The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-12-22

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ANOTHER lot Of the guaranteed wa
tef-proof shoes received at Waters &
Wilmington
The Christmas vacation at the
University begins on Wednesday
the 22nd and continues until Wed
nesday, January 5.
+ AN aggregate Of 6, 306 pounds OF
poultry was shipped from Tunnelton,
Preston county, to decorate Eastern
Thanksgiving tables.
THE bad condition of the water In
the Potomac is killing the fish, and
they are seen in large numbers float
ing down that majestic stream.
THE janitor of the court house has
succeeded in getting a faucet placed
in the court house. The public can
now get nice drink without going
outside of the building.
A CORN COB is now part of every
we'll dressed Preston county denizeu
and friendly scratches are exchanged
by way Of greeting when meeting
each other in the buckwheat state.
THE Gordon lumber plant at Hun
tington, idle since 1893, has been sold
to L. A. Cross and others, and will
soon be put in operation. 1t is one
of the best plants along the river.
OLD red eye seems 10 be getting in
vast amount Of work or rather in
toxication this early in the holiday
season. Why men should get drunk
and act a fool more at holidays than
at other seasons is yet to be explain
ed.
NEAR WEIGH, Alice White and
Tom Pearson became involved in diff
ficulty. After fighting for ten min
utes, the woman secured gun and
shot Pearson three times, fatally
wounding him. Whiskey was the
cause.
FAIRaoNT's council has decided
that there is to be no shooting OF fire
crackers in that town on Christmas.
The younger generation is discon-
solate but the rest of the community
is not at all sorry of the turn affairs
have taken.
HENT NEALY, Mercer county in
cendiary, was captured Tuesday,
after being tracked through the
mountains for fifteen miles with
blood hounds. Nealy belongs to the
gang of fire fiends that almost de-
stroyed the town of Bluefield.
CIRCUIT Court convenes here Tues
day, January 10TH 1t is to be hoped
that Judge Hagans' health will be
such that he will be able to hold
court. Advices from Morgantown
state that his condition is much i'm
proved.-Clarksburg Mail
THE B. & o. will sell round trip
tickets to all parts of the line for one
fare and third, good from Dec. %
to January 2 inclusive. They will be
sold only to students of the Univer-
sity who must present a written state
ment from the president that they are
regularly matricuiated students.
THE damage suit of Miss Lucy X.
Smith against the Parkersburg Coz
operative Associations, in which she
she asked for So, 200, for injuries sus-
tanned in walking through an elevator
shaft at the cooperative store and
falling to the basement, was conclud-
ed Tuesday, with verdict for ST.
500.
A BAND of robbers loaded with
burglars tools and armed to the teeth
with pistols, razors and knives were
arrested at Martlnsburg as they were
about to leave B. & o. train, which
they had boarded near Sir Johns Run.
1t since develops that they are wanted
at Frederick for robbing the hardware
store of P. L. Hargett & Co.
JAMES FOSTER, of Greensburg, has
passed through town on his way to
his timber lands up the creek on a
visit of inspection. He has large
holdings of timber in that section
and had a mill on it. 1t is his in
the spring and make this his future
home. We bid him welcome in the
name of the citizens of the town.
DIR. A. L. BoYERs has placed a
case OF specimens of his work outside
of his Office in the Odd Fellows block.
The specimens show all kinds of
bridge and crown work, the different
styles Of filings put in and the differ
ent sets Of teeth which are made by
him. The case is a very comprehen-
siye exhibit and is decidedly the finest
thing of its kind ever shown in the
town.
A NUMBER of students have gone
home for the holidays. The faculty
are deluged with applications from
students whose relatives are SICK
From indications this will be The
worse Christmas from health stand
point that ever visited our state.
Fully half the boys have some relative
who is not likely to live through the
holidays. However most of them are
expected to Immediately begin to feel
better after the faculty grant the ap-
plicants permission to go.
The Charity entertainment to be
given in Music Hall early in Janua-
ry will be given ON an elaborate
scale. The best local talent have
rendered their services and are hold
ing weekly rehearsals. A feature of
the entertainment will be the dane
ing of the dance of our grandmoth-
er's day-The stately minuet Those
who will execute this pretty figure
are Misses Moorhead, Mansbach,
Howe and Evans and Messrs. Fried
man, Reynolds, Boughner and At
kinson.
You can kill the mice in the Or
chard now by feeding them wheat
that has been cooked in water in
which strychnine has been dissolved.
Drop table spoonful at the root of
the tree or under the corners of the
rail fence or other places where mice
congregate the most, or where you
see their runways. Gophers may be
killed by dropping in their borrows
pieces of potatoes in which little of
the strichnine has been placed. AS
spring approaches use the cats on the
place for rifle targets, and thus pro-
tect the more valuable birds. Birds
no worms. No birds-worms. Mon
tana Fruit Grower.
THE following item is from the
Uniontown News Standard:
Louis D. Beall, Esq, was appointed
U. S. commissioner for the counties
of Westmoreland, Greene, Somerset
and Fayette Saturday to take the
the place of Judge-elect Reppert, who
resigned a short time ago. The ap-
pOintment was made by Judge Buffing-