Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-30
NOTE AND COMMENT.
THE Hinge factory will resume opera

crop OF oats, at Pleasant valley, last
Monday and yesterday
The party to have been held at Horn,
brooks tonight has been postponed
until tomorrow evening.
JoHx LAND scored g. Bessie German
: and Harry Dinsmore |, at archery at
Hornbrook's Park yesterday.
The latest gag on reporters is as loI-
lows: "What do you know Moth
ing" "What, nothing "Well, hard
~ anything"
The new building being erected 10y
Mr.. Myles on Main street, South Side,
is fast approaching completion and will
be- an ornament to that part OF the city
when done.
The directors OF the Female College
have been making great improvements
10 the building inside and out. Carpen-
tiers and painters have been working Tor
several weeks.
A COPY Of the Act OF the General As
sembly of Virginia, passed i'll 1906, has
been exhumed from the city archives,
and is supposed to he the most ancient
document there.
4 PARTY will be given tonight by
Miss Megs and Miss Delbrugge, at the
residence of Louis Delbrugge. Music by
StrOmberg's orchestra. About hiteeh
couples will be present.
THE owners of the fine steamer Nat
chez are now having her thoroughly
overhauled and great improvements
made 10 her inside and out. The work
is being done ut Cincinnati.
Tue regular Wednesday night Jct6 will
be held at Belleview tonight, and those
who have attended and participated IN
the endowment Of those occasions will
regret To learn that it will be the last.
The Justice factory Of Col. w. w.
Miller has been gorgeOusly reiitted. \
substantial Administer carpet covers the
floor of the front room, and the bOUdOr
is adorned with magnificent Turkey
rug.
SOME kind of a row was in progress on
Twelfth street on Monday night, but
lust what it was, deponeth saith not.
4 large crowd was attracted and the po-
lice were promptly on hand, but moth
inc could be seen OF the combatants.
YESTERDAY afternoon a wagon con-
tanning fifty kegs OF nails from the XIV,
erside Mill, passed up Main street and
delivered its load. Upon returning,
with only barrel of oil aboard, the
axle gave way and the wagon fell to the
ground.
TINS evening a party OF twenty or
Twenty-Five couple will hold a select So
cial at Hornbrook's Park, in honor OF
Mr.. Geo. VI. Hugo, Of Pittsburgh, who
is visiting friends i'm our city. COckayne
furnishes the music. The party will be
nom the South Side.
THERE was "call of the house in
the First Branch OF Council last night,
and lust as several members, routed
from their beds, made their appearance,
the branch had adjourned. A meeting
was called for Thursday night and the
penalty Of a fine will be imposed upon
abSenteeS.
THERE was a joke in Council last
night arising from a resolution to place
a curb on the Island. BY the omission
Of the word street." Council ordered
the placing OF "A curb from Front street
10 New jersey" Some OF the members
wanted to know whether it would strike
Cape May or Long Branch.
ONLY one case of authenticated sun
stroke has reached our reportorial ears.
Ii was as follows: On Monday boat
load of people started across the river
and when about hall way over, a woman
who was in the party, was overcome by
the heat and sank PROSTATE IN the boat.
The proper restorativeS were applied
and she was soon able 10 walk home.
Our informant did not know her name.
IL Council last night Mr.. Kimberly
stated that DIR. Reeves was reported IN
the REGISTER 10 have said that the with
holding of the 20 per cent. OF the con-
tract price for street cleaning would be
security enough for the performance of
the required duty. Mr.. h. was lncOr-
rect in that statement, the interview IN
question putting these words IN Dr.
Reeves mouth: "No money can be
drawn until the Street Commissioner
reports the work done
WHEELING District Camp Meeting AS
ISOLATION met on the Camp Ground yes
terlav. The President, Rev. W. {.
Wilson, being absent, Rev. ID. IL. X.
Dix, Vice President, took the chair.
The Simpson NJ. f.. Church was granted
the privilege OF holding camp meeting
ON the grounds, to commence at the
close of the Wheeling District camp
meeting. 1t was ordered that the price
for dinner at the boarding house be 10
cents instead OF 80 cents.
4 FARMER brought 4 load of hay to
our city and sold it to certain firm.
He told the wcighmaster his wagon
weighed so much, who did not doubt
his word. After the hay was unloaded
the buyer asked him to 90 with him and
have the wagon weighed and the result
was over 300 pounds too much weight
on the bill. The driver left for home
and has not asked for any pay for his
load Of hay. He and the weighmaster
are both liable to prosecution.