The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-11-04
DIR. GEO. b. MORRIS will be at
home from the goth to the last Of ths
month until further notice.


home from the goth to the last OF tn.
month until further notice.
THIS year Thanksgiving Day comes
on Nov 30th, but don't get excited.
TIE Blaine is out of the docks,
newly painted and furnished and
generally overhauled. The German
la went in for repairs when the Blaine
came out.
As THERE was no indictment found
against Ellis Turner on the charge
of embezzlement, his bond was re-
leased and the charge against him
was dropped.
ANY person here abouts who has a
good, keen scented, clear bark ing,
long winded coon dog can find a
purchaser by sending the beast to
George M. John.
THERE are not ZOO pug dogs in
town now, but there will be if the
fall and winter crop is good They
ought to be moved down before they
take a fresh start.
Down at Parkersburg the young
folks of both sexes have engaged in
escapades in the apparel of the other
sex. The matter has gotten into the
newspapers and will probably be
checked
Miss MATTE Brock will in few
days open a school for young ladies
at her Spruce street home, where
they will receive instruction in those
branches which will prepare them
for college.
The public scholars and Universe
ty should both observe Arbor Day,
Nov. 10th, in the practical manner
intended. Each division in one and
class in the other should have its
1898 tree.
Do you know that our line of blan-
kets, comforts, wool shirts, yarns,
fannels, and gloves lay all competi-
tors in the shade? See them and
get prices before buying elsewhere.
HUTCHINSON q JACOBS.
AssPAPER in the interior has put
the puerile problem of the pale past,
"Why don't men attend church,
to its readers. 1t would do just as
well to ask why men don't eat ice
cream with fork.
VIM. l. PRoTZMAN's new house on
Spruce street, on the lot adjoining
A. l.. Nye's, is nearly completed.
The residences of Ed. and John
Tough, down Beechurst, are also
nearing completion.
DENNIS CorTER, well known resi-
dent of Randolph county, was knock
ed down in the court house yard in
Beverly few evenings ago and rob-
bed of 800. The thief is suspected
and may yet be brought to justice.
A BIG crowd of men walked here
from Fairchance Saturday ON their
way to the Kanawha mining region.
The men were all miners who had
quit work in the Connellsville region.
They took the train from here to
Parkersburg.
PASTURE is better than since June.
The recent showers have made the
grass not killed by the long drought
grow rapidly until fields that
were brown and almost bare for
months are now green and make good
picking for stock.
The stock in the timing shop
formerly owned and conducted by
A. G. Brady, who removed to Mount
Morris, has been purchased by
Clarence and Dorsey st. Clair, who
will carry on the business at the
Walnut street stand.
GOOD many people have an idea
that the Columbian postage stamp
will cease with the closing of the
Worlds Fair. Such, however, is not
the case. The stamps will be on
during the year and as much longer
as the supply printed holds out.
GEORGE G. CANS and H. T. Jaco
of this place have gone into the hotel
business in Pittsburg. They have
opened up in the place run until re-
Gently by A. J. Sterling, Jr. Mr..
Jaco was formerly in the hotel bust
ness in Morgantown, and Mr.. Cans
ran livery stable here for some
time Uniontown Standard.
HALLOWEEN came last night and
with it the usual number of pranks
which did the victims no harm and
the perpetrators no good. Some way
or another they don't have as much
fun on this accession nowadays as
they did formerly, when the idea did
not run so much to the destructive
as to good, innocent amusement.
CREED RAYMOND, formerly of Mar
ion county, and since the war the
great railroad attorney and Repub-
lican politician of San Francisco, is
dead, and by his will all his proper
ty goes to his favorite type.
writer, but this was not because he
did not have relatives. There are
great many of them in West Vir-
ginia.
TURKEYS are going to be cheap this
season. The dressed article is now
selling here for 10 cents pound,
while chickens cost ID cents a pound.
Feed is scarce and raisers are anxious
to dispose of their turkey stock.
Dressed hogs are going to be high,
though they can now be bought for
8 cents. The longer they are kept
toward winter the higher they will
be, for the same reason Of a scarcity
in the provender supply.
DR.. GEORGE w. JOHNSON has in
deliberation a deal for vast tract of
walnut timber in Tennessee and is
said to look favorably upon the pro-
ject. If he should conclude to buy
he would remove his entire timber
equipment of teams there and also
take many of his best workmen with
him. Should he decide to go it |
would not be till he has completed |
the large operations he is now engag-
ed in near Fairchance and at points |
in this county.
OWING to move of great many |
of the Baptists of the state to es-
tablish a Baptist University at
Huntington, that growing, enterpris-
ing city which gets whatever she
goes after, having offered exception
ally fattering inducements for the
school, the Clarksburg people have
become alarmed over the, to them,
direful prospect of Broaddus College
being abandoned. The University
would absorb the Clarksburg insti-
tuition. Quite a controversy has ar