The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-12-22
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DR.. Morris, Dentist, has made his ar
rangements to remain permanently a
home hereafter and keep his Office opel
all the time. Any one needing his ser
vices can find him always prepared t
wait on them.
Buy Sugar and Flour at Posten' {
TEE cheapest line Of books in tow
At Postens's.
Dr.. w. E. STEWART, dentist
office over Rice's store.
TWENTY new Bibles at the Acm'
to-day.
SEE the holiday goods at Postens
the chea pest you ever knew them.
NICE fresh mixed nuts for 10 cts
ID. at Posten's.
The Coming Flour, the best in thu
world for health and economy, al
A. L. Nye's.
NEARLYa thousand tracts of lanc
are advertised for sale in Randolph
county for delinquent taxes.
THE stationery at McVickers is Of
the very best and can be had in any
style you want. See it before buying
THEY are still drilling for oil or
Whisky Run. The kind they get ii
that locality must be the soil Of
JOY"
PRoF.'A. j. HARE delivered very
fine defamation in chapel few
morning ago. The Professor is very
fine declaimer and his reputation
was fully sustained.
VALUABLE deposits of coal have
again been discovered in the eastern
panhandle, this time on Cherry run,
in Morgan county. Pennsylvania OPP
orators, it is announced, will open
and develop the field.
The indications are that Christ
mas will not be very extensively eel
ebrated here. The usual family re-
unions will take place but there does
not seem to be any general celebra-
tion contemplated
A LETTER has been received from
w. l.. Wharton, announcing his safe
arrival in New Mexico. We hope to
soon have description of his new sur
Foundings to give our readers 1t will
po doubt prove very interesting and
we will take great pleasure in publish
Ing it.
w. ii. GLOVER and J. w. White,
both of Preston county, having re-
ceived appointments as postmasters
ht Terra Alta and Kingwood respec-
lively, have resigned their seats as
members OF the house of delegates.
This makes four vacancies in the leg
stature.
SEVERAL persons who saw the an
pouncement of the rate offered to
students by the B. & o. have taken a
wrong view of the matter. The Same
rate as has always been offered TO the
public will hold this time The rate
to the students will last longer, be-
ginning earlier than the rate to the
general travelling public.
IT is not at all unlikely that the
glass factory will not take very ex-
tended holiday during Christmas as
they are behind with their orders.
This season has been very prosper
BUS one for them and no vacation has
been taken. Most such concerns
shut down for month or more in the
summer but the Seneca ran right on
Ind lost no time.
HooPERsTowN, Illinois, a town of
600 inhabitants, has never had a
saloon. The Mayor receives salary
bt so cents year, the remuneration
Df each of the Councilmen is half
that amount, and no fees are accept
ed. Last year the combined salaries
bf the Mayor and the city fathers
we're given to help needy widow pay
her taxes.
VIM. L. WILSON has been rejected
as one of the regents of the Virginia
Female Normal School by the SEN
Rte of that state. The reason given
was that he was not citizen of the
ftate having just come into it to ac-
fept the presidency of w. d L. U.
rhe real reason it is alleged
however is that he was such con
picuous boiler from the Chicago
platform.
AUDITOR LAFOLLETrE was yester-
|day notified that the bonds of the Un-
ion Pacific r. r. Co. held by the state
would be paid off the first of January.
The irreducible school fund of the
Estate is invested In bonds and securi-
ties and $55, 200 have been invested
in the bonds of the Union Pacific.
Since the recent sale of that road the
bonds are to Be paid off. They bore
1six per cent interest, which is larger
than the interest borne by any other
bonds held by the state.
A STRANGER is working a rather
slick scheme which it would not be a
bad idea to refuse to bite on. He has
been in Wheeling and other towns of
the state and may call this way.
The way he works is as follows: He
| goes into business house and ex-
plains that he wants to send d check
to an absent friend for eight dollars
and will gives the man he has selected
for the victim the money for the re-
quired check. If the check be OBJ
tanned it is cleverly raised to ten
times the amount for which it was
made by the addition of y in one
place and 0 in the space after the
figure s. Look out for him and re-
fuse to give any such checks TO stran-
gers.
UP at Clarksburg the church So
cial has evoluted into weighing
party" All in attendance are dec
Grated with ribbons, and when the
girl is found with the same color of
ribbon that is worn by one of the
beaux of the occasion, the aforesaid
beaux and young ladies are expected
ITO march up under an evergreen arch,
and both are weighed. Some one
quick at figures subtracts the differ
ence in avoirdupois, and the gentle
man pays for the excess at a penny a
Hpound. That is ali ii there is of it
the church gets the young mans
money, and he gets the girl, whose
mission it is to take him to the din
ing room where tempting lunch is
ser we'd.
THERE are now two vacancies In
the state senate. The first was
caused by the death of Senator Hyde,
\ who died last summer, and the other
is due to the resignation of Stuart f.
Reed, who went out of the senate to
accept the postmastership Of his town
to which he was lately appointed.
BUSINESS men who advertise should
be interested in the welfare of the
home newspaper, and so far as posi-