From: The Webster Echo; Feb. 10, 1899. Local Notes. The Webster county groundhog did not see his shadow. Claude Bell has been elected sergeant of the town of Summersville. F. P. Stiltner, of Jumbo, one of our cash patrons, was in town Monday. Squire F. M. Weese and Ellis Weese, of Wainville, attended court Monday. Mary Howell, of Jumbo, has been granted a pension, as an original widow, of $8 per month. Henry Watson, of Roanoke, Lewis county, was here a few days this week, the guest of his brother, Brooks Watson. The year 1898 was not a very busy one in Webster county in a matrimonial way. Only 82 permits were issued during the year. The West Virginia Asylum for the Incurables has been dedicated and delivered by its Board of Directors into the care and keeping of the State. H. H. Bruffey, Superintendent of Schools of Webster county, left last Friday evening for Huntington, where he will attend Marshall College. Claude S. Phillips has purchased property at Lane's Bottom, erected a store house and residence and opened a grocery and notion store at that point.-Democrat. F'UR.-The undersigned will pay the highest market price for fur, beef hides and sheep pelts, delivered at his place of business in Addison. A. J. RUTHERFOD. 3-2m. Frank D. Peyton is the latest death recorded in the ranks of West Virginia newspaper men. He was one of the editors of the Hinton Independent Herald, and died at his home at that place last week of consumption. Scalds, Burns, Old Sores, Tumors, Piles, are all relieved at once, and in time effectually cured by the use of that perfect ointment, Beggs' German Salve. Ask your druggist for sample and take no other. For sale by Addison Drug Store. Col. J. A. Fickinger, formerly manager of the Gauley Company, at Camden-on-Gauley, now general manager of the Monongahela River railroad, was married to Miss Mary Stone, of Fairmont, on the 1st inst. Our handsome young friend, Rev. J. H. M. Ervin, of Cowen, was in the village last week, after an absence of a couple of years shaking hands with his old acquaintances and friends. Glenville Pathfinder. It will not be long now until the delinquent tax lists are made up. You have yet ample time to see the sheriff and pay your taxes, and if you don't do so, you have no one to blame but yourself if your name appears on the delinquent list. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature, by Mr. Jarrett, of Greenbrier, to give a notary public the same jurisdiction in criminal cases that a justice has. Under the present law a notary can only make arrests or issue warrants of arrest returnable before a justice. WANTED, AGENTS.-We want men in every locality for the sale of our lubricating oils and greases. We are manufacturers and can give lowest prices. Makes an excellent side line for traveling men. No charge for sample case. Write for terms, The Polar Oil Co., Cleveland, O. County Clerk Gregory has issued the following marriage license since our last report: R. S. Bragg, 28, and Mettie Collins, 16; Thomas W. Crouse, 24, and Lucinda C. Baldwin, 18; Elisha Given, 42, and Louisa Given, 25; Ballard S. Hamrick, 26, and Mary Gregory, 21. The final decree in the J. M. Bennett and Burton Despard land case, which has been pending in court here for years, has been entered. By its stipulations some 6,000 acres of land in Calhoun and Gilmer counties are divided equally between the heirs of J. M. Bennett and the heirs of Burton Despard. - Clarksburg Telegram. Now that we are to have reduced passenger rates on the West Virginia & Pittsburg railroad, we hope it will not be long until we will be able to secure competing freight rates with the B. & O. system. The exorbitant freight rates on the W. Va. & Pittsburg has been the impediment that has kept manufactories out of our town, as it was claimed that the raw materials could be shipped out very much cheaper than the manufactured goods could be. -Delta. Attorney General Griggs has nofified District Attorney Davis that the designation of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus as the place of confinement for persons ...(tear in newspaper at this point)...the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary has been revoked, and in its stead the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville has been designated as the place of confinement of persons hereafter convicted in the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment in a penitentiary. G. A. McCourt, of Wainville, attended County Court Monday. A. S. Bruffey has finished his term of school at Lower Grassy Creek. Mrs. R. A. Arthur has been quite ill for several days, but is reported better. Miss Evelyn Miller, who has been attending school at Fairmont, returned home Tuesday. Allen Anderson and Norman Belknap, of Hacker's Valley, were here on business Monday. Rev. Jones, borther of Rev. Sam Jones, of the M. P. Church, is here to take charge of the work resigned by his brother a short time ago. There is a new song going the rounds of the press and it runs as follows: "We don't want to buy at your place, we won't trade there any more, you'll be sorry when you see us going to some other store, you can't sell us any more stale goods, we have opened wide our eyes, we don't want to trade at your store, because you do not advertise."