Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-05-17
ABOUT OUR FRIENDS.
Personal Mention of Prominent People.
How they are and Where they are.

How they are and Where they are.
i Guy Wiley came down from Fair
mont on Friday evening for short
/ visit home
Miss iona Mckinney and Miss Nora
Barns who have been the guests or
MISS McKinneY's sister Mrs. E. G.
4 Sturgeon and Mrs. Newt MCGEE OF
f the Second ward, returned to their
homes 10 Preston County this morn
ling.
+ Prof. 5. B. Brown went over Cheat
Saturday with his geology class for
the purpose Of investigating the
strata Of that section of the county.
They went up the mountain BY way
Of Dellslow.
Prof I. c. Atkeson spoke today
at McCurdysvilie and tonight will
/ deliver an address at Hoodsville to
the farmers. His tour has been a
successful one and many people have
turned out to hear him
James Harms mixed it mp with
some Snowman at Everson and as a
result he is in the hospital at Con
nellsville with bullet through his
head. He will know more about
fighting circus men next time.
Henry Moreland got severe fall
at the new Price building on Front
street by the ladder breaking under
him. He fell through from the sec
ond floor to the cellar but luckily
broke no bones. He is very sore
from the experience but will be all
right IN day OF so.
II real estate advances % per
cent in a week, how much will it be
worth in a year?
| WHAT we waut.most we are to get and
/ that is more industries. Morgantown
has prospered greatly during the past
! few years and she is bound TO prosper
even more during the coming years.
The Clayton heirs of kingwood
have sold several acres of land near
Granville TO some Pennsylvania
capitalist who have bought both the
coal and the surface.
CLEAN streets ado more to the APP
pearance OF a town than any thing
else ard we owe 1t to ourselves and to
the citizens whom we hope to land to
keep them clean at all time.
THERE is no doubt that good roads
would add more TO the value Of prop
j erty in the county than any thing We
can have BY all means let US have
good roads. They are worth infinite
ly more than they cost.
THE interment of Mrs. Flora Kort-
right took place on Saturday afternoon
at Middletown, N. Y, her former
home. Many Morgantown people
mourn the loss of this estimable wom-
an,
THE result of the western trip has
been pleasing to local fans as some of
the very best teams that play ball
were met ana they were each and all
Of them given a jar that they will re-
member for some time.
AFTER all Gonnellsville is not half
as pleased to get rid of the three big
plants as some of her citizens pretend
ed they were 1t is all bluff to get
these plants to stay away from Nor
gantown. We want them aud we
want them badly.
DURING the latter part of June
and first of July the Beaumont Glass
Company of Martins Ferry will be
removed to Grafton which will be.
gin to put on airs on account of
having landed real live ind ustry
which W Il employ $50 people.
THE town of Reedsville in Preston
county is enjoying an extensive boom
on the strength OF the coming of the
NJ q X railroad which is expected
to reach there during this summer
Every where the road goes there is
a boom.
The country up Deckers creek
will be populous locality within
the next year The industries along
the line of the NJ. 81 X. within two
miles of Morgantown will employ
from one thousand to twelve hun
dred men. That would mean a pop
ulation Of four thousand.
GREENE County has real small
| pox scare but the authorities are
r working hard to stamp it out anC
will succeed il their efforts without
any doubt. So far but one case has
. developed but as people over there in
! sisted on visiting The patient as they
) did in this county there will probably
be more before it is over.
ANY one who misses the big time
here on Decoration day wilt be ex
tremely sorry that he did so wher
! his neighbors tell him of the sight:
and sounds of town Not very
many people will miss it however
and the influx into town is expected
to comprise about all of the pepula
ton of the county able to get here
! ALL the big industries that came
here are welcome and ever, one i:
glad to have them and will do all il
their power to make them succeed
DIR most careful and conservative
men do not hesitate to say that the
+ growth of Morgantown is just be
: ginning. There is every prospect
t that the Wabash will eventually
! come here and give Ms competing
lf.