West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-12-14
ONE PER CENT Truthful.

its dead beat list.
The above item at the top of the
editorial column in last weeks Jour
nal is pretty rough on Lot Spurgin
and A. J. Hardy of Terra Alta, Ed
Allen and Grant Bower, who used
to live in Kingwood and now reside
at Cumberland and Uniontown re-
spectively. Also b. +. Miller, J..
w. Calhoun, Sherd c. Shaw, John
Shrout, c. a. Hoffman, Rev. ]. b.
Fizer, Rev. B. ]. Taylor, William
X. Hennessy and other distinguish
ed and cxtinguished citizens, who
have resided in Kingwood in the
past and who are still in the land of
the living so far as we know. II
the Journal has information of their
decease and will publish their obit-
uaries and send us the bill at full
advertising rates, we will promptly
send check for it. The Journal can
make nice thing of this il it tells
the truth and it might also include
the following names of Terra Alta
residents at one time or another
G. w. Stewart, Robt. Collins,-Ha-
zen & Co., SAINT Stewart etc. Then
there is ]. w. Johnson OF Pittsburg,
major Fields Pap-in-law No. ~
and Will II. Chambers of Dowie-
vile, formerly of Aurora this coun-
ty, 5. B.. Montgomery and c. B.
Hall of Newburg, Henry Sapp, of
independence, ]. w. Low, of Nor
gantown, ]. c. Clark of Paint Creek.
and others to the extent of the
Journals obituary columns. We
can give another list whenever the
Journal gets these fellows all buried
with Appropriate ceremonies and some
touching tributes published to the
memory to these late lamented (by
us to the. extent of about Szoo.
And dear Bro. Journal please don't
forget Beth HIleman. He swore
by note, air, fire and water and
every way that long practice enables
a man to do, when we published
him in our dead-beat list and it will
be worth hearing when Beth finds
out that the Journal has accused
him with being dead man. That
obituary will be worth double rates.
so far as we know we did pub
llsh one man in our list who was
dead at the time, but we did not
know it till afterward as he had left
this county and his whereabouts
were unknown to us. Another man
we published has since died, so we
we are informed and we hope it was
not our write up that got away
with him as we had no intention of
soaring him clear off the earth. At
least not ill after we had gotten
settlement out of him. BY the way
we have another chapter of our
dead Beat List" waiting its turn
for publication and it will appear
Just as soon as we can find room for
1t. We are crowded now with holt
day advertising and may not have
room for it till after HOLIDAYS. In
the meantime we are making an eff
fort to collect up and close up all
old accounts by the end OF the year
and those who know themselves de-
linquent had better get a hustle on
themselves or may have to in
clude some of them in our list and.
then the Journal will want to publish
their obituaries. But Joking
aside, the main object of this arti-
Gle shows that we have published
about one dead man to hundred
live ones and that the Journal is
therefore proven out of Its own
mouth to be right and truthful on
an average of one per cent out of
the hundred. In other words it
tells the truth once out Of each
hundred statements.