West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-01-25
COAL CENTER CHATS.
Tidbits or rattie and Town Talk To-
gether With Tales Tersely Told.

town on business this week.
b. & o. Agent H. H. Steg spent saturday
and Sunday In Cumberland.
Uncle Johnny Lloyd spent last wednes.
day with friends at Rowlesburg.
Mrs, Alice Fslkenstem is visiting her
sisier-in-law. Mrs. l. n Hartman,
Major U, n. orr attended the Bank dr
rectors' meeting here last Tuesday
w. +. Myers was a, RowlesburS from
Saturday until Thursday OF last week
Cashier Smith of the NewourE Bank is a
frequent visitor 10 the coal Center lately.
Last Sunday was a regular summer day
'hermometer ranging from % to SIS in the
shade.
Mrs. Ellen Riley Is said to be dying with
cancer OF the stomach at her home in At
lantic
Word reaches us that Mrs William E.
Spsugler Of Austen, is lying at the point OF
death
LAWYER Parraek was at Kingwood again
on Monday ticking dispositions in the Hart.
ley case.
Weidenhamer's big department store re
ceived a carload OF Oliver chilled plows on
Monday
Mrs. George w Hartman and daughter
Leslie, are visiting Arnold w. Hartman on
the farm.
Misses Myrtle aud Rhea Shumaker are
suffering from sore throat but It is not
diphtheris.
Miss Emma McKone Of Piedmont. is the
guest OF her brother, Cashier McKone, of
the runnelton Bank.
Noble Montgomery aud Miss Carrie Orr
drove over to KIngwood on Sunday, re.
turning in the evening
The second quarterly meeting OF Tunnel.
ton circuit will be held at Concord church
on the 3rd and 4th OF March.
w Scott Garner has returned from King
wood and may once more be found at the
job printery on Bonadeld street.
Harry A. Hanst. son OF General Superin.
tendent Henry Hanst Of the w. Va. North.
ern railroad was here last Friday.
Eugene Sommerville suffered defeat In
the Justices court here last Thursday.
when he appeared for Dr. Hartley.
Miss Charity Davis OF Rowlesburg. came
up on Saturday to see her brother who was
injured in the mines here last week.
Col w. Wolfe, agent Of the West Va.
Northern at Kingwood, was here on Thurs.
day looking after matters OF business.
Thomas Cooke now Of Piedmont but for.
merly citizen Of the Coal Center. spent
Sunday last with his mother at Howesville.
Miss Grace Martin OF Richie county is
here visiting her uncle. Manager /. V. Mar.
tin OF Weidenhamer's big department store
We understand thata series of revival
services will be commenced in the NJ. T..
Church here on the 6rst Sunday In Feb.
ruaTy.
Mr. and Mrs. 5. II. Hanway OF Evans
vile. spent Sunday with their daughter,
Mrs A. w Hartman-out seeing their new
grandson.
Il. +. Slime has been confined to his home
with sore throat for a week The disease
seems to be epidemic, but its type Is not
we'll defined
Wash-houses have been used for multitu
dinous purposes, but some people in Tun.
Melton May be able TO suggest new uses un.
Known 10 the pubic.
We are told that w. @. LavelIe has in
vented patent, collapsibe Seven.inch
stovepipe joint that is marvel In mecban.
ism Ask him aboutlt
on Friday last Vincent Cooke accompa.
med Henry Wesling TO the Miners hospital
at Fairmont. Mrs. J. !. Cooke came up as
far as Function with them.
!, s. Miller returned from Fairmont on
Sunday. where he had been visiting his
daughter Myrtle, who has been in the City
hospital there for three weeks
Mrs. Susan Montgomery recently returned
from Arden. Barbour county. where she
had been visiting her mother, Mrs. pig
man. who is now 81 years Of age
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hanway and daugh
ter Margaret, OF Grafton. spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. ID. f.. Wat
son at their pleasant home here
Mrs. Basha Williams gave a party at her
residence near Camp Chapel on Saturday
evening to commemorate the seventeenth
birthday Of her daughter. Miss Maggie.
Mrs. Elizabeth Liston and Mrs George
Poland left on train No 4 Wednesday night
Tor Baltimore where they will enter Iohns
Hospital. They were accompanied by Mr..
Poland.
Morgan Orr and junior LayeIle spent
Sunday with Senator and Mrs Montgomery
on Quality Hill We suppose Morg got
lonesome while Mrs. orr was away visiting
her sister at Weston.
The siren pen Of Pringle Runs poet.
Rufus Rodeheayer, will write no more Wait
Whitman poetry Neuralgia OF the BRAN.
we are informed. has destroyed the wheels
that run his rhymIng machine.
Reuben Phillips entered the City hospital
al Fsrmont on Wednesday last. where he
will take treatment from Or. !. A. Graham
for necrosis Of the superior maxillary. DR..
West accompanied him to Falrmont.
Ben SINNERS camp and TitcheneIrs
camp from Rowlesburg are now located in
Function for the purpose Of laying new
and heavier steel through Kingwood tun.
mel II will probably require two or three
weeks to accomplish the work
Borgmans interlocking camp Is here and
| will likely make Tuunelton their home for
the rext few months. They will overhaul
strsighten and take the kinks out Of the In.
terlocking switches al both ends OF the big
tunnel beginning at the east end.
Rev. Shackeliord has been sick during
the last week, and had to abandon his pro.
tracied meeting AZ Snydcrs lie is some
better Al present. and was able TO 6u bis
appointment AZ No. last Sunday and to
preach In Function Sunday night.
Col W ] Lavele's family are now snug
| ly settled ~ their new home on Boswell
street. after weary wait Tor its compile.
ton and when the Colonel next comes no