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


JAMES PHrILIPs has erected q
handsome barn on his lot in South
Morgantown.
The Camp Meeting at Mounds
vile Commences Aug. ID. DIR. Tai
mage is expected to be present.
CLARKsBuRo's society people held
q large picnic at Gypsy Grove re-
Gently. The Grove is now right in
the swim.
The Cuchoo Club that spent sew
eral week on o. H. Dille's farm have
pulled up stakes and gone home.
Pittsburg.
GRE EN- County, Pa. farmers report
that the grasshoppers are injuring
the grain crop, principally feeding
ON the oats.
JOSEPH MUM was called to Nor
gantown this week to embalm the
remains of an oil man who died back
in the oil field airmont linden.
WE return our thanks for an inyi-
tation to attend the reunion Of
Maulsby's Battery which will take
place at Fairmont Sept. 10, Ii and
IL.
The roasting ear has Joined the
watermelon in the choleric process
sion and if the son of Ham is not
happy there is no happiness this
side of Paradise
The work of widening Long Alley
and grading it from Bumbo Lane to
Wiley street is in progress. 1t will
add much to the value of property
on that thoroughfare.
LICENSE to wed was issued Aug. 3,
to, to Richard NJ. Fox, of Marion
county, and Miss Mary Stewart,
daughter of S. G. Stewart, of Monon-
gala county. Notice ofthe marriage
appears in another column.
The roof of w. d. Guseman's
handsome residence cought fire
few days ago from q defective fue,
but the blaze was discovered and ex-
tipguished before any serious dam
age was done This is the third
time the residence has been on fire.
THE calathumpian band was out
Monday night and serenaded Will
Semans and bride. The boys man
aged to make night hideous until
Will made them speech when they
dispersed and meandered after thank
ing the South Morgantown cop for
his kind consideration in taking down
their names for future reference.
A CAR load of Ia registered Jer-
seys were received here Saturday
from Connecticut. There were in
the lot seven mich cows, six heifers
and one bull. One of the cows has
record of III pounds of butter in
seven days. o. H. Ollie got three
and b. Nj. Jones one of the cows; the
others being for ID. G, Hoffman
They will be quite an addition to
the blooded stock of this vicinity.
The Executive Committee of the
University at their meeting last
week granted the residents of Sunny
Side the right to build trestle foot
bridge across Falling Run in the
grounds Of the University. Now let
the bridge be built at once. Pro-
crastination is the thief of time and
if that bridge is not commenced be
fore the beautiful snow begins to fall
another winter of wading in mud
awaits the Sunny Siders.
THE Blaine Fishing Club composed
of a number of our young gentlemen
will go into camp the third week of
this month opposite POOLS rocks on
Decker's creek. At that point the
creek is filed with horny clubs,
hosts of sun fish, water snakes and
happy recollections of the shines we
used to have before the old dam was
torn down." The mully grub and
cricket crop ON the surrounding hills
is as good as Sin the days that are
past" and the boys will gather them
in and fish for-reminiscences.
MoReANTowN voted last Saturday
on the question of letting the boys
wet their whistles when they felt
that way, but they wouldn't have
it that way and the boys will have to
be content With pump water for a
while longer. OF course this puts
an end to all whisky drinking, per-
haps. - Clarhsburg Telegram. There
is no perhaps about it. Our boys
drink nothing stronger than pure
clear mountain water and do not have
to mix whisky with it and hold their
noses as do the Clarksburgers in or
der to stomach the filth which they
get from the Hospital at Weston!
No, we drink water.
The Coored Stars, of Morgan
town, and the Hone Rubbers of
Grafton played at Grafton Monday
of last week, but like all of the Hill
side city's ball clubs they were not
init being shut out. Score IL to 0
in favor of the Stars. Grafton never
could and never will know how to
play ball. The following day the
Stars stopped off at Fairmont and
repeated the same old story. Our
pitcher gave them drop balls but the
Razor Singers were knocked out of
sight and the Stars piled up IA runs
to their get some, some other day.
The Stars will play game soon
with the Parkershurg nine at Clarks-
burg or Gypsy Grove.
PRoF. JOHN L. JOHNSON, chief
engineer of the P. w. d R. R., has
been at home and informs us that he
has located 26 miles of the road
commencing at Waynesburg. The
corps is now at the head of Flat Run
and the line of Monongalia and Mar
ion counties. The road crosses Mon
ongalia Co. entering it at Blacks
vile. The corps will finish the
work as far as Warrington in about
three weeks when the Professor will
resume his duties at the University
and another engineer will have
charge of the work from that point
to Clarksburg. The entire length
of the road from Waynesburg to
Clarksburg will be about 70 miles.
MAIN street residents put on their
war paint some days since whetted
their scalping knives and started out
on the trail Of the Telephone Compa
ny all through the misanderstand-
ing that Council had granted the
Company the right TO put up their
poles on that thoroughfare which
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