West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-05-09

Alta hotel man. was here Monday.
Postmaster James +. Watson. of Mason.
town, was here on business, Monday.
Martha J. Corbin. of Fellowsvine, has
been granted widows pension OF s. per
month
James w. White, of the Morgantown
Post, was here during the pas, week, visit.
ing old friends.
W. G. Brown and c. w. Dering were It
Parsons, last week, ON business trip They
drove across the country.
Miss Nellie J. Albrigh, is home fl ON the
Seminary at Buekhannon, being summoned
here by the illness of her father.
Neil J Fortney left Wednesday after.
noon for Mar,insburg, to attend a meeting
Of the OHIO & West Va. ven,ilator Co.
Second hand bicycles, Sewing Machines
and Type Writers at Jenkins Jewelry Store,
your own price. Must have the room.
The grounds around the Presbyterian
parsonage are being graded and cut down
to the sidewalk and very much improved.
Miss Agnes Ferrell, from near Glades.
vile, is here visiting her uncle r. b. Brown,
aud keeping house while his mother is away.
Your measure taken and a tailor-made
suit Of fine clothes ordered by John IL. Car
ner and perfect INT and satisfaction guaran-
teed.
Charles w. Jackson has taken charge of
the tin shop aud business heretofore con-
Quoted by A. NJ. Beavers, and will run it
hereafter.
Adam +. Ridenour is general agent for a
very handsome Knights of Pythias chart.
printed and designed in embl ematic colors
and pictures.
Mrs. Jane Brown left last week for
Charleston, to visit her daughter, Mrs. w.
M. o. Dawson, and her new grand daughter,
Miss Leah Jane Dawson.
A handsome granite monument has been
erected in Maplewood Cemetery here in
memory of the late William ii. Brand, who
was the first person buried in the new
cemetery.
Ellis Kelly, who has been living out near
Pleasant Dale the past year and logging for
lumber company, moved last week. back
near Terra Alta, where he has purchased
small farm
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Albright left Tues
day afternoon for Baltimore, where the for
mer will enter Johns Hopkins Hospital for
treatment and perhaps have an operation
performed for appendicitis.
Vernon Fortney was made a full.nedged
member of the X. of p. Lodge here, at the
regular meeting, Tuesday night Of this week.
lie is the youngest member, as he sent in
his application the day he was FL.
Harley p. Miller left last week for Balti-
more, to enter the Bryant & Stratton Bust.
ness College and take the full commercial
course. This makes three Kingwood boys
there now, Earl Martin and Bruce Carroll
having gone before Miller.
J. J. Shackleford, of Victoria, was here
yesterday, on business. Victoria is the new
postoliice formerly called Irondale. A. ii.
Whitsett, the coal operator, is the post
master, but the business is done by his
clerks in the Company Store.
The remains of the late Henry Clay
Hyde were removed from the old cemetery,
last week, to a lot purchased by Mrs. Hyde
in the new cemetery, and handsome gran
ite monument has been erected on the lot
in memory of her late husband.
DIR. u. w. Showalter and wife and Geo.
a. Walls and wife left this week for Balu-
more and will go from there on to the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo, and also
visit relatives and friends in New York.
They will be gone about three weeks.
The Fairmont Free Press, of last.Iyeek,
says that
+. I. Watson, of Preston county, an d
Miss Daisy Bender, of Grafton, were united
in marriage, Monday, by Rev. Hess, at his
residence on the South Side, and left on
the afternoon train for the east
Work will soon be commenced at this of
fee on Mr.. o. f. Morton's new book, enti-
tied winning or Losing" The hook will
be printed on a fine grade of white laid
paper, and will be bound in cloth, and will
contain number of half-tone engrsvings
especially made for the work. There will
be something over a thousand copies printed.
Oakland Republican.
The "Rev. Mack" Fields was in town
last week, on his way to his home, out near
Herring. lie has resigned his position in
the Advocate Office at Parsons and talks of
going to Missouri, before long. lie has a
luxurious crop Of PopuIist whiskers and was
thought TO be Mormon Elder or Dunk
ard preacher of some kind. lie left here
in Hazy condition, whistling "Ben Bolt
lie reports that JEFF Lipsoomb wintered all
right and is now as risky as a mule colt
turned out 10 grass.
The Kingwood School opened May 6,
with very fine attendance. In the Nor
NAL department there arc 81 pupils enrolled
twenty-five in.the advanced grade, taught
/ by Mr.. Holden, and twenty-seven in the
second grade, taught by Mrs. Holden.
There will be at least ten more in the adj.
yauced department next week. In add.
ton to the above. there are three other
rooms in session, taught by Miss Lille FL.
lott, Miss Belle Spahr and Miss lsa Mon
roe. Each Of these rooms is well attended,
though the exact numbers arc not given.
There are at least 100 students, counting
/ all grades.
Here arc three items from the Grafton
/ Sentinel