West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-11-01

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Monday and gave US a call.
Noah Gross has moved from his farm in
Valley district to his new prope,y in IVES,
kingwood.
Hugh Hagans left last Saturday for
Aurora and begun his school there Monday
of this week
Mrs. r. +. Repper,. Of near town, has
been quite i'll the pas, two weeks with DIR.
Pratt attending her.
Our railroad has had a hard time of i,
for the past week or two and hardly able to
run at all part of the time.
Joseph n. White and Miss Mabel Shaffer
returned Tuesday from visiting friends a,
unioniown, Smithheld and Morgantown.
Mrs. John T. NeH and Mrs. ]. X. Mon.
roe aud daughter have returned from an
extended visit at Wheeling and Morgan.
town.
Rev. Lane aud family left last week tor
Pennsylvania and are visiting at the home
of his wife's mother until they re,
located.
ii. NJ. Hayden of Hayden, is over at
Seottdale, Pa, visiting his daughter and
was taken i'll with chills and sgue and un.
able to get home.
| Miss Julia Murdoch came home Sunday
from Pittsburg, where she had been having
her eyes treated. Milton McGinnis drove
over to Morgantown TO meet her.
George Sheets moved Monday from his
late residence out in West Kingwood 10 the
property on Morgantown street lately
vacated by John Firer who moved to the
Bowery.
| Miss Lily Smith returned to Kingwood
last Thursday evening after several months
visit at Bayard and other points along the
W. Va. Central She will stay with Mrs.
| Kemble this winter.
| A crowd Of young ladies from near town
drove to Morgantown last Friday aud re-
turned Saturday In the crowd were
Misses Callie and E6ie White, lisa Grimm,
Minnie Mask. Lucy Shaffer and Jennie
May.
| Mrs. L. Nj. Heermsns left to-day for
| Washington, ID. c., for brief stay.-Com-
msnder X. NJ. G.. Brown and Henry III.
Hayes have returned after spending several
days in Preston county. -Morgantown
| Post.
Mrs. James p. Smith, who has been
visiting friends and relatives here for some
time, returned to Terra Alta las, week.
where she will visit her sister, Mrs. Capt.
| VIM. Elliott for a short time before re-
| thrning TO her home in Tennessee.
Dock Spencer and son, Ray. have begun
the erection of a two-story frame building
on their lot in West Kingwood and will
push it to completion soon as possible. The
building will be 10 by 80 with an addition
10 by az making good sized residence.
Charles X. Forman. son of John Formsn,
| OF Herring, was married at Fairmont Mon
day, Of this week TO Miss BERTHE Borgess. of
that place. The newly welded couple
came on out to the home of the groom near
Herring next day on wedding trip. The
groom had been working at Fairmont for
some time.
Eugene {. Gribble, who was found
guilty of forgery, in the Circuit Court over
at Morgantown, was sentenced to three
years in the Penitentiary and taken to
| Moundsville Monday of this week by
Sheriff Garrison, of Monongalia county.
| There are other charges against him that
will probably be dismissed now.
Samuel Marmaduke Dent, called "Duke"
for short, was married in Baltimore last
Saturday to Miss Ella Ramsey, of Union
town, Pa. Duke is a student at the Balti
more Medical College and a son of Squire
| James f. Dent, of Granville, on the river
below Morgantown. The groom has many
friends in Kingwood, who join in extending
best wishes.
| The Misses Marsden gave a Halloween
party at their home down on the Winding
River Cheat last night, and several young
folks from Kingwood drove down and
spent very pleasant evening with games
of fate and fortune, music, dancing and
delicious refreshments served in sumptuous
abundance. The gay party lasted till mid
night ere it broke up
| Charley Odbert, Speidels we'll known
representative, was here Monday calling on
his customers and talking politics. Charley
wears a bears claw for a mascot to keep
away the hoodoos, and is sure of McKinley's
election. But since he has a record Of hav-
ing sold more indigo to one man than any
one on the road we don't put much stock
in his political predictions.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ID. Gatewood and chill.
dren, returned home last night from FIVE
weeks trip down in Virginia, visiting
friends and relatives and scenes of Mr..
Gatewood's youth He was rather sur.
prised on his return TO find large Mckinley
and Roosevelt pictures pasted up on his
house on each side of the front door, as ne
isa very strong Democrat They were
put up by some one as joke on account OF
his imPregnable Democracy.
Wild turkeys have been remarkably easy
to ind and kill this year. II is very com.
mon thing for some of our local sportsmer
to 60 out and kill three or four in few
| hours Huf now the faru,a,e are ror,;,o, 4.
and complaining that their turkeys are
mysteriousIy disappearing, and they sa,
that the majority Of the MsgiId inrkcxst