Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-04-27

enforce the law relative TO throwing
weeds and filth in the streets and al
leys.
Fairfax College. Winchester, offered
five scholarships for young ladies in
the boundaries of Winchester Presby-
terry.
Mr.. Geo. Shipper Of Cumberland is
visiting his home in this city. Mr..
Shaffer is suffering with very sore
finger.
Mr. f. Ashby Potts, arrived here
! Monday from Dyersburg, Tennessee
on a visit to his parents, on West
King street.
| Weather Observer VanMetre says he
Will have some interesting data about
the rain es soon as it ceases falling
if it ever does.
| Messrs. Guv Zimmerman and Ed
ward Bailey, who are employed in
printing offices IN Winchester spent
Sunday at home.
Mrs. Mary Leigh has returned from
Winnsboro, louisiana, where she has
been spending the winter with her
son, B. w. Leigh.
The B. e O. is distributing thous-
ands of new pine ties along its tracks
ON the Washington branch to replace
old ones taken out.
Buffalo. deer and bear may disappear
but with baseball, football, golf, etc,
there is still plenty of game on the
face of the earth.
Rev. John Hawk. of Ridgewater,
Va, who has been visiting at the
home of his sister, Mrs. M. q. Tab
Ter. returned home.
Rev. DR.. f. M. Woods returned this
morning from Strasburg, Va, where
i he has been attending the meeting OF
Winchester Presbytery.
The Mercersburg Academy MUSICAL
Club gave their first concert at Me-
chanicsburg, Tuesday evening. They
/ were COIIi
Mr. E. E. Kilbourn, president of
the Kilbourn Knitting Mnachine Com
pany, returned Wednesday evening
from business trip in the East.
Mrs. Willoughby Sandman and chill
dren, of Germantown, Nd, are spend
! ing sometime at the home of her
father in law. Mr.. G. w. Santman.
The Electric Traction Co., of Wash
| ington has been defrauded of about
$50, 900 bv the use OF punched tickets
which We're supposed to be DESTROYED.
Mess. S. Eddie Kaufman, GEORGE
Yontz and Edward Mathews return ed
! to work in Baltimore Tuesday evening
after spending a few days at their
homes here.
Ordinary household accidents have
no terrors when theresa bottle of DR..
Thomas Electric Oil in the medicine
chest. Heals burns, cuts, bruises,
sprains. Instant relief.
| Justice j. W. Martin returned Tues
day from Shippensburg, Pa. where
he was called by the illness of his
brother and sister. His brother is
improving but his sister lis fast de-
Ginning
| VIM. Lease, of Winchester avenue.
had two of the bones of his left hand
broken by a sledge hammer while
! holding a drill at the stone quarries
Wednesday. DR.. Barlow set the brok
en- bones.
Dr. and Mrs j. b. Snodgrass, Sem
ator and Mrs. r. G. Burkart, Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Stewart, Mrs. S. V.
Fiery, Mr.. F. S. Emmert and Miss
Myrtle Burkhart went to Hagerstown
Wednesday to attend the funeral of
Mr.. Elias Emmert
Mr.. William Diffenderfer, of S.
Raleigh street, who has been suffering
with disease of the bone of the in
dex finger of the right hand, had the
finger amputated at the first joint by
DIR. G.. B. Hedges.
Miss Priscilla Creager, Mr. Walter
Hayes, of Hancock, Md, and Miss
Laura Virginia Yates. of Charles
Town, were among those from a
distance who attended the Keedy
l-Couchman wedding.
Messrs, Emmert Fiery and flames
Geyer left Wednesday for Washing
ton Baltimore and Philadelphia to
purchase the stock for the new gents
furnishing store, which they will
open in the Thumel building.
The bridge across the river at Shep-
herdstown is being improved. New
joists are being put in where neces-
sary and the flooring will be relaid
with heavy planks Wire will be
stretched along the sides to make
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