West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-12-02


mas Eve and festival on Christmas
night
Use fellows Gossa,ner Face Powder
Ask for free sample at Graham Drug
Store.
Fred Copeman. Of near Bruceton,
butehered lot of fine porkers on
Thanksgiving Day. One of them
weighed ass lbs clean meat.
The Celebrated Black Draught Med
ieine for sale at the Graham Drug
Store.
Ex-Sherif h & Morgan. of Fair
mont was married last week to Miss
Kate Arnetr, of Rievesville, a grand
daughter OF the late Senator L. y.
ArnetL
Joseph Graham of Terra Alta, re-
turned last Saturday from ten days
trip TO Pittsburg and the mining towns
Of that place, selling goods for Engle-
harts factory over at Guseman.
The Graham Drug Store now has the
| finest selection Of Cigars and Pipes in
| town. II you want some thing good.
| Just try some of their new brands of
/ cigars and II will pay you 20 drop in
aud see them anyhow
| The boys around town are having "A
| great deal of fun out OF Jim Hayes
about being fined for running a cart
on the sidewalk. Jim says he now
walks in the middle of the road
| In the last issue of the Fairmon, In
! deX, we notice marriage license
| granted 10 Buckner Fairfax Grimes.
aged 20 and Maggie Z. Weaver, aged
20 This is a son of Henry Marshall
Grimes, who lives in Valley district,
this county.
James A. Wardwell, who has been
working at Morgantown for some time,
! spent several days here during the past
week visiting his family Last week he
was formally installed as Superinten-
dent of the Morgantown Planning Mills
This is q good position and good
salary.
Please show this paper to your
neig or who is not taking il, and call
his attention to our Special Offer, TO
send it till January 1, 1899, for only
one dollar. Get him 20 slip a dollar
bill in an envelope, with his name and
address, and send 1T to us, and we will
do the rest
Clyde Forman, an eight-year-old son
of /. n. Forman, of Pleasant ID ale, sus-
tanned fracture of the right leg while
playing ball AZ the school out there last
Wednesday evening. The large bone
in the leg was broken, and it will lay
him up all winter.
Kingwood Presbyterian church for
Sunday, December 9Th. Is97-Suuday
School at 10 "a. IN. Preaching at II a.
IN. and : p m Morning subject, "Men-
tai Stages TO Conversion" Evening
subject The Spiritual Temple" Chris
tian Endeavor at G:15 p. m
Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday.
December 5th-Preaching, 1890 a. m.
and 1880 p. IN. Morning subject Wait
ing upon the Lord. Evening su Inject,
Is the World Growing Better or Worse.
Sunday-school at ? p. IN. Epworth
League at $3.50 p. m. cordial well
come TO all.
Miss Carrie CaSteel, OF Alb~ightsville,
is an applicant for 10 position as seam
stress at the Hospital for Insane at
Spencer, and her papers are in the
hands of ex-Sherif Shaw, one OF the
Directors, who will present them TO
the perintendent.
There was big wedding over at
4 L..
prominent young people Of that place
were made man and wife by Rev In
kin. The parties were Mr. j VIII
Lakin aud Miss Maud Rinard and the
ceremony occurred at Sunset Hall, the
beautiful home of the bride
The advertisement OF Julius Hines &
Son, Of Baltimore, to be found on our
first page, is one that many people
should take advantage of, as they offer
some great bargains Send and get
their large new catalogue of lie pages.
sent free for postal card When
writing 20 them, mention this paper.
Miss Orpha Jane Christopher is an
applicant for position as attendant
in the Hospital for Insane at Spencer,
and as she has filed her papers with
frst-class recommendations. she will
likely receive an appointment soon.
Ex-SheriH Shaw, who is a Director of
the Institution, has charge Of the mat
ter for her.
Talking about fine lambs, Tom hin,
who lives over on the mountain, claims
the blue ribbon for couple he sold TO
Nathan Wilson last Thursday. They
were born May tst of this year and
weighed 24O pounds when he sold them
last week. They were Of the Shropshire
breed, and Tom wants TO know who
can beat IT,
Rev Taylor closed bis big meeting
over at the Cranes school house last
sunday nig1t. after a four weeks pro-
Traction the result was over twenty
conversions and quite q number stfl at
the altar Rev Taylor desires to re-
turn his sincere thanks 60 some OF the