The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-16
SOME WARM TINES
Out in Grant County-candidatss Ga
lore For County Offices.

kEYSEB, w. Va, April lb.-Up IN
Grant county. where some Of the best
Republicans in West Virginia grow,
and where the battle of the ballots al
ways results In pillng up pretty Repub-
llcan majorltles. Politics are beginning
to warm up toward the billing pint"
and candidates for the various county
ofiices are springing up thicker'n hops
Never in It's history has Grant county
enjoyed greater period OF prosperity
than the past year. the farmers Of that
section, Of whom some are the wealth
lest In West Virginia. are selling their
cattle. sheep and farm products for
more money than ever before, new in
dustrles and enterprises, promoted by
Republican prosperity are starting, and
that the county viii give a largely in
creased majority for both state and To-
cal candidates is Just as certain as cleo
zion day is to come.
Although the primaries viii not be
held until Saturday. May g. splendid
array of candidates are already lined
up for the various offices.
one candidate, who will doubtless
have walk-over, is Frank H. Babb,
son OF obed Babb. OF Martin, who as
plrcs to the house of delegates. Mr..
Babb is very active young Rep'Sii-
can, always attending and taking part
In the Republican gatherings Of the
district and state. He is q graduate OF
the state university.
For the office of sheriT, there are
four avowed candldates-Andy NJ.
Babb, of Falls. young man of rare
ability; Hon. John D. Rlnehart. OF
seymoursvlllc. who served twelve
years as assessor. one term in the leg
islature and has been of valuable SER
vice to the party, having been elected
to the legislature at time when the
cause of Republlcanism was passing
through period of darkness in Grant
county, after the redlstrictEng OF the
state Isaac Lewis, Of Greenland, who
as real estate appraiser for the county
in 1896, and D. W. Idleman. promi-
nent merchant Of Mt Storm, whose SER
vice as deputy sheriff under the late
sheriff OF Grant county, w. c. Smith,
was very satisfactory
AS to the office OF prosecuting attor-
ney. E. L. Judy, OF the law firm OF Judy
& Walton. will doubtless be nominated.
having as yet no opposition. He was
graduated at the West Virginia Unlver-
slty with the class OF 1895.
Five good, substantial citizens want
to be assessor. They are Otis Fout, of
Maysvllle. prominent farmer and
stock dealer. who Is = member of the
Republican county executive committee;
S. T. Kessel. OF Arthur, farmer and
fruit grower; NJ, GoldIzen, a Jordans
Run miller; S. s. Rohrbaugh, Of Jor-
dams run, farmer; and T. W. s, Fo-
ley, OF Mt. Storm, a well known school
teacher.
Old Grant can be depended upon to
do her part toward keeping West Vir-
glnla In the columns OF RepublIcanisn
where she rightly belongs
Details of hold-up at Fairfax and
two others at wIisonia, fortnight ago
have reached here. Kirk Haltarman, n
young man from wilsonla. was severely
punished by being beaten about the
head. and was relieved OF a gold watch
and small amount of money The
other two men succeeded In frighten-
Ing their assnllnnts of.
Mrs. Isaac W. Hutton Is dead at Pot
ersburg. W. Va. She was about sixty
years Of age. and Is survived by n
husband and one daughter, who is
blind.
The Irona Coal Company, Of Pres.
ton county. has advanced the wages OF
It's miners and ls now paying slxty-five
cents per ton for digging and forty
cents ton for loading coal. This com
pany has let contracts for a lot OF
now houses to BIZ built this summer for
the accommodation of its men.
w. C. Mccullough. foreman in the
west Virginia Central mnrbine shops nj
ElkIns. has resigned his posl,lon pf,er
working with the company ten years in
that capncIty.
Atn meeting Of the Knv,,r board n,
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