The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-02-22


i A BILL providing for pure foot
law has been introduced in both
houses Of the legislature providing
| that all analysis Of food, proprietary
medicines, etc, be made BY th,
chemists at the agricultural expert
ment station Of the State university
| The beautiful name of Mononga
liza gets some hard thumps by mem
bers of the Legislature. In the de
bates in the two houses one otter
hears of the gentleman from "Mo
nongahela,' Mongolia" "Mongahe
la" "Mongahale," and occasionally
Monongalia.-Charleston Gazette.
The ladies of the A. M. f. church
Beechurst Avenue) will give a
chicken and waffle supper in honor
Of Geo. Washington birthday, We'd
nesday, Feb. o. Supper % cents.
The supper will commence at 5
o'clock in the evening aud will be
sent to anybody's residence who de
sire it for 25 cents. ~
WEST of the Campbell's Run deep
sand development in Monongalia
county and north Of McDermott's &
Co.'S good well on the Eddy farm, the
South Penn Oil Company has drilled
below the point where the oil should
have been found and have no indica-
tion for producer. The well is still
drilling in hard sand formation.
THE senate passed the bill creating
the Office of Admiral OF course the
honor Of the first appointment to the
new Office will be conferred upon Dew.
ey. He has earned it. In fact the
office was created especially for him.
Had there been no Dewey there would
have no Admiral. The office will
probably die with the man. 1t has
done SO before.
A BOXING match was to have taken
oiace on Thursday night in Union
5own but at noon ON that day the
county detective notified the parties
Interested that in case it was at
'empted that whole party would be
arrested. A large number of people
lad come in from nearby towns to
SEE it and of course they were great
y disappointed.
CLARKsBURG was to have held a
celebration in honor of the returning
soldiers on Thursday night The
event was expected to be one of the
warmest things that ever happened
but for some reason 1T was aban-
doned and tie soldiers will have to
take for granted the warmth of the
welcome that has been extended to
them. Fairmont however will have
a real good time on next Wednes-
day.
The following three items are from
the Fairmont Index:
Hon. B. L. Butcher, of this place,
has been appointed by Governor At
kinson, as Director of the West Vir-
ginia Girls Industrial Home at Sa
lem, Harrison county No better
selection could have been made.
We return thanks to Dir. /. G.
White, of Morgantown, for map of
the geological survey of West Vir-
ginia, which shows the different coal
fields, also the oil and gas wells in
the State. 1t is nicely outlined and
will be Of great use to the people of
West Virginia
Among the various amounts asked
for by the West Virginia Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, is $4,000
for printing. Considering the vast
benefit to be derived by the State
from the printing of the work done
by that institution and their distri
button, the amount of money they
desire for that purpose is very small
and it should he appropriated with
out question.
THE weather has been spring like
for several days and has been in mark
ed contrast to that which we had
few days ago. Inside of ten days the
mercury showed variations of one
hundred and five degrees. 1t went
from forty below to eighty-five above.
This is awful on the health of every
one and a renewal of the out break of
grip may be expected.
W. A MEsTREzAT has just receiv-
ed letter from General Miles mott
flying him that he has been recon
mended for appointment as lead
ing musician in the regular army.
Some years ago Walter served under
General Miles in the far West and a
friendship sprung up then that has
been maintained ever since. The
prospects for his appointment are
good
A NUMBER of icicles have fallen on
the streets in the last couple of days
ard some very narrow escapes have
resulted. A number OF the pieces of
les have been large enough to kill a
sser-by and that none have been
hurt has been more due to accident
than anything else. The town au-
thorities asked people to knock
these off before they became danger
GUS but no one paid the slightest at
tention to the request.
FARMERS, look out for the pill
sign swindle. An agent comes
Ground, secures permission to tack
up pill signs, and then gets the
farmer to sign an agreement not to
tear the signs down for ninety days.
These agreements turn up after
wards as 90-day notes for $500 each.
The best thing to do, farmers, when
one of these gentlemen ask you to
sigu an agreement, is to kick him off
your place and throw his signs after
him. Be sure to kick him with a
No. 10 COW skin.
CONSIDERABLY talk has been going
on the street corners on account of the
alleged fact that one of the grand
jurors was not free holder. This
was asserted by number of people to
be enough to vitiate the whole pro-
ceedings but good lawyers say that
this is a mistake. They state that
in case one of the jury is not free
holder that any and all indictments
found without needinghis vote to make
up fifteen would be valid. In case
however the Indictment needed his
vote to make fifteen the question
would likely be subject for decision
by the supreme court. 1t has never
been decided In this court.
President Raymond and Hon. G.