The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-07-29

| Is Hdrnersville. Braxton county.
4 CAL Il Cakes Fine Art Studio
and see their fancy picture
moulding in all the new shades,
Traders building, $685.
Harrison county crop report
| Corn and grass doing we'll; harv.
testing delayed; most of oats cut ;
very little grass cut yet
The extension Of the water
pipes to the new depot has been
completed and the railroad com.
pany is now furnished with water
By the city.
DR.. NJ. y. Bartlett. wife and
daughter Eva, and Mrs. Jas. F.
Allen, left Thursday morning for
the sea shore where they will re-
main for two weeks.
4 The ladies' Of Huntington San
day presented 5000 sandwiches
to soldiers who passed through
that city from Chickamauga, en-
route to Porto Rico.
Have your pictures framed at
Cakes Fine Art Studio, they
have q neat and up-to.date line
of moulding at low prices. Also
some fine miniature frames. 3s.2
Mr.. and Mrs. M. g. Holmes
left Tuesday for Mt. Lake Park
where they will spend several
days enjoying the mountain
breezes.
Losr-A pair Of gold specta-
cles between Jacobs store and
the post Office. The finder will
be literally rewarded by leaving
them at the above named store.
Mrs. E. STALEY. 3s-1t.
Alex. Payton died at his home
in the east end Sunday of Bright's
disease and was buried Monday
afternoon at the Odd Fellows
Cemetery. The deceased was So
years old and leaves wife and
three children.
Mr.. George L. Duncan. cashier
Of the Savings bank, was married
to Miss Gertrude Smith, of this
city, at the Walton Hotel. in
Philadelphia. Wednesday night.
After the ceremony the bride and
groom left for the White Noun
tains, in New Hampshire. whore
they will spend their honeymoon.
The experiment in rural free
mail delivery, made from 14o
| post Offices throughout the coun-
try. is to be continued, owing to
the increase by Congress OF the
appropriation available for this
purpose, If rural free mail de-
livery becomes an established in.
stitution it will remove one more
of the drawbacks to rural life in
the United States. Perhaps as
! the time is not far distant when
the American woman's dislike Of
country life will be succeeded by
an appreciation Of it as hearty as
that felt by her English cousin.
Rural free mail delivery ought
to be successful in the United
States as in England, if for no
other reason than that the older
sections Of the United States are
more thickly populated than in
England. One of the greatest
obstacles to rural free mil de-
livery in this country has been
the absence of good roads. Some
of the experimental routes now
on trial are in the vicinity Of
Moorestown, New Jersey, from
which place radiate many miles
of improved roads built under
the State road law. In that vi
cinity mail is now distributed at
the farmers home by carriers
upon bicycles, equipped with mud
guards and gear case, possible
in all kinds of weather, except
when the ground is covered with
snow. have conferred upon the
inhabitants the additional bene-
fits Of a free mail delivery sys-
tenn. The past reports OF the Stone
Roads commissioner of New Jer.
sey have contained communica-
tious showing a much greater &C,
tivity in the real estate market
in the neighborhood of improved