West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-01-02

in his studies.
George Bruce Burke, the genial clerk
of the old. reliable Monongahaia House
of Pittsburg was in town this week aRd
gave us pleasant call He had been
visiting friends at Terra Alta and tax
ing short vacations.
Howard Eaton. OF Medora. North Da-
kotah. arrived in Kingwood last Satur-
day fron pittsbnrg. lie came up to
Morgantown and drove across from
there. He is looking extremely well
and tips the beam at about 200 pounds
now.
Deputy Sheriffs McMillen and
Schaffer have been out the past two
weeks. filing adve rtised appointments
in Valley. Lyon, Portland, Pleasant
and Kingwood districts, making gen
eral round mp for taxes and closing up
the year Gs far as possible.
DIR. Harper Judy, OF Harmon. Ran
dolph county. who spent the summer in
Kingwood. was arrested last week for
malpractice, in allowing a women and
her baby to die through neglect while
he was druak or crazy. lie is now out
on bond.
The mad dog which bit two railroad
men at Newpurg recently belonged to
Squire Summers, OF Barbour county.
who lived near the Preston county line.
II had bitten several other dogs in the
neighborhood before it left there and
was finally killed at Newburg.
Mrs. Henry Copeman, of near town,
sent to market some of the finest tur-
keys last week, ever sold here. One
fine pig gobbler weighed 291I pounds
after he was killed1and dressed ready
for roasting. IL anyone can beat ii,
let us hear from them.
Our lumbermen are complaining
loudly because they cannot get cars to
ship their orders in and lose contracts
on account of IL. The new railroad
here has no room for .the cars nor no
siding to stand them on out of the way
and can only bring in about one car at
a time on account OF it
For two weeks recently Rev. S. w.
Wilt, of Clifton Mills, Preston county,
was engaged i'm a protracted meeting
at Lightburn. During his short stay
there he met, for the first time, Miss
Dellie Brosius, whom he wooed and
welded on the 18th inst, Rev. j. A. j.
Lightburn officiating. The respective
ages of the happy couple are So and %.
Weston Independent
At meeting OF the Kingwood Ep-
worth League last Thursday evening
the following officers were elected for
the year 1896 President, Albert A.
Dorsey; first vice president, Miss Belle
McMillen; second vice president, +. NJ.
Boon; third vice president, ii. s. Wbet-
sell; fourth vice president, Miss Lizzie
Shaffer; secretary, Miss Grace Flynn;
treasurer, Miss Irene Smalley.
Report of the Savage school for the
second month. ending the 9th day of
December, 1895. II. d. Craig, teacher.
Number of pupils enrolled, "a. Az
erage daily attendance, 90. Per cent.
of attendance, 50. Names of pupils
neither absent nor tardy: Jennie C.
Bergman, Grace and Lucy Savage,
Joseph G.. Mask, Chas. c. Peters, John
NJ. Savage and Geo. w. Stone
There was wedding out at John
Formaa's in the Hacklebarney Settle
ment Christmas at 2 p. m, being the
marriage of his daughter Nettie, 20
Joseph w. Feather of that community.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Carroll, of Masontown, in the presence
of several invited guests. a big dianer
was served and the happy couple re-
paired at five o'clock to the fine new
residence of the groom and at once
went 10 housekeeping.
Rev John T. Hackett and Rev. z. X.
Simmons, of the Presbyterian Church,
left Monday morning for Pennsylvania
to visit friends and relatives. Rev.
Simmons lives at Smithfeld and had
been here two weeks, assisting Rev.
Hackett with a series of meetings in
the Presbyterian Church. lie bad bad
luck coming and gong on our railroad,
as the train got off the track both
ways, leaving him TO walk two miles IN
and two miles out.
Prof Frank W. Candy, Principal of
the schools at Independence, met with
peculiar and painful accident out at
MasontOwn on Christmas day. The
weather was so fine that the boys got
mp n game OF base ball and while pitch
ing threw the ball pretty hard and his
arm snapped and broke like pipestem.
DR. Cox rendered the necessary surgi-
cal assistance aud the patient is doing
nicely, but cannot make a full hand at
base ball or counting for some time 20
come.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Clay Flythe and
Miss Maud Brown. sister OF the latter.
accompanied by DR.. s. Austen Pratt,
left last Thursday for Baltimore. where
Mrs Flythe entered the hospital to
undergo a surgical operation. She has