The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-08-20

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by q decision hin favor Of the
church, and the handsome new
building begun three years ago
WILDE pushed to completion at
once. The Lutherans OF the
town have decided to build as
soon as sufficient funds to begin
the work are available and the
Pittsburgh synod win contribute
towards It. The Catholics have
a lot and two thousand dollars
subscribed and will build at once.
The Nail and Express says
Major Moses P. Handy, Ameri-
can Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition, who sails for the
French capital on the 29tb, will
make it his chief business on
this initial trip to secure from
the French authorities 500, 900
square feet of space for the ex-
hibit OF the United States. The
Major hasn't any exhibit In stor.
age. as yet, nor has he command
of any money with which to Sc
cure one. However, there is an
appropriation bill stored away
somewhere in Congress, and the
Majors optimism will do the
rest.
Every once in a while a girl
says, in the presence of the
young men, that all the desirable
men are already married, and
though the young men don't say
much, they recall that all the
best cooks in the world are also
| married. A magnificent
young man walked into the circus
last night, says Kansas journal
and people generally wondered
who he was. He was not only
fine looking. but he was dressed
in exquisite taste and his man
ners were courtly. After good
deal of rubber-necking, it was
discovered that he was an old
married man whose wife died a
few months ago.
Col. Bob McEldowney, of the
Wetzel democrat, ventured into
Sistersville the other day and
had some experiences. This is
one of the impressions which he
received Biking is we'll enough
but some OF it is a nuisance. 1t
is not so bad here because the
scorchers are not very numerous
and they can not get at you. But
the diamond at Sistersville is the
place where you take your life in
your hand, and stand a chance OF
being run down by Darkest
Africa. Its bad enough to be
run over by the prettiest girl in
town, but a fellow can stand that
and with his dying breath ex-
claim, Sweet Evelina, dying {
salute thee" But when hippo
potamus from the Nile runs over
you, you are bound to swear if it
is the last act of your life
There was quite an excitement
here Wednesday over the elope-
ment of Lulu, the 17-year old
daughter of All Drain. and Alvin
Smith, son of Harmon Smith, of
Kenton. A friend was on hand
with constable Gain when the
/ :05 train pulled in, but failed to
produce warrant, the boy and
his friends in the presence of
$50 people snatched the girl
from the officer and placed her
on the train amid the cheers of
the multitude. They tried to
head them off at Grafton, but
they were smart enough to get
off at Clarksburg where they got
team and started for Maryland
where they have no doubt been
made one before this time.-W.
U. Record.
A company has just been or.
ganized in Omaha which is going
to build beet sugar factory
costing 100000, while in Cali
fornia the sugar manufacturers
have voluntarily raised the price
they pay farmers for beets %
cents a ton. This tale is found
repeated further East in Ohio,
where all kinds of merchants re-
port they are now doing the larg-