West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-01-16

Charley GerlKin. the Photographer
was here last Sunday, on pressing
business
The second Quarterly meeting of the
Mssontown circuit will be held at the
new Oak Grove M. z Church on January
2S aud 20. Quarterly Conference IS. az
1850 p, m. Preaching services Saturday
night. Sunday morning and afternoon
at s o'clock by Presiding Elder Ash.
All are invited to come.
/ Harry Adams, of Keyser. was here
the past week. visiting his wife. who
is here staying with her brother VIII
Sharps. MIR. Adams returned TO Key
ser Monday afternoon. His wife was
Miss Rosa Sharps before her marriage
and she Is a sister of WIN Sharps and
Mrs Milton Fortney, of this place.
Haymon Garner. n son of William NJ /.
Garner. of near Pleasant Dale, fell on
the ice Tuesday of this week and broke
his right arm. DIR. w. = Martin, of this
place, was summoned 10 reduce the
fracture and the patient is doing
as well as could be expected under
the circumstances.
Miss Kinnie Smith, of Parkersburg,
the celebrated whistler, has just return
ed from the Atlanta Exposition. where
she gave two whistling performances
before the woman's Congress by ex-
press invitation and quite won the
hearts Of her auditors as she is a regu-
lar knocking bird. She is a sister OF
Channey NJ. Smith, of Smiths Index,
at Parkersburg.
Ex-Governor A. II. Flemming, of
Fairmont, w. Va, was guest ut the
Monongahela House last evening, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. He stated en-
phatically that he will not be a candi-
for Congress in the Second West Vir-
ginia district represented for many
years by Postmaster General Wilson.
He believes the Republicans will re-
nominate Congressman Dayton, who
defeated Mr. Wilson.
United States Marshall A ID. Garden,
who with Ex-Secretary, of State, w. A.
Ohley, Miss Lulu Downtain and Mrs. N.
j. Fortney who were severely hurt in a
railroad accident at Tunnelton last
summer, has settled with the b. & o.
Company for 81, 600 No suits were
brought against the railroad at all and
the claims of the other parties are in a
fair way for peaceful settlement Mr..
Garden was said to be hurt worse than
any of the others and will probably re-
ceive more than the others.
w. w. Graham and Charley Walls
are making arrangements to operate in
the lumber and saw-mill business as
the weather will premit They recent
ly received from Ohio a large portable
saw-mill engine and moved it this week
to their FIRST set down on the farm of
Col. j. w. Brown and located it out
this side of the old Oak Grove Church
The Colonel has ABOUT a hundred
thousand feet to saw and others around
there have considerable To bring in,
The machinery has not arrived yet, but
is expected every day.
Col N. w. Fitz-Gerald, OF Terra Al
Ia. and DR. Edgar c. Beall, the editor
of the chronological Journal, have
purchased the publishing interest, of
Fowler a. Wells, in New York City.
Col. Fitz-Geral was the Populist can.
didate for Congress in the second West
Virginia district, and about a NOR tn
ago was arrested in New York City
for maintaining a nuisance in the shape
Of waiter at his restaurnt dressed in
boomers The Colonel Immediately
brought suit against the city for $780,
600 damages He is very well known
in this section of West Virginia.