Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-06
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
WHAT is GOING ON AROUND US
Correspondence from Bethany, GAINESVILLE
ST, Clairsyille and BellaHe-
Crimes, Casualties and
Things 10 General
BELLA1RE

More Burglsrs-Importing Workmen-
Leap Year Parties-The l4-l3-lo Ar
ranSemeut-Ice- Railroad Racket-The
waking Mstoh-Churoh otes.
A very pleasant party Was held by
Miss Addie Gray, Of the Second ward,
last night. ii,
Del, Jackson left last night TO visit
friends in Marietta.
House-breakers were again rampant
last night during the storm. iney At
tempted to force the door at ferry
auction room, bat their efforts were
frustrated through the noise they made;
The neighbors sounded the alarm, ana
the robbers fled.
The imported miners for the different
works here, though reported to have ar,
rived, are yet not on the ground ano
things regarding tho mines yet remain
in staiu quo. There have been no I'M
portations OF foreign labor as yet,
though such reports have been circu-
lated.
The leap year party given by the ladies'
of Kern Lodge No. 42S, !. %. q. +. last
night in Turner Hall, was a grand sue
cess. Music, singing, dancing, and
sumptuous supper anu swinging VI
clubs engaged the attention oil those
present until very late hour: fowie
furnished the music. All unite In vot'
ing il the most enjoyable social OCCASION
! Of the season.
Mr.. Martin Schick, eTligrant agent al
Bellaire, has Just returned from taking
a heavily loaded emigrant train TO Chi
cago-over iorty.eight emlgrants haylnt
taken passage to the great west. MT
Schick is an energetic, enterprlsing ter
man, and his efforts in behalf ol emf
giants are greatlyappreciated.
The "l5-block puzzle" IL taking rui
in Bellaire. Quig Hamilton was thu
first TO Introduce II. 1t promises to %
worse than the grasshoPper plague. W.
have found hall dozen who have - AT
isiactorily soluted" it. Ii the Pinaior
man ever sank in the estimation OF tn
public, TO what depths Of bottoinles
cavern shall We cOnsign the block puLzl
MANI g.
E.k. Morris. Of Woodshcld, took II
the leap year party last night. Everett
is Il good youth and general iavorlt
with Bellaire ladies'
The leap year party last night by IN
ladies' composing the Hecla anu Su
Rosa Clubs was grand success. row
Ter furnished the missile and Dir. Garrar,
the supper. The entertainment, III
music and the supper we're first class.
We ran across Mr.. Rockerhausen yes
terday, one Of our most prominent Goa
operators, who had u rake on his shou
ders. lie said that as coal matters Ia
yang lait agly," he intended devotln
his time to agriculture-that the tiller
the soil had a sure promise OF return
whereas sometimes we cant most a
ways Just exactly tell about the pecu
liar turn OF coal matters,
Seven car loads OF ice, for the BE
mont Glass Works, arrived Thursda
night. Ii came from Chicago over th
B. 4 o. road, and averaged thickness
Of Z inches.
Trade on the Il. x q. il still increa'
ing and II We are 10 judge from III
transfer vi cars here, We should say tia
the road is doing an unusually prosper
Gus business.
Thomas Dixon, Road Master on I'll
G.. 4 T., was in the city yesterday looi
INK after the laying OF an additions
track for the shipment ui stock an
convenience Of the new Union elias
Works.
Rev. DR.. LYDIA, Of Wheeling, wi
preach in tie VI. L. Church ON Sunda
morning at 1890
Rev. Fitzgerald, OF Morristown, vi
; occupy the Presbyterian pulpit on SUI
day morning Rev. Castor goes
Morrislown, making an exchange.
The W0man's Foreign Missionar
Society Of the VI. +. Church, will hol
its anniversary meeting on Saturda
afternoon at half past two O'Clock I
! Rev. j. W. Toland's. The business e
that day is the annual election Of OIL
GERS. receiving Of reports and opening I
mite boxes.
The walk of Miss Won Blumen, an
: those already announced to take Ill
track, il exciting considerable enthus
asm. Miss Won Bumen's prestige As
refined, accomplished lady and n
markablc pedestrian, will attract a yeI
large house. The walk began last nigl
in the State warehouse, with fine traC
', Of twenty five laps to the mile. As Il
race is a benefit our soldiers MOI
ument iund-wc may expect one of q
most enthusiastic aud fashionable aud
enccs that Bcllaire has known fora lou
time.
Dan Thcohall has one Of the be
business aud dwelling houses on Cnlo
street inr sale.
DR.. Bcldingwill preach in the ChurC
Of Christ, Saturday evening aud Sunds
morning and evening. This will pro-
ably I've the last opportunity for the pc
pie Of Bellairc 20 hear him at present.