West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-01-13


salvation OH cured me Of shoulder
lameness and pain in back. contracted
playing ball last season L trie.i sew
| eral other remedies and all failed
Chas- Msars, l22 Water-St.. Cleveland,
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A series OF meetings arc now in
/ Progress la the NJ. Z. church at Reeds
vile. conducted by Rev. Knots. the
regular pastor and Miss Appolonica
Walters, OF Barbour county, who Is
assisting him, These same parties
closed n meeting out mt Hopewell last
Sunday, after two weeks session.
They met with poor success there. as
they had no seekers or converts, but
hope for better luck at ReedSville,
From posters printed at this Office.
we learn that George Shoultie. of near
Howesville, will have public sale
Tuesday Jan. 2sth. and dispose of all
his personal property, consisting OF n
lot of gram, stock, machinery and
farming implements and household
and kitchen furniture. Mr.. shoulti.
has good position working Mt the
carpenter trade in Grafton. and will
move his family there about Feb. list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles NJ. Carroll. of
this place, celebrated their fiftieth
birthday anniversary on New Years
bay. They were both born on the
same day, January 1st 1s4s and there
fore passed the Half Century Mile Post
last Saturday week. II is n rare oc-
currence TO find man and his wife
who were born on the same day, but IL
is good scheme as they can both cele-
brate their birthday with one party
and IL is much cheaper and less trouble.
The Howesville Literary Society has
changed its night of meeting from
Wednesday to Friday night of each
week. The question for de bate to-mor-
row night is, Resolved. That we owe
more to England rs a Mother, than TO
France az q Friend" VIM. x. Shaffer
leads the affirmative and Gen. John J.
Grant holds down the negative side
The question for next week is, Re-
solved, THAT Preston county should
grant license for the sale of spirituous
liquors" Ben. f. Miller. the class
leader in the M. +. church up there az
firms that she should and w r Shaffer
denies it. This will Oe u big debate.
Ell. NJ. Williams, of this place, has
purchased the stock of general mer-
chandise of Lloyd Shaffer over at Car
mel, and rented the fine new stor,.
uilding and dwelling house belonging
TO the Sheriff, and will 40 over there
next Monday TO invoice the goods and
take charge of the property. Mr.
Williams will move over next week
and as be has already had considerabl
business training in the stores here,
we predict that he will make "A success
of the business, as the stand is a good
one IL well managed. The Miller boys
who had charge of the store since
Shaffer left and came here. made "A bad
failure and threw up the job, leaving
the Sheriff in the lurch.
The Champion Spelling Bee OF the
county came of up at Howesyille last
Friday night, uRder the supervision OF
William Riley Shaffer. The contes-
tants formed "a circle clear around the
school house Ton the inside Of eourse,)
and it took two hours To spell em all
down. The to caer give out till he
give out" and others pronounced
awhile. Bert Miller Ia young teacher)
and Young man name LETTERS from
the Camp Ground, held the floor the
longest and Jeffers did not miss "a
word and was awarded the champion
ship. They had an old time game of
ring" and young bride OF "a month
was in the game and was caught by -
yonng fellow who thought her one OF
the girls and so insisted on kissing her
according to the Rules of the Ring"
She kicked and quit for fear Hub y
would not like IT,
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