West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-02-08
coal CENTER CHATS.
Tidbits OF Tattle and Town Talk To-
gether With Tales Tersely Told.

Mics. James X. Sheets was visiting rela
tives in Grafton last week.
Arthur Halbritter and Ward Montgomery
spent last Thursday In Grafton.
Mrs, w. NJ. Robinson is an at her home
here suffering IRON hemorrhage OF the
lungs.
j. ). Miller is arranging to build four.
room addition to his house on Bonaheld
street.
The saw mill belonging to William Cool
In Reno district was destroyed by FIRE one
daY last week.
Mrs. +, +. slime left for Baltimore ON Fri.
day to consult physician in regard TO her
delicate health.
The infant child OF Mrs. A. Is. Wolf.
which has been suffering from pneumonia.
is reported much better.
| A daughter was born 20 MIR. and Mrs
Alva Taylor on Sunday February 4. Or.
smith was In attendance.
Bud Blaney has practically completed
his work on the Lavelle mansion. aud re-.
turned to Grafton on Monday.
Coon Huffman and Clark Plum have gone
to work IN the Atlantic mines, while Chas
B aud Frank Riley have quit.
The revival services now In progress al
the NJ. +. Church here will continue all this
week aud probably all next week
| Harvey Gnagy OF near Oakland. Md, was
among the lost on the III fated steamer Va.
leneia near Seattle, Washington.
A train off the track near the electric
| coaling station in East Tunnelton tied M
things Tor short time last Sunday evening.
We learn that c. l.. Reed OF Kingwood
has Just purchased &. :. Pitzer's barber
shop at Fairmont aud will move to that city.
On next Sunday morning at 10 20 the
pastor Rev. {. X. Shackeliord, will preach
| especial sermon TO the children In the NJ.
Is. Church here.
Charles X Weaver has recently been
ceiling and papering his grocery store. and
adding new shelves, which greatly i'm.
proves its appearance.
The civil war veterans have just inaueu.
rated movement to erect handsome
monument TO the memory OF their comrades
on the court house grounds at Fairmont.
Engine s OF the w. V. N. railroad Is now
in'the shops OF the Grafton Foundry & Ma.
chine Co. at Grafton to be rebuilt. Its
| expected to be again at work within a
month.
DR.. l. { White OF Morgantown. who has
spent the winter inspecting the coal fields
OF Brazil. will return TO this country some
In February. lie is expected at Morgan.
town on the a3rd.
Err Teets received carload OF phos'
phate from Baltimore on Tuesday OF this
week. Senator Montgomery and Promoter
Gale must look to their laurels In this mat.
ter or the Cheat Hill farmer will drop them
out OF sight
The Hamilton Coal Co. of Ncwburg, has
sold It's large holdings OF coal lands near
that town to Pennsylvania capitalists, who
propose to push It's development with In.
creased energy. The price paid we under.
stand, was sI1s.ooo.
The American Mutual Reformers held
their regular weekly meeting here on Wed.
nesday evening. They now have twenty.
hve members. with a number OF others
awaiting admission we understand they
VIII organize lodge No. at Kingwood In
the near future.
On Tuesday morning about six O'Clock a
stay bolt blew out OF boiler No mt the
power house oil the Merchants Coal Co.,
and The escaping steam badly scalded Chas
smith, the fireman then on duty. II is said
that II the Au6 doors had blown open he
would have been instantly killed.
We are informed that a man out on Three
Fork has purchased a COW. three calves
and three hogs with money secured from
benevolent people on the plea that he had
his property destroyed by FIRE The tact Is
he had nothing destroyed by FIRE. and has
boosted that he intended to stock his farm
by means OF money secured by begging
Col w. ]. Lsvelle was in town from Fri.
day until Monday morning. shaking hands
with old friends ard carefully inspecting
the new house on Boswell street, which
has just been completed. and which he ex.
poets will be his home for the remainder OF
his mundane existence. Sorry we we're out
OF town. and so failed to meet the genial
Colonel.
The financial statement OF the Town of
Tunnelton. just published shows a crafty.
ing condition OF It's finances. The council
in Ioos reduced the rate OF taxation from
30 cents TO so cents on the hundred dollars.
paid up all indebtedness and turned over
TO the new counc II t477 90 In cash. besides
other resources aud properly amounting In
all TO tr,Ioo 81.
The Tunnelion Summer Normal School
will open Monday. May "a 1900. and con.
tinue for ten weeks Prof e.. n. Martin
ard Albert Jones a. IS will be the In.
structors. the former having been Principal
OF the TUnnelton Graded School for a mum.
| Der OF years. and the latter a graduate Of
the State University and now Principal Of
the Newburg schools
Senator Montgomery went to Washington
last Wednesday. presumably to take part
in some kind OF political confab AZ the
National Capital We understand Charley
Teter. Ira Robinson. Governor Dawson and
other shining lights In the political 6rma.
ment we're there II does beat the bugs
the big bugs and the little bugs-how Il has
become necessary in recent years 20 90 to
Washington TO transact business that con.
Germs West Virginia.
A sad accident occurred 10 the railroad
yards here on Monday evening which re.
rultsd In the instant death Of John Melon.
aid coal miner from Elk Garden, who
was on his way TO Weston to see a son who
is In the Asylum there. lie had been N
town all afternoon. got drunk aud was hlt
and killed by the evening accommodation
the tram upon which he intended 10 resume
his journey. Undertaken Hartman pre-.
pared the remains for burial and shipped
them on Wednesday 10 his family IN FIX
Garden. lie leaves a wife and thee child.
ren.