West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-07-29
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Interesting Letters from a Host Of
Argus Writers.
SOMETHING DOING IN The COUNTRY
Bright Bits OF News and Cossip Abou,
You and Your koishbor-
Events OF a Week.
M anheim.
Special Correspondence Of Tho Argus.

Special Correspondence Of The Argus.
A car OF fine horses arrived here last
week 10 work about the mill.
Dan Truesdell, night Waterman. is the
boss snake killer in Mannheim.
Superintendent A. ID. Chidsey spent
sunday IN Terra Alta with his family.
Ed Flynn is very handsome young
bachelor and very popular with the ladies.
Clinton Cope returned Friday from Eas-
ton, Pa accompanied by his wife and
President Gerstell, of the Alpha Port
land Cement Co., visited the works sat
urday
j. +. Rhen, yard foreman, returned
Monday from visit 10 Easton. Pa. TO
see his sweetheart
a. L. Sinclair, general superintendent
oil the Alpha Portland Cement Co. spent
sunday IN Mannheim hard mt work.
His honor, Masholder, proprietor of the
Mannheim hotel, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, paid Fairmont visit sun
day and Monday
Kingwood is well represented in Man.
helm. Many of her industrious citizens
have found employment here and many
dollars go from here to Kingwood.
j. j. Bannon, Manheim's largest and
handsomest bachelor, accompanied Inv r.
w. Taylor, boss carpenter land by the
way fine fellow, visited Camp Dawson
Sunday.
w. ii. McKelvey returned last week
rom VISIT to Easton, Pa, and New
York, bringing with him fine Russian
Vol hound, the only one we suppose in
the county.
Mrs. Walter johnson has been quite i'll
the past week. DIR. NJ. III. Proudfoot. of
howlesburg, has been attending her. Mas
yer wine Johnson don't leave the hotel
lar when his mother is sick.
We expect before long to incorporate
the town and annex Rowlesburg 10 the
upper end, and il Kingwood don't hurry
anu get new courthouse we will move
the county seat to Mannheim.
Lewis johnson, stenographer and as
sistant tlmekeeper, is the most popular
man In Mannheim with the ladies. lie is
so handsome and nice they want 10 hug
MN whenever they meet him.
Mannheim is the only town in Preston
county that is doing any business. All
the rest have gone Democratic and are ex-
periencing regular Bryan times. as Won
know we could not have such times under
Republican protection.
We have fine train service by the NJ &
| h. RAILROAD, five passenger trains daily
each way. The NJ. Il X. will soon begin
the erection of fine station. Mannheim
Is furnishing the NJ. Il X. more tonnage
| III freight and more passengers than any
| town along the line except some of the
coal towns
1
Preston county has given us the best
road supervisor i'm the county. He don't
bother anybody about working their two
| days and never spends cent of the conn
| TVS money on the road from here 10
| howlesburg. The goats that travel from
| mere 10 kowlesburg walk up the railroad
Tor lear they will fall into some of the ruts
vi break thelr necks over some of the
rocks,
What has become of b. 4 O. Layelleq
The poor old Family Journal has not had
much to say about him lately. By the
way, did you notice how it whined last
| week because 1t lost the printing of the
hhanclai statement? Very poor grace after
having had 1t for steady company ever
| since the financial statement was old
enough 10 have beau. What does il
want, the earth or the Republican partv9
1t has not either nor never will.
We need a schoolhousc here and if we
obey the school law well be bound 10
have one. Please bear same i'm mind
honorable board of education of Portland
district. The county official may take nil
the money we pay in taxes to build roads
in other parts of the district and leave ms
without road, but ii the board OF cdu-
cation don't give us a schoolhouse they
Will hear from us. Mannheim will have n
voting population by next election that
will make the oflice-seekers sit np and
take notice.
The cement plant is about completed
and ready 10 make cement. When fin.
ished it will be one Of the best eouippcd
plants in the United States. Two Immense
turbine engines with direct connected
dynamos will furnish the power. All ma.
chinery will be run by electricity. Two
mammoth stock houses will be built. one
for sack cement and the other for barrel
cement. The officials Of the company de-
serve great credit for their enterprise
They are having all the houses repaired
and painted and some new houses built
The grounds are kept moved and clean