The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-09-07
HirSChman's i'm
mense Store will be
closed Thursday Sept.
10Th and Saturday
Sept. 2Sth.
HirSChman'S

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10Th and Saturday
Sept. 28th.
Mr.. FRAME and Mr.. Gray have
rented flats in the new Brock, Reed
& Wade building and will begin
housekeeping there in short time
A portion of the building has been
arranged very conveniently for. liv-
ing purposes and will make very
nice homes.
The Palatine correspondent of the
Fairmont Republican says Morgan
Travis, of White Day, is going into
the grocery business in this place.
He wills occupy the Lindsay Bros.
store room on Water street. Mr..
Travis is an excellent young man and
deserves success in his undertaking.
WHILE the excavations were being
made for the foundation of the new
Franklin Hotel Max Mathers found
a cuff button which is highly priced
as relic. 1t was found under the
foundation which was built over 100
years ago The button is in two
parts connected by a chain and is
made Of black metal and set with
a blue atone.
THE many friends Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. L. Henderson will be pleased TO
learn that Mrs, Henderson has been
appointed as one of the teachers in
the school with Mr.. Henderson in
Tyler, Texas, at a salary of $50 per
month Mrs. II. was for long time
one of the teachers in our school and
her work gave entire satisfaction. 1t
will be equally so there
If you want cheap tobacco
go to A. L. NYE's.
If you want cheap notions
go to A. L. NYE's.
If you want cheap crackers,
cakes, snaps, etc., go to
A. L. NYE's
If you want cheap and good
teas go to A. L. NYE's.
A FAIRMoNT man traded two
watermelons for a horse, the horse
for two watches, and one of the
watches he sold for quarter and
the other for a nickle, so says the
Index, We don't see anything re-
markable about that. If he had
traded the horse for a dog and then
shot the dog it no doubt would have
been more in accordance with the
Fairmont mans ideas of profit.
A YOUNG man was over here ten
days ago who said that he was au-
thorized by the manager of the Ma
sontown, Preston county, baseball
club to arrange game with Nor
gantown to be played last Thursday
at Kingwood. Masontown was to
write to the club here but did not.
This was fair and square squeal.
Masontown has been playing ball on
paper for some time but wont play
on the diamond.
WE learn that DR.. Clint Jolliff,
who is well known in this section,
has been quite lucky in the oil de-
velopment near New Castle. Ind. He
is with a company who just brought
in $50 barrel WELL and has a large
scope of territory under lease, from
which many more are expected. DR..
Jolliff is brother in-la of our
townsman, A. B. Mcdonald, and his
friends here rejoice at his good luck.
Inder Clint's Morgantown friends
hope be will become a second Rock
efellow
VISITORS to Atlantic City will find
an ex statesman Of West Virginia
amid the throng of showmen on the
boardwalk. The gentleman referred
to is the Hon. Camden Summers, of
Clarksburg, who was candidate for
auditor on the Democratic ticket
four years ago. Mr.. Summers is run
ming the piekaninny show and it is
said is raking in the loose change to
a gratifying extent His show con
sists of party of little negroes, who
sing, dance and pick banjos, and is
described as good, bad or indffent,
according to the taste and degree of
verdancy of visitor Wheeling NelcS.
PROF. DAVENPORT the great facial
artist will give an entertainment in
Music Hall on Thursday evening.
He will give his popular lecture on
the Miser and many other features.
Mr.. Davenport will explain how any
person can learn to throw the voice.
He will make his voice appear at diff
ferent distances, and as far off as
one half mile, He will initiate the
sound of the cars, will draw soda
water from the wall, will plane and
saw, will produce the buzzing of the
honey and humble bee, will give bis
great imitation of dog and cat
fighting; two distinct sounds at the
same time and produced by no 9th
er Ventriloquist.