West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-08-05
COMMERCIAL CENTRE.
Town Tsttle From Terra Alta. Tersc.
" Told.

was here Tuesday on business.
Col BulSey OF Parkcrsburg. who is
well known here. was visitor az sun
set Hall over Sunday.
/ CIV. Creed Huntington has begun tho
erection ola dwelling house on High
street, just above the Baptist church
The Copp family OF ParlSersburg,
will arrive hero this week and remain
for some time, as guests at Sunset
! Hall.
The Terra Alta base ball club Is now
4 getting down go business. They cN-
pcct 20 ARRANGE for several games I'm
! the near future.
The foundation for Mcs,rs Hanger
& bishops larre new store building
has been comrletcd. aud the erection
will Ne pushed forward as rapidly as
| possible.
Constable Fawcett 81 Kirgwood, was
/ here Monday on business. Tie was
accompanied bv his daughter. Miss
R"sSie. who was the guest OF Miss
Edna Fogle.
win bishops handSom- new res
! idence on High street. Is now readv for
occupancy. Also Charles AlSright's
new residence, adjoining bishops. Is
about completed.
The u. & q. will run big spccinl
excursion from Cumberland and Graf
ton 10 Oakland. SUNDAY ncVt The
round trip fare from this place Is but
twenty-five cents
We are certainly glad that Kingwood
came out CHAMPION in tho game with
! Oakland last Saturday The Oakland
boys were n little too gay To suit the
average Prestoniau.
Our poStofNice under tho supervision
Of Hon w. II Glover. IL getting along
verv nicely. Sheridan Messenger. tho
assistant, gives good prouis Use Of making
an efficient and obliging postmaster
The lecture in the Presbyterian
church SUNDAY evening, by Prot
Hawkes. of Baltimore. was one Of the
greatest intellectual treats ever ten
dered free Of charge 20 the Sabbath
Schools of this town.
| may llIl, WHO nus OeNn ClerklnN ut
TIuttons for Farley DeBerrv for n wear
or so past. has resigned his position
there and is now numbered with the
efficient corps of clerks In Offutt & La
| kin's store
Offutt 81 LalSin will move into their
handsome new business house within
the next two weeks Persons coming
here from the larger cities are sur
| prised at the elegance and complete
ness Of the building. II is fitted with
steam heat and is we'll equipped
| throughout
improvements are quite numerous in
and about town. There are already
sixteen dwelling houses in course OF
erection here, and contracts were let
! during the past week for three others.
| Terra Alta has certainly been eXpe-
riencinR building boom this season
second TO none on this division of the
H. & o.
Word reached here Monday evening
OF Il brutal assault that was inflicted on
"a daughter OF John Winters, n lending
citizen of the county, who resider near
n lumber camp on Horse Shoe Run
The girl was gathering huckleberries
when two strange men, evidently for
eiRners assaulted and brutallv out
rayed her. a party OF the lumbermen
quickly organized and started in pur-
suit Of the miscreants, but at last ac-
counts they had not been caught.
The miners employed in the Oakland
Coal u Coke Cos. mines, at Corinth,
this county, are out on n strike. They
organized Sunday afternoon very Sc
crctly and at night mad armed SEN
tiuels posted at the mines 20 keen any
one from going in They are in full
sympathy with the great strike and
| claim that every miner in West Vir.
| GINA has the same feeling for strikers
in neighboring states. What the out
| come Of this strike will be cannot at
present DO foretold.
One of tho saddcst accidents that
ever happened In this community oc-
CURED Friday night last, when william
\ a. Browning was struck and fatally
| injured by -. g. o. freight train. He
was en- his way home, near Huttons,
| from Terra Alta, and IL is the general
| supposition that he sat down on the
| cross-ties and fell asleep a swift run.
ming freight engine struck him on the
side Of bis head, caving in the temple
/ and exposing the brain. When found
/ saturday morning he was still alive.
! Physicians from this place were called.
/ but nothing could be done for the suf
I fering man. Mr. Browning never re.
\ gained consciousness. and at4 o'clock
on Saturday afternoon the last spark
\ 81 life went hicScring ont. lie leaves
| eight children and wife 10 mourn his
demise. The funeral occurred on Sun
day evening at 2 o'clock, at Oakland.
\ with interment in the Catholic Gem
Y eterY Mass was said over tbc re.
\ mains hY Rev. H1ua minus MattingIy a.
an earlier hour in Che day
CYRUS
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