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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
PROCEEDING OF BOARD OF
EDUCATION,

at a meeting OF the Board OF
Education OF Kingwood District,
July 9th. 1898; present, NJ. G.
Feather, President, NJ. G. Gibson
and NJ. II. Powell, members.
On motion, j. T.. Murdock was
elected Secretary.
On motion, the following were
appointed Trustees for three years
No. 1-Kingwood Graded School
j. w. Parks, Director.
/, : No. 1-Colored School-D. r.
Jackson. ~ SD
No. 2-Pleasant fDale-M. f.
Pell.
No. 3-Savages-- Elisha Stone.
No. 4-HowesvilIe--E. Richards.
No. 5-Snyders-C. G. Craig.
No. G--Bonaiields--G. Castle.
No. Eighty Cut-Jas. Funk.
No. s-Tunnclton-7A. j. Bona
field.
No. o. Hopewcll--J. b. McGin-
mis-. 49,. tssee st1
No. 1o-GAcs Miil-Henry Cope
man. sia
No. 11-Turners-F. A. Fortncy.
No. 12-Irish RIDGE. }. Rick
leman.
No. 13--Catholic Church-Criss
Bergman. M
No. 14-Morris-Newton Morris.
No. 15-Garlitzs A. Llston.
On motion, the salary of teachers
was fixed-No. l, s3S; No. 2, 1872;
No. 3, $25. iict
On motion, the school levy for
Teachers Fund was made 90 cents
on the 100 valustion, for Building
Fund 10 cents on the 100 valuation.
On motion OF Dir. Powell, all
teachers employed in Kingwood Dis
trict be required to teach the Nick
erson Charts, and have the same
embraced i'll their contracts by the
Trustees.
VII hiOtiOhJ VIC hluS WOOu OTU-
ded School be authorized to fix up
another room and employ IN add
tlonal teacher. and that the Princi-
pal of the Graded School be allowed
$50 per month for six months.
On motion, the Directors of the
Kingwood Graded School were au-
thorized TO contract with the Prin-
cipal at $50 per month, and the
other three teachers according to
the number Of certificates held by
them.
On motion, the Trustees OF Nos
z and 8 are instructed not to re-
ceiye pupils from other district.
without regular transfer from said
districts.
J. +. MURDOCH. Sec'y,
Board Education Kingwood Dist.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
EXAMINER ELECTED.

KINGwooD, W. VA, July 10, '03.
Pursuant to a call Of the County
Superintendent, seven OF the nine
Presidents Of TIE Board OF Educa-
ton met today to elect y County
Board Of Examiners. The meeting
was called to order By the County
Supt. j. n. Baker, Of Evansville.
was elected Chairman, and VI. G..
Feather, OF Kingwood, Secretary.
IL. S. Whetsell was then placed in
nomination by the County Supt.
and unanimously elected for a term
Of two years. Several other teach.
ers we're placed IN nomination. but
we're rejected by the Presidents. No
further nominations beng made,
the body adjourned sine die. after
which the County Supt. called an.
other for the Goth Of Jaly, 1898.
81 9. FRAZIER, Scc'y.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

WASHINGTON, ID. O., July -
The Evening star has this: While
mem bcrs of Congress and leaders in
financial matters are discussing the
various plans by which the present
situation can be. relieved, the off,
Gals OF the Treasury Department
are quietly preparing statistics and
histories of financial transactions
for the benefit Of the administration
to guide it in its own views on this
vital subject. In many of the
bureaus the chiefs arc devoting
their spare time to the collection of
this information, go that 1t may be
in the hands Of the President and
Secretary Carlisle at the earliest
possible moment.
Several plans have been suggested
to Secretary Carlisle, and he has
them under consideration. Among
them is one which will create con-
siderable of a stirin financial circles
rs it contemplates an entire change
in the money system of the United
State. In short, the plan is to pass
a specie resumption act redeeming
all the various forms of money now
used in this country, and issuing
instead a U. S. treasury note whose
value shall always be fixed.
There are ut present nine differ
ent forms of money in circulation.
These are gold coin, standard silver,
dollars, subsidiary silver, gold GER
tlficates, silver certificates, treasury
notes of the act of July IA, 1890,
U. s. notes, currency certificates,
and national bank notes.
The fact of the wide difference
between the value of the gold and
silver coins, while they are theoret-
ically of a parity, is one of the
causes which suggested the plan
proposed. The plan under consid-
GRAFTON is to redeem all tho paper
currency, just as the fractional cur
rency was redeemed by the Sherman
act of 1879, and instead issue what
shall be known as the United States
Treasury note. 1t shall be redeem
able in "coin,'' but in the act the
definition of this word is to be
plainly stated. The Bank of
France has law by which notes
are redeemed partially in gold and
partially in silver, and such
method has been suggested for this
country. In connection with this
the ACCESSIBILITY of passing bill
authorizing an issue Of notes re-
deemaDle in silver alone has been
talked of.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
BLACK AS INK.
Dill That Puzzles old Operators.

''N6sNp OAu
The Pittsburgh Dispatch has the
following To say about well in
RitchIe county that is pnzzling the
operators
Down in Richie county, w. Va,
there are several new wells mder
way, and number of now ones
have been started recently.
The well of Ira Dewitt, at Mole
Hill, 81 miles northeast of Penns.
boro, has been bothering number
OF operators for some time.
Captain james Moore, who has
drilled all over the West Virginia
field, came up from Richie county
few days ago. lie had been TO
the Mole Hill well and declared the
oil WAS the most peculiar which he
ever found. 1t was struck in The
limestone above the Big Injun, and
filled up several hundred feet. The
oil was as black as ink, but WIS
lighter IN weight than any which
has been struck heretofore in West
Virginia. When rubbed between
the fingers no greece could be de-
tected, but instead there was feel
ing of grittiness which has never
been found in any other oil. There
has never been discovered any other
oil which in the least resembles it,
and the well IS mystery to all of
The old-timers who have visited it.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
A FIGHT ON TUNNEL HULL. !:

Special to the AnoUs.
On last Sunday quite an excite
ment was raised in Tuunelton by
the report of bloody fight on
Tunnel Hill. On Investigating the
matter we learn the facts to be as
follows
While Mr.. Lucian Bucklew was
quietly walking along the King
wood and Fellowsyille PIKE on Tun-
mel Hill, one Charles Sharps came
out OF house, walked out into the
road, and without saying anything
to Bucklew, commenced to strike
ut him. When he hit Bucklew the
second time, Bucklew started to
run--Sharps after him. Lucian ran
a short distance, picked up a stone
and turned on Sharps, who stopped,
turned and started for the house.
Lucian threw the stone, which, of
course, hit the ground very hard.
Then Lucian lad business some
place else. Sharps was arrested
and kept under close guard until
Monday morning, when he was ia
ken before Justice Miller, who,
after hearing the evidence, fined
Sharps So and costs, which amount.
ed to $3.50. And thus ended the
last bloodIess fight of Tunnel Hill.
Sharps and BuckIew were strangers
to each other, and had no previous
difficulty. Sharps was just on the
hunt of some fun, and found it.
DfcK
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

The Monthly Pension Drawn by Big,
Able. Bodied Men.

WASHINGTON. July IL. Pension
Commissioner Lochren is proceed
ing carefully but economically with
the work of freeing the pension
rolls Of unworthy recipients OF the
governments bounty. lie is max
I'ing some remarkable discoveries of
reckless manner in which the poo
PIES money has been misapplied In
the past, almost without regard to
the terms Of the pension laws as
passed by Congress.
Under the law s72 month is al
lowed where pensioner is totally
disabled that he must have an at
tendant TO take care Of him. and
help him to get around. 1t was
found that two quite we'll known
men here in Washington, one Of
them department employe draw
ing good salary, were on tie 'sto-
tally disabled" roll, getting pen
sions of s72 month. The depart
ment employe came and went to
aud from hls work every day, with
ont the aid of an attendant, indeed,
he is man in apparent good health,
and no one casually looking at him
would suppose be was totally dis
abled. He was ordered before the
Medical Board for examination,
but did not want to go until he had
few days "for preparation" FL
nally he went on the day on which
he was ordered, and was found to
be in as good physical condition
and as we'll able TO take care of
himself as most men of his age. By
no stretch of the law could he be
classed MS totally dlsa bled, and his
pension was reduced to SIT "A
month. The other case was that of
musician, who is well known in
society as frequcnter Of musicalcs
aud receptions, where he enterlains
the guests with his performance.
lie went about freely without an
attendant, for which he plainly had
no need, yet he was getting pen
SION of s72 month for total disa
n
bllity. After denomination of
the Medical Board his pension was
reduced to s32 a month. In each
of these Uses the pensioner had tho
right to appeal il he thought Ire VS.
unjustly treated, but neither man
demnrrcd TO the reduction.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

by the way, did you notice that
the ARGUS came to hand last week
Just as bright and newsy as ever,
while quite a number OF the county
papers Of the State failed TO issue
aud took a weeks holiday to ccle-
brate the great Columbian Fourth
Of July. As we all kept sober and
ready for business, it was not nee
essary for as 10 lay off a week.
Other papers may come and 90, but
the ARGUS goes on forever, and has
not, nor never will, miss one issue
under the present management.
Please give as credit for this, will
you-but not too much credit-we
would prefer a little more cash.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

HUNTINGTON, w. VA, July z.
The annual meeting Of the West
Virginia teachers adjourned sine
die this evening. Fairmont was
selected as the next meeting place.
Tine newly elected officers arc as
follows President State Snperin-
tendent, Virgil A. Lewis First
Vice President, w. II. Anderson,
Wheeling; Second Vice President.
A. l.. Wade, Morgantown Third
Vice President, q. J. 9. Bennett.
Buckhannon Fourth yice Prosi-
dent, Thomas E. Hodges, Hunting
ton Recording Secretary, A. j.
Wilkinson, Grafton Correspond
ing Secretary, w. NJ. Strauss, Par
kersburg Treasurer, Thomas 9.
Miller, Fairmont.
Resolutions were passed favonng
an increase in tho State schooI1evy,
and more effective supervision IN
the schools.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

Louis Delaplane, Jr., of Wheel
ing, Captain of the William l..
Wilson Tariff Students, has been
appointed by the President to be
Consulof the United States at DEM
erara, Guiana. The fees of the
Office make a very good salary, and
the young Democracy of the State
are to be congratulated on this rec
ignition by the Administration.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

Out in Iowa they had a terrible
cyclone last Friday. and Pomeroy,
a town OF 900 inhabitants in Cal.
houn county, was practically wiped
out of existence and nearly a hum
drcd people killed and about 200
injured. l.L
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

A terrible catastrophe happened
at the Worlds Fair Monday Of this
week. A large frame building
shat was a regular death trap,
caught fire and over score of
brave firemen lost their lives in the
flames and as many more were
severely injured.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

a good many people have been
here this week on business before
the County Court. The Commits
sioncrs have all been here in atten-
dance and have transacted consid-
erablo business. We will give a
full report of the proceedings next
week, as we are unable TO get at
the records in time for this issue.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

Here IS a good chance for some
Democratic politician who IS still
out Of job. The Corner Stone, OF
Wheeling, the new Prohibition or
gan Of the State, publishes the fol-
lowing offer
500 10 ANY DEMOCRAT
WHO WILL DISCUSS WOMAN suY-
TRACE WITH REV. ANNA SHAW At
HOUNDsvTLBE CAMP.
WHO WILL RESPOND1
We'll bet our Cleveland hat that
no married man will accept the
challenge. We would respond our
self, bat have decided 10 keep away
from Moundsville az long as we
can, and would fear getting Penned
up IL we went there to argue female
suffrage with a woman preacher.
j. has always seemed to us that the
greatest cause Of woman suffrage.
Nos the scarcity OF husbands.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13

There will be meeting Of the
Executive Committee Of The Sol
dier's Reunion Of Preston county.
with Geo. II. Thomas Post, G.. A.
r., at Function, w. Va, Friday.
July 2lst, 1898, for the purpose Of
making arrangements for the 9th
ANNUAL Rennion.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
COMMITTEE.

Kingwood, Geo. +. Hoffman ;
Valley, George Hartsoll Lyon, A..
q Scott; Reno, T. NJ. Hoffman /:
Union, W. A. Fortney Portland,
Capt. O. Q. Lee Pleasant, James
NJ Shaw; Grant, John l.. Everly.
A full turnout Of tho committee
and George u Thomas Post G.. A..
r. is requested
j. r. MURDOCH, President.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-13
a NEW MONEY SCHEME,

which WouId 90 Away with the
Forms ID Money Now la Use Ea-
tsreiy-- There are noss Nine BxIaas
or Money la use fn thc Unitcd
States.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
TESTING HIS

I was sitting out in front of the
colonel's store in a Kentucky town,
when a clored man came up TO the
pump with a bucket in his hand.
"Here, Sile," exclaimed the colonel,
I've been looking for you"
Eyes, boss; what yer want9" re-
sponded Shas, coming before the col
onel like a culprit.
Wasn't that you 1 saw fooling around
my chicken coop last night?"
Deed hit wuzn't, boss"
mo lying, you black rascal; it was
you and I can prove it. What were
you doing there?"
"Nothin', boss"
weren't you trying to steal a
chicken2'
Deed 1 wuzn't, boss"
CHOW look here, Sile, want to know
about this, and I'm going to, If you
don't tell the whole truth I'll hand you
over to the law"
Silas was badly frightened.
"Fo' de Lawd, boss, doan' do dat"
he pleaded. Use gwinter tell de troof.
I wu2 dar, boss, but 1 wuzen't dar ter
steal no chickens. Deed I wuzn't
boss. I done got Iigion las week, sab,
an 1 jis' wuz down dar 'mongst dem
chickens ter see eff 1 had de real powah
ter 'zis' temptation, boss. Da's what
I wuz dom dar, boss, an thank de
good Lawd, boss, I done got erway
safe. "-DetrOit Free Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
SINGING TO THE HERD.

Some CO wboys and cattlemen laugh
ingly assured me that they only sing
on watch to keep themselves awake;
others say they sing, talk loud or make
a noise just to let the cattle know they
are approaching so as not to brighten
and stampede them, but the greater
number hold-as l myself had read and
been led to believe-that the sound OF
the human voice, singing, talking or
calling out cheerfully, quiets and re-
assures the animals. However it may
be, they all sing and talk Or whistle to
them, and among my most vivid and
picture-lik recoH 9ctions is one OF a
certain night when an aching head
and heavy heavy heart held me awake,
and, slipping from the house in the lit
tie hours, I went aimlessly across the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
NOT so ATTRACTIVE.

When Lieutenant Peary was here
his hotel was besieged by boys and
young men who wanted to go with the
explorer to the North Pole next sum-
mer To one of them he said in effect:
"Have you ever been to the Arctic
regions9" mo"
"Have you been a saiIor2" mo"
"a mechanics" mo"
Are you grounded in any branch of
scientific knowledge2" mo"
"You have no pecialqualifcations?"
mo, but I can work"
"You are the man for me" said the
lieutenant, and the applicant flushed
with hope. But, by the way, he con-
tinued, There is a slight preliminary
before we sign papers. You will pay
$4,000 towards the expense of the ex-
petition" Give thousand dollarsp
Certainly. You may remember
that Mr.. Verhoef paid So, 900 for the
privilege of accompanying me on my
last expedition, and he, you know, was
a man of scientific attainments, and he
lost his life in the expedition"
The applicant waited to hear no
more.-Bufulo, ~ Y, Courier.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
GOLD IN A GRAVE.

ga good turn will always turn up so
that you never get the worst of it, "said
Frank Painter, of Como, Col, at the
LecIere Hotel to a reporter.
"How do you suppose one of the best
fellows that ever lived became a rich
man9 1t isn't a long story, but it shows
to a finish that a square act never goes
astray, even if it does take some time
in finding its way around.
"Jere Jackson came out to Colorado
in the early days without a cent to save
hislife. He knocked around for a year
and a half and lived from hand to
mouth. We all liked him, and we knew
it wasn't his fault that things didn't
turn his way, and none of the boys
would refuse him shelter when things
came particularly hard.
"Well, one day Jere struck out; he
was disguised with the world in gen
eral and with Mr.. Jackson in particu-
lar. While plodding along in a lonely
part Of the country a couple of days
after that he came upon the dead body
of a miner lying in the road.
"Poor fellow thought Jere, L sup
pose that's how I'll fetch up
He started in to give the dead
stranger the attention that he'd like
himself, was soon digging a grave for
a man he had V seen before.
He didn't dig far, though-hardly
two feet. He had run across gold
good, solid gold. He buried his IN
known friend in another hole and quit
the first one a rich man. A good turn,
even to a stranger, will never give you
the worst of it."-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE IN
A CRATER.

Thirty miles from the city of Kuma-
mota, Japan, is the volcano Asa San.
This volcano has the largest crater in
the world. 1t is more than thirty
miles in circumference, and peopledb by
90, inhabitants. Think of walking
for miles among fertile farms and pros
porous villages, peering into school
house windows and sacred shrines well
within the shell of an old time crater,
whose walls rise 800 feet all about you.
1t gives one aqueerfeeling Hot springs
abound everywhere. In one place I
saw the brick-red hot water utilized to
turn "a rice mill. The inner crater is
nearly half a mile in diameter, and a
steady column Of roaring steam pours
out Of it.
The last serious eruption was IN 1884,
when immense quantities of black ashes
and dust were elected and carried by
the wind as far as KumamOta, where
for three days it was 30 dark tina: arti-
fetal light had to be used. But what
interested me most was to learn that
out of that old-time crater had come
not only a stream of pure water and
many kinds of farm products, but
young men who, seeking a wider school
and home than the mouth of a vigor-
GUS volcano, had found their way to
IKumamota Kyoto and America, and
were now foremost among the Chris
tian educators and preachers of Japan.
The pulpit orator of Osaka, the prin-
cipal of an English school at Kuma-
mota, who is a graduate of AndoVer,
! and one of the Doshisha professors at
| Kyoto, New Haven graduate, all came
from that valley of death.-Spr1nGFetd
! Mass. REPUBLICAN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
WHERE TO FIND HEAVEN.

A minister enc day preached on
heaven. Next day he was going down
town, and he met one of his old wealthy
members. The brother stopped the
preacher and said:
Pastor, you preached a good sermon
about heaven. You told me all about
heaven, but you never told me where
heaven is"
"Ah" said the pastor, II am glad of
an opportunity this morning. have
just come from the hilltop yonder. In
that cottage is a member of your
church. She is sick in bed with fever;
her two little children are sick in the
other bed; and she has not got a bit of
coal nor a stick Of wood, nor -four, nor
sugar, nor any bread. If you will go
down town and buy S. worth of things
nice pr0visions-and send them up
to her, and then go up there and say,
My sister, I have brought you these
nice provisions in the name of our
Lord and Savior, then ask for a Bible
and read the twenty-third Psalm, and
then get down on your knees and pray
If you don't see heaven before you
get all through, I'll pay the bill" The
next morning he said: Pastor, I saw
heaven, and I spent fifteen minutes in
heaven as certainly as you are listen,
lng.'-SeZected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13

which led to the bank where he hoped
to find his father while Fred stalked on
alone, his face burning, and his eyes
flashing. He was bitterly disappointed
in this friend of his, whom he thought
he liked better than any boy in school.
81 like him first rate, if his father is
rich," he had said emphatically only
the day before, to a group of boys who
had called his new friend ''stuck up"
He isn't stuck up a bit! and there
isn't a mean hair in his headw Fred
had declared.
Now he felt ashamed and mortified.
How many ''mean hairs there must
be on the head of a boy who could take
revenge on his fathers coachman for
speaking sharply to him when he was
in great trouble.
Ralph found his father in the direct
or's room at the bank.
I'm very busy, my boy" said the
banker, looking up from his account
books, ''but if your business is urgent
I will give you 10 minutes to transact
it; that is more time than I generally
spare for one man."
81 can do it in 10 minutes" said
Ralph, briskly. And In point of fact,
in less time than that he had left the
Office with a satisfied look upon his
face. AS for the bank director, within
an hour from the time his son left him
he had sent a telephone message for
his coachman.
Rupert" he said, holding out his
hand when that faithful fellow ap-
peared, 81 am sorry to hear that you
ara in trouble. I did not know about
your brother, my friend. I wish you
had let me help you bearyour burden"
Then after a few more kindly words
and some questions into the condition
of things, he added: Rupert, my son
Ralph would like to show his sympathy
for you. He wants to buy a lot in u
cemetery-some pleasant, shaded spot
that you would like-and have it
decided to you. Then he wants you to
l1dFO AK ChS appointments 1OE UI6
funeral such as you would like them to
be if you had the money to spare, and
the bills are to be sent to me for him.
I am glad to have my boy do this, Ru-
pert, and I hope you will indulge him.
You can have the carriage, of course,
with Dan to drive, and Ralph and l
would like to go with you to the grave.
This is Ralph's own plan, the only way
he can think of, he says, to show his
sympathy for you; and he is very anx-
iOus to do it,"
Then Rupert broke down utterly,
dropped into a chair, laid his head on
the bank directors table, unmindful of
the great solemn books piled there
which represented millions of money,
and cried like a child.
ut was a great, splendid, beautiful
revenge" said Fred, pouring out the
words from a full heart. II didn't
understand you a bit; but I do now.
There isn't a mean hair in you head,
and I said there wasn't. 1.-The Pansy.