West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-01-06
Eewesv!lle.

Year OF iS9S.
Our merchant Vincent Cooke. has
has done an enormous business during
the holidays, buying, selling and ship
ping.
The health OF our community Is gem
orally good, except Mrs Simeon Mat.
tingly. who has been In bad health for
some time.
Our friendPatrict o'Tool has sold
oil his earthly affects aud left for the
southwestern part OF Texas, on Tues
day of this week.
Our newly married folks, Mr.. George
Spears aud lady, have gone to house
Keeping on Postofiice street. In the
north end of town. George has se-
cured a position at the new coal bank.
We notice the following strangers on
our streets during the last week,
Lawrence Work, John Walters aud s.
IL. Chtlds, OF Fairmont. and Sell
Childs aud Mr.. Fred Evans, wife and
child, of Newburg, George Cooke aud
his two daughters, OF Grafton.
Pay day was here on Monday and
several OF our boys were made glad by
the jingle of the ducats received from
general manager Todd, of the Coal
! Works. Several of our boys are al
ready at work and there will be- SOW
eral more go on next Monday.
Our school and literary are both in a
hourishing condition. At our last reg
ular meeting the philosophical or
might more properly say, metaphysical
question was discussed /: "Be IL Re-
solved, That the breath is the soul OF
Man" Our neighbor, BENJAMIN Miller.
gained the discussion in favor of the
Affirmative. The literary society is
under the manipulation of President
w. r. Shaffer and Secretary J.J.
Grant
Our monied men here are different
from some OF their sister towns They
are already preparing To build several
houses for rent and MS soon as IL il
known that the coal plant Is IA sure 20
we have two men that will build
twenty houses Mt once and Mr. Editor.
II your people don't get move pretty
soon. there will be proposition To
| move the county seat up here Our
people don't propose To let good
thing pass without trying to get out
of the woods.
There seems to be n dereliction in tie
local correspondent from this place.
Miss Justice" has ceased to exist as a
public contributor, and "PaSsim
Scribbo" has gone Rlimmeriug down
the quill drivers path like n mushroom
before September frost. Sam Younger
is a man of troad travelling range and
has wide obscrvative experience i'm
local gossip, and II permitted, will call
up the passing events for the last three
weeks, which our people and surround
ing suburbs have been cheerfully and
pleasantly embasking in the sweets
| and the bitters OF Christmas times
which occur annually on this part OF
the hemisphere.
The first holiday season of pleasure
| and profit occurred at the Turner
| School house, just below the junction
of the Cassidy and Squires forks Of the
Three Forks. The festival was given
for the purpose of raising money TO
buy lamps and other paraphaualia that
go toward making literary society
pleasant and cheerful We are In
formed that the receipts were flatter-
ing and that TrIune School house is
now one of the most beautifully dec
| Grated buildings In Kingwood district.
So much for live school trustees
Our second festival was held at the
Allender church, which has been i'm
process OF construction for the past
two years. This church affair was
blessed with good weather for such an
occasion, and the good people being
engaged In good cause, freely ex-
pended their money and gormandized
their stomaches. All claimed that It
was the most happy time ever spent in
festivities on the waters of Birds Creek.
They received over eighty dollars. net
receipts. Sixty dollars which will 90
toward tho completion OF the new
Protestant church, at what is known
as Allender's Mill.
Our next and not least festival for
the benefit of church purposes began
at the Bergman Hall on Friday even
ing and concluded on the Tuesday
evening following. This was the
greatest event OF Modern TOWNSVILLE
and the magnifcence OF IT, splendors
were only retarded by the elements Of
nature, whose snowy winding sheets
reminded one OF a Minnesota blizzard.
But our boys and girls got there all
the same. 3owesville has long since
been noted for It's festivals and holiday
balls, but as time and pOstcrity have
been keeping pace with tie eternal
fitness of all things, our people were
determined 20 make Christmas holidays
OF 1897. memorable in The future an
nails of history. Early H. the previous
week our seamstresses, our mothers
and our big daughters were all en-.
gagged IN preparing trousedug suitable
for the occasion. Some Of our yOuaR
bloods failed 20 get their pigeon cut
away In time made "a ten hour trip TO
| Ora ftOn 20 sccnrc the necessary out
| ht, and when upon the ball room dOor
all presented such a dazzling md Qor-
Qcous picture. that language fails %
do them justice. Suffice 70 say. not
/ Jar. not misunderstood ny occurred
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