The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-12-23
Qhs Nep pon'inio''.
Wednesday, December 10, 1908.
Wanted-Author's Manuscripts,

Wednesday, december 30, 1908.
Wanted-AuthOr's Manuscripts,
suitable for early publication. Com
musicale with The Bradford Press
As Broadway, New York.
Mrs. Pratt, Of Wheeling, is here to
spend the Christina season with her
daughter, Mrs. B. II. Hite.
MORE than s25, 900 have been con-
tributed TO relieve the suffering at
Butler, Pa. The expenditures re-
quired are over 81, 900 per day.
TIE man who needs a place
should look for the place that needs
him. Most people think no further
than the fact that they need place.
. SATURATING her clothing with gas
oline and setting fire to it, Miss Mary
Kyger, aged 40 years and wealthy,
died horrible death yesterday at
Oxford, Ohio.
THE meetinig OF the Democratic
National Committee to select the
time and place for holding the ma
tional convention Of the pBrty will be
held at the Hotel Shoreham In Wash
ington January 2.
ACCORDING to The Worlds Work
there are 630,022 pupils enrolled at
the New York public schools this
year. In single year 1913, 600, 900
was expended on the schools of the
metropolis.
THE Clarksburg Telegram has been
pretty strong on stale egg stories,
or rather stories OF stale eggs
of late. 1t is very poor day
with the Telegram when IL can't dish
up story of some victim OF an egg
bombardment.
NEARLY all the "forts" In the city
are closed. A few have kept open for
the accommodation OF those students
who will remain In town during The
holidays, but where there have been
forty or fifty boarders all term, there
are now but eight or ten.
THE School Board has not yet
filed the place made vacant by the
death OF the late Colonel Ashbel
Faifchild. The matter of appoint
ing his successor will he taken up Mt |
some meeting OF the Board in the
near future.
The mahy friends of Miss Nellie
Steele and her parents will be glad
to learn that she is now doing well,
and seems 10 be fairly started on the
road to recovery. she has had
hard battle with the disease, and all
who know her, will rejoice TO learn
that she has won it.
THE two vestibuled coaches, which
arrived here several days ago for
use on Captain John r. Porter's
trains, Nos. so and ST. were returned |
to the Mt. Clare shops to be remodel
ed. The cars were fitted up with gas
lights, and as there is 90 gas supply |
on the Farmont division, they were
impractical
AT fire in Fairmont young wom-
an kept getting in the way of the fire
men, when one of them exclaimed: eff
you don't get out Of the way III turn
the hose on you" Blushingiy the
damsel replied "If you'll just wait
I'll turn 'em myself when | get home.
l was so excited didn't know which
way | was putting 'em on"
Our neighbors of Fairmont are
very much pleased to learn that
their city is to be made the termi-
nus if the Wheeling grand division
of the B. and o. When the new
arrangement goes into effect trains
will be run intact from Brunswick,
Md, to Falrmont or Parkersburg
and from these places to Chicago
junction or the lakes.
"MoNEY makes the mare CO. says
the quaint old proverb. 1t is differ
ent with merchandise. The smaller
the amount of money that is requir
ed to change the ownership OF goods,
the faster they will go. And mer-
chants who sell on credit seem to
think that they can accelerate the
movement OF their stock by offering
it for ano money down" But in any
case advertising of the right kind IS
great speed producer.
ALL true spertsmen ought to heart
lily CO operate with the deputy game
warden in his notable efforts to en-
force the game and fish laws of West
Virginia. He is doing some excellent
work along this line, and can and will
do more if PEOPLE who like to see the
laws obeyed will lend little assistance
In bringing offenders to justice. The
time is here when adequate protection
of game is all that can prevent extinc-
ton.
HoLDuPs in aud about Uniontown
still continue. Two recently occur
red the same evening. A foreigner
was struck down by an unknown
man in front OF j. V. Thompson's
residence on West Main street and
relieved of his watch and money. A
Slav also reported that he had been
held up by negro and robbed OF
$3.50. The local police instituted
an active search for the thieves, but
failed to locate them.
DR.. T. H. WHITE, representative
Of the State Board of Health in
Fayette county, found veritable
pest house at the Turkeys Nest six
miles out the National Pike from
Uniontown. William Gordon's wife
and seven children are seriously i'll
with smallpox. Two of the chill
dren, a boy Is years old and another
aged two are dangerously ilk Some
of the other children, who have had
the disease for a number of days, ARE
we'll on their way to recovery
Connellsville Courier.
IT is related that a news paper
man not more than thousand miles
from Davis, recently received letter
from a distilling firm asking for a
list OF names of citizens who might
be interested In the literature OF a
new brand of whiskey and promising
him commission on all sales. The
newspaper man being joker himself,
sat down and made out list of the
principal Prohibitionists of the place
and forwarded it. He forgot all about
it until few weeks later, when he
received letter from the distiller en-
closi ng draft for S165 so with thanks
for the list which had been found Pc
culiarly remunerative.-Da News.
AN advertisement that does not
give the price of the article advertis-
ed is incomplete. The information
that is of most interest to a multi
tude of readers is lacking. or course
there are BUYERS to whom the price
A. \.