Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-05-28

| i"St iVt q ftSit " eAAo SouStl.
Mr.. Park Chapman, who has been a
student al the MiIligan college, Tenn,
IS home for the summer vacation.
The General Assembly Of the South
ern PRESBYTERIAN church will meet at
Lewisburg, West We. mex, year.
Miss Lillian Harrison who has been
attending the Mary Baldwin Seminary
at Staunton, is home for the summer
vacation.
Have you seen Judge z. w. Letter
of the Police court in harness? His
honor presides with great dignity ard
austsrity. Better be good.
! GOV. Swanson, Of Va, has issued
commission as Lieutenant 10 Mr..
Archie Clohan of casets Of Bethel
Military academy.
J Another copious rain fell on Wee :
hesday night and the sun came
oul the ne xt day, the temperature rose
and the grass and other vegetation has
been growing very rapidly since.
We had very delightful little call
from Mr. Daniel +. Sullivan, nov Of
washington but formerlya prominent
resident of this city. He was here on
visit to see some of his friends.
We had very pleasant call from
MT. William N. Naylor, now Of Shen-
andoah county, who has been with his
good wife on visit to their old home
in the vicinity of Shanghai where they
formerly lived and Mr.. Naylor was in
business for several years.
Attorney John o. Lemen, who has
been sojourning at private sanitor-
ium at Blue Ridge Summit for the
past five or SIX week, has returned
nome apparently in perfect health.
lie has fattened until his clothes are
too small and he has an excellent
healthy complexion.
! The Basaic City, Va. News says:
"Rey. James A. Armstrong, a student
Of the Union Theological seminary, at
Richmond, Va, is filling the pulpit
in the Presbyterian church in It. is
place during the summer
Mr.. ARA strong is son of Mrs. Jane
Armstrong, of this city.
The will Of the late Mr.. w. e. Pur-
baugh has been admitted to record.
He directs that after all his debts are
/ paid that all the remainder OF his ertate
| both real and peasonal 60 to his wife,
Mrs. Isabel Purbaugh and names her
as executrix.
Rev. G K. Stribling of Waynesboro,
! Va, is spending a few days with his
M other, Mrs. A. e. Stribling, in this
city. He will leave on Saturday for
Winchester where on Sunday he will
preach the bacc aiaureate sermon be-
fore the graduating class of the Fort
Loudon seminary.
DR.. Biuce Geyer, who recently grad
uated from the Maryland University
school of dentistry with the degree of
! ID. ID. s., has rented rooms in the
second story of the Stewart building
where he will soon open offices. DR..
Geyer is splendid young man, pop
ular, industrious and deserving and
we wish him much success.
| or the Railroad Revenues $50 odd old
employees of the b. d o. railroad
not inclusive of the b.. & q. S. w. or
ubsidiary lines-now on pension roll
! for the regular monthly allowance the
company pays to them during life, half
| the number were in active service forty
and more years, forty-niae OF them
exceeding fifty or more years; one
rounding out full sixty years. The
conf ined years of service those vete-
rams put in aggregated nearly twelve
thousand, which was an average of
forty-four and two-thirds Yeas each.
A record showing of continuous duty
with a single corporation. Forty-three
of these pioneers in American railroad
ing are now eighty and more years If
age, thirteen of them having passed
their eighty-fifth milestone; two reach
ing beyond their ninety-frst.
Old age provision for faithful service
was inaugurated by the b. & o. COM
pany long in advance of any other rail-
road on the Ameri can continent and
it was the first railroad company in
the world TO establish pension system
on the basis of itself contributing the
entire fund; foreign railroad pension,
or superannuation funds as they are
termed abroad callipg for most of The