The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-05-19

LIE ID. q ". pay car VIII De mere
Friday.
ALL the new shapes and shades in
hats at Hirschman's.
The Public school closes Friday
of next week, May 25.
CIRCUIT court will begin the sec
ond Tuesday Of June.
RAILWAY mail service between here
and Uniontown will be commenced
June IL.
The annual consumption of candy
in the United States is 10000 tons.
No wonder the girls are SO sweet.
The fourth annual commencement
of the West Virginia Conference
Seminary at Buckhannon will be
held June IA.
liz you desire to invest in coal,
timber, oil, iron, glass sand, grazing
or agricultural land, come to Monon-
gala county.
CURTAINS have been put up above
and below the suspension bridge to
warn brakemen who may be on top
of freight cars that it is time to duck
their heads.
A PETITION has been sent to the
Postmaster General asking for the
establishment of post office at
Vanvoorhis, the new town six miles
down the river.
THING for the sewers ordered to
be made by Council have been scat
tered along all of the streets to be
severed, and the work of putting
them in is going right along.
SOME good bargains in ladies'
and misses Oxford shoes, summer
dress goods, mems straw hats, bro
gan shoes, and jeans pants now of
fered, by HUTCHINSON &sJAeoBs.
ALREADY Pittsburgers have been
coming here for an outing. Thousands
of them will come in June, July and
August. The more the better. Try
to make them have a pleasant time.
As MEMORIAL day will be observ-
ed in quiet manner here a large
number of our people will take ad-
vantage of the holiday to look up
old and make new friends in Union
town.
The merchants throughout the
State are adopting the early closing
movement. Clerks and proprietors
need recreation and our merchants
should keep up with the procession
by closing at P. NJ.
UNLESS the conference of miners
and coal operators being held at
Cleveland puts stop to the miners
strike every mill and mandatory
in Wheeling will be closed down with
in ten days as the supply of coal is
practically exhausted.
GEORGE M. JOHN has purchased
an English trap and when he takes
hold of the ribbons and says, "git up
and git" his Kentucky thorough
bred and rig are the envy of the
boys and delight of the ladies,
George too, of course.
A NUMBER of little girls gave an
entertainment at John Kinkaid's
Saturday night that was
highly enjoyed. There was tumb-
ling. performing on the flying ira
peze and other features of the real
big shows; it was quite circus.
A coxEYEEN army is being recruit
ed at Charleston. 1t is to be made up
Of young ladies of the capital city
who will march onto Webster
Springs, distant 70 miles, for the
purpose of laying siege to the hearts
of any and all dudes who may be
blown in at that resort
THERE is vague rumor that two
old gentlemen talk of en-
deavoring to obtain an injunction
to prevent further work ON the sew
ers. They are enjoined by public
sentiment from making the attempt,
and it is hoped that they may pay
some attention to modern ideas.
WATCHING the coal cars passing
town on the F., M. & p. r.
r. makes one long to see the mineral
deposits of the mountain shipped
via the Black Bottle. That is the
railroad that will most quickly boom
it will make it city.
And it will be built soon.
QUITE force of men are at work
on the sewers that are being built.
If possible, the work should be COM
pleted before commencement, not so
much because that is a gala day sea-
son as because the fever cases of last
year serve as reminder that at least
a partial sewerage system should be
made at once.
A DOZEN girls in Buckhannon are
said to have organized a society and
vowed never to marry man "who
is not intelligent, honest, industrious,
good natured, clearly in person and
apparel, sober, a church member and
a total abstainer from liquor, pro
family and tobacco" Poor girls
What tough luck they will have to
play in as they go spinstering
through this vale of tears
The Doth annual meeting of the
Society of Mechanical En-
gineers will be held at Montreal
June 4th, to Sth. Among
others honored, by being selected to
read professional papers before the
Society we notice the name of Prof.
w. S. Aldrich, Director of the Me
chanical Department of the w. Va
University, the subject of his paper
will be, Power Losses in the Trans
missive Machinery of Central Sta
tions." This is not only an honor to
the Professor but compliment to
the University.
ENGINEER BOYD and Condu ctor
Page, of the Fairmont and Conn ellis
vile local, caught cat fish at Fair
mont that weighed A pounds and
was 5 feet long. They were fishing
with bunch of hooks and the big
fish was caught in such a manner
that it could not close it's mouth
Engineer Boyd tied the line to their
skiff, pulled the throttle wide open
and Capt. Boyd "bent to the oars"
and that cat was towed up stream
at lightning express everything
give her. the track rate of speed and
drowned, yes, drowned. The fish
of the Connellsville Courier
is responsible for the facts (2) of
this story, but, we don't know what