The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-12-15

Winfield.
THf green Christmas and fun
church yard saying is about due.
READ Santa Claus letter in an
other column. He knows what he
is talking about
A MARRIAGE license has been issued
to Robert Rexroad, % ard Mrs. Sarah
A. Cobun, both Of this county.
SogE parts Of Preston county haze
very disagreeable visitor in the
shape of itch. The Argus says that
such thing was never heard of be-
fore Atkinson election.
WHAT could be better for a Christ
mas gift than to send this paper
year to an absent fricndS With it's
fresh, crisp home news every issueit
would be more appreciated than any
thing which can be called to mind.
The sermon by Presiding Elder
Cotton at the NJ. z. Church last
night was heard by very large
congregation. 1t was very power
full discourse and is receiving many
words of commentator from those
who heard it The subject was
@Sin."
The weather we are now having is
most remarkable Not for several
years have we had such nice wealth
err so near Christmas. The weather
wise tell us that very great cold will
not be experienced until after the
holidays Init how they know is
mystery.
Coz. EASTMAN is having his in
nings now at Parsons and his law
gers are proving that he is not the
the bad man the state has made him
out to be. The crowds continue to
grow at the trial and public sent-
ment seems to be on the side of the
defendent.
SOME news paper publishers can even
sympathize with tie editor who re-
Gently said that he loved sacred songs,
but when every night he hears man
VIM oNIo nun lltttC 1tdlo
tion singing, Jesus paid it ALL he
feels like shedding his Christianity
for few moments to go over with a
club and give that man receipt in
full.
CAPT. HEwITT's detail here expires
in June. He will have served three
years then and will not likely re-
turn here. The probabilitie are
that he will be put on the retired
list as his health will not be very
good any more. Beside his suffer
ing from catarrh he is crippled con-
siderably and his retirement would
be entirely in order.
A VERY proper school board at
Orange, N. j., in its endeavor to
check a practice that it deemed I'M
desirable published a rule that the
female teachers must remove their
short bicycle skirts while teaching
classes" 1t is now earnestly rec
commended to the board that it cor
rect the language if not the intent
Of the rule. No wonder the teachers
are in revolt.
MIR. BEN SMITH, of Minneapolis,
has been in the county short time
the guest of relatives. Mr.. Smith,
after graduating at the West Virginia
University in 1877, taught two years
in that Institution. In 80 he went
to Minneapolis and has been unusu-
ally successful in his profession. He
is one of the Tyler county boys of
whom the county is justly proud. -Ty-
Ter County Star
Coop roads is what is needed to
build up the county town. No town
can be prosperous in business when
roads are so bad in winter that the
farmer cannot get to town. Much
money is spent on the roads in the
different districts, each year, that is
worse than uselessly thrown away
This money properly utilized would
pike and macadamize all the leading
roads in the county
A -YEAR-oLD daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Abraham Miller, of Guy
andotte, promptly caught up her lit
tie two-yearold brother, whose cloth
inc had caught fire at a CRATE, and
carried him to hydrant in the
yard, where she held him with one
hand while she turned on the water
with the other and put out the
flames. The child was badly burned.
The brave little sisters hands were
burned into a crisp, but she is the
heroine of the town.
The colored folks of Martinsburg,
were enjoying a cake walk and hav-
ing a gorgeous time generally when
lamp was upset. A quick scat
teration' followed, the coons forget
ting the cake in the effort OF each to
save his bacon The affair was in
progress In hall used by the Ma
tional Guard as an armory and there
were several hundred pounds of am
munition in the building. Had the
flames touched off these cartridges
there might have been ghost dance
instead of cake walk.