The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-15

rs usual.
The weed crop on the bachelor lot
has been partially harvested
BoRN, August l, 1891, to z. C. AL
lender and wife, OF Pt. Marion, son.
SUNDAY last was the hottest day
Of the year in Pittsburg and Cincn-
natl.
The Moundsvllc camp meeting
commences the 18th inst. and lasts
ten days.
The Grafton ball nine defeated
the Fairmonters Thursday. Score,
IL to 8.
THERE will be a grand Harvest
Home at Mooresville, Aug. 22. All
are invited
Do YoU know that the Farmers
Store is selling the best brands of
coffee at rs cents.
Mr.. GLAsscocK's new residence on
north Spruce street is receiving the
finishing touches.
THERE were fifty through passen-
gers on the Germania Thursday from
Pittsburg to Morgantown.
The huckleberry has joined the
silent majority, the last in the mar
ket sold at 30 cents per gallon.
FArRMoNT and Warrington played
ball Saturday. Score, Warrington
20; Fairmont L.. Let everybody
weep
A GREAT many people have come
up on the boats during the past
week and gone to mountain board
ing houses.
SEVERAL young men who should
know better are doing entirely too
much cursing about the depot and
at other public places.
The r. IL r. club received a chal-
lengc last week from the Warrington
club, and when they play something
will be heard to drop in the oil re-
gion.
WAsHBURN d ARLINGTowN's Cir
Gus showed here on the 4th to good
crowds. Not drunken man was
seen on our streets or at the show.
Comment is not necessary.
ISAAC WEAVER has we understand
sold out his stone quarry and tools
to Morg. UT and Tom Walls and
will engage exclusively in the saw
mill business with j. j. Wharton.
The machinery will arrive in a
few days for the Victor Elevator and
Mills Co.'S elevator which is now al
most completed The elevator has q
capacity of $4,000 bushels of grain.
A PORTION of court alley between
Long alley and Front street is being
repaired with cobble stone. AS this
is the filthiest alley in town it is to
be hoped that the good work will go
on.
WILL Low received severe cut in
the head few days since while
working on the court house. A piece
Of timber fell upon the end of
clinch bar causing it to fly up with
the above result.
The Parkersburg Sentinel is call
ing on the city council to give the
people little light on the finances
Of the city and adds that "the people
have right to this information
spe officially and in detail'
MI. MORRIS Council Jr. O. u. A.
M. will celebrate its first anniversary
Aug. Id. by a picnic in one of the
groves near that town. They will
sndeavor to make it characteristic
'Junior Order" demonstration.
The steamer Jolly Brothers arriv-
ed Friday afternoon with party of
excursiouists aboard from Wood S
Run near Brownsville, Pa. The
party spent several hours in town
leaving for home about five o'clock.
A NUMBER Of the members of the
Friendship Sporting Club, of Home
stead, which has been in camp just
below Lock No. 9. came up the other
day on their private steam launch
Edna, aud spent the day cooking at
our town.
The stable which stood on the
East end of the John H. Hoffman
lot on Spruce street has been torn
down by the purchaser of the lot
Col. d. ID. johnson. The Colonel will
we understand erect a handsome
dwelling there.
Mr. v. D. BozovsKY held religious
services in the Jail Sunday afternoon
for the benefit of the prisoners. Mr..
Bazovsky is a Bulgarian and stu
dent of Ann Arbor University who
left the Greek church and embraced
the Protestant faith.
People who have seen both build
ings and are competent judges say
that our new court house when com
pleted will be much finer building
than that of Harrison county. Why
not? 1t will cost several thousand
dollars more and is better planned.
The r. and r. and the G. W.
Johns nine played an exciting game
of ball Wednesday evening for the
ice cream. The r. and RS were to
shut out the Johns but the game
was called at the end of the 4th in
ming, score 10 to in favor o. the R.
and r.
In OUR advertising columns King
q Franklin's New Colossal Shows
are announced to exhibit here Au-
gust 25th. There is no show travel
ing that comes to us better heralded
or that has better reputation among
our show goers. This year it comes
to US in a new shape and with large
ly added attractions, presenting a
program entirely unprecedented.
"THE man who will go to a show
aud take high seat, yell and in
dulge in horse laughs while he
plants his horsehide boots against
the spinal column of the man ins
front of him should be harpooned
with the center pole and fed to the
bengal tiger was the remark, just
after the circus was over with which
an angry citizen, with foot prints on
the back of his prince albert reliev-
ed himself
The Hilarity Club broke Camp
Friday after u delightful outing of
three weeks. The last night in
Camp was the most hilarious of
them all as each member exhausted
A. L..