Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-07
THE DAILY NEW DOMINION
MoReANrowN. DECEMBER :. lsg7

DR.. w. E. STEWART, Dentist First
class. latest dentistry in all its branches
Go TO the Baltimore Bargain House
for Ladies Wraps.
A FULL line of Marvin's cakes and
crackers, at A. L. Nyes.
IT. is rumored that the B. d o.
railroad will remove its roundhouse
from Grafton to Clarksburg.
Forty TWO clerkships in the treas
ury department of the United States
are filled by West Virginians.
FIVE hundred turkeys and five
hundred geese were shipped to Pitts
burg by one Point Pleasant man last
week.
THE little railroad town of Tun-
Melton, in Preston county, is sinking
it is said, as result of being under
mined.
SIX hundred and eighty three
pounds after thew are dressed is the
size of the hogs they kill up in Mar
ion county.
PARKERsBURG is clamoring for a
new court house for Wood county,
and Point Pleasant a home for its
city government.
THE rise in the river has kept the
people who have timber in it, on
nettles for several days But few
losses have occurred however.
E. LALAINE, late of the Northern
New York railroad, has been APP
pointed master mechanic of the Ohio
River railroad, to succeed w. W.
Layman, who resigned last week.
THERE will be a meeting of the
West Virginia Cotillion club We'd
nesday at one o'clock. Officers for
the present term will be elected; all
members are expected to be present.
OPERATIONS have been resumed at
the prospective oil well below Win
field, in Marion county, on Col. I.
B. Bowyer's land, and the work will
continue until thorough test is
made.
HELLO, HELLO,
Bell Phone No. 70
Will call up
G. L. st. Glars.
New bakery where
You can get the
Best Bread in
Town.
THERE is trouble in the Baptist
church at Simpson, w. Va. One
faction in the church has instituted
legal proceedings against the other
faction, and numerous trials have
been held
WHAT could be better for Christ
mas gift than to send this paper a
year to an absent friend? With it's
fresh, Grip home news every day it
would be more appreciated than any
thing which can be called to mind.
If the city authorities would re-
quire every tramp that comes along
to work for his mealsrand lodging
there would be fewer of them. In
stead Of hunting work as they claim
the chief business of these parasites
is to avoid it.
UPPER Hinton is said to be, in
some respects, the most remarkable
town in the United States. A popu-
lation of fifteen hundred is within
the corporate limits, with not apost-
Office, church, hotel, livery stable or
a saloon in town.
THE worst freight wreck in the
history of the Grafton and Green
brier railroad occurred between
Grafton and Belington, Tuesday. A
freight train left the track, tearing
up an eighth of mile and smashing
fourteen cars. No one was seriously
injured.
COLONEL A. j. Percy, of Green
brier county, has had the unusual
experience of receiving the money
on debt which had been made so
long ago that he had forgotten it and
had destroyed the account. A Meth
odist preacher 90 years ago bought
provisions of him to the amount of
$12 on credit One day last week
he received a registered letter for
Sl2 to pay the debt.
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