Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-02-16
STATE NOTES.
Several Interesting Items about
the State.

The Cold Waye-The Lowest Recorded
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Prep De.
partment-Dr. Raymond's Lectures
Reception to Soldiers by Fairmont
on next Wednesday.
WHEELING, Feb 16.-The cold
wave that passed over the state last
week took the iceing so far as oral
records go for the past twenty five
years, for it has been only within
little more than a decade that gov
eminent registers were in general
use. It is undisputed bv the oldest
inhabitant that the thermometer
registered lower than at any time in
his memory, though the old fellow
does find it going against the grain
to acknowledge the fact, and seeks
to palliate his acquiescence by in
stancing some year when certain
marvellous things happened by rea-
son of excessive cold snaps. But
there was no system of observation
years ago generally accepted, that
is, no recognized or accepted ther
mometer. Last week Fahrenheit's
at different points in the state sent
the mercury frigidly down the line,
and while the cold was not confined
to special localities the difference of
registration was due to the places
where the thermometers were ex
posed and the efficiency or in fficien-
cy Of the Observation-Disclosures.
All government thermometers are
tested. The lowest authentic point
known of was in Triadelphia, Ohio
county, which came forward with 35
degrees below zero. At Spencer, in
Roane county, 80 was reached. Many
fatalities from the cold were reported,
in nearly all instances being deaths
of aged men living as hermits in
shanties out in the country. The
extended gorge of the Ohio river
was illustrative of the hard freeze.
The old fight for the abolition of
the preparatory department of the
state university, at Morgantown, is
being made, and sight is apparently
being lost of the other preparatory
adjunct of this institution at Mont
gomery. The chief argument to the
Morgantown prep is that it is a
happy medium between the public
schools and the university, almost
exclusively for the youth of Monon
gala county, and the catalogue will
show this argument to be well
founded. That condition. however,
is but natural sequence of the
school being in the county. The ar
gument that the school is a weighty
expense is not so strong, for only a
few teachers are paid out of the fund
so devoted, the universities corps
being largely drawn on. At present
the prep is great builder for the
university, and its abolition may
weaken rather than improve, unless,
as it's opponents claim, the breach
will be filled by the states high and
normal schools
President Raymond, OF the STATE
university, is an advanced thinker
and in his series of lectures this
winter to the Wheeling Teachers As
ISOLATION, two of which have already
been delivered, he has treated of So
cial economists and philosophers,
such as John Stuart Mill and Charles
Kingsley, both of whom strove to
make better the conditions OF the Ia
boring classes. The Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly has ex
pressed it's appreciation of DR.. Ray
mond's lectures.
AS the members of the First Regi-
ment returned home in punches, and
not in body, their home towns were
prevented from giving them the well
come which would have been their due
had the return been in companies and
the flag in front. That its welcome
shall include every volunteer from the
town, Fairmont at mass meeting of
it's citizens, decided on Washington's
birthday. next week, as a fitting time
and the boys will be given the glad
hand in reception and banquet in
the evening, preceded by a street
parade in which veterans Of the civil
war are to participate.