Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-02
Saturday and Everything Nov
ing Along Nicely.
An Energetic Set Of Mem on the Board
The FAIR Directors Meet and Prepare
for Our Annual County Fair.
Special to the Review.

the court house in the sheriff's Office
January 27, and revised the pre-
MUM list for the sixteenth annual
fair, 1898, and also appointed the
various committees to arrange tor
this years exhibition. The grounds
need a great deal, of repairing, but
everything will be put in ship shape
as there is over 81 600 IL the treas
ury. There are other Improvements
that should be made, for instance,
a new judges stand i'll place OF old
one, with an office for the secretary
and directors to meet in on the days
of the fair and place for
newspaper representatives. A new
floral hall would not be
a bad idea. The old one could
be used for an eating house and
stands and sold out for quite a snug
sum if made into booths. One
should be built more in keeping
with our commodious grand stand.
show our intention to keep up with
our advancement in wealth and
prosperity in Tyler county.
The stockholders of the Sisters
vile and Salem railroad company
met at G. D. Smiths office here
Saturday and elected officers as
follows: President, Judge Romeo
H. Freor,v vice president, F. J. Glenn
niger, secretary, Harry w. Smith;
treasurer, Charles Y. Bennedum;
attorney and agent, G. D. Smith;
directors, Judge Romeo II. Freer,
F. J. Cleminger,. Harry w. Smith,
Charles Y. Bennedum, David H.
Morey, w. R. Fitch and A. B.
Smith and thereupon the stock
holders paid in the amount required
bv law on the stock taken. The
stockholders then went to the court
house to hear the propositions OF
the West Union and Salem dele
gates, respectively, induce the road
to be built to their said towns. The
Salem people failed to put in an ap-
pearance, but the West Union rep
resentatives were in force, consist
ing of Major J. V. Blair, Sheriff
Joseph Freeman, DR.. M. +. Griffen,
Clerk of the Circuit Court Wallace
Gribble and Jesse Keyser. Mayor
Blair was spokesman for them and
in an able manner presented the
claims of his town. He offered a
free right of way through their
county to the Tyler county line,
with a free site for de,
pot, and presented a subscription
paper with $1,000 cold cash on it,
VIII oh had been raised on Friday
evening in about four hours. and
will be doubled with a little more
time. He further says that if the
road was extended through Dod-
bridge county to Gilmer county
and intersect with the Black Dia,
mond or some other road in the
central part of the State. Mr.. Lew
is Maxwell will give the snug sum
OF $4,000 and a free right of way
through the Maxwell lands, a dis
lance of at least IS miles. If the
road be thus built, it will open up
the coal fields OF Doddridge and
Gilmer counties and the Fink oil
field in Gilner. This is a nine.foot
vein of coal. The route would start
at Sistersville, down Pursely TO Mid
dlebourne, thence up Middle Island
creek by mouth of McElroy, Jo'
seph's Mills to West Union; thence
up Meathouse fork of Middle Is
land creek to the divide between
it and said fork; thence across the
divide with a cut and down Sand
fork by Fink oil field to Chenille
or some point near there; this route
is II miles shorter than the Salem
route. The officers and stockhold-
ers on the invitation OF the West
Union people agreed in the near
future to go over the route with
them and examine it, and took
time to consider their proposition.
Col. J. C.. Frazer, of Martinsburg
and w. A. Jones. of Chillicothe,
Ohio two experienced railroad men