West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-03-12
HUDSON HAPPENINGS,
Personal Paragraphs, Pertinent
Points, Fun, Fancy, Facts
and Fiction,
Special correspondence Of rns Ansrs


Special correspondence OF Tax Anaus.
Miss Bertha Clark is visiting in
Maryland ut present.
James Shaw have been very poor.
" Tor few days. but is convslesc
ing.
Henry CLAY lambert IS The big.
gest man in the State. Reason: lts
n boy.
b. f. IIennesscy is working at
the works somewhere IN Pennsyl
vania now.
Ira Gibson spent Saturday and
Sunday at home. His school will
close March Goth,
Here we are again. after an ab.
sence from the columns OF THE
ARGUS for short time.
Miss Flo jenkins. Of Kingwood,
was visiting friends and relatives
here few days last week.
Miss Mollie Gibson. of tins place,
is staying with Rev. Crummctt, of
kingwood, at the present writings.
Messrs. j. w. Gibson. Elisha
jenkins aud Wilbert Liston were
at Albrightsyille last week on bosi.
ness.
Lewis Graham have moved TO
Sellers Mill. We are sorry to see
so many people leaving our COM
munity,
II. w. Gibson, of the firm Of
Gibson Bros, was ut Cheat Haven
recently on business connected with
the firm.
Checker playing is pnstime
sport INDUCED in by many of our
people to while away the long vim
tor evenings.
Some Of our people attended the
sale of Jackson Jeffers at Mt. Grove
last week, held to defray funeral
expenses Of Mrs. Jeffers.
Rev. @. T. Feather preached one
OF his impressive and usual good
sermons ut Harmony Grove last
Sunday to AN attentive audience.
Considerable sickness prevails
here. Francis Mclhency and Wan
cy Cunningham's families are down
with the diphtheria. All are better
at the present writing DR.. Bryte
attending physician.
John Mtlanthon Metheny, the
nfftble, accom- modatiug and onter-
prislng miller Of I1azelton was
shaking hands here last week, still
he solcmnly declared he WASH t u
candidate for any Office.
The spell at Mt. Zion on Friday
night was tcte-a.tete. W0 don /
know who the champion was. If
we could turn the cathode rays on
him we would then he able to print
his name in THE ARGUS.
o. u. Gibson and wife, OF Jnnl.
alta. Pa, who have been visiting
friends and relatives here for II
couple Of weeks. have returned
home. lie is engaged in the pho
Biography art at that place.
Baker, the we'll known horse
jockey. Of Laurel Iron Works, and
Rufus Conner Forman, of Pisgah,
were through here last week trad .
ing equines. We don't know wheth.
er they we're siiccessful or not.
Profs. W. ii. Thornton and g.
w. Beerbower gave their illustrated
lecture on "Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro q.
gress" st Mt. Nebo last Wednesday
night. All were vel pleased They
lecture at Sugar Valley on Satur-
day night.
Messrs. j.. Benton Walls and j.
e. Ormond, of Pisgah, was can.
vassing our vicinity last week, re.
newing the coal options Of the
Cheat River Railroad, which ex.
pires in few days. The renewal
is Ouly for one year, instead Of
three, as the originals were.
March came in on Tho march. AMI
mighty muddy and rough march
ing at that. II tic planet Mars,
after whom March was named. is
anything near like It in weather.
tho poor inhabitants Of that world
must wish for some place to 1--we,
where mud is unknown.
The Cheat River Railroad dues
ton is now absorbing tie attention
Of the cross roads politician. This
question is showed to the front ev
cry few yeirs, and tho news is al
ways given out that it viii be built
in few moRth. We al say with
Josh Billings "Let 'er come"
Geo. galloway is still holding on
TO the hope Of being station boss at
Rockville.
Oar people are already putting
on metropolitan airs iu anticipa
ton of the new railroad. The
"new" woman have made her I'D
( pearance. the old people wears
glasses, which is q prime necessity
to them; the young dadincs wears
12x24 window panes I'M place Of
I glasses; The dudes ore beginning TO
adopt The same style. in order 20
/ bo among the upper 400"