The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-03
DR.. MORRIS, DENTIST

this.
BORN, January IS, unto Rev. and
Mrs. A. NJ. Buchanan, daughter.
The Schumann Quartet took first
honors at the Worlds Fair, as la
dies vocal organization.
Z. f. YosT has one of the neatest
offices in town. and is a very indus
trious lawyer. He will succeed as
he deserves.
For the first time this winter a
halt has been called on the stone
hotel building which is being put
up over Cheat by f. C. Dean.
THERE are several candidates
spoken of for street commissioner
and town Sergeant under the incom-
ing council. May the best man win.
Our ice men are not happy, but il
isn't spring yet. If the crop fails
and they will unite in building an
ice plant their fortunes will be made.
CIRCUIT court will open here on
Tuesday February ID. 1t is almosl
certain that Judge Hagans will not
have recovered sufficiently to pre-
side.
f. w. PLUMMER, famous photo
grapher of Wheeling, committed
suicide last week, which was making
anything but a pretty picture OF
himself.
Tom BARTHLow has moved to his
new house in the Hoffman addition
and G. w. Debolt will occupy the
apartments vacated by him in the
Postoffice building
Our job office makes speciality
of furnishing engraved cards and
plates. Several orders of very hand
some ones have been turned out with
in the past few days.
WHEN the turkey crop is fine the
shooting match will flourish. This
has been condition hereabouts.
There are shooting matches galore
almost every Saturday.
THE new organization that will
buy the Evans track and organize a
regular horse fair promises to be a
success. 1t will be good thing for
the community in more than one
sense.
THE Odd Fellows will build a
theatre. If it is begun in April il
will be completed by next season
But that it will be done sometime is
enough for the community at large
to give thanks for.
THE Morgantown Brick Co. will
no doubt get the contract to supply
the brick for the new hotel at Fair
mont. 1t will require about one
million, but their facilities will ena
BILE them to do the work in a few
weeks.
A LARGE grain depot is to be put
up by Ike Vanvoorhis at the Darrah
place, in addition to the large store
room. Preparations which will make
the station there a place of consid-
cradle business Importance are in
progress.
A GREAT many people are wonder
ing whether the new council will put
in system of sewerage We shall
see That is the one thing now
needed here. If Morgantown could
have sewerage and paved streets We
would be happy.
NEXT Saturday that peculiar but
legally regular liquor sale at the
front door of the court house is tc
take place. Tim Bennett will dis
pose of it to the highest bidder. II
is very bad stuff, considering that
in one sense it is the remains Of
Frey.
The oil men are making arrange
ments for extensive operations il
the Monongalia field this spring
Several new outfits have recently
been taken from here and in a few
weeks quite number of new wells
will be commenced. That means
more money in the county.
WITH our facilities, methods o.
buying, handling, and amount of bus
mess done, we can defy competition
in low prices, and still make fail
profit. VIII make prices for next 81
days lower than ever, and meet every
cut made by any legitimate dealer il
this market. Try us, and prove thu
truth. Victor Mills Co.
IT is not probable that as mucf
money will go out of this county tt
buy grain and hay again for Ions
time as within the past year. If thu
amount sent away for these articles
were distributed among our farmers
there would be very preceptibl'
&. difference in what we call the "har(
times" 1t won't and can't pay farm
ers to buy that kind of stuff.
SIXTY feet is allowed for a count,
road. The road to the pump station
is only "a feet, and right in the cor
porate limits of territorially immens
South Morgantown. Little wonde
is it that the people along it, whit
now term the highway STANDARD
Way, are strong in the hope that re
formatory legislation will be applied
which will serve to make it broader
A WELL DRESSED stranger appear
ed in Weston few days ago, got il
with the "boys," spent money liber
ally, allowing no one but himself t.
pay for the drinks, slipped quietl.
out of to wnbetween two days, leavin,
half the merchants and several sa
loon men the possessors of numbe
ofneatly made counterfeit SIS gol'
pieces He is said to have starte
for the interior of the State.
THERE are men here who are con
fident of great business activity her
the coming year and who says tina
industrial and manufacturing an
Misunderstanding enterprises wi
line this valley within the next fev
years. They are right about it too
But when they go off to talk polite
they say that "tariff reform will RI
in the country, sure" Well, consis
tency and diamonds are scarce.
AT HUNTINGTON they had fgh
that was a fight. 1t was a fight be-
tween English and American blood
A AZ pound West Virginia wild ca
and 54-pound English bull do
were put into cage and at the en-
of five minutes it was the wors
whipped dog ever seen. A great de,
of money changed hands. Over 80
people witnessed the contest. An
now the Humane Society is collect
inc evidence and will have the thin