West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-12-19
COUNTY AND STATE NEWS.
oh, the mud, the detcstsble mud.


Come in and settle your bill, or send
it by letter.
The city ofCumberland is to be light
cd by electricity.
FIX Sheriff Ford and wife wore i'm
town over Sunday,
We had no papers FROM Thursday
till Monday evening.
We learn that there is tslk or forming
reading circle here this wi lter,
Everybody oontempla going to
Washington on the 4th OF March.
Notice tho advertisement of the
Grafton One Price Clothing House.
w. q. Brown and w. G. worley are
attending court in Tucker county.
JAS. 1. Stone was in Wheeling last
week attending U. 5. court as u juror.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in the
mountain, and the Nimrods are baeging
many of them.
SD-Try TIE ARGUS and the New
York World ono year, We can gave you
both for 81 rs.
The National Base Ball League has
adopted the fl t;ened bat to be used the
coming season.
We would advise corr spondents To
neAer begin their communications with
locals are scarce"
Miss Tina Goodwin gave up her
school in Portland district, and came
home last Saturday.
Our school is progressing finely. The
scholars all speak we'll of the teachers
This is a sign for good,
That dread disease, dip.hcria, has
mado its appearance in town. 1t comes
i'll malignant form too.
Tine protracted meeting at Sh,y's
Chapel. in Union distric', closed with
fnnr sccossions TO the church.
The Washington monument IL vt
last compl, ted. 1t is 55j feet hght-re
highest structure in the world
A lively business was done borlre
justices court here on Saturday last.
Several suits were disposed of.
The miners i'm the Connelsville Coke
Region have quietly acquioqced to Il re-
ducIion of six per cent in wages.
Charley Fawcett has the medal for
the largest porker killed alb ,ut town. /
weighed, wh-n dresse I, 375 pounds.
George RaIphsuyder, of MonongaIia
county. come over to this place on sun
day last and returned lone on Tuesday.
Bell, the furnsturs man, il having
several thousand feet Of walnut lumber
sawed AT the Morris mill down at the
river.
-Graiton girls have organized un an
ti-s'ay after Ten O'CLOCK society, and
Marshall, OF the Standard, is awful mad
about it.
ID. X Jackson has bought the store
and real estate of Morris Albright at Al
brightsvIIle, and will take possession the
frst ofJanuary.
The elect IN ola Mayor, Recorder,
and Town Cuuncn will take place IN
next month. } ct good mon be selected
10 fiji these positions.
Last Thursday a ten year old boy
named Massey, shot and killed his seven
year old niece down in Kanawha county.
The boy is under arrest for the deed.
Some ministers Of The Gospel in this
county have boon boy cot,ed by their
hocks because they voted for st. John.
There is religion with a vengeance in
ibis.
At wedding reception up In Reno
district last week, we are informed that
"a "bloody shirp WAS hung out as a mat
rimonial emblem. Ont horror OF hOr-
rorsi
Last Friday we received no mail at
this place. Shaw went to Tnuneltou,
A'dAoN MS Hdch WIN teiFub hIiu pdSaeu~
gers and came away forgetting the mail
pouches.
u. Rineheimor. Of the Grafton One
Price Clothing House, was in town on
Tuesday night. he took some of his
lady friends with agreeable surprise
while here.
Little Johnny Curly, aged 10. caught
his foot under a root while at play on the
school ground At the Catholic church
near Howesyille last Friday, fell 10 the
ground and broke his leg.
Forty new buildings costing in the
aggregate $4,000. and $4,000 church
have beeu erected in wousbuIR tho past
year. tits one Of the most fourismng
business towns in the State.
Hampshire county, being the banner
Democratic county Of West Va, sska the
privilege Of naming the next Speaker OF
the House Of Delegates and names Henry
y. Gilkeson, Of RoInnoy, ~ the nan.