The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-03-09
Charleston Gazette.

not arrived YET, ana III is not known
when they will be received. In the
meantime the two old guns left there
will answer for the purpose of firing
salutes, and the two left in the capt.
toll yard will serve to keep the enemy
from stealing the State House.
Commissions were issued yesterday
to the officers of the new battery a.,
at Berkeley Springs. They are Hen
ry Gordon Strong, captain: Allen NJ.
Mendenhall and Thomas w. b. Duck
wall first lieutenants; SiIas j. Hover
male and Eli L. Rice, second lieuten-
ants.
Under the new military law a bat
terry may consist Of not to exceed 155
men and five officers. Battery A has
the full quota OF both and could have
had hundred more men had the reg
ulations permitted it.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John G.
Lantz on Monday. March 7th, a
daughter.
THE New DOMINION will be to the
front as usual with an unique dis
play in the Cosmorama. See it
! March 10.
The time to get your wheel in
shape is now before the rush begins
and then when the season opens you
can be ready to ride. See Osborn
d st. Clair and have them over haul
it and get it in excellent condition
In rear of Wallace House.
FARMERS who are here to attend
the county court say that the roads
are drying up faster than they ever
knew them to after such winter
They will be in excellent condition in
a few days if there is no rain.
MARRIAGE licenses have been is
sued to Fred S Berry % and Emma
Pyles %, both of this county, and to
John Mapel, 80, Wetzel county and
Ella Shriver "a, of this county. This
makes three licenses to be issued
this month.
p WoRKMEN are busy ON the lot in
the rear of the + & NJ. Bank getting it
ready to begin the building of the
new business block which is to 90
on it. They cut down tree on Sat
urday afternoon that in falling did
considerable damage to the electric
light and telephone wires in the
neighborhood.
THE hull of a new passen ger steam
er to be named Blanche Edna, arrived
from Point Marion yesterday. She
Is being built for the McClain Bros,
and was brought here to be equipped
with boilers, engines, dynamos and
other machinery. She will run from
this city to Point Marion and the
Cheat river.-Chronicle Telegraph.
OWING to the treacherous nature
Of the weather about half of the peo-
pie in town are nursing bad colds.
The balmy air has a hidden bite
which will get away with one if he
is not extremely careful At this
season of the year colds can be
caught much easier than at any 9th
er time and the consequences are
much worse than they are at any
other time
THE Morgatown savings and loan
society held it's annual stockholders
meeting on Monday evening and re-
elected its old board of directors. The
following gentlemen compose the
board: DIR. l.. S. Brock. H. G. Baker,
f. B. Bannister, D. H. Courtney,
Geo. G. Steele, Prof. A. r. Whitehill
and j. w. Wiles. Though the society
has been in business since the
first of April, 1897, it has loaned its
members $13,0 1t has l, 100 shares
of stock.
tion and $S5 dollars worth of tuition
in the Phonametric Institute at De-
troit, recently by writing a well
thought out and original paper upon
the cause and treatment of stammer-
ing. P. f. Randolph, that is his
name, is victim of that embarrass-
ing disease, himself, and therefore he
knew what he was writing about. He
has gone to the institute to perfect
his own cure by his own method, and
hopes socn to be able to relieve fellow
stammerers by the operation of his
own invention, and at nominal ex-
pense.
''THE most brilliant and beautiful
light / ever saw was the nnani-
nous verdict of all the people who
saw the Acetogen Gas machine
making the new illuminant at the j.
A. Titzel Commands store last even