Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-05-25
Miss Dora Mat,haei. a ,eae,,er

Miss sarah Jennings Payne, of Mar
tinsburg, is a member of the gradus-
ing class of PowhatanIcollege at Charles
ton this year.
Prof. G. w. Miller, we are glad to
state is again able to be Al his post as
principal of the fifth ward school.
Mr.. o. b. Lefevre is offering $50 re-
wari for the parties who broke open
his honey house at his home at Bunk
er Hill.
A passing locomotive on the c. v.
r. r. set the grass on fire and de-
stroyed about fifty pannels Of fence for
Mr.. f. C. Foreman.
Mr.. Calvin Peery who has been sick
with typhoid fever at his home 1T
Ridgewya has been moved TO his
fathers on the Drinker farm.
The cornerstone for the new Catholic
church at Keyser was laid with inter-
esting and impressive ceremonies at
2.30 on Sunday. Rev. Charles f. Dom
ahoe, of Msrtinsburg, former pastor
was officiating clergyman.
Why not have these old teeth out
and plate made when we can ex-
tract them positively without pain.
DR.. Sperow,
Dentist.
Peoples Trust Building.
End floor.
The state board of public works has
fl lirhed assessing the railroads of
West Virginia for taxation and the to-
tai amount is Sl76, S35, 665. OF this S1ee-
100000 represents the steam railroads.
The. balance represents traction lines
ID tst year the total was $3.50, 900 900.
Bill Snyder, of the U. S. Fish Com
mission, at White Sulphur Springs.
brought lot of bass to Hagerstown
and Clearspring, Tuesday. The Ope-
Iquon and Back Gre should have q
consignment of 5000 each before the
supply runs short.
A brush fire that started on the
farm of L. J. Chapman, near Bunker
Hill Berkeley cou nty, got beyond con-
troll, and turned over 80 acres Of land
besore being put out. Two hundred and
fifty panels of rail fence, II quantity of
growing timber and lot of new rails
and cordwood were des royed. The less
is $40. Neighbors aided Mr.. Chapman
in extinguishil Z the fire.
The Farmers bank of Shepherdstown
opened its doors Thursday morning
for the transaction of business. 1t &C
cupes the vuarters formerly used by
the Jefferson Savings bank, the rooms
having been renovated and repapere d
in attractive style. Edgar Bowers, of
Martinsburg, will remain there for
time to assist Cashier G. w. Billmyer
10 the duties of his office and instruct
him IN banking methods
The editor who can please every
one is not suited for this earth, but is
entitled to wings. Human nature is so
constituted that some of our readers
would like TO have us feed them en-
scandal: some would like to hayeLa
tell the unvarnished truth about them
while others would kill us if we did
1t is comforting thought to the edi-
tor to know what the Lord Himself
did not please everyone while on earth.
We labor hard to entertain and Piles 80
eur subscribers but that we should &C.
casionally fail is TO be expected, but
you will always find us willing to be
forgiven. Exchange
The postoffice department has prop
erly ordered that the advertisements of
bogus medical practitioners should
be excluded from the mails. An inyes-
tisation made by the department is
said to have resulted in the discovery
of a most shocking state of affairs.
Many of the so-called medical offices
are run by the worst sort of criminals,
who are daily committing offenses
against the laws. 1t 10 the duty of the
department officials to make known
the evidence gathered by taem to the
proper legal authorities, SO that these
criminal establishments can be closed
and those running them punished, and
also that legitimate practitioners may
| be protected. The discoveries made by
the postoffice department ought to be
warning to people receiving adver-
tisements from these criminal estab-
lishments to have nothing to do with
them. 1t is singular, however, how
gullibie multitudes of people are in the
important matter of health and how
eagerly they Will accept the word of
any stranger pretending to be doctor,
| who prom Uses 10 cure them of real or
imaginary ailments.