Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-12-20
Locals and Personals.

coats aud cloaks.
Harry A. Garrison has returned
from the University of Pennsylvania
where he had been in school. He
will return to that institution aftel
the holidays.
THE board walk leading to Sun
nyside is in a bad condition near tht
University. Some work ought to bt
| done on it before it tumblcs into the
ditch or breaks some body's neck.
ALL next week or until after
Christmas day the stores will do a
rushing business. The shoppers
are now on the home stretch and
hey are making the poor clerk live
hard.
DURING the early days of winter
the street force have to work hard to
get things fixed up which are shown
to be weaker than they had been
thought to be during the nice wealth
Ell of fall
THE directors of Westmoreland
county at the recent session of the
teachers institute placed themselves
on record as favoring salary OF
$40 as the lowest to be paid teach
ers of that county.
AS A result Of the foot ball season
at w. q j. the association has bal
ance of about three hundred dollars.
They expect to do better next year.
The last year was the worst that has
ever been experienced over there.
MEMBERS of the families of Nor
gantown who have to spend most OF
their lime away from home are con-
ing back. There will be lots of fam
lily gatherings during the holidays
and these will be exceedingly pleas
ant.
MADEIRA Bros. are laying the side
walk on the Chestnut street front of
their new hotel today. If all others
whose front pavement will get at
the work SO promptly, many bad
and unsightly places will be made
attractive.
SAFE crackers at Parsons demol-
ished the safe in the office of the
West Virginia Central depot The
burglars were scared away after
having secured $75. A large amount
of money was in the safe but this
was overlooked in their fight from
the scene.
SEVERAL small coal deals have
taken place recently. Among them
is the purchase by Donley and Hat
field and w. w. Keener OF a small
tract in Clay district. 1t includes
the farms of John L. Eddy, Rose
Eddy, Catherine Tenant and Daniel
Moore. The price paid was $40 an
acre.
THE biennial report of the State
Geological Commission will be sent
to the printer within the next few
DAYS. This commission is compos-
ed of Messrs A. B. White, j. H.
Stewart, Peter Silman, Abram Me
Cullough, D. B. Purinton. Prot. /.
G. White, state geologist, is mem
Der -officio.
THERE has been a great deal of
railroad surveying in these parts,
but when J. Ami Martin gets out
with his self patented, home made
transit, and begins to sight along
some route, you may look for road
to be built. Nothing permanent
was ever done on the M. d K. till
Martin put his wooden sight box
on the route, and then road was
built.
DNEw calendars are being displayed
everywhere. Many of them are very
pretty. They are in great demand.
Some of those investing in this form
of advertising have gone rather deep
for all the good that it.does them. 1t
is stated that a merchant in Grafton
is putting out calendar that costs
him 40 vents each. He may get
value received for this but it sounds
doubtful.
THE Pittsburg city councils, it
appears has so bedeviled the Wabash
about franchise, for two years back
that President Ramsey is moved to
remark with some earnestness that
if they do not desil the railroad in
their city, TO say so, and the COM
pany will sell their holdings to the
amount of many millions and skip
the city all together 1t may all be
only bluff; but it appears to have
set the Pittsburgers to thinking SER
iously about hearing something
drop.
HAVE closed my first years work
in the real estate business in Nor
gantown have gone hey ond all
expectations in making sales-have
sold $50, 900 worth of property dur
ing the year, have sold $4,000 worth
of merchandise stock, rented 43
houses, found 81 men work of whom
only SIS paid their bills, have placed 8
clerks. We feel much encouraged
and must say that the real estate
business men have treated me very
courteously indeed. We expect II
make the coming year a hummer
j. M. WEEsF
EVERY day letters come here which
should be answered by board Of
trade. 1t does not look we'll for US