The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-07-13
POINTS bout PEOPLE.
Pertinent Paragraphs Both Pleasing
and Personal.

and Personal.
Il John A. Price is home from Wheel
. ing for few days looking after some
private business matters.
Prof. Hodges has been made cap
tain of the Huntington Light In
fantry.
Mrs. DIR. F. H. Patton, of the Sol
diers Home, at Dayton, Ohio, and
her children are visiting at Mr..
Henry Dorsey's.
John f. Chips, of Clinton, who
was quite i'll some time ago, has, we
are glad to say, recovered his usual
health.
Word comes from Washington that
Navigating Officer Brown, of the
United States steamship Trenton, is
to be promoted for his gallant and
intrepid conduct in the great storm
at Samoa, by which he saved the
ship. The Legislature of West Vir-
ginia would do credit to the State
| by presenting sword to this now
distinguished West Virginian. States
have done such things but never
with more reason.-IntelligeRcer.
Launcelot NJ. Berkeley, who for
several years past has been teaching
at Alexandria, Va, is at his old
home here for the heated term.
Prof. r. A. Armstrong, of West
Liberty Normal school, is taking
Prof. Brooke's summer law lectures.
Miss Bessie Murphey leaves to-
day for La Sale, ILL.,, to visit her
father for some months. She may
not return to live permanently in
Morgantown. Miss Bessie is pop
ular young lady and will be sadly
missed by many friends. We hope
for her good health and much pleas
ure.
Miss Laura Joseph, of Morgan
town, who has been teaching for the
past ten months at Georgetown, n. j.,
is spending few days at the Airing
ton Hotel, as the guest of j. Gran
StClair.--Grafton Leader. Miss
Laura has returned home and has
we learn spent pleasant and profit
able year in the east.
Rufus West is off for few days
visiting his father at Texas, Marion
county, and his sister at Mountain
Lake Park
[ Misses Carrie and Oracle Core,
and Lollie Berry, all Of Elk Garden,
are visiting Mr. Scott Core at his
home in Oak Glenn this week.
Grafton Leader.
Monday July |, Mrs. Dr. p. II.
Strauss left for her home at Palatka,
Florida, after visit of a few weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. JAS
A. Davis. Mrs. Strausz was former
ly reigning belle here and her WIS.,
its from her home in the Peninsular
State will and have been the signal
of happy time for the legion of
friends she possesses here.
Washington and Lee University,
of Lexington, Virginia, has conferred
the degree of Doctor of Science on
Prof. Thomas Moore Jackson, of the
University, and Prof. st. George L.
Brooke, of the Law School, of the
University, has been given the de-
gree of LII. d. by Wake Forest Col
lege, of North Carolina. These hon
ors are well merited by the gentle
men upon whom they have been be-
slowed.
The following five personal para
graphs are clipped from the last is
sue of the Fairmont Inder:
Capt. j. E. Brown, of Morgantown,
was here short time on Wednesday.
James Wallace, the popular land
lord of Morgantown, was in town
last evening
Charlie Hayes, of Morgantown,
that prince of good fellows, was here
helping to institute the new Lodge
of X. of P
W. G. Brown, Jr., was in the city
Wednesday. Our pleasant town
has some attractions for Mr.. Brown,
but we would advise him "to keep
his eye ON his number"
Our young friend Harry Hayes
left Wednesday night for Helena,
Montana, where he will visit his sis
ter, Mrs Grimes, and to remain per-
manently if the place suits him.
We are sorry to lose Harry. He is
an accommodating and industrious
young man and will make his mark
wherever he goes. We commit him
to the tender mercies of the young
ladies of Helena.
Col William Hood, of Shinnston,
has been in town several days this
week, and it is understood that on
Wednesday he succeeded in selling
the coal underlying his lands to the
Camden syndicate.-West Virginia.
The four following paragraphs are
clipped from the Waynesburg Re
publican.
Miss Cora Donley, daughter of
Jas. P. Donley, of Morgantown, W.
Va, is visiting her uncle, Hon. j. B.
Donley, and other relatives of this
place.
Mrs. Iide B. Williams, of Sharon,
Pa, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Purman, of this place.
Mrs. Williams is teacher in the
Academy at the city named.
Mrs. Estella B. Clark, formerly of
this place, but now an instructor in
Lincoln University, Lincoln, ILL.,, is
visiting relatives and friends here
during Commencement.
Forney L. G. Long, the genial pro-
prietor of large simmer hotel at
Oakland, Nd, was in town Tuesday
on business.
Miss Hattie Williams, who for
several weeks past had been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Geo. C.
Steele, returned to hel home at
Greensboro on Monday of last week.
She was accompanied by her friend,
Mrs. Nellie Sweeney Palmer, who
will remain for short stay, return
ing to visit friends here
Little Anna johnson is suffering
greatly at present with that dread
disease, scarlet fever, at the residence
of her grandmother, Mrs. H. S.
Hayes.
Miss Cora Donley returned Satur-
day evening from her visit to Way
nesburg and Mt. Morris.