The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09

3. u. HlRSCh MAN.
AN elegant new piano ROW adorns
the parlor Of Dufr's Hotel.
MoRoASrowN is making active
preparations for Commencement.
CHARLEY SHANKs is an agreeable
and accommodating postofiice clerk.
We are glad to know that most of
the sick in town are getting better.
MAJOR MCCONNELL and his engi-
neer corps are working in this yicin-
ity.
MR. AMHERST MILLER has sold his
house and lot on Front street to Mrs.
Julia Bright.
PRoF. BROOKE is the happy father
of a bouncing baby boy. The New
DOMINION extends congratulations.
TaERE are already quite number
OF persons in town who have come
nr the purpose Of attending Com
mencement.
MoRGANTowN Female Seminary
Commencement at the Presbyterian
Church, Thursday evening at s o'clock.
All are cordially invited
The rastering on the new M. P.
Church was begun last weeks Messrs.
Weatherwax and Boydston, Of Fair
mont, are doing the work.
EVERY one is entering into the
spirit Of the grand reunion and cele-
bration to be held here on the Fourth.
1t bids fair to be grand success.
GEO. ~. JOHNSON has recently pur-
chased an elegant upright piano. 1t
is O Kranich and Bach, and was
bought Of Messrs. Wilson & Banner,
of Wheeling.
ONLY one deed was admitted to
record for the week ending Saturday,
June.2, 1883, viz: Mary Rude to
Martin Boyles, 81 acres, Union dis
4aict, for 800.
DIR. MoRRIs and his assistants are
here and willremain until after Com
menccment. Persons needing his
services are requested to make en-
gagements early.
DIS. GEo. B. MoRRIs AND A. b.
HALL, Dentists, will he in Morgan
town on the lst day of June and re-
main Is days. Call early and make
yoar engagements as they expect to
be busy.
We learn the Waverleys will give
agrand ball on Commencement night,
since the contest will not. come off.
1t will doubtless be magnificent
affair, as the Waverleys are making
nmple preparations. =
The Board of Education one eve
ming last week paid the. Academy a
visit OF inspection. Their object
was to ascertain what improvements
were most needed, and to take steps
toward having them made at once.
The new sidewalk on North Boun-
diary street is finished, and is a gr at
improvement on the former one. The
walk is widcned and is nicely and
evenly graded its entire length, SO
that there is now no possibility of
it's caving in as the former one did.
Mr.. H. G. BAKER lost valuable
csw last Sunday afternoon. She took
sick suddenly and died in less than
an hour. The cause is unknown.
Mr. Baker had but recently purchas-
ed the cow, paying oyer forty dollars
Tor her. He has our sympathy in
his loss.
OK Thursday evening the Com
mencement exercises of the Morgan
town Female Seminary will be held
in the Presbyterian church. The ex-
ercises this year promise to be Of a
highly entertaining character. Three
young ladies will graduate, Miss Ollie
Lawhead and Misses Mary and Lille
Hagans.
The Presidents of the various
Boards of Education met Tuesday
for the purpose of confirming Sup't
Morgan's appointments for members
of the Examining Board. Messrs.
W. II. Hillery, of Battelle, and Thos.
Z. Hodges, of Morgantown, were the
nominees. The nominations were
confirmed.
The Beard Of Health and. town
authorities have been assiduonsly at
work during the past week, inspect
ing all places in town and vicinity
which would in any way be liable to
cause the spread Of disease. They
are to he complimented on the eff
cient manner in which they have
done their work. -.
On Tuesday evening, May goth, a
very pleasant entertainment was Civ
en- at the Presbyterian church, in
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of
the departure Of Mrs. Louisa Wilson
Lowry, one of. the first four mission
afjes who left this country for India.
The exercises consisted of recitations
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