Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-12-22

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bishop GravItt, of Charles Town.
VIII preach and conduce the Christmas
service in Trinity Episcopal church GU
next Sunday morning at IL o'clock.
The United States Court of Claims
has passed the claim of the Preserve
Ran church at Buaker Hill with favor-
able consideration and the bill VIII
now have to pass Congress.
We learn with much regret that Col.
James w. Mcdonald 10 lying dagger r.
ously i'll At his hume near DarkesviIIe.
with pneumonia. rhere Is little hone
Of his recovery.
Read the advertisement IN this issue
Of Thompson & Thompson the cloth
iers for you will want TO make some
Christmas purchases and there is the
place. Theyiare making special sale
and you can save money.
Don't start making your cakes ua.
ess you have secured bottle of GID-
BERWS Pure Extract Of Vanilla, Elk.
tract Lemon, Extract Strawberry, Ex-
tract Almond, Extract Pineapple, &c,
Guaranteed Pure. ll-24-6ts.
The sale Of the Stewart building
formerly occupied by the American
Horticultural Distributing Company,
lying along the G. V. r. X. has been
closed to the Norwalk Automobile
Company ana the new owners are
moving In their machinery.
Negotiations are still in progress
looking toward the building of a sub
way for North Queen street under the
b. & o. at Skaters Crossing The
company some time back made the
proposition to build the subway if the
city would pay $4,000 of the cost.
! Rev. r. A. White, Of Gerarislown,
| preached in the Presbyterian CHI, rel, ut
Charlestown last Sunday end his pull
( pit at Gerardstown wa filled by Rev,
A. M. Earle, a missionary returned
from the great nilsson field Of d, rea.
Mr. Earle spec with much esser VI
tie success of the work in that LAND.
The man who will defy the law with
maximum penalty of $500 fine and
six months in Jail and minimum
penalty Of $25 fine and two months in
Jail is a pretty hard criminal and a
danger to society Can anybody think
they woald be too good TO entice our
boys into their dives and ruin them?
Rev. D. J. Woods, of Blackspurg,
Va, who has been here for q week or
more visiting his parents, preached in
the Reformed church this city Sun
day morning for DR.. HoHheins, who
was sick and also preached in the Tus-
carors Presbyterian church Sunday af-
ternoon at o'clock and conducted
com IN union service at the latter place.
William Custer an smploye of the
Standard Lime and Stone Co., at their
works at this place was seriously hurt
on Wednesday morning while al work
at the plant. His leg was fractured and
his head was bsdly hurt. He was en-
gagged in pulling down some of the
remains of the plant which was re-
Gently burned down. He was brought
TO the Kings Daughters hospital.
The news has been given out that
the Security Cement and Lime Com
pany will in the near future greatly
enlarge their plant on the William
sport pike in this county. 1t is said
that the company has booked orders
which will take several years to fill
and requires enlarged facilities for the
work. 1t is said that the improvements
will cost nearly half a million dollars.
readers to the large advertisement in
this issue Of w. L. Jones, the jeweler,
who is making special sale. This
has been brought about by the neces-
sity of curtailing his immense stock
preparatory to making change i'll his
business having decided to incorporate
the business. The goods offered at
this sale are his usual stock aud
not specially bought for this sale.
The weather in this section, so far
during December has been decided
Improvement over December of last
year. Some of the coolest weather of the
winter came last year before this time
andswe had deep SHOWS. This Deem
Der has been mild and open and many
farmers have considerable work done
for the spring and have been able to
pasture their stock very late, great
saving of feed.