The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-06-05

to spring an affidavit on you on
convention day. What we want
is a fair deal, every man to run
on his own merits-no tricks.
DR.. E. Oliver Belt, of Wash.
ington. D. O., will make his next
visit to Clarksburg, June 90 and
80. Practice limited 10 diseases
of the eye and ear. sotd.
This weeks cattle markets for
Baltimore and New York. The
TELEGRAM has the latest !; see
market report.
Messrs. G, B. Chorpening, A.
NJ. T. Cunningham and Ebert
Dawson started for the Dominion
of Canada on their bicycles last
Wednesday. They will be gone
about three weeks.
The editor of the TELEGRAM
will be absent from the office for
several days after Friday, attend,
ing the annual meeting of the
Board of Regents of the Univer.
sity.at Morgantown.
County Republican convention
next Tuesday. The town will be
full of people. There will be
three bands and a drum corps to
furnish the music. Let every.
body come. The wigwam will
hold the crowd.
The Commencement exercises
of the Clarksburg High School
will be held az the Court House
on next Friday night, June 18th.
This will be an occasion of deep
interest to the graduates and also
to their friends. FMS coronat
opus is a motto adapted, especi-
ally to High school graduates !;
and in token thereof, the Board
of Education will deliver to each,
a diploma which has been won
by eleven or twelve years work,
in the school room.
Mr.. W. S. Watson. vice-Presi.
dent, purchasing and sales ag't,
and for the past two months
General Managerof the Pinnick-
innick Coal Co., has sold his one.
fourth interest IN that company
to Col. I. NJ. Jackson and others.
and is no longer connected with
the company. MIR. Watson is one
of the most efficient coal men"
that has ever operated in this
district. Through his efforts the
''P. K Co. las the Pinnickinnick
is Familiarity known has builtup
a splendid trade for its mines
which are now running at about
their full capacity. which is some.
thing near $500 IONS daily.
1t is rumored that he will remain
in Clarksburg and possibly he.
come interested with outside
capitalists in developing a new
field in this section.
Mrs. Dell Harrison, of Clinton.
Missouri. a former Harrison
county lady. writes the TELE
GRAM aoout the great storms
that visited that region last week.
She says: Last Tuesday between
2 and 3 o'clock we had one of the
worst storms that has ever been
in this part of the country. The
wind came like cyclone and the
hail stones began to fall as large
as hen eggs and as thick as they
could fall, doing great damage
to crops of all kinds. We have
no garden left and all the fruit
is knocked off and the trees
broken down. The windows we're
torn from our home and thirty
lights broken. All of our pota-
toes were ruined. including
twenty-five hundred plants. We
will have nothing left and it is a
sad looking prospect tor having
anything this season, as it still
rains almost every day. The
wheat is entirely ruined"
The contest among the Repub.
llcans is almost over and the
next battle will be between Re-
publicans and Democrats. In
this first contest the TELEGRAM
had but one course that it con
sidered a fair one for all parties.
1t fixed upon a reasonable price
for space and permitted the