Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-12-17

Miss Virginia Fuller, of Winchester
is here ON yisi, TO her grandmother,
Mrs. Virginia McSherr,.
Deputy Sheriff David Bartles lilled
Is hogs at bis hsme on The Walker
farm on Tuesday which aversg sabout
$50 lbs.
Mrs. Jacob Wild, who has been 81, k
for so long has been taken 10 the be me
OF her son in Washington city ana : e.
was accompanied by her sister, Mls.
L. B Chambers, of this city.
There was some tangle in the ma J.
ulation of the subtle fluid genera ed at
the big power plant at Dam No. a
on the Potomac on last Sund; v
night and the transformers at Shep-
berdstown were burnt out T re
was great connection on tho switch
board at the power pisnt.
There has been much complai.
| about there being no rain and the dry-
ness Of the earth for some months past
but the copious downfall of water on
last Monday filed the cis.erns pools
and streams generally and gave the
earth good soaking. There Yves near
ly 2 inches rainfall on that day.
Mr.. G. Norman Stuckey, Of Circle
vile, ohio, arrived here on last Satur.
day night and Ia visiting friends In
| this county. He ls son Of the late
Major Charles Stuckey of Bunker Hill,
and is brother to Mrs. Smith Stuck
ey, of this city. Mr.. Stuckey has beer
living in IOhie for nearly thirty five
years and has met with good fortune
in the state of his adoption.
Mr.. b. 3. Cunningham, who has
been with the Martinsburg Power CON-
pany for several years in charge OF the
power plant at Dam No. and for the
past few months in charge Of the
plant at Dam No. a, has resigned and
will move with his family shortly to
Columbus, Ohio, where he has pur-
chased farm. Mr.. Cunningham Is
one of Berkeley county's best citizens
and we are very sorry to see him leave
the community.
General 8. G French, native of
New Jersey, who became q Confeder-
ate soldier, says that in the United
States army during the war there were
100000 foreigners, 10000 Germans,
l44 200 Irish, So 900 British-Ameri, cans,
$4,000 English and "A 900 other foreign
ers. In the same army there were 27e,-
439 from the border states and 1885
Southern Negroes. The total Federal
enlistment during the lwar was, ia
round Numbers, 100000 The total
enlistments on the Confederate side
were 625, 900.
Joseph Hicks, the IL year old son If
Mr.. Joseph Hicks, of this city, picked
up an innocent looking wire on Penn
acknowledgements at the u. b. church
on last Monday and in an instant he
was writing in all sorts of contortions
and yelling for life. The wire had bro
ken down by the sleet and was charg-
ed with electricity. The boys cries
attracted the attention of Mr.. l.. I.
Martin who telephoned to the electric
power house where the curraut was
turned off and the boy was rescue d.
he was fortunate that the wire was
not an arc light wire for it would
doubtles have killed him.
Referring to the result of the liquor
fight in Alabama the New York World
says: alabama has rejected by SUBJ
stantial majority The proposed prohi-
bitiop amendment to the state iconsti-
tuition, but the fact does not necessari-
ly imply reputation of prohibition.
All that the state has done is TO refuse
to make abstinence constitutional
question. 1t declines to bind itself ir-
fevocably to prohibition. The oppo-
sition of temperance leaders to the
vote of cities and counties which had
long-in some cases for twenty years
given their support to prohibition I'M
der local option may properly be taken
as evidencing view Of temperance as
a question of legislation and not OF
fundamental law. 1t was moreover
inevitable that reaction should occur
against drastic law rigidly enforced.
A protest against the s.rict enforce
| ment legislation enacted last August
may perhaps be discerned in the result
Of Mondays election. But even SO, the
verdict is not conclusive. The Iiquor
interests may be expected to make the
most of this apparent setback to the
dry law. 1t is their first victory to
break long series of defeats. Prohibi-