Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-14


rbe annual meeting of the board
trade will be held in the tiremen's
hall on April 20.
Mr.. E. 2. H. Harrison, of Belair,
Md, was here Monday visiting his
brother, Mr.. p. r. Harrison.
Mrs Marriott, of Pennsboro, w. Va,
have given birth to the fifth pair of
twins in seven years. = sort of hail
storm.
Mr. Robert Newton Hess and Miss
Nav Y. Lewis, both of Darkesville,
we're married on Monday by Rev. j.
p Wright at the First NJ. E. parson-
age.
Mr. L. d. Gerhart jr. who recently
enoaged in the wholesale tobacco bust
ness ia this city, has sold out half an
interest in the business to Ir. Daniel
Dennis.
rhe new Methodist preacher, Rev.
D 2. Gates, preached at Hedgesville,
Jones Spring and Hedges chapel last
Sunday and his people are more than
nleased with him.
Attorney John o. Hen son, who is
assistant attorney general, was home
lsst week and week before helping hi.
mother to move and returned to
Charleston last Thursday.
Misses Logan and Aldridge, two
teachers of the High school, entertain
ed the Mothers League of this city, at
the Assembly Hall of the High school
on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Walter P. Snyder who
were married last week, Wednesday
evening, were given pleasant recep-
tlon at the home Of the groom's par
ents, west of to Wn, on Ihursday even
ing.
A broken rail caused serious freight
wreck on the the B. & o. at Orleans
Roads on Sunday night. None of the
trainmen were injured but car OF
cattle was broken up and several
steers so badly hurt that they had to
be killed.
Lest you forget that order for station
ely or olherplintjng that you re In
hurry for, we beg to remind you that
the Job del artment of THE STATES
MAN-DEMOCRAT is prepared to do
itneatlv, economically and promptly,
and the fact that cur job hook runneth
over is evidence that our work is Of the
quality aud style hat satisfies,
Dr. James A, Duff, who left here
about year ago to accept temper
AIRY p, sition in the franklin Square
hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, has re-
turned to Martinsburg and will be
found at his office apartments at the
home of Mrs. Wever on West Burke
street ready to serve the people Of the
town in the line of his profession.
Messrs. Charles Housew orth and
August Zimmerman are now in the
eastern cities to buy their stock of
clothing and gents furnishing goods
for their new store which they will
open in the Snodgrass building ir the
room soon to be vacated by the Mer-
chants and Farmers bank. They ex-
pect 10 be open and ready for business
about May l,
In looking over some old documents
OF the Circuit Clerks office at Martins
burg, a Winchester man discovered
one recalling the attempt to transport
at least the free negroes and mulattos
under the act passed by the General
Assembly of Virginia on March A, 1888.
The idea was pay the way of these ne
groes to Liberia, and Virginia approp-
rated the sum of $4,000 for this pur
pose. Berkeley county was then in the
Old Dominion, and her quota of the
appropriation was .S190.92; jefferson 3
s'O5.SS; Hampshire, S30.54. In old
virginia, Frederick county's quota
was S427.46, and Winchester's $500. 80.
Inc highest allotment was S966,72 to
Richmond. The $4,000 was to be APP
pfopriated annually for five years and
negro over ten years was not to cost
more than $50 for transportation and
subsistence, moi one uEder ten more
t1an $50. This 10 some thing for the
New England abolitonist John Brown
nero worshipper to put in mis- pipe and
smoke, as showing what the grand old
o'ate OF Virginia, of which ours was
then a part, was doing for the coiored
mar as far as seventy-eight years ago,
after he had become Improbable up
North and had been thrust upon the