Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27
GRAFTON GRAPHICS.
Drunkenness on the Sireets-Amus~-
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Special 10 the Register.
GRAFTON, January 2s -George r. Allen,
of Baltimore, has been circulating among
his Grafton friends fer several days past.
Bob Wilson, of Wheeling, and Jno. Faris,
Of Baltimore, have been doing Grafton in
the interest Of their respective firms, dur
ing the past week.
A. A. Rice, Darby & Co. s popular drum
mer, was in the city on Tuesday.
The B. & o. pay car visited Grafton on
Tuesday and made the employees happy,
some from nature, Of course, others from
artificial.
The wcmens Christisn Temperance
Union are serving hot coffee to their con-
verts at their headquarters on Railroad
street.
Never before have We seen as much
Drunkenness ON the Streets
of Grafton as We did on last Tuesday night.
We were under the impression that notn.
ing could be gotten in our town now
stronger than hot coffee, but the night
referred to showed rs that We were laboring
under wrong impression.
We ere glad to note the fact that our
young and handsome townsmsn, ID. h.
Reed, has received fine appointment. He
is now acting as "devif' in the Eagle Office.
TIE citizens of Philippi will have an OK
rosst on the 3lst OF this month, in honor
of The completion Of the Grafton and Green
brier railroad to that place. The stock.
holders and friends of the road in Grafton
will be present and big time is expected
A gland ball was given at ZiDkman's hall
Wednesday night, by several of our most
lively young men. Dancing was kept up
until quite late hour, and good time lie
reported.
Rev. Warden, of the NJ. Z. Church, has
tssn carrying on quite successful pro
trscttd meeting. We are informed that on
Wednesday night it was made especially
interesting from the fact that he not onlS
the members Of the church TO seek q
deeper work Of grace in their hearts.
As Was spoken of LAST week.
Or. Arnold made his appearance and gave
us an entertainment on Thursday night.
In const qusnce of the general satisfaction
he always gsve before, the house was very
veil filed The performance, though on
he usual order, was not as satisfactory as
before, blt the cause was that the Doctor
vas laboring under the disadvantage Of
being very unwell. He sPologized on
those grounds aud with the promise that
be would do better next time.
We are to have Aurtbur loves Musical
Comedy Company on Wednesday night OF
rext week in the performance OF His
Sweetheart" .-..
1t is perhaps proper that We should
mske some slight explanation this week.
n regard 10 two articles in our last letter,
which, we are very sorry to say, were read
with entirely wrong i'm preston BY some of
our people, and which also we're so forum
ate y as to elicit the notice Of the Eagle,
In three very pointed paragraphs Il is
not necessary to answer all the objections
made by this paper, 10 its numerous arti-
cles concerning rs, as we fell confident
hey never would have appeared hsd the
editor fully understood our original in
teptiops. But il 10 necessary to try and do
sway with the false impressions which
have been floating about town concerning
rs for the last week. The Grafton letter
vas called "msl:cious and malcyolsn..f