Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-20
ST. GAINESVILLE.
Local and Personal News In Spicy
Form.
A BeIIigerent Citizen Who Don't Under
stand the Scott lava Leap Year
SIsighing Party and How the
Ladies Did the Gallant.
ISNnial To The ReQister.

The past week.
Mrs. VIM. Rice, formerly OF this place
but now resident of Wheeling Island, Wa
visiting friends here the past week.
Michael Keller, of Miltonville, Monroo
county, a former business man here, was III
town day or two the past week.
Editors Anderson, of the Bellaire lnde-
pendent. and Father Drennen, OF the Ohio
Valley News, were up to the delinquent
tax sale on Tuesday. As country editors
are said to be cbronically busted" We pre-
sumo they were only spectators.
The sleighipg during the past week has
been excellent, and every one seems to be
taking advantage Of it.
Charley Hughes is hsppy-he has sue
ceeded in getting a ticket in a new lottery.
When he draws the capital prize-well,
we'll wait till then to tell it.
Mrs. Bernie Mcclure is visiting with her
mother, Mrs. Stamp, of this place;
George V. Brown, of Brown d Son, Jaw
elers, went to New York on Monday TO
learn engraving. We learn that he VIII De
absent until the first OF May.
John V. Grassland took
also took bis best girl, and went to Morris
town Monday evening.
On Monday evening several OF the gay
young folks met Bellaire party at the res.
| idence of Daniel Steenrod, just east oil
town, and were the guests OF Miss Anna
| for the evening. A very pleasant time
was had, and nice little dance INDUCED
IN.
Johnny McDermott takes occasion to ad-
vertise himself, and Johnny Cow, OF the
Independent, airs his ignorance OF the
Scott law, and speaks Of your correspond
| ent and skunk in the same paragraph.
| We did not wish to make il appear that
| VI, Dermott had any i'll will sgiinst Judge
| Kelly, in our letter OF last Sunday, and
| p.rus al OF it will show that it didn't say so.
AS the Independent man referred to has
not been up to ST. Clairsville for some time,
| We will have TO acknowledge that We have
| forgotten how the little animal he speaks
| of does smell.
At the annual election for Directors oil
| the First National BaLk, David Brown,
George Brown, George Jepson and Conrad
| Troll were reelected, anc ID L. Cowen
rt elected President.
| ". Il Butcher, of this place, is on the
| prOprame for the next meeting Ut the Bel
| mont County Teachers Association for q
|
| triCts" The meeting will be held at Flush
ing on the 26th inst
Carroll Deems Jesse Kelly and Harry
! Raj dOlph, OF BeIlalre were smoUg the pail
hearers at the funeral of Henry West, j:
/ on Tuesday.
J. b. Hogue, president OF our agric ultu
! rsl society, aud J. II D-nh m, + O., at
! tended the meeting Of the State Boar on
! Tuesday at Columbus. They also took III
the State Wool Growers Convention
In Session there at the Same Time.
! Several of the young ladies realizing the
| fact that leap year comes but once in foui
years and that the time is tleeting, invited
| their willing gentlemen friends 10 sleigh
ride on Thursday evening The young
ladies showed the boys they knew how to
do things, and procured a large sleigh, q
Criyer, and four feet-footed nags, aud went
like the winds 10 Morristown, where they
bad supper. Following is list Of the
party: Miss Joe Hewitson and George K.
Sleenrod, Mary Clark and Leland Frint,
Anna Steenrod and Had. Pennington, Jessie
Longley and Marcus FInuey, Matne Oar,
reh and Gerry Amos, Annie Troll and
Sherman Bsggs.
William Miller, one of NJ f. Wilson's
obhglng clerks, has bsen very i'll the past
few, Gays with pneumonia.
lege, at Pittsburgh.
Mrs Louisa C. Rogers, OF Quaker City, is
the guest OF the family Of Thomas Merritt,
in the East end.
w. w. Elliott, son of Joel Elliott, E>q Of
this place. started on Monday for Santa
Barbara, California, with view to locating
Mrs. Matte Burt, of the Island, was up
on Tuesday TO see her little nephew,
Clarence Mckelvey, son Of A. I. Mckelvey,
Esq who has been very sick with typaoio
fever.
Mrs Joshua Hoge and son, Arthur Hoge,
of Grundy county, ILL.,, are guess, Of the
family OF w. J. Thompson in this place.
Q. W. Emerson, Esq, has returned from
his trip to Denver and the West. and spent
Sabbath with ST. Cairsvile FIJI 'nds. We
hear he is to go on the GAINESVILLE Repub,
licsn staff.
John McCscker, of Wheeling, was up
seeing s.. Clairsyille friends on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
George Mitchell, of the drug firm OF
Mu,chmore & Mitchell, at Columbus, was
visiting his father during the past week,
returning home ON Friday.
Small Chat.
John Watson, Esq, OF Wheeling town
ship, represented the Belmont County
Wool Growers Association, in the meetinE
! of the State Association at Columbus on
Tut sGay.
During the last term of court here, alb rur
two buudred cases were disposed of There
are now arout two hundred and thirty-hve
cas-, on the docket, which will probably
be increased 10 three hundred by the mex
| term.
Services were held in the NJ. E. Church
during the past week every afternoon aud
| evening.
Although it has been tolerable cold al
nights, Young couples can be seen on the
! streets looking for the comet; and are jISt
as well satisfied, although they never see it
John Wiley, Of this place, will electrify
! country school house audiences, with
sCioptlcan entertainments. We wish hin
/ success.
A sled load Of young bloods from Bridge
port can e 70 the ccunty seat last Saturday
! evening They took oysters at kies' restau-
rant, and then returned home.
Mrs. S. G. Hughes has been visiting her
mother IN Bridgeport for the past two
weeks.
Mr.. Oscar Sseley and family, OF Wheel
ing Island, came up ON Thursday to see ST.
! Clairsville friends
Mrs. VIM J Kinney, of Goshen town
ship. and Mrs. Bernie Mcclure, were the
guests of Mrs. +. NJ. Cowen on Wedn sdsy.
1t is with a fe,l ng of sadness mat We
/ add few lines to what has already been
said in the town papers to the memory %
| Henry West, Jr., who died on Monday
from consumption, aged almost % years.
Little Doc" as he was Familiarity known,
had a large host OF friends among the
Young folss, and his early death caused
more than the common feeling Of sadness.
| Only last fall we remember him as one OF
| the most cheerful,
Kind Hearted and Genial Young Men,
and as one of his most intimate young
friends said day or two before his death,
| who could tLen have thought that Doc.
| was to go so SOON" The funeral toak
| pace on Tuesday, and the remains were
followed to the grave by many sympath-
| izipg friends of the family,
Will Clark and wife and the Misses
Clark bad quite an experience last Sab
bath evening while coming home from a
visit to friends near Wheeling. Like the
''old Descon's Shay" their sleigh al, went