Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-06-22


than 10, 600 musicians
The percentage of illiterates among
army conscripts in italy is 81.
Georgia peaches are reported TO be
rotting because of excessive rains.
Some fellows raise whiskers because
they can't raise the price of shave.
G. Stocker has covered the floor of
his confectionery store with linoleum.
Oranges from both California and
Florida are more than ordinarily plen-
tiful.
A wise girl doesn't think herself an
angel just because some man tells her
she is.
Charles Lane has resigned his posi-
ton as clerk in O. w Tabler's drug
store.
Robert Ardinger shot seven SOUR.
rels along the Potomac near Falling
Waters.
The coming Fourth of July will be
celebrated in Piedmont in patriotic
manner.
Baltimore has a church going popu
lation of $4,000: total population,
SOB, o00
Beginning next January subscribers
in Paris will get telephones for $50
instead of $50.
Excursion tickets will be sold over
the Baltimore T. Ohio Railroad to
Buffalo for $40.
Over so, 90 miles of II Nv steam rail-
way will be constructed in the United
States this year.
Mrs. Edward Horner is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, 0. I. Kemp,
Harper's Ferry.
Alexander Carlisle, who served as
Confederate scout died in his hut
near Winchester.
A hundred years from now the
razor will probably be regarded as a
relic of barberism.
The Daughters of the Connfederaey
expect to hold bazaar in one of the
halls the coming fall.
Mrs. VIM. B. Cornwell, of Romney
is visiting at the home of her father,
Capt. ". B. Colston.
Mr.. 7. Bernard Martin has accepted
position as drummer for ]. H.
Beachlev and Company.
ul,o a; tro,o,,oo h,,+,roa,, az, o1iae oud
in incognito is the same as between
kleptomania and theft
A man doesn't realize how little he
knows unit! his son comes home from
his first year in college.
John H Nowlin. Appomatox Va.
tried to kill his wife and children and
then committed suicide
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has rented
house IN Charlottesville, Va and will
make his residence there.
The girl who boasts that her face is
her fortune can't expect the men to
take her at her face value.
The persons who have relatives in
Buffalo have inaugurated a warm and
interesting correspondence.
The Modern Woodmen of America
selected indianapolis as the place for
the next biennial conolave.
Mr.. Dorsey Jeffreys, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting his cousin, Miss Jessie
Walter on S. Raleigh street.
If the manufacturers of collins have
formed trust they are certainly run
ming things into the ground.
Honesty may be the best policy but
the average insurance agent will claim
that he has something better.
Miss Emma Hood, of Watersyille,
Howard county, Nd, is visiting at
the home of DR.. G.. b. Hedges
1t is one of the unsolved mysteries
how two men can exchange umbrellas
and each invariably get the worst of
it,
Rev. Father Kelley, of this city,
officiated at the funeral of Capt. Jno.
W. Prechtal, Berkeley Springs Mon
day.
The Friendship Sunday School, near
Vanclevesvllle, will hold children's
day services on Sunday, June 49, at
10 m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neuman, of Belair,
Nd. who have been visiting the home
of Mr.. Charles b. Pitzer, returned
home.
Miss Clara Ball, of Balls Station,
Washington county, is visiting the
family of Mr.. Alhurtis Fiery, Church
street.
Misses Jennie Clouser and Clara
Brathwaite, of Winchester, were the
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