The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-10-19

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett NJ
'Showalter, Of Fairmont, Oct 9, 1895
a son.
CLARK's Leader Flour is the joy OF
the housewife. She can always de-
pend upon it.
BETTER get reserved seats for Fri
day and Saturday nights. The Opera
House will be crowded.
THE nuttiDg season has opened
and the accident list is filling up
with the usual rapidity.
A WASHINGTON gentleman has Of
fered J. r. Miller big price for his
Main street property, the old /. o.
o. F. building.
The contract for the new court
house of Cabell county to be built
at Huntington has been awarded to
Charles A. Moses, of Chicago, for
$95, $50.
LOCK No which has been closed
for several weeks while repairs were
being made was opened Saturday.
What the boatmen want now is
enough water to get down to No. 5.
ELIAS HARRIS, aged 60 years while
driving across the railroad track at
Cameron was struck by an engine
and killed The wagon was smashed
up but the horses escaped injury.
The packet James G. Blaine failed
to reach here Saturday owing to the
low water in pool No. 7. The water
in No. 7 pool was let out to furnish
a boating stage in the lower pools.
The girl who announces her in
tention of skating in boomers this
winter should stop for moment and
recolect the usefulness of the home
ly hustle when she fails to cut the
figure just right
"TANGLEFooT" JONES, Greens
burg, Pa, negro pulled razor and
cut eleven people, two dangerously.
He had just been released from sery-
ing a long term for killing man.
He should now be tangled in a moose.
The Webster Echo is authority
for the statement that a poplar tree
was recently cut in that county which
measured eight feet nine inches
across the stump and SO feet to the
first limb, and out of which was
sawed 10000 feet of good lumber.
WILL JOHNSON has purchased the
st. Clair restaurant and lunch room,
opposite the Wallace house, and is
adding to its present equipments for
entertaining guests Will will make
an ideal proprietor and run the res
taurant on a scale never 4t.en Nted
here before
VERY few people from =, Goa
try have been attending court this
term. The cold wave has made it
necessary for the farmers to get
their apples picked and other work
finished up and consequently only
those came into court who had bus.
mess to attend to.
The Wellsburg Herald in its last
issue spoke of the Mayor of that
town having arrested and fined a
number of boys for train jumping.
Mayor Posten's attention is called
to that dangerous practice here. If
the boys who indulge in this danger
Gus practice were fined it might do
them good.
On Saturday of last week while
the family of Mr.. John Riggs, who
lives on Mill Fall run, were absent
from home attending picnic, some
thief entered the house and broke
open trunk belonging to Miss
Martha Straight, who was staying
with the family, and stole therefrom
$30S.-IRder.
STUDENTS in the University are
booming the institution by writing
good articles to their home papers
throughout the State. They give
the general University news and
boom" it for all it is worth. 1t is
to be hoped that the good work will
continue and the success of the
school is assured
PROMINENT Parkersburg ladies are
debating the propriety of attending
murder trial that commences there
this week. They all desire to hear
a real murder trial and of course it
will be decided as the proper thing,
Morgantown ladies set the fashion
at the Musgrave trial and several
towns have followed their lead.
AN item is going the rounds of
the State Press to the effect that the
people who attend the theater in
Morgantown and take seats in the
gallery are noisy and heathenish
during performances. The fact OF
the case is that many of the best
people in the town take seats in the
gallery and the order is just as good
as in any theater in the State.
A DRILLING rain made life bur
den all day Saturday to people who
were compelled to be out of doors,
but it did not do much in the way oil
laying the dust. In several places
in this county people are compelled
to haul water two or three miles foI
household purposes. Rain was new
er needed worse in several parts Of
this state, Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio.
For some time past it has beer
necessary to run water trains in
parts of Pennsylvania to supply
many towns with drinking water In
places where the drouth has not
dried up all the small streams they
have become so foul that the water
is not fit even for manufacturing
purposes. In Morgantown where
the supply is taken from the Monon
gahela river and where nearly every
house has well of good water it i:
hard to realize the misery attendant
on water famine
The Henry Melnotte Company
who will be at the Opera House Fri
day and Saturday nights should b'
greeted by a full house. This Com
pany has played in all the large cit
les, New York, Brooklyn, Philadel
phia and Baltimore included. Aftel
leaving here they will play in Pitts
burg, Cleveland and Chicago, anC
then out on the Pacific coast. Man
ager Somehow has gone to biz
expense to get this Company her
and deserves a crowded house boil
nights.