Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-14
NICE line of Xmas candies at A. L.

A FULL line of the best canned
goods in the city at A. l.. Nye's.
AMONG the vice presidents elected
for the Cheat River sportsmen's asso-
citation was Hon w. G.. Brown, of
Kingwood.
THE plan Of buying Christmas
presents early and avoiding the rush
is being put in practice by half the
ladies in town.
THE warmest sign ever displayed in
the town is now to be seen in the win
dow Of Lazier's drug store. 1t is "For
the Little suckers =" and refers of
course to a lot of rubber nipples.
THE Athenaeum will be issued on
Thursday. This number will be up
to the usual standard. The paper
steadily improves as it grows older
CHRISTMAS odors are noticeable ev-
erywhere. The stores are trimming
up for the joyous season and the lit
tie folks Will not allow it to be for
gotten even if we would do so,
A sERENADE was given Mrs. Barbe
on Thursday night which was very
much appreciated by her. The
young men giving 1t were Messrs.
Newton, Snyder, West, Wiley and
Rauch.
A PETITION was presented TO the
faculty on Monday asking that the
Christmas vacation begin on next
Friday and continue two weeks. The
petition was granted with one amend
ment, thae is the holiday will begin
on the 22nd and last two weeks
from that time.
THE New York World says that
several Klondike companies, which
started out with millions of stock
and prospects of unlimited dividends
and fortunes for everybody, are 60
ing out Of business, while the few
really responsible concerns will get
all there is to be had in Alaska. The
bubble having burst, stockholders
are trying to get their money back.
Companies incorporated in New Jer-
sey and West Virginia alone had a
total capital on paper of 100000
600.
AN exchange says: Did you ever
notice when a man drops piece of
meat on the floor no difference how
clean the floor is, he gives it kick
or lays it to one side. He will never
eat it. But let him drop his plug of
tobacco on the street, and no differ
ence how dirty the street may be,
will pick it up, and give it a care
less wipe on his coat sleeve, or on
the bosom of his pants, and then
take chew from it with keener
relish than ever. Did you ever no
tice that man will hardly ever
drink out of cup of water that
some one else had been drinking
from, but he will turn up the same
mans whisky flask and gurgle down
without thought on the matter.
The Kingwood Argus discussing
an epidemic that prevails in portions
of that county, in one instance COM
polling the closing Of the Valley
school, says:
Gin other words, and to come down
to the earth and give the facts in an
old fashioned way, the children of
the school have the itch, and the
teacher Orval Shaffer, called in the
trustees, and after an examination
and consultation, it is decided to
close the school a week, anyhow, and
have the pupils fumigated and soak
ed in birthstone in the meantime.
So. for the present, they are having a
scratching time out in that section
and the compulsory school law is
temporarily knocked out. Ever since
that 2,200 majority last fall for Yves
Atkinson in this county, we have
been expecting something Of this
kind TO break OUT
THESE items are clipped from the
West Virginian:
Mrs Sarah Gruber is at Morgan
town this week.
Miss Daisy Adams has returned
from Morgantown.
Maple Donham was at Morgan
town the first of the week.
Mrs. Charles T. Nesbitt went to
Morgantown on Monday to visit
friends.
VIM. e. Welsh returned from Nor
gantown on Tuesday, where he had
been visiting friends for several
days.