The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-09

have to emigrate or suffer from red
ness Of eyes and productive nose
EVERYONE will be glad when thu
paving is done and we have chance
70 get fixed up and put on our Sunday
clothes again.
In few sections of the county
the crop of winter apples will be
fairly good but in other places there
will be few if any.
The Fayette County Fair Asso
citation is arranging for a great ex-
hibition in Uniontown this fall
The fair will open September 9Th.
The Baltimore Clothing house has
moved from the Second National
Bank building to the new building
adjoining the Wood corner on Walnut
street.
THE town is now without home
and will not have one until they are
ready to move onto the new lot that
they have bought from Huston and
Domain on Main street.
The birds that are being shot by
the boys of town in most cases are
song birds and the young vandals
should be taught that 1T is serious
matter to kill such songsters.
The Marietta Register complains OF
the muddy water supplied to that
town. They are not in it. Ii the
Register wants to see the real thing it
would better come to Morgantown.
The Mammoth Shoe store and
Cash Grocery have new delivery
wagon that is one of the warmest
that ever happened. 1t has recently
made its appearance on the streets.
DON'T complain about your taxes /;
yet get more for your money than
any other people under the sun and
besides you can't have anything
worth mentioning without paying
for it.
MILTON HIRsCHMAN has bought
the old st. Clair property at Front and
Walnut streets from f. b. Bannister
for "a, 900. 1t is not yet determined
what Mr.. Hirschman will do with the
property.
THE Turner's excursion on next
Thursday will be well attended and a
great many people will go down to see
Seneca get even for the licking that
California gave her on last Thursday
at this place.
ON the west side of the Campbells
Run extension near Cross Roads Mon
ongala county, w. Va, the Garrett
Oil Company has drilled in its No. 2
on the A. p. Taught farm and has a
25 barrel producer.
THERE is a great deal of building
going On over town and to those who
haven't taken much notice of it a
walk over the outskirts will reveal
many more buildings going up than
they had suspected.
JAMES N. DAVIS is raising the side
walk around his lot to make it conform
with the new grade established by the
laying of the pavement and when he
has finished the looks of the lot will
be helped. considerably.
THERE are 243 students on the
University roll but they have been
ole to conceal themselves pretty ef-
fectively in the territory covered by
the four towns that make up the
young city that surrounds the Uni
verSitY.
GOVERNOR Atkinson has been in
vited to send the w. Va. N. G. to
New York City to participate in the
land parade in honor of Admiral
Dewey. AS the state has to bear the
expenses it is not likely that the sol
diers will be sent.
Now is the time to fix up the side
walks over town. 1t can be done
better while everything is torn up
than it can later when things have
regained their usual condition. Fix
them up and avoid trouble later.
CALIFORNIA ought to be very CRATE
full for the gift that Seneca made hel
Of the ball game on Thursday at
this place. No one living here re-
members to have seen such collec-
ton of rotten errors on the part OF
Seneca and of lucky hits made by
California.
The last of the blackberry crop
has been marketed and never has
the crop been known to be as light
as it has been this year. The noun
tain people state that they have new
err seen as few berries. What has
caused the berries to be such fail
ure has not been satisfactorily ex-
planned.
II may not be generally understood
| that persons who, from carelesSnes:
or any other cause, take mail from
the postoffice that belongs to anothel
person and fails to return the same ar
liable to fine of $500 or one years.
imprisonment. This applies to news
papers thus taken from postoffice al
well as other matter.
The telephone stump in front o
A. L. Nye's has been levelled of
even with the side walk and people
are not compelled to break theil
necks falling over it, There is nj
excuse for leaving any thing pro
jecting above the level of the walk.
over town for people to stumble
over.
MoRGANTowN is already the city o
beautiful homes and those that ar
projected will make it more entitle,
| to claim the distinction. The nea
appearance of the homes of this plac
is among the first things that strik
the average visitor to Morgantown an,
the impression cannot help being
favorable one.
THE grass in the sidewalks at
number of places over town should b
removed. The people who are respon
sible for this lack of attention to tn
looks of the town should wake w
Another thing that should be attend
ed to is the grass and weeds that ar
growing between the pavement an
sidewalks. This does not help tn
looks of the town and gives our Wis
tors a bad impression of us.
| The first bull bats of the seaso
have been seen flying about tow
None of them have been shot but i
some parts of the country it afford
excellent sport to the lovers of tn
gun. The birds fly in the late ev,
ming and are very hard to brin
down. They are the finest tidbit
!, roin0 accordinp to those who ha,