The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-12-21
BUY your Holiday goods at HIrsch.

BUY your Holiday goods at Hirsch-
mans.
HAVE you seen the beautiful Wat
er Sets the Novelty Company are
showing.
THE electric company have placed
street lamp in front Of Maders
Brothers store on Main stteet and j )
makes very nice showing of its sur
roundings.
THE indications are that the holi.
days will be rather quiet in Morgan
town and but few social gatherings
are reported as to take place during
the season given over to mirth and
enjoyment.
For fine Albums, Toilet Sets, Man
icure Sets, Work Boxes, ETC., go to
the Novelty Co.'S. They will save you
money.
THE postoffice will take next Mon
day as holiday as the law makes
the following holiday if they want
it. They will announce the hours
at which they will open sometime
this week.
SUCH large number of deaths has
rarely had to be chronicled as we have
to give to our readers to-day. Nor
gantown has good health usually and
few deaths take place among our peo-
pie.
LAST years resolutions might be
gone over now and repaired for the
new year as many Of them have grown
rusty from lack OF use. 1t might be
well to brighten them up and use
them over during the whole OF '99.
I You can get most anything in the
Xmas goods line at the Novelty
| Co.'S. Their pieces are The lowest.
PERSONS who will want flowers for
the Christmas season would better
leave their orders now. The demand
will be great at that time and you
may be unable to get them if your
order is too late getting in.
THE penitentiary directors have
purchased the old scenery used at the
Moundsville opera house and have
placed the same in their hall at the
institution, in order that their enter
tainments can be given with much
more effect.
The rent of the new Posten store
room is seven hundred dollars a year
and Wilmington has taken it for
three years at that rate. Property
for rent is very fine investment in
Morgantown and it will continue
that way for a long time.
THE first of the new year will soon
be here. Look over your stock of
statements, bill heads, letter heads,
envelopes, ETC., and If you are in need
of anything In the job printing line
give us call. We guarantee good
neat work and our prices are reason
able.
THE Erwood Stock company left
here on Sunday afternoon for Browns
vile where they will play for several
days. The last performance they
gave here was very good but not very
much could be said for the rest How
ever as they were short their leading
lady and one of the other members
was sick they are to be pardoned for
this.
THE exodus of students has begun.
A number of them went home on Sat
urday evening and others will leave.
to-day In few days the majority
Of these who are going to leave will
have left the town and it will be quiet
until they get back after the holidays
They will be more prompt in getting
here after the vacation than they have
been for some time owing to the new
rules that the faculty has put into
force.
| A WASH room is to be put in the
basement CT the Wallace House and
it will be made great improvement
over the old one John Lantz has
improved the house in every direc-
tion since he took charge of it and
he is not satisfied yet. He will not
be content until he has made it the
very best house in the state for the
comfort of his guests is the first
thing that appeals to him.
| ARRANGEMENTS have been made
whereby reduced rates for the holt
days are offered to students who travel
over the Baltimore & Ohio r. r., Pa.
r. r., The Ohio River r. r. and the
Chesapeake s. Ohio r. r. In order
to get these reduced rates, students
must present to the ticket agents of
the various roads, certificates signed
by The President of the University.
The President has been signing
certificates, for all the students are
preparing to go home for the holidays
and the exodus will soon begin.
IT is appropriate at this time to
call attention to the fact that regis
tered mail matter is slower in its
transmission thro' the mails than or
binary letters, and that this should
be remembered by those who intend
to dispatch or expect to receive regis
tered packages appropriate to the
Christmas season. To reach destin-
alton with a registered package il
should be placed in the postoffice a
day or two in advance Of the time
that it is designed to have it deliver
ed to insure its receipt before or or
J Christmas day.
The ice on the river under the in
fluence of the warm rains broke NJ
on Sunday night and began to move
out. 1t was not until on Monday
morning that it began to go out
right and the sight attracted great
many people to the side of the rive
and to the bridge. The ice was
quite thick. Down river people ar.
afraid that it will do immense dam
age as there are several gorges an(
they threaten to go out tearing ev
crything with them. The boats ar,
in danger or at least many of then
! are. Navigation will be resumed ii
a day or SO or as soon as the ice quit
; running.