The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-03-23

HoHdrG u. oFlSner mas Deen 90 a
business visit 10 Fairmont.
Mrs. L. NJ. Dering will hold her
spring opening on March % and "a.
the will show full line OF spring and
summer pattern hats.
Mrs. s. N. jackson. Of Fairmont, is
here having been called to Morgan
town by the serious Illness Of Miss
Grace Dering.
Will Gilmore is 10 Pittsburg where
be is engaged in selling some horses
and mules. He will buy some driving
horses before he returns home.
u. NJ. Brown, recent University
law graduate, is candidate for prose-
cutting attorney in Hancock County.
He is located at Chester.
Captain jill. Hatfield is able to
be oct again after being confined to
his room for week or two by
severe attack Of measles.
A letter received from +. h. Ban
mister this morning says the members
of his family are all well and that
Col. Fast is improving. Mr.. Bannis-
ter is at Ocean Park, Calitornia,ne
Los Angeles.
Professor James Stephen Martin
and his singers will receive a warm
welcome when they appear at the
NJ. + church here April Is. Those
who have heard Prof. Martin assure
music lovers that the concert will he
rare treat
Janitor Arnett has already begun
his spring cleaning at the court house.
He has something like thousand gas
and electric light globes to clean, TO
say nothing Of the fixtures, furniture
and carpets. The contract for clean
ing the woodwork was let by the
county court to Moreland Gilmer,
who will also do the painting, varnish-
ing and ealsomining
John H. Starr was recently a Wis
itor to Shinhston.
Mrs. e. NJ. Turner returned Friday
from a visit Of several days to friends
In Clarksburg.
Claud NJ. Hall VINO recently gradu-
ated from the University has opened a
law Office in Weston.
Col. Karl Kunst of Lewis county
who is well known here has entered
the lists as candidate fer the legis-
Iature.
Miss Ella Darby and Mr.. f. l..
Shenaberg, OF Fairchance are guests
of Miss Minnie Conway, on Spruce
street.
Russell A. Hayes has returned from
Chicago, where he has spent the past
three weeks taking an advanced
course Of study in the Northern Ill
inols College Of Ophthalmology and
Otology.
AMONG the friends here to attend
the funeral Of Mrs. Pickenpaugh were
Miss Mary Chadwick, Of Baltimore,
and Miss Ella Mills, of Dedham, Mass.
Mr.. S. V. Woods, of Philippi, was al
so here.
Miss Winifred South will be ona
of the judges at the contest in oratory
at Shepherd college. TLa contest
will be held to select representative
of the institution in the inter-normal
contest which will be held in Hunt
ington on April second.
M, B. Kilt, Of Fostoria, Ohio, is
visitor in the city.
Harry e. Rice, Of Warrington, was
guest at the Hotel Peabody Sunday
U. N. Arnett, of Falrmont is in the
city on business.
VIM. g. Morley, of Kingwood spent
Sunday at the Hotel Peabody.
Mrs. j. NJ. Crane who has been Wis
iting friends in Kngwood has return
ed home.
Daniel W. Woods, of Philippi, has
been here on a short visit to his son
who is student of the University.
Squire Levi Shoemaker was out
of town yesterday on visit to friends
in the country,
G. II. f. Holy, of Plttsburg, former
ly well-known University student,
spent Saturday and Sunday here visit
ing friends.
Earl Cameron of Pittsburg has been
visiting Mrs. Cameron who is spend
ing the winter with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. M. A. Miller of South Nor
gantown.
Luther Douthat has gone to Hunt
ingt0n where he will remain for some
time He has been in Morgantown
for month or so working on an i'm
portant patent.
Hon. Geo. G. Sturgiss has returned
from Parkersburg where he had been
to attend the conference being held
between the members of the tax conf
mission harmony committee.
L. L. Thomas and L. j. Collins, Of
Blacksmith, are in the city today in
connection with the new franchise
which council will have under consid-
eraten at the meeting this evening.
WHILE the B. & o. authorities have
decided they will not change The
bridge at Fairmont, the government
may have another idea about IL, and
what Uncle Sam says, goes In this con-
nection.
Earl Conaway, of this city was mi
tlated into the mysteries of Greekdom
Friday night by the Sigma Phi Epsi-
lon fraternity. This was the first
initiation held by the new chapter.
After the ceremonies, the Greeks en-
joyed banquet at Newman's.
MRS. hate SoFFEL, Louise Lesser
her manager and George Challis, man
ager of the opera house at Connells-
vile havo been found guilty as indict-
ed at Unit ntown. They were prose-
cuted for attempting to hold an i'm
moral exhibition.
THE meeting of the committee of
ten appointed recently to harmonic
the Republicans on the tax problem is
meeting in Washington. No matter
what their decision shall be, some one
will have to eat crow.
The computing scale advertised fol
public sale in front of the court
house Saturday was not sold. There
seemed to be no one in the crowd who
wanted such an instrument, and the
sale was continued until next Satur-
day.
THE Humbert mills at Connells-
vile are shut down and some of the
werkmen are petitioning the man
agement 10 start them at reduction
Of 20 per cent. There is disposition
to do this but the mills cannot be run
at the former wages.
HUNDREDS Of Russians who left the
ConBellsville regions last fall and
summer for trip to the old country
have been seized for military service.
Their families are left without them
in the meantime but tbs not thought
any OF them will suffer. Labor is