The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20

Two doors above Post Office.
Or. Morris, Dentist, has made his ar.
arrangements to remain permanently at
home hereafter and keep his Office open
all the time. Any one needing his SER
vices can find him always prepared TO
wait ON them.
USE Clark S Leader Flour
DR.. VIM. E. STEWART, Dentist, Of
fees over Rice's store.
TABLE and tea spoons in sterling
silver at II. S. HAYES,
PAPER Hanging
See A. w. Jones.
Glass Fruit ars at A. L.
NYE's.
SILvER-PLATED tea sets at
H. S. HAYES.
PosTEN sells for Cash only and
you need not try to buy any other
way.
IT is said that the huckleberry
crop in Preston county will be i'm
mense.
1000 USEFUL articles worth to 10
cents. at Posten's Cash Store on 4
cent counter.
EVERYBODY smokes "Nun Nicer"
cigars. The best for bets. Jos. r.
MILLER, Sole Agent. If.
For sALE-Two valuable corner
lots on easy payments. Address j.
w. Wiles, Lock Box p. Sistersville,
w. Va.
JOHN A. PRICE has done the paint
ing and hard wood finishing on the
Wallace House improvements. 1t is
unnecessary to say it is well done
P. 2. DoLAN, of Kingwood, who
ran away from home and joined
Walter L. Mains show at Morgan
town is now with the show in North
Dakota.
DR.. TALMAGE will preach at Gyp-
sy Grove on Sunday, August Il.
This will be the only opportunity
many of our people will ever have to
hear him
Hon. GEO. C. STURGIss delivered
the address at the Memorial Servi-
ces held by the Odd Fellows of Ma
sontown, Preston county, at that
place last Saturday.
A BUSINESS Education pays the
best Send to A. G. Sine, Box 555
Parkersburg, W. Va, and get a
beautiful Sc page catalogue of the
Mountain State Business College.
SUPT WATERS announces that the
teachers institute for this county
will convene August 9Th. We shall
be pleased to have the teachers with
us again and hope they may have a
pleasant and profitable session.
Gel CARRACo probably has the
finest field of corn in the county. 1t
is near the old fair grounds and the
stalks are from four to six feet high
and thick in proportion. 1t was
planted just before the big frost and
in sod ground.
A GENTLEMAN remarked last even
ing to newspaper man that very
many of the folks who hire teams to
go driving and who are always ready
for sporting and having a good
time" can seldom pay a dollar they
owe their neighbors.
IT now looks as if the supply of
5000 University catalogues will fall
far short of the demand. Over 1000
have already been sent out The
papers throughout the state speak
highly of the catalogue which is the
best ever sent out by the institution.
Twice the number could have been
used to advantage
PRoF. j. L. JOHNSTON and c. w.
Huston returned Monday from their
trout fishing trip and report catching
trout so long and heavy that the
Professor had to come home after
his civil engineering instruments to
measure them, and Mr.. H. had to
send for his gang of carpenters to
make crates to ship them home in.
A CONTINUAL tapping in the stove
pipe of this office all day Saturday
attracted the attention of the devil
and Sunday he summoned up all his
courage and repeating the words "be
thou beast or bird or devip' opened
the stove door, turned the damper
and out popped a martin black as
any imp from Plutonion shores and
joyfully flew away home.
MESSAGES that have been sent
out from the F., M. q p. r. r. depot
the past few days have gone with a
double twisted charge of lightning
that made the operators at other sta
tions bounce around in their chairs,
and on asking for the cause the ex-
ira operator here flashed back these
happy words, "Born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil L. Shultz, July 18th, 1895,
daughter And every operator on
the line sent back the message,
"Shake, Shultzy, old boy"
WHILE excavating for the founda-
ton of the White building at the
corner of Front street and Beechurst
avenue the workmen uncovered sew
eral old tan watts that were partially
filled with tan bark. The everyday
citizen could not remember of evel
seeing tannery at that point but
the oldest inhabitants, those who are
up in so, remembered that a tannery
stood there and that it was torn
down at least 20 years ago. One old
gentleman said that it belonged &C
Cornelius Berkshire, uncle of r. l.
Berkshire, who was afterward cash.
Ter of the first bank that Morgan
town ever had, and which stood or
the present site of the Second Ma
tional Bank, and was after that
cashier of bank in st. Clairsville
Ohio The watts are right in line Of
the foundation of the building and
will necessitate the use of considera
BILE stone.