West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1907-02-07
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Winter in earnest.
Lent begins Wednesday.
About Il inches of snow.
Tuesday is Lincoln's birthday.
Grafton wants a street railway.
Next Thursday is St. Valentine.
Day.
Oakland's new courthouse will
cost so, 900.
Some ice harvested last week,
and just in time. too.
The new town officials have EN-.
barked on their annual voyage.
Mrs, Neil J.. Fortney and Mrs.
Ben Brady were Morgantown visit
ors Tuesday,
We have heard nothing lately
from the board of trade. Is it still
in e%xistence2
One dollar gets The ARGUS for a
year. Won't you enroll your name
among its subscribers
Ten thousand valentiues-comics,
don'ts, hard hits, fancy, ugly, etc.
at the Argus Book Store, Kingwood.
The dollars put in the bank build
old ages easy chair. Deposit them
in The Terra Alta Bank, Terra Alta,
w Va.
The old reliable Hagerstown AL
manac always on sale at the Argus
Book Store, Kingwood. Price 1oc
to any address. Stamps taken.
seSee Coles new adj in this issue.
If your watch isn't gong the proper
gait, have him attend to the trouble.
Ben is a believer in printers ink.
A Kansas editer says he is willing
to wait until a man sells his hogs to
pay his newspaper subscription, but
he don't like to wait for his century
plant to bloom.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Homer II. Andrews
and baby returned to their home in
Kingwood last Saturday after a
months absence in Charleston and
at their old home in Ohio.
One of the brilliant social func
lions of last week was the military
ball given under the auspices of the
cadet officers club at the armory IN
Morgantown Friday night.
THE ARGUS office has been turn
ing out considerable job work the
past few days, which shows that the
people are awake to the fact that
for neat and attractive work this is
the place.
We wish to inform the good peo-
pie of Tunnelton that A. NJ. Moore.
of that place, is not a correspondent
for THE ARGUS, although we would
be pleased to number him among
our many writers.
Our correspondents certainly did
well last week. Over a dozen To-.
c%alities heard from. Let the good
work go on. There are several
towns yet to be heard from. Send
in the news and sign your name.
The financial statement Of the
town Of Kingwood shows the cor
poration to be in a fair condition as
regards money matters. We would
like 10 see another issue Of bonds
sufficient to install water works.
Mrs. Olive +. Mcknight, wife of
William Henry Mcknight, accom-.
panied by her daughter Catherine,
are guests Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Elliott, al Amboy. Their
home is now in Mauoon, Il. Mr..
Mcknight is in the Nevada gold
fields.
A Connclisyillc editor complains
that the paper money in that section
is so dirty that it is unsanitary.
There is something wrong with the
money here, too. II is not in ones
pocket ten minutes tll il begins to
burn and We must take it out and
pass IL of ON some bod or another
just for sanitary reasons.
Ed. NJ. Hccrmans, son of Francis
Hecrmans, Esd, spent Sunday In
town, the guest of hrs parents. Mrs.
Heermans visited her father, Isaac
Elliott at Amboy The two Jour.
neyed to GAINESVILLE, o., Tuesday,
where Mr.. Heermans becomes city
editor Of The Times Recorder, the
leading morning daily of that city.
He resigned his position Of editor
Of the Stroudsburg (Pa )DdlyTimel
TO accept the more lucrative posi-.
lion u. L.A..en-