West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-03-14
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Read the article in this issue on the
Reassessment order.
There seems t. be q lull in the railroad
boom al FairmoRt.
Who are those two well-known CHI
zeas of TINS county upon whom the Red
Men" waited
Our county taxes amount to one dol
lar end fifty eight cents, or over one and
bslf per cent
Film re Hickman, editor and propri
e,or IF The West Union Record, died last
Friday week Of consumption.
-Ole farmer over in Garrett; county.
Md, has already made one Ii, usand
pounds Of maple sugar this season.
Mr.. joe Painter, of Uuiou distric,
was married F,b. 90, by Rev. w. Y. Cine,
20 Miss Anna BruOsker, Of Virginia.
The price Of years subscrip.ion to
Tue ARGUS Is ouly one dollar. Every
Dem Graf in the county ought to take this
Pspcr
-CAtheine Z daughter Of Jesse II.
and Cathauno ShSffer, Of Uuion district.
died Of "hoopirg cough on the first day
OF March
TIE kingwood and Tuuneltou II. r
Co. held their regular weekly meeting
l.si Moaday evening ANS well that
ends we'll"
Read the legal advertisements in Til,
issue. You may be lnduccd thereby t.
come to town on Tuo day, April slh, and
buy a cheap farm.
LIT the houest farmer remember that
IL ia the county txs thst are pressing
him SO heavily. lie pays 1853 cents on
the hundred dollars This is outrageous.
The Mitchell boYs,of Somerset coun-
", PenusJ lvania, took Grove Of foe
hoIses thr ugh town las, Saturday. Tney
purchased them in Barbour and Randolph
CUuntit@.
Two Of the Jurors in The Dukcs-Nut,
tiial have Brought sui. sgaius: the Uiiou-
town Republican Standard for libel. /,
is repor ca that there will soon be abuu,
Gfty diff quits instituted against the
publishers Of that pspol.
"A Democratic Stale Convention will
be hold At ChaIl ston, Aprii 1911. TO az
point tUur delegates to Represent the State
81 Ia g. 10 toe Democratic National Con-
Yen,.on. Stale Executive Committee
will be ap olntej at the same time.
There is report going thu rounds If
the prtss that tho famous "R j Men"
have lately appeared IN this county, aud
waited upon two well known aud respect
able citizens. We believe the report to be
untcundsd, and place no credeuce in the
story.
-BeY. Murray makes sn appeal 10 this
weeks paper to tue Baptists in this coun-
", He admonIsbcs them 70 work ear
nestly TO pHoh 20 completion their pro.
posed church building at this place, The
slciety is weak financially here aud their
friends throughout the county should lend
them liberal aid
-RaccoOn has new postmaster Ste
phen SlaDe5erry has been appointed. The
citizens Of Independence ought to have
the name Of their postofiice changed to
that Of the town. RaccoOn, Raccoop,-
that Is not diguided enough for the name
Of the postcfice in as live and enteipris-
ing town as Independence is
1t is reported that Sam r. Mccormick
has purchased the Grafton Eagle and will
hereafter run il as a Republican p.pcr in
hs own interests. jim Holt, formerly Of
this place, snd late If the Sentinel, will
take editorial control Of Mccormick
new organ, aud a bitter fgbt will at once
be instituted against the Sentinel, tho Re
publican organ II Jno W. Macon.
1t is reported here that Absdom Du-
vail. well known IN this county, has been
Incarcerritcd in the oakland, Nd. Jail on
charge Of horse stealing. i, seems tina!
there Tero three or four engaged IN the
business two Of whom were caught The
captured divulg d the whole secret impli-
eating Duyall as one Of their number. The
Garrett county authorities wrote Sheriff
Thomas 10 arrest Duvall, but 20 seems be
became suspicious and left here before the
Sheriff laid hands upon bin. Strange 20
say, he went over into Garrett county
where he was promptly arrested, and
be now occupi,s suite Of rooms in the
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