Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-07-13

plums OH his orchard near Inwood
this year.
Mr.. w. H. kratz and family, of Bal
timore, spent last Sunday with friends
in this city.
Col. s. w. Walker and Col. J. w.
Thompson were in Baltimore and
Washington on business on Monday.
Mr.. Charley Houseworth, who is
employed in Carlisle, Pa, spent last
Sunday with his parents here.
Miss Maize Hollis. the pleasant
young lady clerk in Spillmans gro
Gerry store, is down with TYPHOID fever
atther home on Virginia avenue.
Mr.. Roy Keiscone son of Mr.. An
drew Keiseome, of Baltimore, was in
town last Sunday and went on to Col
Orado this week for the benefit Of his
health.
There was large excursion party
came to Martinsburg last Sunday
from Baltimore and Washington and
there were many families in town who
had Sunday company.
Miss Katie Robinson, teacher in
school al Harrisburg, has been visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Lewis Robinson ,on w,
Burke street during the past week.
EAII,TERM OPENING
The Tri-State Business college, Cum
b ,rland Md, Sept. A, . and Write
f)r catalogue and terms.
7l34ts.
The farmers are as busy rs bees the e
days They have their v hea- to haul in
and thresh, the corn must be cultivat.
ed, because the rainy season kept
them of the corn and gave the weeds
big start, and then the hay is to be
made. The hay cropis very good one,
generally speaking.
Miss Martha Rogers who has been
spending month with Misses Ethel
and Inez Boyer will leave this even
ing, Friday, for her home If Chey-
enne, Wyoming. She is a student at
the Rapdolph-M Macon Woman's col
lege at Lynchburg and will be in the
senior class next year
The Shepherdstown Presbyterian
Church will hold their annual lawn
supper in T. +. Jones yard, near Bill
myers Mill, Friday and Saturday
evenings, August Ord and 4th. Supper,
with tot % "a OLD ham, ice cream and
cake, etc., will be furnished at popu-
lar prices. The patronage of the public
is solicited.
Notice is being published that Ar
thur Harden, negro man, who was
sentenced by Juge Faulkner in 1900 to
the penitentiary for life, will file an
application for Communication of sem
tenee. Harden, it will be remembered
shot and killed negro woman in the
kitchen of the Baptist parsonage then
occupied by Rev. G. P. Stealey, pas
tor of the church.
FALL TERM OPENING.
The Tri-State Business College, Cum
berland, Nd, Sept 4, and 6. Write
for catalogue and terms.
That's.
Well, some one is Jonah! We
thought we had at last gained uictim
when our boys defeated Brunswick on
their own grounds Saturday in such a
decisive manner. But alas, the Bruins
wick boys turned the tables here Tues
day, defeating Bushs M. A. &. team
in an exciting game to 6. The bat
teries were Sampsell, Nicodemus and
Bush, for Martinsburg; and Butler
Zeikle and Sennett, for brunswick
The home boys excelled at the bat, bu
Butler of Brunswick, swatted the ball
over the fence at the right time and
won the game. "Jennie" Smith for
our boys made four hits out of five
times up.
Congress made an appropriation ef
81 ,325, 900 for the jamestown EXPOSE
ton. Authority is made for exhibits
by the Smithsonian Institution. War
and Navy Departments, the Life-Sav-
ing, Revenue Cutter, Lighthouse and
Fisheries Services, Porto Rico and the
Bureau of American Republics. The
sum of 100000 is appropriated to en-
able these exhibits to be made. The
Secretary Of the Treasury is to erect for
the Exposition suitable buildings, in
GLIDING one for the life saving exhibit,
a fisheries building, including acqua-
rum; a building COR rendezvous of sol
dlers and sailors of foreign naVies-all
of colonial arcnltectuIe-at the total
cost of $3.50, 600, and after the EXPOSE
ton its officers are to have the option