The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-02
A Sew nost office has been estab-

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A NEW post Office has been estab-
llished at Manoun. Preston county,
with Jesse NJ. johnson as postmaster
Mr.. WEAVER would like you to
remember that he will cheerfully al
low you the discount on your city
taxes il paid at once.
A MOVE is on foot with fair promise
OF success to preserve the famous pre-
historic mound at Moundsyille. The
plan is to form stock company to
purchase it and thus keep it for all
time.
/ EVERYONE remarks on the small
number of students noticed in town
but there is according to the rolls as
many here now as there used to be
during the fall or winter terms when
the town was crowded with them.
| A MOVEMENT to make good roads
| for this county is bound to come soon
and it is bound to be successful and
popular. Everyone recognizes the im-
portance of good roads to a eommuni-
ty and everyone is in favor of any plan
whereby they may be secured.
THE family Of the late Lewis Baker
have been paid fifty thousand dollars
the full amount of life insurance
policy held by Mr.. Baker in the New
York Mutual life insurance company.
This was about all that was left of
handsome fortune once possessed by
Mr.. Baker that had been lost in I'M
fortunate investments.
THE teachers institute for this
county will open on Monday August
2lst and will be held in commence
ment hall. County superintendent |
Mason says good program has been
arranged and the meeting will be
profitable one for all teachers who at |
tend. An examination will be held |
upon the adjournment of the insti-
tute.
Major Powell thinks that this sec
ton is very important to Pittsburg
and that lots of money should be
spent making it afford the greatest
amount of tribute to that place. We
don't care who else is helped but we
know that if the Improvements are
finished on the river here that we
will profit greatly thereby.
AN order has been issued from
National Guard headquarters here re-
storing Lieutenant Charles L. Nesbitt, !
of Fairmont, to his former rank and
duty in the National Guard as lieuten-
ant and assistant surgeon. Lieuten-
ant Nesbitt left the Guard to become
assistant surgeon in the First West |
Virginia volunteer regiment He has
been assigned to the First battalion,
First infantry.
THERE are now nearly as many |
students in town as there used to be |
when all OF the departments Of the
University were in full running order
but the students are not in evidence |
as they formerly were. Two hundred |
used to fill the town but now they do
not make any appreciable difference.
The growth in the size of the place is |
the cause of this change in conditions.
A LARGE ferocious looking bug is
on exhibition in j r. Miller's window
and everyone that comes along has to
stop and rubber at the creature. 1t |
has two immense things resembling
horns and everyone swears that it
strongly resembles the kissing bug.
AS no one in town has ever seen
specimen of this bug and as none of
them exist it is very hard to tell how
they know it resembles the famous
creation.
CONTRACTOR Wharton will soon
have the big bridge finished near the
North end of Spruce street across to
the high land Immediately East and
arrangements for big iron structure
across from the South end of Spruce
street to Greenmont are being per-
fected. These bridges will bring in
to market some very desirable build
ing sites and increase the value of
property on that side fully one hun
dred per cent.
THE apple crop between this place
and Cheat and in all that section of |
the country is not a failure by any
means as it is in many other places.
The trees can scarcely bear up the
weight Of the fruit that they have to
carry and everyone who has any trees
will have all of the fruits that they
can use this season. Already cider
making has begun and there will be
hundreds Of gallons of it made during
the coming months before winter be-
gins.
The new street lamps that are be-
ing placed about town are attracting
a great deal OF attention from the |
population which of course has to be
pleased with the innovation or they |
will go to kicking like lot of mules
The inspecting parties have come to
the conclusion that the lamps will
be very expensive on the company |
to keep them up but that while they
are in good condition they will be
fine lights. The mantels are so very |
easily broken and when they are
fractured that settles the fate of
them in that lamp. Another set
has to be put in at once.