Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-03-28
ABouT OUR PRIENB>.
Personal Mention Of Prominent People
Where they are and How they are.


w. L. Morris will move into the
Wallace annex on April LIST.
Miss Chloe Miller has an attack Of
neuralgia which has kept her from
work for day or so,
Professor and Mrs. Waitman Barbe
have moved from Mr.. Sturgiss house
TO the Peabody Hotel where they will
make their home,
Mrs. Amos Gilbert, Of the west
side, who has been sick for several
days is better and her recovery is now
only matter of time.
Mrs. Adamson has moved from
Wiles addition and has left town for
Brownsville where her husband has
been located for some time.
Mrs. j. NJ. Carson has returned tol
Scattdale after spending a week or SO
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs
George Harner at this place
Bert Laughhead lost a book on
surveying subject yesterday evening,
The volume was found by /. G. Lac.
zelle and returned to its owner.
A. Il. Stallings, of Parsons, who is
very well known here has been ap.
pointed as Colonel on the Governors
STAFF vice +. K. Loomis, Of Parkers-
burg, who resigned.
Bishop Peterkin recently returned
from Porto Rico where he had spent
some time in the interests of his
church, He talks very entertainingly
of his observations there.
w. II. Bailey has been nominated
for mayor of Greater Morgantown.
His friends are working for him.
This makes large list Of prospective
candidates any one OF whom would
make good mayor.
Mrs. Alice Jones has returned
from Sharon where she has been on
short visit. She will leave in a
few days for California. Thomas
will 60 with her but Link will re-
main at Sharon for the time being
at least
L. z. Reay is back from Milton He
found that the reports about the oil
well at that place were without foun.
dation and that the we'll was abso-
lutely dry. The drillers had pour
ed barrel Of oil into the hole in or
ducing and the suckers who had stock
in the concern put up their mon-
ey TO make it good. Then the hoax
was revealed to them and they went
to kicking. Ii they hadn't been fool
ed they would never have paid the
driIler
A NEW set of scenery is being
painted for the Opera House Will.
IAN Bottenberg, of Cincinnati, is
painting it. There isn't another
house in the state of its size that is
so well supplied with scenery as
this one is.
f. j Stellar has secured the
agency Of b Stern q Son, High Art
Custom Tailors of New York City,
and can furnish you tailor made
suit from SIS to$25 He guarantees
a perfect fit and best of material.
Call and see his samples.
IT is very difficult matter to keep
the streets clean and the question
seems no nearer solution than hereto
fore. Quite number favor the use
Of the fire hose claiming that If the
pavement Is damaged the loss would
be smaller than the cost Of scraping
and hauling the mud away
THE people OF the East side Of
Preston county are anxious TO see the
M. & X. railroad extended to King
wood and are preparing for great BUSH
ness activity when it is done. The
| work will be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible and we have no doubt the road
will be In operation as far as Reeds.
Vile before fall.
THE coal test at the Pump Station
has been completed but so far the
results OF it have not been announced
They are trying coal to see how it
compares with gas from the stand
point of cost and efficiency. The
neighbors don't want TO use coal as it
makes everything SO dirty. So far
this place has escaped the drawbacks
that other towns have had to contend
with on the coming Of industrial
plants with their dirt and coal smoke.