West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-05-28
A RED LETTER DAY
For Masontown Was the Big Lot Sale
Last SATURDAY.

Last Saturday was the greatest
day in the history Of Masontown
and people were there from far and
near. They came in buggies, hacks,
on horse back and a foot. Road
wagons with whole families, who
came and brought their dinners and
picnicked around the church like
an old fashioned basket. meeting.
"A train load came up from Morgan
town over M. & X. According to
the Dominion there were 500 people
present and 200 from Morgantown
and the 1873 lots sold for $40, 500 In
two hours and a half with the
people begging for more lots.
There were many prominent men
present from Morgantown. Among
them we met Hon. Joseph More
land, Col. Jim Frazer, Attorney
John l.. Hatfield, Prof. Samuel B.
Brown, DR.. John Post, Col. c. w.
Finnell, Smith Albert Posten, Prot
Russell Morris, George Cobun, Z.
c. Sturgeon, w. w. Graham.
From Kingwood we noticed Mayor
John w. Watson, Squire ]. w.
Flynn, Attorneys A. b. McCrum,
]. t. DALEY and N. J. Fortney and
wife and son Veron, 1. Parson
Martin, T.. P Albright, Frank l..
Fields, James Murdoch, w. M.
Shaffe, w. II. McDaniels, ]. Slidell
Brown and wife and others. The
Roby Hotel had tremendous rush
that day, feeding over a hundred
for dinner, but doing it in first class
style and giving every body plenty.
The hotel is kept by J. Cal Roby
and is the neatest, most comfortable
and best kept house for the size of
the town We ever stopped at. The
University Band furnished splendid
music and their uniforms added
much to the attraction of the crowd.
Col. Cummings from Washington,
Pa, was the auctioneer and he was
swlfter than he was here last fall.
He is on TO his job all right and
worth about dollar minute at a
lot sale.
The site of the new addition to
the town is on the Kirk place Just
this side of the M. +. church, and
is called the Hartley Addition in
honor of Amos Hartley and brother
Edgar. 1t was purchased a month
or two ago by Hon. Amos Hartley,
Hon. Edgar Hartley, DR.. J.. w.
Cobun and Col. Ben. Lemon for
$50 which was considered big
price for the surface, only seventy
some acres, The coal had already
been sold under the land to Senator
Elkins for good price.
The above Company made ar
rangements with the Morgsntown
Real Estate Company to conduct
the lot sale for them, as they are
experts at the business, and have
now sold less than one third of the
land for more than twice what it
cost them. The house and lot
where Mr.. Kirk resided before
selling out was the last part sold at
the lot sale Saturday and was knock
ed off to Bob Menifee for $500. l.
Parsons Martin of Kingwood was
one of the heaviest investors in lots
as he secured eleven, lying along
the front and George Shaffer, six.
The addition lies just south Of
the church and fronting on the Tuu-
Melton and Ices Ferry Pike. The
streets running north and south are
Roosevelt street, IS feet wide; Cher
ny street, 40 feet wide, and Railroad
street 40 feet wide. Then there is
little short street behind the
church called Linden street 80 feet
wide. East and west the thorough
fares are called avenues, and are
named Locust Avenue on the north,
then Maple Avenue and Spruce
Avenue and Elkins Avenue, all
forty feet wide. The lots are laid
off in blocks from A to O, and the
surveying was done by Morris and
Burns Of Morgantown.