West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
OUR NAN ABOUT TOWN.
lie Has Some Pertinent Remarks TO
Make.

lie Has Some Pertinent Remarks to
Make.
Talk about Kingwood being such
a slow old town. Why she has been
ON the jump all summer. with the
courts, schools, institute, reunion.
tournament, camp-meetings, sum
mer visitors, cave parties, picnic
parties, fishing parties, croquet, ten
pins, lawn tennis, giddy girls, ice
cream, funerals, politics, weddings.
births, balls, women peddling street
yarn and men arguing politics, and
all together there is always some-
thing to go to and something to talk
about, and consequently the women
are satisfied any how. Any body
who claims that Kingwood is a slow
old town must be fast. very fast,
themselves.
We claim that Kingwood is the
most charming and picturesque lit
tie town "among the West Virginia
hills in which to spend your sum-
mer vacation, and we will bet that
all the visitors who were here this
season will come back again next
summer, and induce some OF their
friends TO come also. There has
not been over half dozen real warm
days here this summer, and when
we see by the papers that it is so
dry In some parts of Kansas that
hogs have to be soaked in the river
before they will hold slop, and SO
hot that they have to feed the hens
on cracked ice to prevent them from
laying boiled eggs, we are supreme
ly satisfied with the peaceful happi,
ness Of our cool, quiet little town,
and have no desire to accept Horace
Greeley's advice.
The ice-cream season is nearly
over and the dear girls are now
pining Tor oysters, while the young
man whose treasury has already
been depleted of the surplus, owing
to the increasing capacity of the
girls for ice-cream, begins to talk
about oysters not being good till
about holidays, but the average girl
knows better, she knows that they
are in season and good to eat dur
ing every month that has an Il in
it, this makes the season from Sep
tember till April, while the warm
months of May, June, July and
August have no II in them and SO
are not oyster months. Did You
ever think about that before
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BY the way the bycicle season is
nearly over too and we don t see the
boys out anymore riding their wheel
horses. Some of them have become
very expert and made long trips
into the country much to the as
tonishment of some of the good
people Of the rural districts hence
the following story:
A farmers wife was out IN her
front yard watering her thirsty
flowers, when a young man walking
hastily along the road came up to
the gate and inquired If she had
seen a man pass on q bicycle. She
dropped her watering-pot and said
she had not, adding, "But I'll tell
you what ldid see. / don't know
as you'll believe it, I'm sure / would
not have believed it if hadn't seen
it myself. 1t was one wheel Of a
wagon running away with n man (;
and ] never was so frightened in my
life"
Ask Hodie Blaker about this he
can give you further particulars.
One OF our young mon purchased
a new wheel and got so he could
ride 1t good and then as he could
not take his girl riding on it too,
he sold it and bought horse and
buggy and he says now that line
horse beats q wheel horse all hollow.
How fortunate that tho ice-cream
season is nearly over, for we read
in a newspaper (and Of course news
papers won't lio), that Cincinnati
/ girl is said to have eaton twonty-
seven dishes Of ice-cream in one
afternoon. This proves that what
Longfellow or some other fellow has
said about il is true
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