Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-04-13

Mr.. Paul Gernarut, Oh A@dhNasteAs
Pa, is visiting in this city.
Recent heavy rains have caused
sudden rise III the Potomac.
An unknown negro was killed on
the B. 81 o. at Hancock last night.
April showers bring May flowers and
then come June bugs and June roses.
When a girl doesn't care fig for
fellow she shouldn't makes dates with
him.
JF. Thompson & Bro. have placed
novel revolving hat rack in their
store.
Almost panic was created in Way
nesboro by the report OF another bank
there.
Master Lee Miller is very sick with
the measles at his home on Burke
street.
A good name isn't of much value
these days unless it is written on
check.
Sometimes a novelist's first story
let's him in on the ground floor o.
success.
Sinking an oil well is one way OF
running ones business into the
ground.
Coal has obligingly dropped IN
price, since now that people don
need it.
1t is said Ringling's Circus will ex-
hibit in this city during the latter
part of May
1t requires sublime faith in your
fellow creatures to advertise for
lost umbrella.
Italians call locusts little horses, =
and the German name for these pests
is hay horses.
Miss Leah Schindel, of Hagerstown,
who has been visiting Miss Elizabeth
Teller, returned home.
Chambersburg confidently expects
another railroad and some oil and
natural gas wells.
The high water in the Potomac
river has stopped navigation ON the
canal for few days.
Rev. Warwick Briscoe, OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church, died in Char
lesion, aged 81 years.
AT a BANQUET man. toast is always
1.1z4 ..4 :. ,ryo,oay,c toast ic a
roast. Take your choice.
Mrs. VIM b Cornwell, of Romney,
spent day at the home of her faith
er Capt. w. B. Colston.
Mrs. Mary DeHaven and Mrs. Lamp,
of White Hall, Va, is visiting the
formers sister, Mrs. A. 7. Hess.
Miss Ella Lyster and Mrs. Muller,
of New York, are visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w II. Crawford.
Mr.. Lewis Thompson left Monday
morning for Washington, where he
will remain for about two weeks.
The product of beet root now COM
prises over two thirds of the entire
consumption of sugar in this country.
Miss G. Nelson, Miss Loraeline Tur-
ner and David Lemen of Shepherds
town, spent Tuesday in Martinsburg.
Miss Elizabeth Hedges, who has
been visiting relatives in this city,
returned TO her home in Brunswick.
The small boy will soon add usual
sign of spring" in the shape OF kite
tails to Telephone and telegraph
wires.
James Mallory supervisor of the
Monongahela division of the Balti-
more q Ohio Road, died in Parkers-
burg.
Miss Bess Eyster, of Chambersburg,
well known here, has distinguished
herself as an authoress and play
wright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel III. Fetzer OF
Baltimore are visiting their daughter
Mrs. Lindsay Vanhorn. North Queen
street.
Miss Mary Krepps, of Hagerstown,
who has been visiting Miss Allie
Kerr, returned home Wednesday af-
ternoon.
George Allen Bowers, a soldier
who died from disease contracted in
the Philippines, was buried in Shep-
herdstown.
Prof. Il. Luscomb has returned
from Richmond, Va, having cut his
visit short ON account of the illness
of his wife.
Mr. E. A. Darby. of Altoona. Pa,
who has been visiting his brother, Mr..
A. ID. Darby. returned home Tues
day afternoon.
The Hagerstown Mail remarks that