Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-06
a GENUINE SALT WELL
Gives EtnayiIIs Dreams Of q New
Industry. gaIJ /
Fresh News Gieamings in Martins Ferry
Manufacturing Notes and Per-
ssaal and General News

Etnaville comes to the front with q
genuine salt well, which has not only sur
prised those who have heard of il, bu. has
created considerable excitement. The well
is on the property Of Benjamin Sheldon,
little higher and short distance west of
the Etna mill. The well is only 40 feet
deep and the water is unfit for drini1ingor
dometic purposes Yesterday while IN
Etnaville the REGISTER representative WIS
told of the well and shown it. Just after
arriving Mrs. Sheldon's daughter procured
glass then filed it and handed it
to the writer to drink, but one sup
was sufficient and that can be
tasted vet. 1t is as unpleasant as any min
eral water you every drank, The we'll was
drilled by the Keystone Drilling Company
and at the depth of 40 feet water was
found in great abundance. When the
pump was put in. it was learned that the
was very salty and unfit for ANYTHING except
salt making. Considerable salt can be seen
around the well but this is not what they
wanted. They preferred. drinking water.
A company for salt making is talked of.
Last evening about half past five o'clock
Bill Frazier, living with his, mother in
Clark's addition, went home intoxicated
and began to break up he furniture.
Word was sent to the police
headquarters, but as Marshal Hanson
and o tficer Linn were absent, and as Spe-
cial Police Cochran had not the authority,
he was not arrested. Later in the evening
he skipped the town, so report says. On
Monday the Buckeye Glass company elected
j. r. Adams J. NJ. Brown, Henry Heikng
JAMES Kerr. A. D. Seamon, W. B. Simp
son and J. F. Miller directors, and. board
organized by electing A. d. Seamon presi-
dent and }. F. Miller secretary. They Or
dered the factory to be got ready and start
ed up as soon as possible George Rice
for wife beating and Gus OLIVER, for drunk
enness, are both on the stone pile working
out their fines. Mrs. Vim. Hobbs and fam
lily are spending few days on the camp
ground, Moundsville. T. Gary and family
returned home Yesterday from delightful
visit to Parkersburg. Miss Lizzie Orr has
gone to Spring Grove to attend camp meet
ing. Elijah Hoover has turned up all right
minus slipper. The ground in Pannelfs
addition for the new school house will be
sold in town lots. James and Frank John
son are home for few days. Miss Devine,
ofWheeling, is the guest Of Miss Berthe
Hopkins. Mr.. VIM Crippen, of Smithfield,
is the guest of his brother John Crippen.
Miss Mary Williams, of Mt Pleas
ant, is the guest of Miss Maud New
land. Fish are reported scarce here
abouts A gentleman who has heen fishing
with trot line for several days, told the
writer last light that after fishing all day
yesterday he caSght shad weighing about
two pounds. 1t has just leaked ont that
Mr.. Peter Fair and Miss Ann NcAninch
were married about a month ago. Mrs
Alec Frazier is at Steubenville, the guest
of relatives Mr.. Will CroweI will go to
Freeport this week to visit friends. Messrs.
AL Barger, DR. Clancy and Frank Burris
OF Smithfeld were here yesterday Last
night Misses May McKim, Edith Mckim
Flora Williams and Fannie Van Pelt and
Messrs. Chas Selby and Russell Medlll took
in fine hop at Portland Miss Mary Chal-
FAINT, of Pittsburgh. is the guest of Capt. L.
W. Inglebright Up till this writing Dan
Mccarthy is still at large, Robt. Talbot
young man, aged 81 years, died last even
ing Of contumption.