West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-04-22
IN AND ABOUT kIMewoop.

Boost kiugwood
Fruit tTccs blooming.
Organize a baseball club.
Terra Alta wants natural gas.
Housecleaning is now in order
Two months until summer is here.
This is cleanup" week in Grafton.
The air is scented with burning rubbish
The gentle showers have given vegcta
ton decided boost
- Miss Maud whetsell, of Whetsell, wa:
shopping in town yesterday.
Miss Martha Pratt returned to colleg,
at Lutherville, Nd, yesterday
A. G. Hughes is in Philippi on legal
business. lie viii return today.
]. W. Watson attended federal court
in Clarksburg several days this week.
The young son OF c. c. Wilhelm, e The
Elkins mines, is down with pneumonia.
The more one travels over the public
roads Of our county the less he thinks oi
them.
Mrs. Mahei Raymond, Of Morgautown,
is visiting Mr. and Mr.. c. w. Wolfe this
week
John w. Stone, OF Minneapolis, Mimi,
is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Sarah f..
Goodwin.
o. O. Gale, Of AlOrign, wa, IN town
OH business Monday and gave this oiiicc
n pleasant visit.
The annual conclave of West Virginia
Knights Templar will bc held at Parkers-
burg May 1920.
T.. Carver, cashier Of the First National
Bank of Rowlesburg. was county seat
visitor last Friday
Earl Edwin Loughey and Florence
Belle Wayne, both OF Rowlesburg, were
married in Oakland last week.
j. S. Brown is in Romney this week
attending a meeting of the board OF ~
gents OF the deaf and blind school.
Edwin Haney, who was dangerously i'll
with pneumonia, is considerably better
and it is believed all danger is past.
William Hardin, of near. Pisgah, who
has been in the county Jail the past month,
was taken TO the Weston asylum Tuesday
afternoon.
w. ii. Brady, OF Berkeley Springs, who
has been The guest of his son, j. Ben
Brady, the past week, will return to his
home tomorrow.
The ShepherdstoWn Register came out
last week in an entire new dress and
presents a handsome appearance typo
graphically aud otherwise.
j. f. Harmed, of near Kingwood, in
yaded our sanctum sanctorum Monday
and had his name entered on The ARGUS
list as new Subscriber
Reports from the peach belt in lamp
shire and Mineral counties seem to indi-
cate that there will still be an abundant
crop unless hurt later on.
Mrs. w. T.. Hawkins returned Friday
from three weeks visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Phillips, at
Halleck, Monongalia county.
Negotiations are still pending for the
purchase by the state of the land near
Caddell for rifle range. We understand
the states offer is rather low
There will be no services in the Presby-
terrain church Sunday Rev. X. NJ. Ram
sey will deliver an address to the odd
Fellows OF Irwin, Pa, on that date.
We extend our congratulations to John
o. Whetsell, our Democratic friend from
the Whetsell settlement, over the arrival
of daughter last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. ]. y. Kochenderier and children
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. J. II.
Werlich. She left Monday Tor Tunnel
ton, where she was the guest of Mrs. j.
s. Cummings, another sister, departing
for her home Tuesday morning
The business men of Kingwood held q
meeting Monday night to arrange for the
entertainment OF the visiting Wheeling
merchants, who are on their annual boost
ing tour and will arrive here this morn
ing over the NJ. q X and remain for an
hour or so.
The man in town thinks all the farmer
has to, do is 10 sit under a shade tree and
watch things grow. A farmer thinks all
the town man has to do is to sit behind
the counter and rake in the money. This
is the reason that every farmer wants 20
move to town and every town man wants
e move onto a farm.
This is the season OF the year when the
progressive merchant will sell his wares
by careful and judicious advertising. Com
petition was never more active than now.
You will get the trade YOU 90 after.
There is no better medium than TmE
'3HGus. Try US and see for yourself. Ad-
vertising rates on application.
Mrs. William G.. Conley, wife Of the
attorney general, has been in the city
several days as the guest Of her brother,
Prof Cyrus Martin, Of the city schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conley are now moving
their household effects from Kingwood,
their old home, TO Charleston, where they
will reside Monday Grafton Sentinel.