West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1907-01-10

1880 - ~NN'S@hAoNns was
here Yesterday ON business.
Col. Thomas J. Picking. of Terra
Alta, was here this week.
Hon. Henry Hanst was in Phila-
delphia last week on railroad bust
ness.
Hon. II. Amos Hartley, OF Ma
sontown, a in town this week on
business.
Hon. lohn J. Cornwall, of Rom.
ney, was here this week on legal
business.
The law firm of Conley & Hughes
put a fine large safe into their office
this week.
Miss Daisy Mechanics has been
visiting friends at Grafton the past
week or two.
John Pierce, one of the promi.
nent citizens of Rowlesburg, was in
town this week.
5. L. Gibson, OF Hudson, was in
Kingwood yesterday and gave The
ARGUS a business call.
Arlington b. McCrum left Mon
day for Charleston to take his seat
IN the house of delegates.
Col. Tom Hassan, of Cumber-
land, has been here this week, look
ing as much as ever like a western
congressman.
DR.. Rea, a veterinary surgeon of
Meyersdale, Pa, has been here this
week treating some horses for sew
eral of our people.
Charley Craig, the well. known
a%uctioneer, is spending the winter
with friends and relatives over in
Fayette county. Pa.
A number of our citizens are 60
ing to Morgantown this evening on
the special excursion arranged for
the big minstrel show.
Postmaster J. J. Kelley and wife,
of Ear, received an Xmas present in
the shape of a fine baby girl baby,
born December a3, 1906.
Senator Montgomery left Satur.
day for Charleston to get in on the
ground floor of the fight over the
organization of the legislature.
Mrs. Lena Burchinal and daugh-
ter Irene returned Monday from a
two weeks visit to Uniontown and
other points in the Keystone State.
Hon. Allen Forman, from Am.
boy, was here this week and gave
us a pleasant call yesterday. He is
doing a big business in the lumber
trade.
Joseph II. McDermott, of Mon
ongalia county, was Dominted for
president of the senate by the Re-
publican caucus at Charleston Tues
day night.
Phil Sheridan Knots, of Fellows
Vile, was in to see us this week. He
retired January I from the county
court after making a good record
during his term.
Floyd Warick and son, from near
Brett, were in town yesterday on
business and gave us a paying call.
Floyd is an enterprising and intelii
gent colored citizen who swears by
THE ARGUS aud has been taking it
for years.
But one marriage license vas is
sued this year at the Office of the
county clerk, George r. Armstrong,
aged 80, and Annie Deusenberry,
aged al. The new year seems to be
starting of slowly in the matrImo.
NAL market.
jimmy Carroll, the bugler of
Company C of this place, now en-
ployed in the Buckeye State, is just
now wrestling with the measles. A
gallant guardsman like Jim should
have such %infantile complaints on
the retired list years ag o.
The town election passed off very
quietly last Thursday. Hon. w. G..
Conley was elected mayor; Charles
NJ. Jackson, recorder. The coun.
cilmen elected we're Frank Rode
HEAVIER, Benjamin F. Cole, L. M.
Albright, Frank M. Murdoch, and
/. Parsons Martin. This is a good
ticket and we have great hopes for
the town the coming year. The new
officials enter upon their duties on
February T..
An Evening at Cards.