West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-01-03
Terra Alta.
Correspondsncc OF tho Arru,.

ietsa Alta VISITOR, Monday.
g. A. Bolden was III several days of las,
and this week. Suffering an attack Of grip.
J 5. Lskia and son oaa,t spen, Sunday
nigh, a, Oakland. guests Of Nc aud Mrs.
u. +. onuu.
Miss lisa CoPeman Is spending the present
week at kiuswood, the guest Of her cousin,
Miss Martha Copeman.
Miss Lena Guthrie. the popular lady
clerk in A. X. Fsarer's store. is spending
this week a, her old home near Aurora.
Miss Matte Adair of Columbus. Ohio.
spent the past week as the guest of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Adais, on State
street.
Capt, Buek,er +. Scott departed Sunday
evening for New York, where he goes To-
prepare for examination to a West Point
eade,ship.
Mr.. Chas. X. Crawford has been quite
Ill for few days past. suffering from the
efiee, OF an old wound received during his
army life.
Clarence Methcny of Thomas, has been
in Terra Alta for few days past, the guest
OF parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Metheny.
on Brandonville street.
Attorney James Daley, graduate of the
w. Va. University, now located a, Buck.
harmon. spent several days of this week as
the guest of has brother, DIR. w. +. DALEY.
a, this place.
Mr.. Chas. w. Bolden, who spent last
week here, the guest of his son, departed
Saturday morning for Myersdale, Pa,
where he will spend the remainder of the
winter with relatives.
DR.. S. NJ Scott had the misfortune to
fail while crossing his yard, Sunday morn
ing. aud badly bruised his right knee. We
are glad to note, though, that he is able to
be up and about again
Mr., and Mrs. Sylvester Albright aud
children departed Monday afternoon for
atlanta, Georgia. where they will spend the
remainder of the winter, visiting Florida
before they return home. in late spring.
We understand that some of the ma.
chinery for the new electric light plant has
rlready arrived, and II nothing strange or
Aar'linc turns up, the benighted town of
Terra Alta will soon be out of the dark. So
mole it be
Chester, the little son Of MIR. and Mrs.
ID. J. IIerndon of Washington, who accom-.
panied by Mrs. IIerndon is spending the
holidays here, was very i'll the latter part of
last week. DR.. S. NJ. Scott was called Ia
attend, and at this time the little fellow is
greatly improved
Mr.. John White, eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. White, left Tuesday for Wheel
ing, where he will enter Lindsay Institute.
one of the leading educational institutions
OF the State John Is very bright, earnest
and popular young man, and gives promise
OF future full of usefulness aud success
The venerable Isaac Elliott of near
Aibrieh's, accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Ed. NJ Hccrmans of Morgantown,
lief, here Thursday evening last for Bal,i-
more. where the gentleman consulted lead
ing specialists regarding his eye.Sight,
/. which has become very defective. They re.
turned home Saturday morning. /, will he
necessary for MIR. Elliott to make another
TIP 10 Baltimore, during the coming year,
to have cataracIs removed from his eyes.
The even, of holiday week here was the
marriage, on Wednesday evening last. at
the NJ. +. parsonage, Of Mr.. Samuel III
Jackson and Miss Lcilie T. Kelley, two of
Terra Atlas most popular and accomplished
young people The wedding was kept pro.
foundiy quiet. no one being present except
Rev. j. l.. b. Jones, the officiating minister.
and Mr.. S. l.. White aud Miss Nora Ringer.
the latter being close friends Of the bride
snd groom. Mr.. Jackson, Familiarity known
to his acqutintances as ''IIal,"i is a young
business man Of Terra Alta, a, present very
successfully conducting the large hardware
store on State sue.t, under the firm name
of 5. IL Jackson & CO.. aud is one of our
most anable and popular young men. The
bride is the second daughter of Mrs Mary
Kelley of Terra Alta. u equally charming
and popular, and hDirot fricnis Join in
wishing FOR the happy pair long life of
domestic felicity.
Mrs. Katherine Frey, aged OF years, died
Friday afternoon last at ago o'clock, Of
blood poisoning, aud was inferred the fol-
lowing afternoon al goo o'clock in the
Terra Alta cemetery. Mrs. Frey died at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Zsl Eyerley,
ia East Terra Alta, she being sister of
Mrs. EVERY. The aged lady had been
spending the present winter with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hanger, who reside several miles
from town, and on the morning Of the day
OF her death was brought TO Terra Alta very
ill., Dr.. J. p, Sbancr was called and dag.
nosed the case as poisoning. When asked
concerning poison Of any kind, the patient
recalled that she and and Mrs. Hanger had
mixed some paris green for rat poisining.
Mrs. Hanger also made the same statement,
hut neither could say as to whether Mrs
Frey had in any way taken any Of the
poison. a bad sore on the patients nose,
in the Drs. opinion, could easily have bsen
the means whereby poison was introduced
into the system. either from the powder
elinging thereto or by being daubed on
while the paris green vas b;ing mixed Or
It might have been that the old lady took
some Of the poison intentionally. At all
events. IL is generally supposed that paris
green was the cause Of death. Mrs. Frey
was the mo,her-in.aw Of George Scott. al
one time laborer here, who, when the
Spanish-American war broke out. enlisted
and leaving his tgo young boys AID their
grandmother totally unprovided for went
as q private. Unfortunately for the country