West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-06-03

| last Saturday, the score being - 10 .
in favor of the University nine. The
/ former team want TO come here for Il
| game some time this mouth. The
manager OF the Kingwood Club has
received letter from Earl II. Smith,
! Manager Fairmout Club. wanting to
come, il they can get game with
RowlesOurg and Grafton on the same
trip.
The Baker boys are back home in
Davis from their winters tour in the
South with the Buckler Big stock
Dramatic Company. They arrived
/ home April Goth, and Hode is RAINING
a job printing Office. he has lately
added new Chandler X Price Old
/ style Gordon Press TO his Office, pur-
chased through Barnhart Bros X
/ Spindler, OF Chicago, and is now get
! ting a pretty good outfit lie expects
TO visit kingwood about July ith.
The following local from a Ruckhan.
non paper tells how Preston boy at
the Seminary got "batted out the
other day:
James Daily received very painful
] y
! bat last Saturday. Several stitches
were taken in the wound 10y physic.
/ ian and he Is now recovering. y game
I OF ball was IN progress when the bat
slipped out of the batter's hands. strik-
| ing Mr.. Daily blow ON the forehead
which resulted as above,
Prof Ira f. Groves. the we'll know
singing master, was here last Saturday.
lie is meeting with great success aud
has several classes in vocal culture
now. Next month he expects to go to
! Dayton, Virginia, TO take a special
course in voice culture at the famous
school there. We hope the managers
/ OF the Function Camp meeting will
invite Prof Groves and his fuvCri,e
| class to attend the annual meeting this
| year and assist IN the singing. We be-
| lieve they would accept II invited, and
1t would add much TO the success of
the Camp meeting.
The Postoflicc is known on Price
Street no more. Yesterday morning
after about thirty years residence on
this street, Uncle Sam pulled up stakes
and changed his location to the Jour
nal Building on Main Street, where he
has set up in business again is good
shape and Eat home" TO ali his old
callers and any new ones having bust
! ness with him. The loca ton will seem
a little unhandy ut first till after we
| get used TO il and then we won't know
the difference. People will still call
at toe old stand for month vet, for
their mail and IL is fun 10 watch them
hunting for tho letter box after dark
to drop in mail.
An editor is supposed TO know every
thing and docs know good deal be-
fore he has been Ia the business very
long, no difference how green he is
when he begins. But we are no mind
reader specially at long range and
we pass on "a communication like this
addressed 10
the WestvirgInIg Argus
and written on postal card as follows
May the -. 1897
| MIR Brown Sir
Please send Ny Paper To
McKees Port
| Ia
Walnut St 1881
No name nor former address and no
! stamp on the card even to aid us in
! guessing who and where it was from,
Another unfortunate woman was
! brought TO the jail here Tuesday by
Constable +. NJ. Ialbritter Her name
| is Deilie V. Lipscomb, the wife ofJohn
| Li"scomb, who lives above Rowlcs-
/ burg and she has three small children.
Justice John w. Carrico Of Rowlcsburs
! committed her on the charge of in
! sanity, and She j., badly deuented and
I in "a pitiful condition. She is uOouL
! thirty years of age and seems 10 b..
/ suffering from worry and domestic
| trouble, as she tried to drown herself
! by jumping ia CArtt river before being
| sent here, but WAS rescued. She will
/ he taken to tn. Hospital at Weston as
soon rs they send nurse after her.
| The Memorial Day exercises heli
here Sunday we're very successfully
carried out and there was no frolic or
circus day about it, Tho services were
held in the Court House in the after
noon and large crowd attended, many
being from the country. Rev. George
Shaw, Of Terra Alta, preached an able
and appropriate sermon, after which
the procession marched to the GENE
| terry laden with flowers and decorated
| each old veterans grave. sleeping so
| quietly till the last roll call. A beauti-
ful cross or wreath and small flag was
! deposited on every one, not forgetting
| the old Confederate's resting place,
| either. Many other graves were
strewB with floral emblcms also by
| remem bering friends
We are sorry in deed TO lose Bro.
Boldeu and his hospitablc family from
our quiet little town, as society is dull
enough and they were a valuable adj
/ ditiOn TO IL, that VIC can III afford 20
! lose However, Terra Alta has been
trying hard to get Mr. Bolden back
ever since ne left, and so after six
months stay with us nc moves again to
/ the Com mcrcial Centre" OF the county,
and we can't blame him, for Terra Alta
/ is having steady boom that is wonder
/ fu these hard times. The town has
| continued 90 build and boom right
/ along in spite Of the hard times and
/ business depression more than any
| town in the county. and the induce
/ mcnts offered Mr Boldsn 20 come bacl,
/ were very tempting, hence his return
| Co his old staHd.