West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-08-08
OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN.
The doggoned "Dog Days" are
upon us now, and the Dog Star
keeps watch at night.

keeps watch at night.
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Green apples aud huckleberries
| are in the market, and squashes
and roast-in-ears will soon be ripe,
ane the country editor is in clover
now.
All this talk about an "elastic
currency is an old song to the
country editor. In fact, it is the
only kind of currency that he can
make both ends meet with.
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Harry Potter requests us to say
that il the party who borrowed one
volume OF his Bible Common tary,
some time since, and failed to re-
turn it, will call around at his place
he can have the other four volumes,
as the set ought to be all together
and Is not much account to him,
with one volume missing. He is
not sure who it was, but says it was
church member, and he thinks q
Sunday School teacher.
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DR.. Bascom Baker, of Parsons,
who is summer guest here, per-
formed a rather difficult surgical
operation one day last week ia the
office Of DIR. s. A. Pratt, assisted
by the latter and DR.. Powell. They
removed a generous growth from
the face OF Peggy Goodin, an aged
aud feeble psuper who has no home,
but stays around wherever she can
get quarters, and in the County In
Urinary part of the time. The can
Ger would have killed her in a short
time, but the operation was success.
full and will prolong her life. Tho
physicians used cocaine, as she was
too old and feeble to stand anything
else, and cut out all the cancer ex-
cept some Of the roots and affected
parts, which will probably cause it
to grow again. as the patient was
too weak to stand the loss of any
more blood, but as she is not long
for this world anyhow, it may
never trouble her much any more.
VI course the doctors get nothing
for this, and did it simply as q
work Of charity. DIR. Baker is re-
puted to be one of the finest sur
geons IN the State.
A prominent and reliable citizen
OF TOWNSVILLE was ia town Saturday
and reported to us the following
snake story, which he youches for,
but declined to allow his name used.
He said that two men, who were
working for him, discovered a nest
OF "blue" vipers, or "blowiny"
vlpers, as they are called in some
sections, in stone pile within two
hundred yards of his residence and
proceeded to fail out the crop,
which seemed to be ripe for gather
Ing. They killed and counted 64.
and got so sick from the very often.
sive smell Of the poisonous reptiles
that they had to give it up and
leave, and we suppose the rest got
away, and 1T was not a good day
for snakes, either. We inquired of
the gentleman whether or not the
parties were addicted to the use of
spirits fermenti, and he SAID they
were not; that he used the liquor
himself, and therefore didn't want
his name published for fear the
manager o. the Kelley Institute
here would be after him, and that
this was the closest he had ever
come to having "snakes," and this
many within a stones throw of his
house was too close for any fun in
1T. 81 Summers and Leeve Dorton
will have to look to their laurels
or they will be counted ont.
Some of the boys in town got
badly left the other night. They
started out to put up a job on an d.
other young fellow and got the joke
turned on themselves. The Young
man in question loafs around town
I'LL late, and this night several Of
the boys concluded to have some
fun out Of him and hunted ND an
old shot gun apiece and loaded it
heavily with blasting powder and
slipped out to waylay the fellow.
They stationed themselves along
the road about fifty yards apart and
| waited for their victim TO oome