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

Col. Ben Lemon, OF MaSontown,
was here Tuesday on business and
gave US a call.
January 10 will be the centennial
anniversary Of the birth Of General
Robert f. Lee.
Mr.. and Mrs John Bovermaster
left last Saturday for Union,own to
visit their daughter.
Mrs. Cha'les r. Metzlsr, of New.
burg, was here this week visiting
friends and relatives.
L. f. Smith and Thurman w.
Gibson Of Terra Alta we're here on
business las, Thursday.
J. T. Horoer, of Morgantown,
was here this week looking up the
life insurance business.
Some sure things are surer than
Others; an 0 in the Terra
Alta Bank is one Of them.
Correspondents will please send
the news in early. Several letters
we're omitted last week. Arrived ON
Thursday after we had gone to press.
a card received from Jesse James
Jackson informs US tha, he is now
in the state of Sonora, Mexico, but
his postofice address is Laredo,
Tex.
Scott n. Swisher, the manager Of
the Swisher Theater al Morgantown,
was here Tuesday advertising AL G..
Fields big minstrel show over there
tonight.
Miss lisa Monroe returned Satur-
day evening from B~ellaire, Ohio,
where she left the steamboat, after
having travelled by water from Nor
gantown.
The FIRST flight in the stairway to
succes has one hundred steps, each
one being a saved dollar. Save
them and deposit them in the Terra
Alta Bank, Terra Alta, w. Va.
Jefferson Jackson Kelley,the post
master, merchant, coal dealer, and
all around hustler from Ear, has
been here this week making alb
stracts at the county clerks office.
William G. White, from over on
Stemple Ridge, was here this week
and visited The ARGUS. He informs
us that the postofice at Sell has been
discontinued and all mail now goes
to White.
Rowlesburg, our river city, at its
municipal election, voted to bond
the town for $I2, 900 to install an
electric light plant and will follow
up by next Introducing a water
works system.
Don't have the nerve % send
items to this office announcing do
ings gotten up for personal profit
unless you want to pay for them.
sell our space and papers for a
If advertising is worth do
ing it is worth paying for.
Good roads will lead to the gen.
eral improvement of the country
side. The farmer who drives to and
from town over a spacious, smooth,
w~ell-cared for road will uncon-
.sciously come to effect correspond
ing improvements in the manage
ment and operation of the farm.
a housekeeper's corner in an ex-
change states that newspapers are
valuable for polishing windows.
This, then, is the end for which the
midnight oil was burned and the
many hours Of intense brain work.
We have heard, however, of women
who claimed that newspapers are
good chest protectors.
At the municipal election at Reeds
vile last Thursday the following
ticket was elected u serve for the
year beginning February /: Mayor,
Virgil McMIlen; recorder, Charles
NJ. Wheeler; council, Oliver A. Dill,
Orval Watson, William G.. Cobun,
John H.. Gross, and Edward Tusing,
one Democrat and six Republicans.
Rev. DR.. Whipple, long bishop Of
Minnesota, was about to hold reli-
gious services near an Indian village
in one Of the western states and be
fore going to the place Of meeting
asked the chief, who was his host,
whether it was safe for him to leave
his effects unguarded in the lodge.
"Plenty safe" grunted the red man.
ono white man in a hundred miles
from here"
County court convened Monday
at I o'clock with half old members
and half new. Emanuel Dixon, Of