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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNUNIRED BY GAIN." The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882. Anecdotal Literature By W. G. BY W. G. THE SUPREME OBJECT OF ATTRACTION. An old minister, while one day deeply engaged in his studies, was suddenly interrupted by the entrance of his wife, and asking him the question, "Do you think we shall be known to each other in heaven?" Without hesitation he replied. "To be sure we shall." "Do you think we shall know less then than we do here?" After a momentary pause, he continued, "But I may be a thousand years by your side in heaven without having seen you; for the first thing which will attract my notice when I arrive there will be my dear Savior; and I cannot tell when I shalt be for a moment induced to look at any other object." BOYCOTT. Boycotting is a species of conspiracy, and the term is derived from Capt. Boycott, a conspicuous victim of conspiracy. He was an agent of Lord Erne of Connemara, Ireland. As agent he had to serve notice to quit on the tenants, who retaliated by inducing the population for miles around, to refuse to have anything to do with him. Armed constables were called in to protect him and the new tenants. The term, therefore, originally signified a conspiracy to ruin the business of a person by violent interruption of his relations with others. It has been defined by an American judge as "a combination of many to cause loss to one person by coercing others, against their will, to withdraw from him their patronage. A boycott, even when accompanied by violence or intimidation, has been pronounced as unlawful by many courts. But when accompanied by violence it is a criminal offence at common law. GUILTY CONSCIENCE A clergyman walked into the churchyard, one day, as the sexton was digging a grave, and on his throwing up a skull, the minister picked it up, and examining it, found a headless nail in the temple, which he drew out and put it in his pocket, asking the sexton whether he knew whose skull it was; he answered that it was a man's who had gone to bed drunk, and was found dead in his bed next morning. "Is his wife living yet and if so what is her character?" asked the minister. The sexton said she was, and her character was fairly good, only her neighbors blamed her for marrying the day after her husband's funeral. The minister thereupon paid the woman a seemingly pastoral visit, and, among other questions, asked her of what sickness her husband died. She giving him the same account as the sexton, he produced the nail, and asked her "Woman do you know this?" She was struck with horror and instantly confessed she had murdered her husband. She was tried and executed. * * THE GIRLS AS THEY WERE. Backward! turn backward. O Time in your flight, and give us a maiden dressed proper and right. We are too weary of switches and rate. Burke clusters, and peach-baskets, wads of jute hair in a horrible pile, stacked on their heads to the height of a mile. Something is wrong with the maidens. Give us the girlies we once knew of yore, whose curls didn't come from hair dressing stores,—maidens who dressed with sense, and just as Dame Nature intended. Give us a girl with a figure her own and fashioned divinely by Nature alone. Oh! give us the girls as they used to appear. THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT. While the momentum behind the Boy Scout movement has been of very recent origin, there are already over 500,000 boys interested at the present time. During the past summer, camping has been the strongest feature of Scout Work. Within the past few weeks, a prominent member of Rhode Island State Legislature has offered a prize to be contested for by Boy Scouts. The Woonsocket, R. I., Boy Scouts are equipped with Stevens Little Scout Rifles—fitted with an extra barrel made so it cannot be fired—for drilling and parade purposes. Because of this special barrel there is no violation of law prohibiting carrying firearms on the street. The barrel is interchangeable with regular barrel for target practice, in which the Woonsocket Boy Scouts have become very proficient. This Boy Scout organization has given Stevens Little Scout Rifles a thorough test and is well pleased. The Stevens is very desirable because of light weight, simple mechanism and semi-military appearance. Open sights with which these Rifles are equipped are a fair test for the boy's eye. One twelve year old Boy Scout in a string of five shots put two in inner circle of Bulls Eye—counting 25 and another in the 24 circle. For drill work, the Little Scout Rifle, manufactured by J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., is just right. On parade the boys make a very fine appearance. Apply to J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., Chicpee Falls, Mass., for details of the interesting Boy Scout Movement and descriptive matter on Stevens Little Scout Rifles. MIDNIGHT IN THE OZARKS and yet eleppele Hitam Scranton, of Clay City, Ill., coughed and coughed. He was in the mountains on the advice of five doctors, who said he bad consumption, but found no help in the climate, and started home. Hearing of Dr. King's New Discovery, he began to use it. "I believe it saved my life," he writes "for it made a new man of me, so that I can now do good work again." For all lung diseases, cough, colde, la grippe, asthma, croup, whooping cough, hay fever, hemorrhages, hoarseness or quinny, its the best known remedy. Price 50c and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. The Bookkeeper or Stenographer who has the recommendation of the Mountain State Business College, Parkersburg, W. Va, can always secure employment. Write today for their 96 page Catalogue. ```markdown ``` TIME TO CONSIDER PURCHASE OF TREES FOR FALL OR SPRING FLAIRING. Written Expreseely For This Paper By Wm. H. Alderman, Professor of Horticulture, West Virginia University. The time is now at hand when the fruit grower should consider the purchase of trees for his fall or spring planting. The demand for trees has become so great that the overworked nurseryman from Malta to Oregon are unable to furnish an adequate supply in all varieties. Many of them have already contracted for over half of their stock. If you are looking for first class trees and are at all particular about getting the varieties ordered it would be advisable to arrange your purchase as soon as possible. Visit the Nursery. If you are buying a wood shed order it would pay to visit the nursery and select the trees before they are dug. Most nurserymen will allow a purchaser to go through their blocks and mark the trees he wishes to buy. In this way one may secure the most vigorous and best shaped trees in the lot, and can be reasonably sure that they will be true to name, for most of the variety mixtures are made in the confusion of the packing shed. Insist that your trees shall not be dug until the leaves have nearly all fallen, for this means that the buds are well ripened and that the wood is hard and mature. Much has been spoken and written about the adaptability of buying trees from nearby nurseries where conditions are similar to those in your orchard. While this is a factor that it might be well to consider, it is of far more importance to secure a good tree with a good root system. There is much evidence to show that it matters little from what part of the country a tree comes, provided it is healthy, vigorous and has not been injured in digging or shipping. Yearlings or Two-Year-Olds With apples it is always an unsettled question whether it is better to buy straight whips one year old or move expensive two-year-old trees on which the main branches are already started. The advantages in favor of the smaller trees are, first, cheapness; second, small root systems which will require only a small hole at planting time; third, the head may be formed at any height to suit the grower's fancy; fourth, the root systems receive less injury in digging than do those of larger trees. The advantages of the two-year-olds are, first, trees with well formed heads may be schooled thereby insuring uniform and symmetrical orchard trees; second, they will probably reach bearing size a year sooner than a one-year-old tree; third, it is easier to detect crown gall or hairy root upon them than upon yearlings. Between first class trees of both ages the two-year-olds are the most desirable. It is, however, sometimes difficult to get good two-year-olds because the nursery block has been sorted over the previous year and the beet trees sold are yearlings. Between a first class yearling and a second grade two-year-old, the younger tree would undoubtedly be the better. Never buy three or four year-old trees because these are the culks of previous years which were so weak and small that they had to be grown the extra season or two in order to bring them to a marketable size. Crown Gall. The most prevalent disease that attacks nursery trees, and against which purchasers should be on their guard, is Crown gall or Hairy Root, the two names coming from the two distinctive forms of the same disease. There are some differences of opinion among plant pathologists regarding the ultimate effects of this disease upon orchard trees, but all agree that it is very unsafe to plant intested stock. Make no contract or arrangement with a nurseryman which will not allow you to throw out all trees that show any sign of the disease. The wooly aphis causes small irregular swellings to appear upon the roots that might be mistaken for small galls, but inasmuch as the aphis is to be more dreaded than Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIDED H TOBER 21. 1911. V the aforementioned disease, have no hesitation about discarding these trees also. A Few Things Which Will Make the Results of the Recipes More Exact and Be of Help to Those Scales which can be bought at any hardware store for from $1.50 in %2 are a great help in the canning season, it is very hard to measure fruits of different sizes so that the proportion of fruit to sugar is correct, whereas the irregular size of the fruit makes no difference in determining its weight. In this day of short weights the scales are of advantage in checking up the amount purchased. The flat pliable knife, called a spatula, enables one to clean out the bowl more thoroughly than any other way. It can also be used very satisfactorily for reusing up recipes which do not require much stirring, such as getting the cough ready to knead for bread, the making of an omelet or a griddle cake. This knife can be older than any hardware store for these expensive to thirty-five cents. After having once used it you will wonder how you ever got along without it. RACHEL H. COLWELL, West Virginia University. WHAT IS YOUR FAMILY If your family is worth the best you can afford in house and food and clothes, is it not worth the best reading as well? And the best reading—best for boys and girls, best for men and women—is to be found in The Youth's Companion. Of stories alone The Companion will print nearly 300 in 1912. With all the rest of the paper thrown in and counting the glorious long curial stories, they cost the subscriber less than a cent apiece. Moreover, you will look long before you will find stories so varied and interesting—stories of coolness in the face of peril, strange adventures with creatures of the forest and the sea, moving stories of life's obscure heroisms, stories breezy with good natured humor, quaint and curious character sketches. Now is the time to subscribe, for you will receive free from the time your $1 75 is received all the issues for the remaining weeks of 1911 containing the opening chapters of Ralph D. 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Fine New Coaches The steel passenger coaches ordered by the Baltimore and Ohio several months ago are being delivered and placed in service on the through trains between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis. The orders provide for 20 smoking cars and 30 day coaches together with 15 steel postal cars and 10 steel baggage cars. The new steel coaches have a seating capacity of 80 passengers, and smoking cars a capacity of seventy-two passengers. The new steel passenger coaches are a late development and naturally each new output from the shops have many very practical improvements and features not found in the earlier cars. The cars now being received by the B. & O are considered superior to any steel cars which have yet been constructed. The objectionable features found in the earlier steel cars, such as susceptibility to heat and cold and the unusual noise of the metal have been eliminated in their construction. The steel construction includes not only the steel frame work and the trucks but the outside sheathing as well. The trucks are made of one piece cast steel with steel wheels of mostimable strength. The floors are constructed of steel, over which is placed a layer of concrete to deaden the noise and to strengthen the construction. In all the fixtures and appliances every consideration is given to the comfort and health of occupants of the cars. The sanitary drinking water tank is another desirable special feature. The water and ice are in separate compartments, the water being forced into the tanks through pipes under the car, preventing employees from coming in contact with it. The ice is in a separate compartment also and does not touch the water, consequently the drinking tanks are as nearly sanitary as it is possible to make them. The interior finish of the steel care is worthy of special note. The ceiling and paneling below the windows are made of an imported fireproof composition which not only makes a fine finish but renders the interior of the car impervious to noise from the outside. This agassite presents the same strength and fire resistance as do steel, being even more desirable in that it has insulation qualities. The upper portions of the interior of the cars are of mahogany finish, giving them a rich and attractive appearance. The cars are insulated throughout. The outside sheathing of steel is welded to the steel frame, inside of which is the insulation material, with the mahogany finish above and the oakwood below. The cracking cars are 60 feet in length. The seats and backs are upholstered in plain heavy leather, a most desirable finish. The day coaches are 70 feet in length. The seats and backs of these cars are upholstered in plush, and the color effects of mahogany and light green present a delightful harmony of colors. All of these cars are equipped with electric lights and fans. They are considered the strongest, easiest riding and the most cheerful cars that have yet been built. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TEMPORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,500 6 months.....75c. 9 months.....40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Calls. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Chiffard, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 809, and Bell Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1811 It is a pity some people would not learn the value of telling the truth at all times. It would serve all purposes to a greater extent, and make them look better in the sight of God. ```markdown ``` If nothing else results from the war between Italy and Turkey, the fact that Italy has already abolished slavery in Tripoli, makes the struggle one that appears to have a very flue result at its beginning. It is just such sets as the one referred to above that make great countries greater, and the world should thank the Italian Government for its decree that slavery shall not exist while the flag of Italy hosts at Tripoli. Hon. Norman H. Mack is elected as the next Chairman of the New York State Democracy, in place of W. P Hoppuch. With his new position, Mr. Mack will enjoy the distinction of being State and National Chairman at the same time. From our casual observations of Chairman Mack, we are of the opinion that he is amply able to attend to the duties that will naturally be his a result of holding both positions. We don't want to attempt to criticise our great president, Mr. Taft, but we are of the opinion that he would have shown great tact and fine appreciation of a real lawyer had he, when the opportunity presented, made John Marshall Harlan Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. By having done this, he would have permitted Justice Harlan to die with his highest ambition achieved, and placed the Chief Justiceship in capable hands. Now that John R. Walsh, the Chicago banker, has been paroled from the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, wonder if there would be any impropriety in President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham looking into the case of Charles F. Morse, the New York banker, who either deserves a pardon or a parole. If for no other reason, Morse has caused his freedom because he has stood for his "high financing", and paid every dollar he owed. What more could a man do to right himself with God and his fellow man? We have received the annual report of Tuskegee Institute. It was sent through the courtesy of Principal Washington, and is a document containing much valuable information. Of course everybody in America is aware of the existence of Tuskegee, but it has either to be seen or this report has to be carefully gone over to fully appreciate the magnitude of the work it is doing. If we had time and space we would go at greater length to give some of our observations with regard to this highly interesting report, but as that is impossible at this period, we would suggest that anyone interested in Tuskegee to the extent that he wants to know what is being done there, should send for a copy, not neglecting, at the same time, to create sufficient postage to cover cost of mailing. Dr. Booker T. Washington was on hand Tuesday last in the Court of Special Sessions, New York, for the purpose of preasing a charge of assault against Albert Ulrich, a German carpenter who very brutally beat and almost killed him in the hallway of a New York apartment house last March. The whole American reading public is familiar with the various phases of the Washington-Ulrich affair, and now that the Doctor has gone about the prosecution of the man who assaulted him with the proper show of manhood, it is hoped that he may be punished, and his victim, Booker Washington, stand unsuilled before the world. It would be a very good thing for the Democrat if they would pay some heed to the welfare of the colored contingents of the party in Ohio and New York. This warning is counded because it is becoming as plain as day to all interested observers, that Negroes like other people are learning to throw their political power wrote it will best conserve their interests. This may be painful information to the two old parties, but it is nevertheless true, and unless they ward their ways, and treat Negroes so they do Germane, Irish, Italiane, and other people, they will wake up some fine morning to find that there have been serious defections from among their ranks. ```markdown ``` We rather suspect that the Washington D.C. enumerator who sought to discredit and dethrone Dr. Wiley, are now addider, but wiser men than they were some weeks ago. We are led to make the foregoing statement, because, since they had Dr. Wiley and the methods investigated, they have found out that he, (Wiley), had a "pull" with the American public, he having always carefully safeguarded its interests when manufacturers of food products sought to adulterate, and place their poisonous wares on the market to be palmed off on unsuspecting victims. This country needs more men of the Wiley stripe, and when it has them, there will be fewer people in their graves, and more healthy ones on earth. The golden jubilee of His Eminence, James, Cardinal Gibbons, was fittingly celebrated in his home city of Baltimore on Monday last. The exercises incident to the occasion were very beautiful, and the honor done the Cardinal would do credit to a king, but no matter what would take place in his behalf, he deserves it all, for, although a churchman and a Catholic, he is the truest type of an American citizen, and Americans everywhere love to pay him tribune. Possibly there is no man in America more dearly beloved than Cardinal Gibbons, and it is all because he has acquitted himself in a manner that befits one in his high station. Along with the other Catholics and Protestants that did Cardinal Gibbons honor, Negroes played a prominent part, another demonstration that the Cardinal is a humanitarian of a sort that knows no color. ```markdown ``` There is some talk of President Taft appointing Judge Nathan Goff, of the United States Court, as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the seat made vacant by the death of the late lamented Justice Harlan. If this be done, President Taft will have earned the everlasting gratitude of hundreds of citizens in and out of West Virginia who are one in the belief that there is no better man in America for Justice Harlan's successor than Nathan Goff, West Virginia's favorite son, who is known, far and wide, as a soldier, a statesman and a judge the equal of any, and the peer of many. Again, it would be not a just and a fitting tribute to a man and an American who offered up his life that this Uribe might endure, and cause him to flesh out his honorable life in a place which anyone would be proud to occupy. Justice Harlan Dead. Hon. John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is dead, he having passed away at his home in Washington on last Saturday morning. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He was only ill for a few days. Justice Harlan was without a doubt one of the richest scholars and greatest lawyers in America, and his retirement by death from the Nation's highest tribunal is a calamity from which that august body can not recover. He arrived at his conclusions after the most mature and intelligent reflection, and when he knew he was right, there was no power on earth that could swerve him in his determination to do things in a righteous manner. The Supreme Court is a great body, and the men making up its membership are good lawyers, but in breadth of mind, fine legal attainment, mental poise, and consideration for men and things, Justice Harlan far outstripped his associates. They, like all the people who knew him, had learned to respect his opinions, and this too, sometimes in the face of the fact that they were not in accord with him. The dead justice was noted for his dissenting opinions in many notable cases, and no one can deny the statement that they were masterpieces as regarded unanswerable argument, illuminating legal citations, and facts and precedents that could not be rightfully overlooked nor lost sight of in the momentous questions and legal tangles that came before him and his learned associates for final adjudication. On account of his wonderful mastery of the law, Justice Harlan's taking off at this time is a severe blow to the personal of the Supreme Court, because that body needs a lawyer of his type now more than it ever did before. Aside from his legal training, Mr. Justice Harlan was a most companionable person, a kind husband and father, and a layman high in the councils of the Presbyterian Church, of which body he had long been a member. We could go on and extol this greatest American lawyer to an indefinite extent, but it is enough to say that he was a gentleman in every sense of the word, a christian of the truest type, and an individual whom to know was to love. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor of the Cleveland, (Ohio.) Gazette, and one of the best Negroes in America, has been selected as a candidate to represent the Cleveland district in Ohio's Constitutional Convention. This body will meet in 1912, and will be one of the most important gatherings held in the Buckeye State in a score of years. The laws it will recommend to be enacted, and those already on the statute books of Ohio, need the most careful scrutiny, and with a man of Mr. Smith's mental caliber as a member of the Convention, the Negroes will have their rights properly safeguarded, a fact which should afford them much satisfaction. ```markdown ``` His Excellency, Hon. William E. Glasscock, Governor of West Virginia, came to Martineburg last Sunday morning, and made a speech in the afternoon during the exercise incident to the cornerstone laying of the new United Brethren Church. The Governor, as usual, made a fine speech, and pointed out to his heeers the worth of the church to the community, so well as made suggestions, which, if heeded, are bound to do good. The Governor was accompanied to the city by Assistant-Attorney General J. O. Henson, and before they left for Charleston, they were recipients of many courtesies at the hands of admiring friends here aboute. President Tafi'a train narrowly escaped being dynamited in the far West the other day. KICKED BY A MAD HORSE Samuel Birch, of Beetown, Wia. had a most narrow escape from losing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it completely. Its the greatest healer of ulcers, burns, boils, eczema, scalds, cuts, corns, cold sores, bruises and piles on earth. Try it. 25c. at all druggists. Mrs. Mollie J. Strawder, well known to many of the readers of the Pioneer Press, and formerly of Browne, W. Va., but now of Washington, Penna., passed up the line of the B. & O. Railroad Thursday afternoon enroute to her former home in W. Va. She had been in camp on the North River with a fishing party headed by Col. Barnett of Pennsylvania, for several weeks, and after breaking up camp she paid relatives in Baltimore and Boston a visit of two weeks or more. She also gave a passing glance at old friends in Washington and other cities along the route to her home in Washington. NEVER OUT OF WORK. The busiest little things ever made are Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, languor into energy, brain fag into mental power; caring Constipation, Headache, Chills, Dysppepsia, Malaria. Only 25c at all druggists. We return thanks to the J. Stevens Arms And Tool Company, of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, for a copy of their Dan Beard's "Guns and Gunning". This book is a comprehensive work on guns and their use, and all users of firearms should secure a copy. It can be had by sending 40 cents to the Stevens Arms Co., at above address, and we are frank to say that it will be money well spent. 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For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to September 22nd, 1911. No 55 Daily at 11.18 a.m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 55 Daily at 11.18 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.37 p m for Wheeling, Col- umbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6:16 p.m for Cincinnati. Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.10 a m for Cincinnati. Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39.5.44 p. m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p.m. for Pittsburg. No 15 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 12,15 p.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Martinsburg, W. V. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. Apple picking is the order of the day now, and hundreds of men are thus employed, and are making good wages. Little Clara, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. James Roman, is slowly recovering from a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia. A rally will be held by Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church on Sunday at which time a special effort will be made to raise one hundred dollars. The editor is visiting friends and relatives in the West Virginia wilds, and it is safe guessing that he is having a royal time. Miss Virginia Wells, of Berkeley Springs, has been the house guest of Miss Virginia Oliver during the week. Mr. Lucian Spears has been suffering with a cataract on his eye for several weeks, and while it is not yet well, it is considerably improved. Chestnuts are said to be very plentiful this year, and as a result, the mountains are full of old and young people hunting for them. If you want to get some fine, fresh and pure milk, don't forget that C. W. Ambrose, the former butcher, is on the streets of Martinaburg every morning. The Eoenezer Memorial Baptist Church congregation held an entertainment at Spears' Hall on Thursday evening. It was both enjoyable and profitable. Rev. R R Thompson, the well known Charles Town songster and preacher, addressed the congregation of Dudley Free Baptist Church all day last Sunday. Misses. Emma Becks and Lena Jenkins, two young ladies of Shenandoah, Virginia, are spending some time in our city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes Warrick and family at their home on Samuel Street. Mrs. Pembroke Gaitner's two little boys have been quite sick during the past week, but they are rapidly recovering under the skillful treatment of Dr. George W. Baylie, Martinsburg's new physician. Mr. Charles Moten, the popular janitor at the Old National Bank, went hunting the other day, and it is rumored that he had to send to town for a surrey to come to the country, and bring him and his game home. Mrs. P. R. Fletcher, and her two little daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth, have returned to their home in this city after a pleasant visit of a week or so to friends and relatives in Washington, D. C. The West Virginia Ministers and Deacons Union will convene at Kearneysville on next Saturday and Sunday. A large crowd is expected to be in attendance, and all Regular Baptists in this section are looking forward to the meeting of the Union with much pleasure. Mr. Lewis Ford was in to see us the other day, and his appearance inclined us to the belief that he is enjoying good health. He also told us that the recent District Conference, which met at Front Royal, Virginia, had granted him a license as a local preacher. I. W. Skelton has opened an up to date grocery and provision store in the Wolfea Building, Corner Martin and Raleigh Sts. His prices are very reasonable, and his treatment to all customers as nice as can be. Any one needing things in his line will do well to call and see him. The corporate authorities of the city of Martinsburg, are having the streets sprinkled with oil. This is being done for the purpose of settling the dust, and while the oil may show its value in the future, housewives are loud in complaint of this new departure, saying that the oil which sticks to the shoes, will be carried into the houses and ruin their carpets and mattings. SAVED HIS MOTHERS LIFE "Four doctors had given me up," writes Mrs. Luino Gaines, of Avon, La., "and my children and all my friends were looking for me to die, when my son insisted that I use Electric Bitters. 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