Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-07-01

Master William Boyer, is spending
week with relatives in Washing
ton.
The sale of the Houseworth proper
ty on Saturday was postponed for two
weeks.
Mrs. J. w. Tinsley who has been
sick with tphoid fever IS slowly i'm
proving.
Mr.. John Bartgis who has been on
business trip to Baltimore has re.
turned home.
Miss Margaret O'Connell, who has
been on visit to her brnther in Cum
berland has returned.
A permit has been granted the Berk-
ely Club, for the erection of bowling
alley on their premises, on Spring
street
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E.
Blake, of East John street, Monday
June goth, 1904. Two. A son and
daughter.
Mrs. w. B. Coruwell, who has been
visiting her father Capt. w. B. Coils
ton has returned to her home in Fair
mont w. Va.
Mr.. Ii. Cushwa has gotten new run
about automobile. His makes fifteen
in the town, and some others seem to
be catching the fever. Its worse than
measles.
The farmers OF Berkeley County are
in the midst of their wheat harvest
and find the crop rather better than
was expected.
Mr. Cleveland Seibert, a student in
the law school Of the State University
is home for the summer vacation and
is putting in the time Attorney A. B.
Nol's Office.
DR.. Woods did, land Office bust
ness, in the matrimonial line, last
Wednesday evening. Shimp and Lord
at 7, Barnhardt and Minghini at and
Hite and Sperow at 9 p. m. were
made happy under his official minis
tration.
Mayor Ming hini is making every
effort to improve the morals of the
city, and the sanitary conditions as
well. Ga ordinances, which have been
de I'd lc leIs, are being revived and
new ones proposed for the government
and i'm pfovemeut of this growing city.
The following is the business trans
notion III the clerk IS Office during the
vaca ton Of the court. On motion of
&. w. c. H,l;ida, the estates of John
w. Holmes, and Ehud Turner deceased
were committed to Sheriff, q l..
S.urkey to be Administered.
o. motion of Allen Pitsnogle, the
estate of Isaac Roher, deceased, was
committed to Sheriff Stuckey, as ad-
ministrator.
A certain physician told some of his
patients that as long as they kept
their feet dry they would
be safe from the attack of the grip.
He was surprised to receive letter
from one OF his patients in which the
latter said that he had two wooden
legs and yet he had the grip for five
consecutive years. The letter was un-
answered.
John North, of Tyson caugbta lame
fawn last summer and after nursing it
back to health liberated it taking it
back three miles into the woods, but
it came back for its food, and refused
to leave him, and now it has broken
to harness and he drives it in sulky
with soft leather BIZ, and it has made
a mile in 2.2I and he thinks it can go
in 10, and if allowed to run he be-
lieves it can go mile in two minu-
ties.
News reached here yesterday that
the store of the South Branch Mer-
chaudizing Company at South Branch
station in Hampshire county was en- =
tered by robbers one night this week.
Nothing was missed from the store,
although Sc in money was taken from
the post Office, which is located, in the
same building. A few letters are also
missing. No stamps were taken and a
registered letter was left undisturbed
Mothers are often worried as to what
the cries of their infants mean when
they seem to be sick or in pain and
frequently are apt to diagnose the case
wrongiully. AS matter OF fact, when
an infant is dangerously i'll it seldom
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