Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
MARTINS FERRY NEWS.

A very pleasant presentation took place
last evening. The blowers and pressers
Of the Bnckeyp glass works presented TO
Robert II. Sweeney a complete and very
elegant set OF glass ware rs q token OF their
esteem for him. Sweeney has been sick
for long time and is just beginning to
get better. He was able to thank the boys
in very neat manner for their handsome
present which he heartily appreciates.
Patrick Henry can hold horse as grace
fully as any one in the city.
j. T. Hanes is home from a business trip
TO Columbus, Cleveland and other western
points.
Mrs. Anderson yesterday purchased the
Lynn property on Washington street, price
81, 700.
Williams new brick house on Washing
day.
John Francis, boiler in the Etna mill,
had his hand badly mashed by the acciden-
tai falling OF the furnace door yesterday.
Patsy Morris wife, who has been sick for
some time, is improving rapidly.
Better secure bargains at once, as this
will probably be the last week OF the clos.
ing out sale at the Peoples Shoe Store. .
Mrs. Burris, who has been sorely afflicted
all winter with rheumatism, is threatened
with the same trouble in the neighbour
hood Of the heart.
Peter Beck is confined to his bed with
erysi gelas.
The hole in The pavement on Sherman
House block was being fixed yesterday.
And still we have no drinking cups on
the town pumps.
Shreiyer, Of the Sherman House, lost a
small key with small log attat he'd, which
he is very anxious to recover. He will re-
ward the finder il he leaves il with him.
The gas well Is down about 60 feet, and
the work is progressing finely.
A new psling fence is being constructed
around the Presbyterian Church and par
sonage.
A pleasant rag carpet party was held
at Miss Matte Greer's on Fourth street on
Friday evening.
Twenty-Five members OF Uranium Post
&. A. K. went up on the steamer Little
Anna to Warrenton, Jefferson county, to
assist at the organization OF q. A. Il. Post
at that place.
The week has been exceedingly dull in
police circle, not an arrest during the
whole week. Martins Ferry is not so bad
town as some OF her neighbors think her
10 I've.
Perry Hathaway, an old gentleman up
wards of 80 years of age, fell out OF q wagon
At his residence out in the country ypster-
day morning and broke his neck. He wss
famliarly known here as Daddy" Hath
away. lie WIS in the wagon steadying .
grind.stone and holding q little child in
his arms, when the wagon struck q chuck
hole and threw him out. He alighted on
his head, and when the driver got to him
life'was extinct. The little child fell with
him and was very badly hurt, though no
bones were broken.
Thomas Purvince, OF Smithfeld, O., Is in
town seeing his lady friend.
There Is serious objections raised % the
renting OF the streets TO shooting galleries,
ball throwers, &C., allowing them TO block
up half the street and thus impede travel,
Edward Houghten and Miss Ida Cochran
were married at Bridgeport, O., on April
llth, by Rev. J. r. Keys.
Mrs. F. A. Stark has opened up an
elegant ice cream psrlor at the corner OF
Fayette and Second streets. Call.
Father DrennoD, Of the Ohio Valley
News, Will leave tomorrow for Q few days
visit 70 friends in Jefferson county.
The steamer Little Anna will run 10 the
show on Monday, landing passengers q
the Island wharf. She will also make the
return trip after the evening performances,
leaving from the Island wharf.