Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27
WELLSBURG.
Fire in a New Furnace at the Glass
Works.
Young and Old Enjoying the Slsighing
With the Keenest Zest-Rais.
ing Funds for the Grand
Army Boys.
Snecial 10 The RedistH.


WELIsBURe, January 25.-Fire has been
put in the new melting furnace at the Pan.
handle Window Glass Works. The nav
furnace at the building is quite an i'm.
provement over the original. The ground
floor is occupied by the mixing room, box
making shop and black smith shop. The
original box shop cutting and packing room
is now used as q storage room for glass.
Happily for the company the storage room
has never yet been crowded with goods, ~
they always have as maay orders a. they
can fill, and are often compelled to refuse
q number OF first-class orders. It 10 ex.
pected that when the new furnace Is In
good working order that the company with
their increased facilities will be
Enabled TO Accommodate all Their
Patrons
Success TO the enterprise.
The WelIsburg Gas Company have their
derrick up for their No. 2 we'll.
Thursdays snow storm kept the p, w.
| & Ky. trackmen OF this section very busy
all day long keeping the crossings and
switches clear OF snow.
There seems TO be q dullness In the way
Ol news Win US uOW' IL bootub - IL VIZ
people were content to enjoy the "old
fashioned winter weather" In 0 very quiet
manner.
The sltighing in these parts was meyer
| better. The jingle & the sleigh bells may
be heard from early morn until the wed
sma" hours. We Judge there 10 slei "a
for every horse and right good use tue
owners thereof make Of them.
The Youth or the Community
are having high old time over the various
coasting places in town. With the amou at
If recklessness INDUCED in II 10 q won der
that some serious accidents have not 90.
CURED before this; but then some Ameri-
| can youths are possessed Of % many lives
| as ore attributed to the pussy.
William Linton has been appointed by
council town sergeant, vice John Brown,
| deceased.
Carpenters, masons, bricklayers aud
| others having no work in doors have now
plenty Of time to keep warm, make out
| bills and lsy plans for the future or until
there 10 spell of moderate weather.
Hugh Barth will occupy his new store
room early 10 February. The scenery for
bis opera hall has arrived and will be put
! up Immediately.
Under Two Flags" military drania,
| will be rendered at Barth's Opera Hall on
January 80 and 81 by the Frank Allen
troupe for the benefit Of the relief fund Of
Pierpoint Post No 8 6. A. X.
A number of young ladies and gentle
men are getting mp an entertainment 10 be
given shortly at Barths opera Hall for the
Benefit Oft Episcopal Church.
II is the intention OF the Episcopal oongre.
cation 10 build q new church edifcs %
soon as the old structure can be disposed
Of and new location secured.
The mercury marked from 10 TO IL bs.
low zero on Friday morning according 10
exposure.
Mrs. John NJ. Crawford, OF steubsnville,
was in town on Thursday visiting friends.
The vote was taken on Saturday LAST %
to whether the town Of Wellsburg should
issue its bonds for the sum Of SIS 0o for
the purpose OF liquidsting the old debt
and making Improvements to the streets
and procuring q more efficient apparatus.
IL was decided by 62 tor and 1855 against
the improvements. We will bet big apple
that the 155 do more growing concerning
the condition Of public Affairs than the 81.
Thomas Miller, OF Beech Bottom. had Q
horse killed on Friday morning By the
early train on the p, w. & Ky. It 10 70.
ported that the borse and sleigh we're fast
on the track. They failed TO signal the On.
| gineer who, OF course, did not know they
were fast-hence the sccident No persoa
hurt.