Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-13

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You can save money by buying
your meats and groceries at Pos
tens
DO not pay 20 cts. for flour when
you can buy Gold Medal flour at
Posten's for 60 cts.
RURAL mail delivery is to be start
ed this week according to the ans
nouncement made sometime ago but
nothing definite has been received in
the past few days about it. Two
new routes are to go in. Oscar Gregg
is to have the route on this side of
the river.
FLIeKERsvILLE is another small
postoffice that will be abandoned
after the establishment of the new
rural delivery route on the West
Side of the river Many of the
smaller offices will have Their bust
ness cut down and eventually as the
system is established they will all
give way to the better method OF
sending out the mail
Mr.. and Mrs. f. X. O'Kelly have
gone to McFfenry, Md, where they
will be for three weeks rest.
DR.. Page A. Gibbons has been I'M
der the weather fer several days and
was quite sick on Saturday. He is
better to day and hopes to be back in
his Office tomorrow.
Mrs. John E. Price and her father
Peter Chalfant, and G. e. Higgins and
wife made up party that went to
Mt. Lake on the flyer Saturday even
ing for ten days stay.
Guy Brown will leave on Tuesday
morning for Carnegie where he will
attend the races this week. Mr..
James G. Wallace will be another
Morgantown man who will be there.
He has his five racers down there to
enter the races and expects them to
make good showing,
Major Charles Powell of the U. S.
Engineers is IN town to-day looking
after matters under his direction.
He has been at lock seven where a
large force of men are repairing the
lock which is badly out of repair.
The work will require several weeks
longer TO complete. There are three
shifts of eight hours each working so
that the work does not stop at any
time.
Col. G. l.. Smith of Fairmont who
has been attending the encampment
of the Second Regiment in Charleston
will reach home this evening. Lieut..
T. D. B. Stewart of this place who
has also been present at this encamp-
ment is expected home shortly. The
encampment has been very pleasant
and profitable one. The hot weather
made il unpleasant for the men but
this was the only drawback.
Bonnie Williams, of Fairmont, was
here on Saturday afternoon He
stated that he had everything about
ready for the start on the addition
to his hotel which he has been plan
ming for a long time. The addition
will make it one Of the largest hotels
in the state but from the way that
the patronage has been increasing il
will not be any too big. Bonnie is
an ideal host and the travelling
public appreciate his efforts to serve
them TO the highest extent.
Mrs. Alice Oliphant Hobart, OF
Washington, and Mrs. Mary Nichol
son, of Altoona, Pa, were here the
latter part of last week the guests
of Mrs. O. III. Ollie. Both ladies
are natives of Fayette county and
were educated at the famous old
Woodburn Seminary in the early
sixties that occupied the grounds
where the University now stands.
The ladies were visiting their old
homes and came to Morgantowl to
visit the scenes of their girlhood
days and greet the old friends who
were left. A great pleasure was add
ed to the visit in seeing Mrs. Moore
who was their teacher and friend
and Miss Susie her daughter. Mrs.
Hobart spent part of her time with
Mrs. w. p. Wiley who was very
dear girl friend. All who knew
them were delighted to recall the in
cidents of other days and talk oyer
the experiences Of their school life.