West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-22
COAL CENTER CHATS.
Tidbits OF rattle aud Town Talk To-
gether With Tales TerSely Told.

U, :. Sspp unloaded another car OF bailed
hay on Thursday.
A sweet smile Injuries no one. but sour
mash NAV do harm.
James Cool OF Anderson. has sold out to
NJ. c. Gibson. we are told,
We are sorry TO hear that William A.
Watson is Still a very sick man.
Mrs. Bert Biekford. who has had an at.
tack OF pneumonia, is reported better
Rumor has II that Lumber Joe Miller is
about to embark in the millinery business
Fish can not live out OF water, but that
does not mean that the land sharks are all
dead.
The roads were so bad that many OF us
could not get to the good foads convention
last Saturday
We understand our jolly friend. Henry
Clay Riley. will so to firing on the II. & O.
railroad in short time.
The school at No. near here will have
special literary exercises Thursday night
OF this week and close on Friday.
FOLLY Stafford has just purchased = new
buggy and will see what IL rs good Tor as
soon as the roads become solid again
Mrs. A w. Hartman of near the Camp.
ground, spent several days IN town last
week, the guest OF her sister Mrs. ID. T.
Watson.
In travelling ten miles a West Virginia
Northern train moves s9soo feet. while a
good horse can travel ten miles by only
moving four feet.
turner's moving picture show, featuring
lights between the Indians aud cowboys in
the west held the boards at the opera
house Thursday night
Mrs. A. II. Shumaker led the devotional
meeting Sunday evening. a very interest.
ing program was rendered. The singing by
Myrtle and Zeta Shumaker deserves spe.
cial mention
Miss Annie Menafee OF Terra Alta. was
visiting az the home OF Mrs. ID. T.. Watson
on Boswell street last Monday she went
from here to Kingwood to visit her sister,
Mrs, Scott Wilson.
Messrs. c. C. Conn, w. 4. Johnson. w. ].
Myers, Ernest Garner and Andrew Riley
constituted the big FIVE who helped move
the printing press TO ITS new quarters on
Gibson street last week
The fools are not all dead yet. That
medicine show last week took over $3.50
In good clean cash out OF town In exchange
for medicine no better than our druggists
can supply any day In the year.
Give me PAIR OF spiders" said Frank
West as he entered weidenhamers big
department store the other day. "Splders1"
echoed George Beavers, the puzzled clerk.
"Ses, web suspenders, you know" replied
Frank.
The Camp Ground correspondent has
given the right answer to MIR. JeHerys's
question. What is II the God never saw.
George Washington seldom saw. and we
see every day. "Our equals" is the true
and proper reply
daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles b. Riley on Saturday. March 10.
being the tenth child born to this couple.
who have evidently enlisted in the anti.
race'sucide army Captain Riley Is still
mining coal al Atlantic.
The public schools OF Austen closed last
Friday, with literary exercises and a spell.
ing bee and cyphering match in the after.
noon. Robert Garner. the principal, and
Miss Wolf. his assistant. have both given
satisfaction to the patrons. and the term
has been as successful as any ever taught
IN the town
w. S Squires the lumberman Is deliver
ing stuff to repair and rebuild the side.
walks Of Tunnelton ,uhGch In nIaras arc a,
very bad conditions. AS soon as the
weather will permit the town council will
push the work Of laying new walks and re.
pairing old ones
At the good roads convention in Wheel.
ing last week Senator Montgomery was
made vice president OF the State organiza-
tion for the Second Congressional district
lie also attended the convention at Fair.
mont and Kingwood and made speeches at
each point visited
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Taylor. on
Saturday last, daughter. To Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Rhodes, on tuesday OF this
week. son. and few days ago to Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Ashby a daughter No race
suicide around Tunnelion. DR. Smith was
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The Newburg correspondent wants the
Tunnelton correspondent TO explain the
statement OF friend OF his that the cut
worms will all leave garden or farm II
you will catch the first one you see In the
spring and kindly request IL TO leave and
take all its comrades along. We can do so
in eight words It's concentrated lie one
hundred per cent pure.
I'd Cough and NJ. Watkins we're locked
up the other night for riding on trains in
the corporation. and fined next day several
dollars apiece. It is said they were left in
the lookup without wafer to drink or FIRE ia
keep them warm. and there is talk Of their
suing the corporation for inhumanity Ia
prisoners. Our special police should use
good judgment and not oyerdo the thing
Al special session OF the Town Council
held on Tuesday evening 1t was voted tc
grant drug license to DR.. a. @. Stalnaker
for one year. II may be necessary, and
many OF our best citizens think u is neces
sary TO have one licensed druggist In th,
town. but IN town OF this sire there car
be no necessity for more than one. and ",
hope the Council will refuse to consider
any other application that may be made
now or at any future time
| In looking over volume OF school reciia
tons the other day we ran across selcc
ton from the poetry OF our old time friend
a. w. Frederick. a. NJ, now Of California
but az one time superintendent Of publ,
schools In Preston county. This agaii
brings up the question 10 our mind VIII,
doesn't Professor Frederick collect snc
publish his poems In book form He hs
written many quaint rhymes that deserve
permanent home between book covers
His honor Mayor RI Cross was made i,
/ init nndrnd KnlahI nf pulLLaa % Mnrhn