The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-11-24
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Friday night
THE teachers institute announced
to be held at Smithtown Nov. Both,
will not convene until Dec. 1st.
j. N. REED has the additions to
his Front street property completed
and will go to housekeeping there in
few days.
The pug dog habit was strong in
town, but now there seems to be
danger of many persons contracting
the foxterrier habit, which is all
pretty logged bad.
SOME day they will get through
with the digging and tearing up at
the mouth of the Wallace alley. 1t
has been going on by fits and starts
for some years. But they will get
tired of it.
PoTAToEs are going up in price.
Some of these days the scales will
drop from Republican eyes and they
will see that the law of supply and
demand has great deal to do with
the effect on prices.
Col. FAsT's residence on Bumbo
lane is completed and he has re-
moved his family from the Wallace
House to- their new home, and it is a
pleasant and coy one from the in
terror view and as beautiful from the
outside
The digging up the streets for
sewers last summer makes them
muddy now, but then we have the
sewers, and paved streets will be
along some time. Beechurst avenue
wont be the first to get the improve
ment either
SUCH furore as was started Mon
day morning threatened to incline
the general belief that The new Odd
Fellows building was liable to fall
any moment. After time the So
Der senses Of the people realized that
there was but slight deviation
from the specifications.
MISS MATTE CoPEMAN, Populist
candidate for superintendent of
schools in Preston county, received
lac votes and led her ticket But
the gallantry of lac suffragans don't
put fair pedagogue in office in
Preston. Miss Copeman attended
the State normal institute here two
seasons.
TnE work of putting up the stone
front for the new Second National
bank building is progressing nicely.
The entire front is to be of Cleveland
stone. A big force of stone masons
have been at work cutting the stone
in South Morgantown for six weeks
The bank will be the only business
house in town with stone front en-
tirely.
ONE day last week the coal options
along the river below us in Greene
county expired and there has been a
hustle ever since re-optioning the
same coal rights, at advanced prices.
This looks as if the men who are do
ing the coal right buying-who are
really agents of the railroad-have
renewed faith in the extension of the
road from Brownsville up the river
THERE are some cases of scarlet
fever among the pupils of the public
school, hut the prevalence is not so
extensive as to make many absentees
SO far Now is the time when all
precautionary measures should be
adopted by parents and the best
means of checking an epidemic taken
by all. There is no epidemic and
with proper care being taken by all
there will be none.
ARBoR day was not observed as
holiday in The Morgantown schools
this year. 1t is one of the specified
holidays, and especially recommend
ed as one, as well as it's appropriate
observance, by the State Superintend-
ent, but following so closely the
election, when no school was held,
the teachers decided to hold school,
and as usual arbor day went by with
out new tree being added to the
Acaueuy campus.
The municipal election comes on
apace. Will the 81 levy or the 10
cents levy people be on run when
that event transpires? 1t is over
month before this question will be
decided, but well defined issue as
between the representatives of the
two amounts of taxation will be be-
fore the people. In most times the
only question heretofore in town
elections has been the personal pop
nlarity of the candidates. Next time
it will be different.
SEVERAL of the churches are pre-
pairing at this time for holding
midwinter public affairs for the ben
eft Of the denomination which each |
will represent. This seems to be a
time when the christian societies
are especially enterprising. Along
about the close of the year they be
gin to feel the need of money, and |
the people at the same time feel the
need of social recreation and diver
sion. Thus both are benefited. The
get the money and the
body polite gets the worth of it.
ANOTHER big well has come in on
the Asa Tenant farm on Jakes run,
this county. 1t is doing over 100
barrels day. The Jakes run field
gives promise of being the greatest
oil territory in West Virginia. The
development has practically Just be-
gun, and still big wells are the rule.
Almost every farm in Clay district
is leased and arrangements are made
to begin drilling on much larger
scale than ever before. This latest
strike was drilled in by the South
Penn company.
PROBABLY no man ever died in
West Virginia whose life and char
acter were the subjects of so general
in the newspapers of the
state as F. M. Durhin. The press
of almost every county in the state
noted the fact of his death and add
ed fitting %ords of praise for the up
rightness, steadfastness in the right
of that good man. The number of
papers which made notice of the sad
event as personal friends speaking
proved that with the Wilderness of his
mountaineering Mr.. Durbin was
pstepmed nv all