The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-07-17

FAIKM0ST Is to vote on PROPOSE
tion To put in sewers on July 26th.
The bonds will likely be voted upon
favorably.
CHARLES MARTIN has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Laurel Point
A PENSION has been granted to
Charlotte Tenant, of Jakes Run,
as an original widow.
A MATHEMATICIAN has figured out
that the amount of powder burned in
this country on Fourth Of July would
make monument higher than the
Washington monument at the nation
al capital and four times as wide at
the base.
JUDGE HAGANs being too i'll to be
present at the session of court which
began at Fairmont last Tuesday. Hon.
John W. Mason was chosen TO pre-
side.
The captain of the Isaac Mason
says he will have more excursions
into Morgantown this summer than
have been here in the history Of the
river.
THE total collections made by Col
lector E. M. Gilkeson during his four
years term of Office, just expired, were
81, 90I, 238.94. During the preceding
term, under Collector White, the col
lections amounted to SO, 400, 569.s6.
THE report of Commander Romeo
III. Freer, Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, shows that in the depart
ment OF West Virginia, there was last
December a total membership of 2, 1T;
the receipts for last year were ST.
267.38; disbursements, $954.67; bal
ance on hand S302.71
If you want to prevent Fever
and Kidney trouble drink Gray's
Mineral Water. For sale by J.
G. McVieker, Druggist.
The Teachers College and Uni
versity Preparatory School at Ma
son City, of which ex-state Superin-
tendent of schools, Virgil A. Lewis
is president, has started off with
good attendance and bright pros
poets.
The Ante iiluvian Sisters of the
United States of America, common
ly, although unkindly, called old
maids, held their annual convention
in Wheeling last week. According
to rumor they passed the usual res
olution declaring all men nuisances,
consecrated themselves anew to sin
gle blessedness and adjourned
YESTERDAY evening party of Nor
gantown people left by way of Wheel
ing to attend the meeting of the Ep-
worth League which is to be held at
Toronto. Prof. and Mrs. A. j. Hare,
Herbert Gilmore and Misses Flora and
Mary Hayes, Mary Gregg, Laura ia
cobs, Maud McVicker, Bette Jones,
Matte Brock, and Ollie Hite composed
the party. They will be gone a week
and expect to have pleasant outing.
They will stop at Niagara Falls and
other points of interest on their trip
and will visit many historic scenes.
QUITE distinguished party spent
the Fourth at the Franklin. 1t con-
sisted Of VIM. A. Hiland, and Ed
ward Bull, General Superintendent
and Cashier of the Westinghouse
electric mandatory, of .Pittsburg.
They were accompanied by Baron
Hans Henwig, of Germany, who is
making extensive investigation in
this country of electricity and electric
al machinery. They were very much
taken with our pretty town and its
hospitable people.
On account of the intense heat
last Sunday week, Mayor Kendall,
of Fairmont, gave ice wagons per-
mission to sell ice, and drug stores
to sell soda water, two things that
have never been done ON the Sabbath
in that town. Thursday delegation
of ministers called and severely crit
icised his action. The broad -guage
young mayor lost patience and sug-
gested that the delegation study
their bible more and pry into other
peoples affairs less, and straightway
gave permission for the delivery of
ice and sale of soda water ON every
Sunday during the heated term.
That evening the law and order
league held an indignation meeting
and offered fervent prayer in his be-
half.
THE seventeen year locusts are done
for. Their song is hushed for another
period of seventeen years. Their pres
ence this year was not the nuisance it
generally proves. Their number was
fewer and their stay shorter than ever
known. The causes for this are vari-
Gus. A severe storm just as they were
emerging in great numbers from the
ground killed thousands of them and
the continued cold during the early
part of their sojourn slew other thou
sands. The English sparrows soon
discovered that the locust was a juicy
tid-bit and with all his energy went to
work to decrease the visible supply.
How well the work has been done can
be seen when the locusts are simply all
gone. Not one left to tell the story
or sing the tiresome song of Pharaoh.
The sparrow's many sins are now for
gotten for his crusade against this
insect.
WE subjoin without comment the
following Fourth of July speech made
by the editor of an Arkansas paper,
to an audience of his fellow towns
men, "And speaking of the great
and glorious father of his country, l
am led to remark that he fought hard
and froze himself for his country, but
he never was run down by spindle
shanked lunatic on a ninety-seven BIZ
cycle. If he had been, the Constitu-
ton would have been longer and
stronger. He missed the Worlds Fair
but he never had to dodge cable car.
My friends, we live in an age of peace,
progress and push or you'll perish.
The American eagle spreads his wings
above united and free people, and
the song of the freedman echoing from
the cotton fields, blends with the bray
of the mule in the dusty common,
where the rumble of prosperity browns
the hum of the industrious dago, as
he shovels dirt for 40 cents day. In
the language of the poet, in hoe sic
requiescat multum in parvo."
THE recent hot spell was the long
est and hottest ever experienced in
this country. For fourteen cOnsecu-
tive days the mercury tried to bang
the top off the thermometers. Nine
ty degrees in the shade began to be re-
garded as cool and the hundred mark
was frequently reached and passed.
Such hot weather here is unprece-
denied except for very brief sieges.