroad north OF
this city and a little excitement at any
time among them would not be entirely
unexpected
Every family should have il; household
medicin chest-and the first bottle in il
should be Dr. Woods Norway Pine Syr-
up. Natures remedy for coughs and
colds.
Sheriff Smith has returned from
Moundsviile, where he took Theo. Furley
who was sentenced to fifteen months in
the penuen isry for attempt at rape
Furley's term 10 prison began on Christ
mas Day,
Two tramps who have been serving a
sentence in the lookup were release Tues
day morning. They were not free long
before they began celebrating New Year
Day bv getting gloriously drunk and they
are again Lehind the bars.
Lieutenant John ~Wilen, Of this city
now stationed in Cuba, has been dele
gated, with a troop Of soldiers, to make
an inspection Of the public school system
in the province in which he IS located anc
TO make a report upon the condition o
the schools.
Miss Lille Nuckles left for Brooklyn
N. ", to attend the wedding of her sis
ter, Miss Salle daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs