West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-08-28
Iiug~ooa. August ss. 1909.
DR.. Alex Leeds. Dentist. Grafton.

DR.. Alex Leeds. Dentist. Grafton.
Wiber Fields spent Sunday at his home
oct near Herring
John Williams Esq. has been III the past
week with heart trouble.
Ross Jackson went 10 The Orr Mines near
Newburg Monday TO work on the iipple.
Dr.. l.. w. Cobun aud Ben T. Lemon Of
Masontown, were here Monday on business
A. I. Kelso returned Monday morning
from visit 10 his home over near Oakland +.
A. d. Bowman and o. +. Hardes,y of
Rowlesburg, were here Tuesday on business.
Mrs. Bina Williams Hess arrived here last
week from Baltimore. to visit friends and
relatives.
John Ormond, X. f. Walls aud several
Others from Pisgah, were here Monday on
legal business.
Coal, gas and oil leases at the ARGUS
office at only one cent each. Mail orders
filled promptly.
We will save YOU from IS to so per cent
while our clearance sales are going on. The
Shaffer & Brown CO.
The next annual session Of the Preston
county Sunday School Association will be
held a, Tunnel,on, Sept. 18th and 18TH.
II you see person with long lace you
may be sure they have not been to our
special sales. The Shaiter & Brown CO.
will hold their fourteenth annual meeting in
Moigan,own. commencing September 9th.
South Cumberland. Md, arrived Monday
for u weeks visi, al their old home in this
county.
The Bible tells us that the meek shall in.
heIii the earth, hut in these days the fellow
who wants the earth isn't built on these
lines
DIR. George l.. Bomberger and wife from
Victoria, we'e here Tuesday. The Doctor
dropped in'io see us and subscribe for the
ARGus
Miss Lillian Holt who has been visiting
friends and relatives here and near town for
several weeks. has returned TO her home in
Grafton.
An effort is being made at Morgantown to
have the livery barns there close on Sunday
but the movement does not appear to meet
with universal favor.
Remember for the next 20 days VIC will
do what Uncle SAM can't do-inilaie your
dollars-make one dollar buy two dollars
worth Of goods. The Shaffer & Brown Co.
Miss Adah Trippst left yesterday for
Morgantown 10 pass the examination fo
teachers for the pubic schools of that plac,
as she has been employed as one of tn,
teachers.
Maurice and Jess Jackson wcm over a,
Ne~burg Monday to do n la, Of painting fo
the On-IIite Coal Company. They hav,
about fifteen dwelling houses and s,or,
building TO paint.
The wedding of Mr George Monro,
Pugh aud Miss Lucy Ellen Freeland. lead
ing society people Of Terra Alta, took plac,
at "Ferntop Cottage" on Wednesday eve
ming, August II, at S;3o O'Clock. Tn,
bridal couple will make their home ia Teri,
Alis. where the groom IS conducting -four
ishing WI 'le.ale grocery business
The forty or tf'y miners who w.rc take,
from Function Ia Nj. Clare l,y The Cisrks
burg Fuel Company refused to 60 10 wosI
wheu they found cut that strike was ~
and expec, TO leave for Piusburg The,
claim they ATE not scabs and that the repre-
sentative Of the Fuel Company Told then
they could make from 50 so to S 90 day
James VI Morris ~ Marion county, Il
writing a book emitted "rrhe Time of IN,
Eod, According 70 Bible Chronology" IL
wihci he predicts the coming Of the miien
mum Is Io4I. II is cisimcd that he pre-
dicted -four years ago the war wi Is Spain
the trouble between Great Britain and TN
Boers, the Galveston horror and the holo
eaust at Martinique.
Joseph Wesling. an old Prestonian VIII,
has been in Piusburg for several years, va
in Kingwood Ibis week lie has been a
his old home at the Catholic church nea
- pwesville visiting his mother and closint
- coal deal for her as she sold her Goa
land 10 c. y. Bergman for $40 per acre
Mr wesling was in to see rs on Monds
accompanied by Henry Rickleman Of run
melton.
An exchange has been effected 6etwee
Sena'or Elkins and me Dccker's Creek Goa
and Coke Company 10y which Mr. Elkin
gets control Of The coal on the north sid
Of Dceker's creek and the Decker's Cree
Company tia, on the south side. Ddl
mines will be opened by the companies o
either side 81 the creek aud before the snow
Of winieS lave iuterfefed with the work tn
miners wilI be protected beneath the hin
and mining the black diamonds Of Morga
distfics