The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-06-10

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elected.
THE heavy blasting In the southern
part OF town is being done by the peo-
pie who are building the Chancery Hill
Bridge abutments.
Secretary OF State w. M. o. Daw-
son and wife will attend Commence
ment. Daniel Dawson viii receive
a diploma Of graduation from the
u University at this time.
Il LIFE insurance agents have been
!. very active 10 Morgantown for the
past month, and several large policies
have been written. People seem to
have plenty Of money now and are
providing for the futures
| THERE is always something new 10
the line of Industrial developments
lalong the Morgantown & Kingwood
Railroad. The changes from week to
week are always worthy OF note.
THE members OF the senior class of
the University have been issuing their
Invitations to Commencement. The
cards are very pretty this year, simple
but elegant. A large number OF these
will be issued by the class of 1908.
From the way that the Fairmont,
Morgantown and Cheat River Com
pany is going about it, it begins to
look like there might be whole lot
of doings here this summer in this
direction.
SEVERAL valuable dogs have been
poisoned lately, apparently with no
further reason than sheer meanness.
With the present dog ordinance in
effect, the dog poisoner is about as
mean as the splitter.
The city council is going after the
owners OF out houses and other places
that give rise to offensive odors and
breed contagion. They have the
hearty support OF all good citizens In
this matter. Clean up the town no
matter what 1t costs.
CIRCUIT court will convene tomor-
row with Judge Mason on the bench.
Some right important chaDcery cases
are on the docket, but no criminal
cases Of an exciting nature, are ex-
pected to come before the court. A
quiet session Is expected.
A GENERAL court martial has
been called to try Lieut.. Walter L.
Scmans of Uniontown on charges
preferred by Major Jefiries who was
an inspector and with whom Semans
had an alteration recently. This
is the third court martial convened
in the Guard since 1879. NJ,
A VERY bad place at the junction
of High and Wiley streets has been
reported several times to the authorl-
ties but people living in that vicinity
say that 1t has not been fixed. A
sewer has been tapped by an excava-
tion and the stencil is something fear
full.
A TEAM was standing in front of
one of the stores in town the other
dav with nice set of team harness
on it. Some one asked the driver
where he got the harness. He said
that it come from the H. c. Baker
Hardware Company and that he had
saved at least IS by buying of them.
The good roads meeting will re-
convene tomorrow, the day on which
two courts are in session, Will we
make start toward establishing
better roads right now, or will we
allow ourselves to worry through
another decade of mud and muck?
CLARKsBURG has landed another
forty acre steel mill. 1t landed five
or six big ones last fall. The place
has been so busy locating factories
that there has been no time to build
any Of them but it is growing all
right.
A BUNCH of colored people have
been pulled at Uniontown and it has
been found that they had robbed
stores down there systematically.
They had hundreds of dollars worth
of goods. A colored woman who
had been engaged as cleaner took
the stuff. Her reputation was such
that she vas not watched.
The case of "a Desperate Chance"
against the city of Clarksburg has
been decided by commissioner G.
w. johnson to whom it had been
referred. He says that the play was
not immoral but that as 1t had no
license to appear in Clarksburg the
owners can Rave no recourse from
the town which refused them the
right to produce it.
THERE was woman down over an
old wash tub the other day, washing.
She was rubbing her fingers off. She
Strengthened up and remarked to
another woman standing near by that
II she live1 long enough to get down
to II. G. Baker and Co.'S, store she
would buy Boss Washer and wash
easily.
A FEW men are still at work In
the Morgantown Glass Works al
though the factory was supposed to
have shut down for the summer the
Iirst of of the month. TheseNmen at
work are cleaning up the factory
and getting the stock all finished.
CAPT. POND who has had charge
of the Salvation Army work IN the
city for the past months has left to
open a post at Clarksburg. Capt.
Reade and wife Of Akron have taken
their place. Capt. Reade for the past
81 years has seen service In many parts
of the country and hopes his success
will be continued in Morgantown.
A LADY went out calling the other
day and in some way got into the
kitchen. She threw up both hands,
saying, where did you get that
nice ranger" The lady OF the house
answered THAT is Home Novelty
Range. l got it from the H. C.
Baker Hardware Company's store.
They are selling them cheap"
The other night passers by saw a
big crowd of students both boys and
girls with their hammers giving the
board walk in East Morgantown a
needed knocking. They had nails
with their hammers and the result
of their knocking was a betterment
of the walk which has been in bad
condition for some time and abso-
lutely dangerous. The boards were
badly knocked before the bunch
got after them but when they had
completed the job it was done right
THERE was a man going up street
the other day. He fell in company
with another man. When they met
he asked. "Have you been down to