The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-21
NEIaHBoRHooD NEWS.
BELI .tRR.
Temperance Notes-AliIitary lIatters-
IonnI Hcna and Nniea

Local news aud Notes.
The nail factory is ''off," but the boilers
are "on."
How many know that 1t rained little
"a very little, but still real rain) Thursday
morning? It seems to be general Inn
preston that Bellaire's share Of rain 10
waiting for circus day.
Bellaire houses are to be decorated Dec.
oration day.
Mrs. Reese made speech at the even.
ing session Of the Temperance Conyen.
tion here Wednesday, that those who
heard say surpassed what she usually
does. Mr.. Simon, who Is here organizing
Children's Temperance Society, also
made an excellent speech. He held o
children's meeting Thursday evening,
which was quite numsrously attended
when the public schools let out.
Seventeen.year locusts are reported
swarmipg from the vround all over where
any trees were Ia 1868.
Contributions OF good things are being
sought after for the festival to be held IN
the new Gravel Hill church on Friday
evening, next week.
Part Of the wurkmen OF the Goblet
Works were of work Thursday.
Mrs. John McCauley has bought thirty
fve acres Of land on Wegee creek, eight
miles out the B & s. w. aud intends re-
moving there soon.
The B. & o. trains were delayed and
somewhat out Of fix Wednesday evening
and Thursday by the burning Of bridge
0ver the creek near Franklin. The west
bound evening train set IL on fire by It's
sparks and the east bound passengers had
70 be transferred. There we're soIne pas
cy, who walked In, ladies and all.
The petition TO council for enclosing,
plowing and sowing with grass the Square,
Is getting such'a plenty Of siguatures as 10
promise young forest. The names are
all OF good men too, aud no doubt little
rivalry amoUgtt them would result In CIV
ing the Square some tne trees.
An article in this weeks Indspndent
says Company d must be recruited up to
the minimum, or else disbanded. Lieulen-
ant Litile Informs Us that the law, section
1885, says that not less than forty.i0ur
shall constitute minimum As COmpany
D has ftty nine active members 1t Is hard
10 see just how Il il to be recruited up 10
4 minimum. Within month or two,
great many members who have moved
away from the stale or county, have been
discharged. There are some members
who continually complain, TO outsiders
who know nothing to the contrary, of the
inetficiency Of the company, and who
At the same time refuse TO turn out TO
drills or parades and throw cold water on
all that Is done. These grumber's should
not be discharged they would like
nothing beuer-but with Lieutenant Lit
tie for Captain we have no doubt there
can be found others TO make n respect
rble number OF workers.
The Window Glass Works Office was haul
ed up Belmont street, Thursday, 10 itsuew
location, at Thirtv.hlth street. There are
now nine houses Of that peculiar but
ended construction facing the square. Is
1t determined 10 make the square look as
large as possible?
A Wheeling merchant, who must have
an excellent opinion Of the honesty Of all
people hereabouts, sent lot OF goods
down on the Pres Ellison, Wednesday,
marked "Not to be delivered" aud they
stayed on the river bank unmatched all
night and half the next day.
thursday afternoon Bellaire got about
as much wind as ever gets behind these 3
hills, and as 1t was before the rain the
dust was everywhere. Without any ex-
aggeration, l believe there is not another
place In the country where so much dust
can be raised as from the two acres OF
our square. For minutes together one
could not see across tie Fduemstlii. And the
dust siited through clOsed windows. No
one around there will refuse TO sign the
square petition.
The School Board Committee left for
Pittsburgh Thursday TO examine the Steam
heaters Of the school houses there.
Mrs. "Rent Mason" spoke at the tenn
perance convention Thursday afternoon.