West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-05-21
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Miss Agnes Herndon is visiting her
sister Mrs. ]. w. Chesire at Piedmont
this week.
John III. Brown, Jr., Of Rowlesbure
was business visitor here one day las,
week.
Deputy Mine Inspector Vaughn was
here Monday and Tuesday inspecting the
local mine.
John c. higgins, superinte ndent of the
Watson mine OF the Consolidated Coal
Company, came down from Clarksbury
Sunday and was the guest Of his uncle
Thomas ID. Hart for the day.
j. William Hunt. of Cumberland. was
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
$. Hunt, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Willis Fortney, of Kiugwood, was
here Monday the guest of friends
DR.. +. f.. Watson, wife and daughter.
OF Albright, came in Saturday evening
In the Doctors Metz and remained until
Monday the guests of w. A. Watson
and wife.
l.. Il. Hartman, wife and son Ralph
and j. L. Jameson and wife drove over
to Terra Alta Sunday in MIR. Hartman's
Buick and spent the day with friends.
John Fisher, of Baltimore, came in
Saturday evening and returned Monday
evening accompanied by ms wife who
has been here for the past week the guest
OF her sister Mn Lou +. Hart.
ID. T.. Watson was out in Harrison
county Monday and Tuesday OF this week
looking after his oil interests in that
section.
The numerous friends OF Il. b. Shaver
will be sorry To learn that he is confined
to his room by severe attack OF rheuma-
tism. Ii was at first thought that Mr.
Shaver was suffering stroke Of PARALYSIS
as one whole eide of his body was ap-
parently affected. 1t is to be hoped that
he will soon recover his former vigorous
strength.
Harry Hart was at Albright the latter
part of the past week assisting i'm the
Coflman-Fisber store at that place.
There was quite an enthusiastic Good
Roads meeting held here Tuesday evening
in the lot adjoining the Watkins Brothers
store. 1t was an open air meeting and
quite few local speakers enlivened the
occasion with pertinent remarks. The
{ ,Oal IAntnr Qtan1a for ~ IL.
and has gone on record for the same.
&. G. Showalter and wife, OF Parkers-
burg, were the week end guests of Thos.
Hart and family.
Guy Bonafield, Robert Hart and l.. b.
Hartman went to Grafton Tuesday morn
ing and drove back that afternoon i'm Mr.
Bon afield's new Buick 81. This is one
of the best adapted cars, on the market,
for this country and is beauty TO be-
hold in finish
I. Z. Weaver, the enterprislng mer-
chant of lrona. was business visitor
here Tuesday.
w. O Flesher, manager of the CoH-
man Fisher store at TOWNSVILLE, was here
on business one day lasC week.
The remains o. Simon Hartman, who
was killed in the Keyser yard Sunday
evening, were brought here Yesterday
morning on the accommodation. Funeral
services were held at the NJ. T.. Church
after which the sorrowing friends and
relatives followed TIE remains TO the
Rhodes cemetery where all that was NOR
tai OF the decedent were consigned TO our
common mother earth. The sympathy
OF the entire community is extended to
the bereaved widow and children.
Thomas Birbeck, superintendent of the
Albright Smokeless Coal Co., spent the
week end with his family at Wadsworth,
Ohio.
Miss Louise Hagans left Yesterday
morning for Alaska. this state, where she
will spend the summer with her sister
Mrs. Percival Lantz. Miss Hagans has
taught a most successful class i'm instru-
mental music here during the past winter
and she carries with her the best of good
wishes of her many friends
John McKone, John Fisher and wife.
John higgins and Thomas Hart composed
an automobile party that went 10 the
county seat Sunday evening
Attorney /. r.. Msttingly was in King
wood Monday where he represented the
plaintiff in case before Justice John
Werlich.
Attorney j. V. Gibson, OF the county
seat, was here Tuesday on professional
business.
The citizens OF this community were
startled beyond expression Saturday
morning when it became known that
most distressing accident had occurred
and that q human life had been snuffcd
out in the twinkliDg OF an eye. IL has
been the custom OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad 10 place the empty coal cars
onthe track OF the West Virginia Northern
in the early morning in order that the
Northern crew could place the cars along
it's line for the various coal companies for
the days use. This work has been done
by the Newburg train crew ever since the
new improvements have been placed in
operation by the b. q BY the improve
Northern was wiped out and the repre-
ments portion Of the old road bel Of the
sentatives Of that company would never
permit their train 90 come on the newly
constructed track IL has always been
claimed that there was some legal techni-
cal question involved and for this differ.
ence between two public service cor
porations the travelling public was greatly
Inconvenience and q human life ,xas