West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-07-18
kingwood, July Is. 1901.


snip m l.. Nj. Albrights store.
&. c. Frankhouser, of near Brandon Vile.
was here last Saturday on business.
Mrs. Ellie Oansr. Of Parsons, is here
visiting her sister Mrs 4. a. Brown.
Roy Shaher, Of Carmel. cam, over sun.
day evening and remained till Tuesday.
Miss Goldie Faweert Is spending the
week down on Chea, at Mrs. Marsden's.
DR.. c. X. Sherwood, Dentist, will be at
Valley Point FOR two days, July - and IS
Rolla f. Martin Of Muddy Creek Hin,
has had his pension Increased TO sI4 per
month.
DIR. l.. w. Cobun and Hon. L. NJ. Hart.
ley, of Masontown, were here Monday on
business.
Miss Minnie Wright, of Amblersburg, has
bean here the past week visiting friends and
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Wolf have a patriotic
girl baby that Arrived at their home on
July 4th.
James c. Gibson aud {. Washington
Wolfe, of Tunnel,on, spen, Sunday in
kingwood.
Mr.. and Mrs James w. Google. of Fair
mont, arrived in town Monday evening to
visit friends.
Mrs. ]. w. Brown and daughter, Miss
Eleanor, went to Oakland last week TO visit
friends and relatives.
Write Mountain State Business College,
Cumberland, Md, Cor hrst lesson in Gregg's
shorthand. It's free. sep.
Paul Martin, son of J. Ami Martin, of
Morgautown, has been elected Captain of
the Base Ball Club over there
DR. S. NJ. HardmAu, Eye. Ear. Nose and
Throat Specialist Spectacles and Artif-
cial Eyes Fitted. Grafton. w Va
NJ. c. Feathers. the genial aud hustling
merchant at Parsons, was here this week
shaking hands with his many old friends
The doggoned dog days will soon be here
and we hope every dog won't have his day
all to himself. 1t would make them last too
long.
Paul Martin, who was here recently visit
ing his grandmother, has been down with
typhoid fever since his return home in
Morgantown
a Kansas man offers to exchange n mule
for wife, which causes an exchange to
remark that some men never know when
they are well off.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Murdock and their
nephew Philip Ehrlich, of Trontown, Ohio,
arrived in Kingwood last Saturday to visit
friends and relatives.
Mrs George Rider aud two daughters,
who were here visiting the formers sister,
Mrs. Geo. A. Williams, returned to their
home in German last week.
Col. Tom Hassan, of Cumberland, was
here last week representing the irrigating
plant of John J. Stump & Co. lie broke
the drought all right, as we had a splendid
rain Monday night.
Mrs. Sue Fawcett, widow of the late !.
W. Fawcett, this week received check for
$1,000 from the Knights of the Maccabees,
her husband held thousand dollar policy
in the insurance branch of the order. The
policy was collected by Frank NJ. Murdoch,
the Secretary of the local branch
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Seeley, who have been
here visiting Mrs. Sue Fawcett, a sister to
Mrs. Seeley, leave this week for the
Exposition at Buffalo and other points of
interest before returning to their home in
New York City about September Ist, where
Mr.. Seeley has good position in the public
schools which open about that time.
Rev Buchanan, of Morgantown, was
unable to I'LL his appointment at the Presby-
terrain church near Masontown last Sunday
and Rev. X. NJ. Ramsey of this place went
out and preached in the forenoon and
afternoon also and will likely hold services
out there twice month hereafter, as they
have been without pastor for some time
The Il. & o. have abandoned the system
of paying their employees by means of checks
and in the future the pay car will be used.
The pay car system was abandoned about
three years ago as out OF date and the check
system adopted but for some reason or
other the latter has not been found alto
geiher satisfactory. The change is effective
over the entire system and the first pay car
will be through this week.
The Traus-Allegheny Historical Society,
which was organiz ed at Morgantown during
the comm encemcnt season al the West
Virginia University, will begin the publica-
ton of a monthly magazine on October 1,
in which will be chroncled the results of
the historical researches TO be conducted by
the society. Prof. Richard +. Fast. OF the
department Of history in the West Virginia
University, will edit the magazine.
William Allen, the colorcd man who
killed Hiram Mcmillan from this county
over in Pennsylvania some time since, has
been sentenced to be hanged At Uniontowu
in the near future. The court refused
new trial and the date for the execution will
be fixed by the Governor Of the State. The
brute is lucky to get off with hanging by
the laws delay instead Of n lynchiog as
would have been the case in the South
The splendid rain which came Monday
night and which was 50 badly needed, was
worth thousands Of dollars to this section,
as corn aud garden truck we're drying Up
for want Of this refreshing provision Of
nature and the lately sowcd buckwhcat
needed rain badly to get a start 90 the dry