Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-07-03
STATES MAN DEMOCRAT
Entered at the Post-0ficeat Martinsbu
Nv. Va. as secend-cisss.matter.

EXCEEDS that Of any PAPER pub
ished In Martinsburg. Berkeley
County, West Virginia.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Gheislin, of
Shepherdstown, were in town Monday,
visiting friends
We had very pleasant visit from
our friend, Mr.. j. G. Bitner, of kear-
neysviIle on Wednesday.
Mrs. Lewis Price suffered severe
attack of acute. indigestion last Tues
night
MIR. S. S. Harrison, is building new
barn on his place where he lives near
the village of Arden.
Miss Lula Graham, who has been
on visit to her sister, Mrs. Walker,
in Texas. has returned home.
Rev. r. Ashlin White, Of Gerards-
town, was pleasant caller at our Of
fics on Monday morning.
Mr.. w. w. Westphall, the genial
proprietor of the Valley Hotel has pur-
chased fine new REQ touring auto
mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. kindle, and lit
tie son, Holman, of Washington,
spent Sunday here with Mrs. Kindle's
mother.
Mrs. John J. Clarity, Of Pittsburg,
nn1l I,1. n
father, Mr.. Martin Young, South
Spring street.
Winchester is without a ball team
this year also. Sandy Baker has sold
his team to Petersburg, and thus Win
chester is placed in the same condition
rs Martinsburg.
Mr.. Huber Martin has accepted a
position in the Statesman-Democr
office and Mr.. Arch Coates has
been prompted to the position of FORE
man.
Mr.. Port Linton, who recently
bought the j. L.. G. Ram sburg farm at
Arden, and moved on it in the spring,
Is now engaged in building a new barn
thereon.
One thing Shepherdstown can do
and that is beat Martinsburg playing
base ball this year. Martinsburg got
base bali drunk last year and is taking
this year to soberup.
Our old friend Captain Julius Gaze
sar Holmes %. Charlestown, has recent.
ly taken unto himself wife in the
person of Miss Mamie Condor.
charming young lady of BeattyviIle,
kentucky.
Mr.. Howard Clendening, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. ALVIN G. Clendening, of
Bunker Hill, has been student at
Washington and Lee University for
several years and graduated this year
with high houors in the degree of
Bachelor Of Arts.
Accoldii 6 to the Shepherds town
Register there are great many bellsd
buzzards in that vicinity, that the cit
liens actually set traps to catch the
buzzards, bell them aud turn them
loose. We suppose that in the future
all beiled buzzards will be known as
be longing to Shepherdstown.
Mr.. James Pater, OF KearneysvilIe,
and Miss Grace Much Of Shepherds
to wn, were married at Sharpsburg,
Md, on Thursday of last week. The
Register says that while the couple
were driving from earneysviile to
Shepherdstown the horse dropped
dead and the wedding had to be post
poned until another horse could be Sc
cured. Funny effect oE the horse.
Moses Garner, the negro man who
has been running shoe shine shop in
the small room between the Penny
Arcade and Dutch Gerling's cigar store
was arrested on last Sunday evening
on the charge of selling whiskey with
out a license. The illicit dispenser
was given away by some white me to
whom he had sold whiskey during the
day. He was taken before Mayor
Cushwa, and was found guilty and S25
and costs.
Contractors have been here during
the past week looking over the work
at Dam No. A, with view to bidding
upon the completion of the electrical
power plant there. Shoaf & Brubaker,
the Pennsylvania contractors who
started the job and worked along in
termittenly for year er two, have
given up the project entirely, and
the owners are now seeking to let the
contract TO new men. Shoaf and Bru-
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