The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-11-03


DoS'r miss the opportunity Of see
ing the greatest meeting of the cam
paign next Saturday at Fairmont
WHooP things up every hour from
now till sunset next Tuesday foI
Wilson and the entire Democratic
ticket.
MoRGANrowN may build a bridge
over the river some day, but don't
look for it in hurry. You'll have
time to dress first.
Mr.. JASON CLARK is one of the
cleyerest and fairest business men in
the community and is rapidly build
ing up an extensive trade.
SOME improvements are in contem-
plation at the Wallace House that
will add to the reputation of that al
ready widely known hostelry.
A GREAT many people from here
are arranging to attend the big meet
ing at Fairmont on the Sd. 1t will
no doubt be the greatest one of the
campaign.
TYPHOID fever is prevalent to an
alarming extent in Fayette county.
The cause being laid to bad drains
and sewers Thirteen cases have
been reported to health authorities.
THE meeting at Fairmont next
Saturday promises to be the big one
of the campaign. All the Democrats
of that part of the county who can
reach Fairmont easily will be there,
and these with Harrison, Taylor,
Marion and Pennsylyanians will ag-
gregate a monstrous throng. Every
body get ready for Fairmont, Satur-
day, Nov. 3.
T. F. Protzman has just
returned from the east with
the largest stock of goods ever
opened in the county. Grand
opening Thursday Nov. Ist.
Music by Rutter famous band.
IT now turns out that the convic-
tion of John Dean for perjury, which
the New DOMINION published exclu-
sively as the first conviction of the
kind in the county, was the first of
its kind in the state also. The
Charleston papers, which have ac-
cess to the archives in the Auditor
Office, discover that in West Virginia
Monongalia has the honor of making
the first perjury conviction, and that
one was poor John Dean.
THE activity of Democratic first
voters was never more marked than
this year. These young men keep
tab on the edges of former school
notes and have had the effect in sew
eral cases Of nipping in the bud suf-
frage ambitions of several of their
young Republican friends who have
not yet attained their majority. Sew
eral of these boys were in training
by the Republican bosses to vote,
but they are pretty well scared out
now.
CHEsTNuTs are getting scarce and
the price is going upward. 1t is said
that a great many people in the
mountains yet have great quantities
of ehestnuts, but have arisen to the
commercial opportunity which comes
with a scarcity, and are holding
them for big money they will prob
ably get in the future. This chest
nut principle is plain and one which
is applied to all products, though
the Republicans would make you be-
lieye otherwise. It's chestnut in
deed when they do that.
WHILE we have Sunday mails,
people who wish to mail letters Sun
days must bear in mind that there
are no postal clerks on the trains
that day, so if letters are mailed in
the car letter box they will remain
in the car till Monday. A movement
is now on foot to have the clerks
run made from Pittsburg to Fair
mont, instead of from Connellsville,
as is now the case, by the time the
new schedule goes into effect next
month. If this were done postal
clerks would run on Sundays over
this line.
THE time is not far past when one
good old gentleman and his son did
all the bricklaying that was done
around here, and then were not busy
all the time There's change now,
and probably it is not altogether on
account Of the Wilson bill But there
are great many bricklayers here
now, and all of the other workers in
the building trades are vastly in
creased in number. Four big bust
ness blocks, a large church and num-
erous dwellings in this town, are in
varied stage of construction. Times
are good here.
The average prep is not condi-
tion to the thoroughfares long after
nightfall this year. An old order,
never before enforced in the history
Of the University, that the students
in the preparatory department shall
not be out after 1880 p. H., has been
resurrected and forcibly applied. 1t
is a fact that violations of the rule
are infrequent. 1t is commendable
that these younger people are re-
quired to be off the streets at night.
The application of the rejuvenated
ordinance began sufficiently early in
the school year to not be irksome.
THE grapes that are sold at 25
cents a basket in the stores, and
there are many of them sold every
day now, are not raised in this sec
ton, although it has been demon
strated that in Monongalia are the
soil and climatic conditions most ia
vorable TO the production of Con
cords, Catawbas and Niagaras, the
three varieties most in demand.
Pennsylvania and Ohio grape grow
ers manage to come in here with
products which would be better for
our business interests if they were
raised in Monongalia, and they can
be raised here.
THERE is said to be the liveliest
KIND OF competition between the fer
ries at Vanvoorhis and Collins.
They are but a short distance from
each other. The effect of it all is
pleasing to patrons, in that the COM
petition makes cheaper rates for get
ting across the river. AS it now is
both are cheaper than the suspen-
sion bridge here But the ferries
have one advantage the bridge hasn't.
There is no crossing them without
waking the ferrymen, but it is said