The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-03-15
4 NraBEa Of trees about town are


them have thicker shade aud add a
great deal to their anpearance by the
removal Of all dead and unsightly
| branches.
THE athletic entertainment at the
gym on Saturday afternoon attracted
a number of people who enjoyed the
game very much. The basket ball
contest resulted in some rough ball
being played and at several points the
players almost mixed up
THE county road above Randall
has been abandoned and no travel Of
any kind is going over it. The rea-
son for this is large slide that has
come into the road and blocked it
completely. The whole hill side is
sliding in and it will take no end of
hard work to clear it out.
WITH wealth Of hair that any
woman would envy, handsome face
that is seen only very rarely, blessed
with talent that is only given to few,
a student at all times, a linguist, p
musician and beautiful dancer, is
what the press of the West say Of
Miss Freda Gallick, Mr.. Robert
Downing's new leading woman.
ZINN & FoRTNEY successors to
the Novelty Company will open a
ladies furnishing and millinery de-
partment when they move to the
Lazier building. Mr. Zinn will go
East next Monday to buy their new
stock of goods. The gentlemen of
the firm are hustlers and they will no
doubt do big business at their new
stand.
THE temperance people of Way
nesburg are making an organized eff
fort to prevent the licensing of sa-
looms in that town. The saloon peo
pie were making considerable head
way and it looked as though they
could succeed until everyone else
combined against them. The out
come of the contest is still uncer
win.
OUR friend w. L. Mansfield, of the
| Wayne News, has served his people
faithfully in the last two Legislatures
and at the close of each session was
presented with gold-headed cane
Mansfield is neither dude nor rheu-
matte and there is no danger of him
ever becoming dude but If this cane
business is kept up it may give him
the rheumatism. -Martinsburg States
man.
THE annual meeting of the Nor
gantown Savings and Loan Society
has been held and the follow ing Of
ficers elected: president, F. b. Bannis-
ter; vice president, c. r. Huston, Sec
rotary, Thos. e. Hodges; treasurer,
A. w. Lorentz; attorney, l. G. Lag
zelle. The board of directors are: f.
B. Bannister, Geo. G. Steele, j. M.
Gregg, j. NJ Reed, j. w. Wiles, G.
R. Huston and A. w. Lorentz.
FROM every direction comes the
welcome news that the railroad on
the west side will be completed within
year. A gentleman who has just
returned from Pittsburg learned while
there that the officials of the road on
the river to Brownsville had deter
mined to extend it this summer if ar
rangements could be perfected. We
are certainly glad to hear of this and
hope that nothing may arise to pre-
vent it.
THE Methodist ladies are greatly
obliged to Sam PickeDpaugh for his
kindness in providing for the supper
they will give on the 23d. 1t seemed
to be settled that no turkeys could be
had co Cur,l lnaata1 n ffno1 Hnnly opl-
lected enough money from male mem
bers to pay for them and made clean
present of the lot to the ladies. That
is about what might be expected of
Sam.
THE Brownsville Clipper says, the
p. d L. E. and the Pennsylvania
Railroad Companies are quietly pur-
chasing much valuable land in the
Monongahela valley. and are keeping
close watch on all land that changes
hands in this section. The compa-
MES are undoubtedly laying plans
for an upper valley system, which
will be kept closely guarded until
they can be acted upon.
A NUMBER of Clarksburgers have
joined together and formed a syndi-
cate for the purpose of sinking oil
wells in the vicinity of Clarksburg.
They have been encouraged by the
oil developments on the Payne farm
and at Huntsville, about nine miles
west of the city. They imagine the
whole of Clarksburg is underlaid with
oil. Their leases will cost then some
thing if based upon the valuation Of
property in Clarksburg, which is high
er than in any other CITY, in the State.
THE NEwD DOMINION has just receiv
ed from Rev. L. A. Core who is
missionary in India copy of the
Reports and Minutes of the North
India Conference held at Shad-Ja-
hampur January 4th to 10th. 1t
contains one hundred pages and
gives a great deal of information
concerning the work of the church
in India Bishop Thoburn presid-
ed. Mr.. Core figures prominently
on a number of important commit
tees. He has our thanks for the
copy sent us.
The local lodge of Rebekahs gave
a reception in the lodge room on
Main street on Tuesday night to the
members of the Odd Fellows and
their families. The reception began
at eight o'clock and it lasted until
midnight. Very delightful refresh
ments were served and the evening
spent in games and similar diver
sions. The lodge has always made
a hit when it attempted anything of
this kind and last night proved to
be no exception.
AN exchange reports that it receiv-
ed the following communication from
one of it's patrons:
'sSend me few copies of the paper
which had the obituary and verses
about the death of my child a month
or two ago. You will publish the en-
closed clipping about my niece's mar
riage, and wish you would mention
in your local column, that l am going
to have public sale and will rent
part of my farm; also have few calves
to sell at public auction. Send me a
few extra copies Of the paper this
week, but as my time is out, stop my
my paper as times are too hard TO
waste money on newspapers"
County Court.
At the session of the county court
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