Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-22
BENWOOD ITEMS.

! Mr. DUibear, who has been rlStlCatlng
among the mountains and valleys Of Ran.
| colph and Tucker counties, has returned
| lone He is enthusiastic in his report OF
the heaith-giving qualities of those coun-
| t.,s. lie says that after ojourn of week
bis appetite became as rayenous as wolf.
Nothing short of six meals a day would
satisfy him. He thinks it is, so far as
h, slth is concerned, the finest country in
the world.
The Boggs Run Mining Company have
made application to the Cny Council OF
Benwood for permission to lay coal track
along what is known as Forty eighth street,
Wheeling, as q portion of that street lies
within the limits of Benwood. Permission
will be granted them, We presume.
IA short time ago your reporter gave an
account of a calico hop given by some OF
our young folks, and by some mysterious
manner your typo changed the word cali
co to Catholic, making IL read Catholic bop,
to which some of our people demurred,
thinking it was reflection upon the
church. | know that the writer had no
such intention when the matter was writ
ten, and we have charity enough for your
typo to say that we think he was not
prompted by any such desire as haJ been
attributed TO him and your reporter by
some very uncharitahle minds here. We
hope this may prove satisfactory to all con-
CPrued.
MIS-. jacob DIssetC, OF DeIuUnl, o., was III
town portion of last week visiting friends
and relatives.
The work of driving piles ior the z, w.
X Ky. is progressing rapidly and the COM
ing week will finish it up. We hope and
the wish is expressed by large majority
OF our citizens that the company will run
an accommodation train every nOur to this
village. 1t would certainly pay, as there is
very large travel between BcIlaire, Ben.
wood and Wheeling.
large force of workmen are engaged in
grading the old county road in front of
the Riverside Iron Companys property,
preparatory to matchmaking. Benwool
intends having good substantial
read to Wheeling and the County Com
miSsioners might profit by our example,
for it is notorious fact that there is not
mile of good road in the entire country,
Notwithstanding the fact that they, the
commissioners, levy tax each year for
road purposes alone Of from fifteen to
twenty thousand dollars, as a sham; and
the only reason that can be assigned for it
is that our fathers did the same, and we
must follow in the same old rut. Mar
shall county is progressive county in
some ones mind.
Jacob Brown and brother left for the
dales of Green county, Pa, yesterday for
weeks hunt They have promised your
scribe fine bunch Of squirrels whey they
return.
MIR. w. W. Fisher and Peter Altmier,
ESQ have returned from Buffalo where
they were attending the fest They
speak in glowing terms Of the splendid
time they enjoyed, but are now bitterly OPP
posed to anything that smacks OF Britannia.
They saw the Canadians are frauds OF the
first water. They intend joining the
Fenian Brotherhood the first opportunity.
fhe Benwood Iron Company still con-
tinue to ship large quantity of nails.
Balls and dances are to be licensed here.
after. So say our city dads.
Miss Mary MCCabe has returned from
her visit to Moundsyille, the city OF mon
ster temperance meetings.
The Riverside Iron Works Company have
a large force of workmen employed in the
erection of their steel works
Colonel William z. Brown, who has been
out among the hills of Marshall county,
has returned home. He reports everything
in the rural regions prosperous; crops
good, and the farmers.happy.
We have been informed by friend re-
siding in the country where blue grass and
politicians are the chief production, that
Col. Ben Wilson will bound into the politi-
cal arena at the most opportune time as
candidate for Congress. He would like to
pluck the laurels from the brow of our
lone Congressman OF the Republican party.
The project of building town hall has
again been revived. 1t seems to be in the
hands of those who will push it through.
II is an improvement that is much needed
in our growing city.
The Delta Fishing Club, q new organiza-
ton, has inst elected the following officers:
Commander, Geo. Simmons; master mate,
Jas. Mahood: purser, Thomas Gately,
while the cuisine department will De in
charge of Charles Curns, Jr. The club are
on the lookout for q craft in which to sail
for the placid waters of Soosing creek.
Two more rooms are being added to the
public school building which will make
six rooms in all. Who says our young city
is not growing in population.
One Of our enterprisins citizens is think
ing of locating whsrfboat at our landing.
He appears to think that there is money
| in ii, now that we are to have another rail-
road. We hope he may succeed in his
| venture.
Pay day at the rolling mill, which. in
all probability, will be the last for several
weeks.
John NJ. Jilton, of Baltimore was in
town to day visiting his brother.
| News is very scarce and everything is
| dull. The mayor has written his resigna
ton, which will be presented to Council
on next Tuesday.