The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-03-08

\ lars cant be beat. Get the Rambler
TEE name Of the postofiice at Duke
this county has been changed ts
Mona.
SoaE very much needed repairs
have been made In the platform al
the depot.
A NUMBER OF the young men about
town have gone to Pittsburg and neal
towns to work.
The Elks are determined to make
their benefit the greatest thing that
has ever happened.
WINTER can go and remain away II
1t wants to. There is no one who
will very deeply mourn its departure.
THE Silas McGraw property has
been purchased by John Krepps who
will occupy 1t as his future residence.
WINTER has hidden a long farewell
to all his greatness from all indica-
tions and we are not at all sorry of
the fact.
A REISSUE Of pension has been
granted to Ashman Carpenter of
Little Falls. He now gets twelve
dollars a month.
THE Isaac G. Woodward is the only
boat that has entered the Pittsburg
and Morgantown trade as yet and the
trips are made every other day.
MANNINeToN has offered the Bush
Hosiery company, OF GAINESVILLE, Ohio
free site, water, fuel light and sub
stantiai money bonus to locate there.
The stones in the John founda-
tion are being dressed for use in the
new building to be built in the rear
Of the Wood block on Walnut street
The prevalence OF the mud on the
crossings about town seems to prove
that instead OF cleanliness being next
to Goodness here lis next to impos-
sible.
GREENMoNT will hold its arst cleo
tion for town officers on the twenty
fifth. The election Is very quiet
one and as yet there are no avowed
Candidates for any of the positions.
WEST VIRGINIA is twice as large
as Massachusetts, twice as large as
Maryland, and as large as Connect
cat, Rhode Island, Delaware, New
Jersey and Vermont combined.
THE other stables over town can be
spared very well and we hope that the
removal OF these eye sores may be con-
tinued until they are all gone. The
day for stables In the heart of town
has passed.
GARDENS will soon be put into COM
mission If the good weather continues
much longer. House cleaning will
also soon be taken up and the weary
man of the house will have no place
to rest the sole Of his foot.
THE rat hunt that was agitated be-
fore the blizzard struck town seems
to have lost its place. The projectors
would do well to get together and or
ganize again. They can have lots of
fun and rid the town Of lots of the
rodents which infect it.
The meanest thief on record has
turned up-or rather hasn't turned
up--in Battle Creek, Mich. He
broke into the house of a colored
man who had died during the day
and stole the suit Of clothes he was
to be buried in.
Mrs. DAVENPORT is at work on
several very pretty pictures in water
colors that will make handsome or
naments for ones room. We are not
advised whether they can be bought
but if they can it would be difficult
to secure anything prettier.
A few days ago a prospective stu
dent living in Mingo county sent to
the authorities for way BILL A
description OF the rail road routes
that he would have to take in order
to reach Morgantown as was sent
to him that was presumed to be
what he wanted
THE small boy is thoroughly en-
crossed in the game of marbles and
every where one looks he sees them
hard at the game. There are usually
few boys Of larger growth looking
over the shoulders of the younger set
and telling them how the game used
to be played when 81 was boy"
WITH the demand for business
houses that is felt over town people
who have money to invest can do no
better than to prepare to meet it.
Every room in town is eagerly sought
after and no sooner does merchant
show signs of wanting to vacate than
there are great number of people
who stand ready to take his place.
The Sheriff has received a notice
from the authorities of the Hospital
for the Insane at Weston that they
are out of transportation money and
will be unable at present to remove
an insane man who is confined in
the county jail. They will come af-
ter him as soon as the money appro.
rriated by the last Legislature is
available.
The store room occupied by Fenton
Rice will be remodelled after the first
of next month. While the work is
going on Rice will remove his business
to the corner of Main and Wiley
streets. The store room he now has
when fixed up will be one of the fin
est rooms in town and there are a
number of applicants who are anxious
to take it in case Rice does not wish
to retain the lease.
WORD has been received that the
new company is moving along as fast
as possible through the devious chan
mel of red tape and that before very
long it will be ready to be mustered
in. The National Guard officials who
have the matter in charge are doing
all they can to help it along and the
young men who are to compose the
best company in the state will soon
be organized.
THE corner in eggs has been broken
and the price has slumped heavily.
The spectators through the country
will not make the fortune that they
had anticipated and the hens now that
there is no pressing demand for their
product are breaking all records in pro-
duction. The Spectator who endeav-
ored to engineer the corner has made
a great fizzle and he will have to pay
dearly for the scare that he gave peo-
pie who had to use eggs no matter
what the price might be.
The secretary of the state has is
sued charter to ''The West Virgin
ia Boiler and Machine Works." for
the purpose of manufacturing boil
ers, coal tipples, mine pumps and