West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-06-23

The Jenkins House IS undergoing some
extensive repairs and improvements.
The July magazines are now coming in
aud on sale a, The Argus Book Store.
Hon Rufus Holden was at Morgao,own
las, week. hooking after the interest OF a lot
of clients in thc a. c. Oliver Lumber
Company failure
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. p. Martin rerutned
yesterday from month spent in Philadel-
phia where Mrs. Martin was taking medical
treatment from specialist
Car "whne Satin -four Just in. We
can save you money. The Shaiter &
Brown Company.
Mrs. John Shaw and her sister aud
husband Nc. aud Mrs Martin from Oil.
plants Furnace, Pa, have been visiting
RebertSha~'s near Kingwood.
We arc the Hour people, and ~hy ? Be
cause We keep the hes, aud make the price
rHE SHAFsER y Brown Co.
The venerable William Gamble aud wife
from Monongalia county, have been visiting
ost a, Uncle Rober, Shaw's near town.
Mr.. Gamble is a brother to Mrs. Shaw.
Isaac Schwarts Is away this week visiting
his brother Harry. down at Emporla. Va.
and Gus !. Cresap Is in charge ofthe store.
The summer accommodation trains were
pu, on the y. q o. June 10th. No. o. from
Grafton to Cumberland. due at Function
daily except sunday. at u 50 a. m. and No.
returning from Cumberland to Grafton
and due at Tunnel,ou at S;os p. m.
Attorney Carleton c. Pierce was at
keyser this week, representing several
creditors here Of o. J. Dean, the contractor
aud builder who operated IN this county so
extensively last year at Rowlesburg, Tunnel
ton aud Kingwood Mr.. Dean has been
forced into bankruptcy aud several parties
here will likely lose some money on him.
Wanted--Ai once 20 carloads Of No. 4
Oak, all in small stock. Address
w. G. HAIL.
81 Grafton, w. Va.
J. NJ. Stanley, Secretary Section No 200
of the Endowment Rank a, Piedmont.
recently paid Mrs. Bowden. 1900 insur-
anee, carried by her husband. William II.
Bowden, b. & o. Engineer who was
killed in the wreck near Rowlesburg, and
the Secretary at Keyser paid $4,000 10 the
widow Of C A Woodward, alsa member
of the X. Of p.
the great military band. known as
La Bande de la Garde Republicaine OF
Paris and regarded as the finest baud In
France. is coming to America to play at the
Worlds Fair. II will play in concerts
along the route from New York to St.Louis.
The Worlds Fair will be represented by
many OF the greatest bands OF the Worlds
greatest nations and visitors will have such
a variety Of music as was never heard In
any city before
Speaking Of what the negro may do by
industry intelligently applied. Booker
Washington tells a story OF the potato
king OF America Iunius G. Groves, a
negro. who has farms In the best section OF
Kansas, and whose credit is good for $foo.
600 at the banks any day. This man and
mis- wife began together without a dollar.
Last year Groves produced r7aooo bushels
OF pota,oes--morc than any other man is
known 10 raise on his own land
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Victoria, here last Saturday to attend the
trial Of two of their number Charles Peters
and Clark Bohon.. who had been arrested
and sent to Jail here by the Coal Company
for assauIting Delmar Brown and Ora Doc
little. The latter are not union miners and
were assaulted by the Others, who are out on
a strike. Peters aud Bohon were fined $40
each and costs which will be heavy from the
number Of the witnesses
A representative Of the Bell Long Dis.
lance Telephone Company. has been at
Tuuneilon the past week working MP a
branch office there. They have already
secured enough subscribers at Newburg 10
establish branch Office there and will
proceed to put in line at once. They will
likely be after other towns in the county
also, and are expected here. An agent was
here several years ago trying TO work !. up,
but did not receive much encouragement
Benjamin Z wo,ring who formerly re.
sided on Horse Shoe Run this county. but
moved from there to Bayard and engaged
in bplchedng for several years. died a, bis
home in Hendricks, where he had moved
from Bayard, recently lie was one Of the
squad Of Confederaies who slipped into
Cumberland one night in February 1865
and captured Gen. George Crook and Cen.
F.-B. Kelley Of the U mon Army, who were
quariered there surrounded by ;, 900 Federal
troops.