The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1902-12-31

PorSr hiARIos is determined Il
have gas sren II II has to get anoth
er company 10 order to insure it.
soMe Of that: Kentucky whiskel
got III its work yesterday. Some o.
it still remains to raise trouble later.
60 TO Hutchinson s. Jacobs, Little
Falls. w. Va, for your water sets,
lamps, vases. pictures, frames and
mirrors, books, toys. aud numerous
other articles to tedious 70 mention.
| EVERY winter ne nave at least one
bad sleet fall This time it came on
snow and was not a. bad as it would
have been had it alien on the bare
ground. Let us hope that we have
seen the last sleet Of The winter.
lT is very difficult TO learn any
thing of the wheregbouts Of the iron
for the Sunnyside bridge. The ru-
mors Of its arrival seem to be without
foundation. A great many people
are looking very anxiously for 1t.
MoRGANTowN has her representa-
tives in all parts Of the werla. We
hear from them in the Orient, ON the
Pacific Coast, from Alaska, from
| Europe and even from Africa. And
they all will enjoy getting back 70 the
old place.
| IT will be only short time until
the legislature will be in session.
There is much OF deep interest to The
state to be transacted but nothing OF
a sensational nature is to come up for
consideration.
TIE town of Milton has an unique
distinction. There is not a single
cOlored person living in it. The town
is Of rather good size The people of
the place do not desire any influx OF
colored people and the latter keep
away.
MORE people have fever than
ought to be infected with this dis
ease at this time of the year. A
plumber of cases have been reported
recently.
BESIDES the regular watch meet
ing to be held tomorrow night there
viii be number of informal ones
with one or two participating They
will be very interesting although
small in attendance,
Coal companies are complaining
| for lack OF cars. 1t is stated that
four times as much coal could be sent
out from this section of the state IL
the cars were provided.
IT is reported from Warrington
that there is to be sensation in
day or SO in connection with the
Floyd murders but what is to tie
done is not intimated. Every body
living near the scene of the tragedy
carries a gun and many of the peo-
pie are terrorstrieken.
AT seven this morning the mercary
stood at thirty. This is the same
notch in which it stood yesterday.
The days were entirely unlike in
every other respect as this one has
been rather decent day.
THERE does not seem to be much
doubt about another railroad coming
this way. Ii will be warmly well
coined and will find about all the bus
mess it can handle. The Mononga.
hela Valley is destined to have several
new roads before many years.
MANY people ia Morgantown and
| Monongalia county knew Prof. Mar
Gus Ross of the Fairmont Normal
His sudden death was a great shock
to them They did not even know
that he was sick when the news
came that he had died.
SEVERAL OF the river towns are
| talking about which one has the
greatest number of phones in use
within its borders. None of them
come up to Morgantown which is
ahead in this respect as in many
others.
The Trenton N. j. man who
hid SOS in stove in which his wife
afterward built fire is at least one
point better off than if he had spent
the money the night before in hav-
ing "a good time with the boys" He
had no headache
IT is claimed by the News stand
ard that Uniontown now has a pop
uIation of Is 600, The present Dor
ouoll lines do not include all of the
| population by any means. We shall
soon be in the class with Uniontown
at the rate at which are climbing.
The state bar association is 10 be
in session at Wheeling today and
tomorrow concluding with banquet
tomorrow night. Several members
of the profes sion from here are in
attendance. E. B. Stewart read a
paper before the meeting today.
AN oil company has been formed in
this state composed of negroes entire
| ly. G. II. Payne of Huntington is
one Of the members, They have ter
ritory in Morgan county which they
are going to develop. This is the
first all colored oil company ever
chartered.
THE James G.. Blame has broken
up at Brownsville after being tied
there for some time. The Blaine
was the oldest noat on the river and
was rather lncky during its cruising
meeting With few serious accidents.
1t is now gone the way of all terres-
trial things.
LAST night was one of the slickest
that has ever been experienced in
town People have had hard time
to get around at all. The rain which
fell yesterday finally got most of the
ice and snow off the streets so that it
was not so hard to stand up this
morning or today.
THE military fever has seized the
young men at Fairmont and they are
busy getting up companies aud bat
terry there. Lieutenant Nicely will be
at the head of the company. 1t is
hoped to get the organization attach
ed to the Guard in some capacity or
other although there are no vacancies
at present.
Your absent friend would very
much appreciate as a New Years
gift years subscription to the New
DOMINION, Daily or Weekly. Be
sides reminding him of you every
time 1t came to hand it would afford
him great deal of pleasure and
give him much information about
the old home during the year.
THE educational features of adver-
Using are to he considered. BY this
means new goods and commodities
are made known to the public and
men are taught where to go to make
purchases. Mum berless people scan
the advertising columns of publica-
tion not only to see where TO buy,