West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-02-25

iLNNA ALA.
Correspondence Of The Argus
Clark May has bsea On The sick list for
few days
Our school will celebrate washine,on's
Birthday On Tuesday.
There is quite II, Of csoss.,i ties coming
TO our toxin this season.
Zero Stood - degrees above mercury At
this pace daring the past week.
W. w. Groves. who has been qoaranunsd
fei quite awhile, was in town ON saturday.
Mes>,s. Fosmsn and welch are psepa,ipr
material for an addition to their Touring
mill.
a II. jenkins. brakeman on passenger
sta'ns. stopped oft with his family ON High
street owe, Sunday.
Oar adherenIs to ihe Watch Tower doc.
,rine are prophesying tina, the present war
will res1i, in war with all nations.
Terra Alta will no, enjoy very great
building boom next summer. II is said that
the extension Of the corporation will be all
that Is needed
Messrs- Robert Ieareys aud Jackson
Gamer are preparing to leave White Dale
and build dwellings aud blacksmith shop
at Lake Terra Alta.
Smallpox--well. IL was small in our
town. So small, at least. that after It made
its appearance those who seemed so horribly
afraid, los, all their fright.
The shooting bee resulted in Y of the
beef remaining in Terra Alta aud Y was
taken to GAINESVILLE by ]. IL. Ma,ungly.
iai Jackson came out champion.
Elijah Steward, the hermit from Shaggy,
came to town on Saturday to replenish
provisions and talk politics. lie says that
he aud 81 Summers have monopoly on
ramps and ra,,le-snake grease.
The Presbyteuans Of this place are pre-
pairing to build new church, and with two
new churches aud two repaired almos, as
good as new, our good people ought to be
led by the side Of .'siill waters"
Since it is understood tina, all commodities
are raising and wages are to be lowered in
few weeks, our most sanguine Republicans
are beginning to realize that Bryan's
prophecies Of monopoly were very lenieni.
The Presbyterian Aid Society Of this
place took sled ride. or rather walked after
sleds, TO corinih on Saturday, and on
accoun, Of the snow leaving. they deemed
It prudent to discharge their teamsiers and
return by rail.
There was a free fist fight in the marble
shop at this place, where one fellow got
another down among the tombslones AID
told him that he had better select his
monument because right then and there he
was going TO kill him. We heard later that
the man is still alive aud chiseling on
monument Of some one else.
Messrs. Guy sypolt, Clyde Hartman,
Jesse Miller and Chas. FleegIe took drive
to GAINESVILLE, where the Rev. weigle is
getting wigeie on the people in the form
OF an old fashioned revival. Those lads
say they were not present at the Day Of
Penleeost, but they say IL could not have
been much more enthusiastic than the above
named meeting.
We are no Quaker, yet sometimes the
spirits do move US, and the inner man re-
coils when we realize that the garroie is
kept hot in the Philippine Islands and the
executions are turned into public spectacle,
and The sound of the organ, the Jokes of
the execu'ioner, the hearing of mass were
mingled with the cries Of the relatives Of
thoss who are slain for ofenses Of but h,ie
note. The people abroad in the land seem
to have labored under misconeeption or
else the Bible that used to be sent to foreign
ms ,ions has changed 10 colossal warships
that speak with tones OF thunder If our
missionaries should read to the heather that
Christian nations do not fgh, with the
sword they would perhaps come 10 the con.
cIuson that there was something wrong
either with the Bible or The people. Can
we wonder at Chinsman saying that there
are more depredadons committed in large
city of christendom in Que day than there
is ia ono year in the whole Of China or
that il is useless for Christian nation 10
send Them ministers since they have never
effected a single conversion in Chinatown,
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SALLiE MANDER