Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-24

Mrs. w. ~. Burke. of Chenille, w.
Va. came on last week to visit to her
old home ON susiness.I
DR.. H. S. Castleman has been made
delegate to the meeting of the Medi-
cal Chirurgical Faculty in Baltimore
on April $3.50.
Miss Jane and Nellie Sites, who are
students at the Randolph-M Macon
Women's college at Lynchburg, spent
Easter at their home in this city. They
returned to Ly nehburg on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Morris johnson, of
Boonville, Missouri, are here on visit
to their friends and relatives. Mrs.
> Johnson is daughter of the late b.
T. Fiery of this city, and haI lived in
Missouri for number Of years.
Inc knights 1emplar, who went to
Chsrlestown on Monday evening to
hear Bishop Gravatt preach on Mon
day night, returned home about IL
o'clock. Mr.. Robert l.. Snodgrass re-
NAMED over until Tuesday.
Mrs. A. Il. Porter and Miss Pinkie
Mckown, of Gcrardstown, spent last
Sunday with their brother, Mr.. Gilbert
Ackown and family on w. John
street.
Mr.. W. L. Hoffheins, editor Of the
Evening World left this week for At
lantic City to recuperate. Mr.. Hoff-
helms 10 recovering from long and
serious spell of the typhoid fever.
Mr.. Granville Smith, Whiting
Faulkner and Douglas Crawford, stu
dents At Shenandoah Valley Academy,
at Winchester, have been spen ding the
Easter vacation at their homes in this
city.
Mise Carrie Reush went to Hancock
on Wednesday in company with a
party of friends from Washington in q
private car to attend the wedding O.
Miss Jane Grove to Mr.. Robert Nc
CandlIsh both Of Hancock.
A large number OF the members OF
Palestine Commandery, of this city,
went TO Charlesto Sn last Monday to
attend divide services in the Episcopal
church and heard an appropriate ser
mon by Bishop Gravatt.
Mr.. George l.. Hensel, who has been
at Baltimore hospital for some time,
returned to his home here on Satur,
day. He has not improved ulder the
treatment in Baltimore as much as his
friends had hoped. lie is now at his
home on West Martha street.
Mrs. McCurdy, wife of Rev. w. D.
McCurdy, pastor of the First Baptist
church, of this city, is TO be the soloisi
at an organ recilai i'll Christ Protestant
Episcopal church, in Winchester on
the evening of April 81. The recital
viii. be given under the direction of the
regulsr organist, Miss Estey G. Main.
Mr.. Allen II. Pittsnogle remains
quite i'll at the King Daughters Hos
pital in this city. lie recently under
went serious ope. atioa for cancer of
the bowels. His physician, DR.. A.
Bruce Eagle says he is model patent
never complains and il making a
hard fight tor recovery. His many
friends hope for his speedy recovery.
The guests of Hotel Evans, Wine hes
ter, had a glimpse of the famous Car
RE Nation, on "Wednesday and tie aQ-
itater was the object of all eyes in the
dining room as she sat in the rear
OF the room with the light shining full
in her faee.She made no outbursts While
ye editor was in the b tel exeept to
chide young man in the hallway for
smoking cigarette
A movement is on foot asking for
the pardon o. Ira renson who was
sentenced to two years in our state
in our Circuit court last
fall for attempting To have forged
check eashed at the Merchants and
Farmers bank ia Ibis city. Henson
has wife and several small children
for whom there is great deal of SYM
paihy expressed
The offices Of the state, in the pro-
lection and promotion of moral
character. are steadily becoming more
pronounced. IL Is seen in the onward
progress of temperance legislation, Sin
the arraignment OF corpo. ations charg-
ed with the practice Of dishonest and
fraudulent methods, ia The enforce
mer of moral discipline IN the army
and navy, in the recent order by the