The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1902-12-10

w. II. Gilmore conducted a salt
of horses at his stable on SATURDAY.
A great many people we're in atten
dance on this sale.
THE endowment for the Confer
ence Seminary seems TO be within
reach and the friends of education
in the state are very much pleased
with the outlook.
i SOME very interesting letters are
appearing in the Parkersburg News
about Morgantown. They are being
prepared by Major Elliott
WICK GIBSON aged IS has been ar.
rested charged with robbing the post
Office at ElkiDs. He is Ia Jail al
Clarksburg TO await the action of the
Federal grand jury.
THE Wabash is welcome to the B.
and N. and we only hope that those
back OF the plan will come on through
this county at once. We need them
badly.
| MANY of the papers are taking
about the recent temperance crusade
in this town. Most OF the papers
talking about it never hurt them
selves at crusade of this kind.
| Ir is but little more than two
weeks until Christmas. Some of the
merchants have not begun their hol-
iday advertising. They must ex-
pect to sell goods without advertis
ling.
SEVERAL uniforms belonging to
members of Company z Second regi-
meDt were recently stolen andpawn-
ed. The thieves will be arrested and
will get hot doses for fooling with
state property.
The telephone and telegraph wires
are still greatly knocked out by the
recent snow but the management of
The various lines are doing every
thing in their power to get them
cared for traffic.
The Wheeling Telegraph has
started with $4,000 damage suit
brought by James J. Corbett. All
that he will get out of the suit
will not hurt his eye sight if he
places it in his eye.
FROM now until after Christmas
every one will be pushing for business
and doing his best with his advertis-
ing. Th ere will be plenty of business.
All one needs to do is to use intelligent
means to get it.
THE Baptist Young Peoples Society
will serve refreshments at the church
Saturday evening Dec. 18th. The
Ladies Aid Society will at the same
time sell many useful articles which
they. have made. The proceeds will
90 to help pay off the church debt
The public is cordially invited.
No more definite announcements
regard to the medical school OF the
University than that made in the
bulletin the other day could be made
at present. The Regents will have
to endorse the plan before it is final
ly and formally adopted.
IT seems certainty that there will
be some railroads built in this county
before very great while. We are
ready for them and can make them
feel that they are welcome. This will
be done in the way that railroads ap-
preciate by dumping money into their
Golfers.
AN Indian man has been granted
divorce from his wife because she
smokes cigarettes. Now if this rule
nd ov n !,
husband smokes cigarettes sought
legal release from the matrimonial
yoke the divorce courts would have to
run over time.
The many friends of Rev. J. w.
Francis in Morgantown will be glad
to know that he will locate in Park
ersburg having accepted the call of
the church out there and will leave
Evanston where he had been for sew
eral years
THE intermsnt of the late f. N.
Frum took place at Connellsville to-
day. A large number of mourners
went down from Bridgeport where he
formerly resided and from Morgan
town. Several Of his fraternity
brothers were 10 the party.
OUR Jeromey is about to break
loose again. 1t is announced that he
is to deliver some lectures In Pitts
burg soon on European Capitals and
Their Social Significance. The slim
audiences on the occasions will have
some significance also.
THE West Virginia Bar for this
month is out and contains its usual
quota of good things for the legal
profession. 1t gives the program of
the meeting of the state bar>Associa-
tlon to be held in Wheeling on the
30th and 3lst insts.
THE roads are frozen solidly today
and if good snow should fall they
would be fine for sleighing. At
present they are little but mud.
The first snow fennd the ground
damp and muddy and it did not
freeze any until Sunday night.
The Clarksburg and Buck shannon
Railroad company, of Buckhannon,
W. Va, was yesterday issued char
ter with capital stock of $500, 900.
The incorporators are: D. F. Bail
ey, g. F. Stockhert, w. P. Towkes
and j. G. Hall, of Buckhannon, and
d. W. Jacobs of Clarksburg.
THE billiard room formerly con.
Quoted in the Donley building on
High street has been removed to the
Hotel MADEIRA aui bowling alleys
added. Those who like to engage
in either of these sports will do well
to hunt up the new room and try
their hand. 1t is handsomely APP
pointed.
WHEN ] w. Bailey, who is bache-
lor, was nominated for governor of
Kansas, a promise was exacted from
him that BIZ would speedily find him
self wife. Now that be is elected
he has the i'll grace to declare that he
cannot find her in the Suufower
State and asks permission to look for
her elsewhere. 1t seems apparent
that Mr.. Bailey does not aspire to a
second term.
THE police made four arrests Fri
day realizing $3.50 thereby. One
man was picked up In drunken con-
dition and at the hearing this morn
ing he said he lived in Morgantown,
and had no money, and that he was
obliged to be home today and asked
Burgess Rutter to let him of. The
burgess wanted to know how he
would get home without money and
he said he would walk. He was re-
leased. The last seen of him be was
going up the railroad near Lelth