Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-19


sbous the intention being to build larger
and better building than the old one was.
ON Friday night the race at the Eureka
rink. was finished Chas. Pugh being an
easy winner by q lap and half This race
Was commenced one week week before,
there being then eight entries, all OF them
hut Push and Dobbins having been IN turn
beaten and dropped, these two being lett to
skate for the championship of the town and
a solid gold medal. Do5bins had won
medal, and the championship race before
and his friends felt very confident OF ms
ability to down Pugh, who IS much the
smaller and apparently weaker OF the TWO.
AT the start Dobbins took the lead, but lost
Il on The first turn and when he came to the
second he made several false motions and
allowed his opponent to gain such a lead
that all hope OF bis closing the gap was LOST;
On the third and fourth rounds he stumbled
and on the twelfth fell, giving Pdgh
lesd Of lap aud hall.
On tomorrow night Ned Turner, the
King of Laugh Makers witlw!th the aid OF
some of our bsst tallen; give. sn0"
at the Excelsior rink for the
benefit of the Crystal Cornet Band. Ned
bss travelled with Barnum several Seasons,
comes well recommended and will no donot
give an excellent show.
On next Saturday night the Odd Fellows,
who had their hall and lodge furniture
burned in the recent fire, will give carni-
val at the Excelsior rink.
last night at the Excelsior rink the Mar
Tins Ferry and Chapline street polo clubs
played match game, which resulted IN a
victory for the latter. Both clubs Pisyed
well, especially the Wheeling boys, and tue
pretty part of il was that there was no
| trop6Ie or dispute, and all went home salts
| fed that they had won fair game. They
NAV a return game this week at the Chap
| line street rink in Wheeling.
! COMMERCIAL. BANK, MARTINI FERRY,
April H. 1885,
/ The undersigned would respectfully thank
| the patrons and customers OF the CONNER
| cial Bank for their patronage in the past, as
we'll "a announce to them and the business
pubGc that they have erected temporary
quarters adjoining the vault, whicA was not
| damaged in the least, and will continue as
heretofore to do general banking business.
In ADDITION 10 the vault, fos safety we keep
responsible Waterman on the premises:
Respectfully, GRAY & SMITH, n
| Mr.. Frank D Neall is now prepared, since
he has removed to his new quarters opposite
and three doors below the Presbyterian
| Church, to make suits and furnish gentle.
men with all things commonly kept in a
first class merchant tailoring and gents fur
nishing goods store. -.
James Conway, who has been sick for
some time, is some better. Jimmie has
been sick ever since the late campaign, first
with typhoid fever and now with pneumo-
MIA; while be is very low, we are happy to
| say that he is not dead as was stated in yes.
ttrday's Intelligencer.
John Williams and George Murphy
| leave tomorrow for Colorado. They are
both puddlers who are thrown out OF work
By the advent of the steel nail in our midst.
Miss Amelia Lane, of the Island, is visit
ing friends in town this week.
John Wallace, OF Brilliant, was in ton
! yesterday visiting friends,
The Martins Ferry jewelry store has
since the fire tlaep removed to the Carpen-
ter room on the south side Of Hanover
street, between Third and Fourth, where the
same fine stock of goods is kept and where
they have the same facilities for doing re-
pair work with care and dispatch, \
For Rent-Rooms under Pythiau Hall. X
On Tuesday night temperance lecture
will be given in the Presbyterian church.
P. E. Morris, an insurance man OF Day
ton, o., was in town yesterday on business.
Mr.. Frank Ewes, of Bigstone, county,
Mimi, is stopping at Trips boarding
house where he has on exhibition the model
of new thresking machine CALLED the
"Cripple's Revenge" 1t is q very fine
piece of mechanism and will no doubt do
its work well.
Dick Houghton is working on the Bel
laire Tribune.
W. R. Adrain has resigned his position
in J. T. Craigs grocery.
Lewis Haythorn was in town yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff Sedgwick is in towu.