West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-05-12
CAUGHT ON THE PLY.
News and Notes Picked mp By the
Nayside.
Editorial Correspondence.


the L. *. & f., we struck the b.
& o. branch alright at Tunnelton
and found this usually quiet little
town patting on metropolitan airs.
A city directory b.ll board in Bon
aields store, gave all necessary
directions to travellers, and Ash
Moore has promised to have the
town Incorporated when he gets to
Charleston. We met Winfield
Scott Garner, recently arrived from
Richmond, Indiana, where he has
been engaged all winter for the
Gresham Publishing Go. He is
only home for short time looking
after his farm and family and will
return soon.
On the train we met j. Ed XII
dow of Oakland, enroute to Weston
to accept position on the Democrat
of that place, as Robert Lee Bland.
the junior editor goes to Buckhan-
non to start new paper to be called
the Dispatch. Mr.. Kildow takes
Mr.. BANDS place.
At Grafton we found everything
so dry that the great Sahara Desert
is nowhere and lots of the old regu-
lars are now eating large quantities
of salt fish to give them an appetite
for water. 1t will be a great sur.
prise to their stomaches, but they
Will have to come to it for the liquor
business is very effectually knocked
out there now, and promises to
remain that way for some time.
This may interfere a little with the
usual observance of Dissertation
Day and the crowd that attends
may not be as hilarious as usual
and it may be that the services will
be of such nature that it will be
proper TO callit Decoration Dav."
The =" Law and Order League,
that has so successfully fought the
"wet grocery business" are still
preparing for war, and at the last
meeting it was arranged that the
President should select "Smelling
Committee" to hunt MP evidence
and any violations Of the law and
report it to the President who will
then take the proper legal steps.
No one but the President is to know
who the committee is. Even the
members themselves Of the ''Smell-
ing Committee !" are not to know
who the Others are, and this way
they will get on to evidence without
being suspicioned. 1t was also
decided to insist of U. S. Mar
shall White, in very strong terms,
that he dispense with the services of
the Deputy Marshal, who came
there and made such bold bluff
against the work of the League. and
in case he refuses, the matter will
be laid before President Harrison.
Then again the League is making
ready to take hand in the election
this fall and see that temperance
man is elected member of the
County Court, in place of the anti
license mem Der whose time expires
this year, having one liquor man
and one anti-license man on the
court. The liquor men will make
a strong fight to elect a man who is
in favor of license, and so the fight
promises to be interesting outside
Of politics and It will be seen that
the crusade against the liquor men
is not over yet.
1t will now be in order for Graf.
ton to establish Water Works. and
the vote would probably carry for
/ III THIS time.
We met Secretary Dawson Of the
Republican State Committee ON his
road home to visit his family i'm
Ringwood. lie has been down
through the interior to see how far
back the 'back counties " were.
and greasing the political machine
generally. When a regular old
fashioned Democratic majority is
rolled mp again this fall by West
Virginia, there will be Grape on the
door Of a dwelling house corner O.
Price and High Streets, KiDgwood
Dawson Is planting Republican
papers in every county that has
none, to run till after the election
anyhow, and thousands Of copies OF
the New York Tribune is being
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