The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-05-24

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| this town.
IT is high time some one would be
gin to talk up that fourth Of Jul.
celebration. Morgantown shoult
have good one.
The carpenters have started on TIN
remodelling Of the store room mex
the post Office and they will soon hay'
the floor laid in it.
BRICK are being placed along tn,
sides of Spruce street in readiness 70
the work Of paving which is expected
to begin soon on that street.
If you pay tax on one Thousand
dollars your railroad tax will be $l.2;
a year. II you are not clam yot
will be benefited to ten times thai
amount.
SOME of the fellows who are unal
terably opposed to the enormous ia,
rate it will entail pay as much as fit,
six cents year. A raise OF thret
cents would bankrupt them.
THE piles OF dirt that have been Oh
Wiley street between Main and
Spruce have been removed. They
have occupied half the street for q
year or more and the removal helps
the looks Of things in that vicinity.
PARSONS was evidently jealous Of
the attention that Elkins and Beverly
were attrasting but twenty thous-
and dollar fire was an expensive way
Of calling the attention Of the state
toward 1t.
Few excursions have reached Nor
gantown this summer but the season
is expected to witness greater num-
Der than has ever been known before.
The river men expect d very rich har.
vest from this trade.
WE don't care how many new boats
and railroads we get. The best thing
that can happen to the town is to
have plenty of means OF egress and in
gfess. Let the corporations attend to
this and the towns growth will take
care of itself.
THE residence of DR.. M. l.. Cassel-
berry is being painted. A great many
OF the houses about town are being
painted this summer and Morgantown
shows no signs Of an intention to lose
her prestige as one Of the best kept
towns in the state.
PRoP. j. N. DEAHL, formerly prin-
cipal of the West Liberty Normal
School, has just won a fellowship in
Columbia College, New York. The
honor carries with it prize of five
hundred dollars in gold, free tut
tion and expenses.
IT seems funny that the doctors at
Brownsville should have mistaken
chickenpox for smallpox. There is
very little resemblance between them
to practiced eye and the blunder
along the valley was very strange
one.
QUITE a number of Morgantown
men are just now enjoying very
handsome incomes from oil ventures.
Some of them it is understood re-
ceive as much as one hundred per
cent a month. Others have an in
come of fifty dollars day from an
investment of 81 900.
AN invitation has been received at
this Office to attend the commence
ment exercises of the Maryland Med
ical College. The invitation was sent
US by d. f. Ireland who is well known
in Morgantown. He will graduate at
the approaching exercises and has
taken high standing in his classes.
We extend our congratulations.
A POLE has been placed at the loca-
tion of the old lamp at the entrance
Of the old Durbannah bridge. This
pole should have been located at the
end of the present bridge. The light
down under the structure will not
give the public any adequate service.
A mistake will be made if the light
is located in the old place and the
new one lighted.
MANY of the young men here are
talking of going to the celebration of
the centennial at Greensburg which
takes place on the twenty eighth.
day before and take a special from
that place oyer. The celebration is
expected to attract one of the largest
crowds that has ever assembled in
that section of the state.
CAPT. WILLIAM HENNEN, of the
steamer Dewing d Sons, on Monday
last, went with the boat towing a
lot of lumber from Point Marion up
to Lock No. IL above MOI gantown.
I his is the first Eoat to land at that
point and also the first lot of lumber
delivered there for the construction
o. Lock No. 11.-Uniontown Stand
ard.
SPRUCE street is to have curbing
This has been decided for some time
and the curling is being placed along
the street now. The extra expense
in order to make it better is not
thought absolutely necessary by some
OF the council but it will undoubtedly
make better job if the curbing is
put in. The street was narrowed
enough to pay for the curbing used
on it.
DR.. LEECH has returned from
Moundsville where he lectured before
the Epworth LIE ague convention last
evening. 1t is unnecessary to state
that the audience was highly enter
tanned by the learned Doctor. The
order is in quite prosperous condi-
tion, the secretary's report showing "a
chapters in the district with 1000
members and over 1000 Juniors, the
membership having increased 200 since
the last convention.
AMONG the editors of Philippi and
the citizens of the town there is be-
ing AFFILIATED the proposition to invite
the editors Of the state to stop at
Philippi on their return from the Ed
torial association at Elkins. This
will be June Sd, the anniversary of the
first battle of the civil war, fought
here. II this move is perfected a
dinner will be given them here and
we will try and entertain them as
best we can. We think it can be ar
ranged. -Philippi Republican.
SEVERAL of our exchanges are
warning their readers to look out fol
the fakirs and frauds who are accom-
panying the shows now travelling the
country. At several points in this
state inexperienced victims have been
feeced Of considerable sums of money
by yenturing to tamper with the en-
ticing shell games. But as these vic.
tins usually belong to the class who
do not read the newspapers this warn.
inQ will likely he of little sarvica