The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-30

houses. have been erected, only to
find the owners overwhelmed with
applicants long before they were
completed. Here and there two or
more families have been compelled
to double up in quarters scarcely
sufficient for one, and thus we have
shifted and suffered and lived ever
since the first oil excitement struck
the community.
There is no end OF fine building
territory which this traction service
brings within easy reach OF. the city.
1t will help more people to get the
benefit OF our excellent schools, and
1t will supply the incentive for even
more improvement in these. With
recent increase of population in and
around Weston the schools have
grown wonderfully ut was a sur
prise to the writer to be told on in
qulry that we now have about thirty
six or thirty-seven young men and
women teaching in our central and
suburban schools. The enrolment
has gone beyond the twelve hundred
mark, and still it grows.
Taking on New Life.
This is only one of the institutions
of which the city is justly proud,
and It sens now to be taking on new
life. At the beginning of the school
year the board of education placed
in charge new superintendent in
the person of Prof. IF. r.. Yoke, a
native son of this counss, a state
university product and a young
school man of ability and great
promise. He has under him a strong
corps of teachers, and the outioo-..
was never better for the building up
on one of the strongest schools OF
its kind in the state.
Weston is well supplied with
churches. There is the Protestant
Episcopal church, in which the an
nual conyocation of the members OF
that body in the northwestern part of
the state was in session only last
week. The Roman Catholic, Meth
cdists, protestant and EpiscopaD
Presbyterian, baptist, United
Brethren and African Methodist
Episcopal are all here, and some oil
these have strong congregations
The city is famed for the popularity
of its patrons, some of whom have
been here many years in charge oil
their respective pastorates.
This traction system has by com.
ing to Weston invaded one of the
most promising fields in the state
Lewis is in Importance about fourth
in the state as an agricultural and
d grazing county 1t is one Of the very
] richest counties yet developed in gas
g production. 1t is yet to be develop
d ed in coal, but large areas OF it have
7 been sold and very soon mines are to
9 be opened and operated. 1t is ex-
e pected that this will demonstrate a
d wealth. of coalt excelled in few coun-
e ties of the state.
Famous Fruit Farms.
Already the fruit farms of Lewis
county are famous. Awards have
been captured for Lewis county pro.
n ducers in every recent large compel
: tive exhibit of apples. a growing
4 number of our farmers are turning
r their attention to fruit growing, and
! even in this year, when many other
communities have announced a fruit
famine. Lewis county lis to the front
: with number of orchardists who
have fine crops of apples which are
now being gathered for the morkets.
There are other promising indus
tries.
. When this traction crosses the
line from Harrison county into Lewis
county it invades community
: wherein it offers service to fully
! twenty thousand Lewis county. peo-
pie. These, of course, are not all
Immediately along the line nor in