Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-25
BRIDGEPORT.

Mr.. Thomas Duncan is on the c., l.. &
W. through mail run in the place OF ThOs.
Sargent, who is in Cleveland, on u vaca
| ton.
The Misses Katie and Maggie Clayland
are ut camp Chippewa visiting
! Mr.. John Barton, of BartOn's Station,
was in the city yesterday.
/ Mr.. Reid, of the firm of Rusk x Reid,
of Fairpoint, o., was in the city yesterday
purchasing stock.
Mr. John Cutler, formerly of this place,
but now of Chicago, is in this city, calling
on his old friends.
n. Kuhn, Frank Upton and John Kuhn
! have returned from fishing trip down the
river.
Frank Fisher 4. r. Bowie and T. c.
| Judkins arrived home on Friday night
after two weeks aunt among the pleas
ure resorts of this State. They were just
five minutes late for the train which was
so badly wrecked on the Panhandle Rail
road.
Greeley Rranum and wife and children
are in Cleveland, Ohio, visiting relatives
and friends.
J.W. Fowler has returned from bust
ness trip.
Rev. D. NJ. Todd, former pastor of the
! Presbyterian church at New Lisbon, O.,
later at Florence, Pa, met with very
serious accident at his home in TuscOla,
ILL.,, the other day. He was in field on
his farm, and when in the act of plucking
a flower was bitten by a venOmous snake,
and is now ut the point of death from the
effects of the accident He is a brother of
DIR. j. NJ. Todd, of this place, and is well
and favOrably known to many OF our citi-
ZenS.
Miss OSa Arnold, beautiful belle Of
Bruce Station, is in Wheeling visiting
friends.
A letter was received from Mrs. Ora
Duncan. daughter of Mr.. Lawrence
! Neincnger, who lives near the home of Mr..
Kirk MeCOnnahey in Netf City, Kansas,
stating indisputably that Mrs. Catherine
McConnahcv. mother of Kirk McCOnnahey,
died few weeks since at her home.
The friends of Mr.. Mort. Keller will be
sorry to learn that he is confined to his bed
with typhoid fever.
A very pleasant party was held at the
residence of Mr.. James WoOdmanse, at
BroOkside, on Friday night, in honor of
Mr.. Samuel WoOdmanse's twenty-ffth
birth day. There was large crowd pre-
sent and good time enjoyed.
Quite a number of the old soldiers of this
place took in the G. A. K. picnic in Walnut
Grove, Martins Ferry, yesterday.
Bank street is again about rs good as
ever since the Gas Company has repaired
the street
George Z. Turner has started on his fall
| trip in the interests of Harper Bros, Of
Wheeling.
The contract of placing lG0 rods of stone
on the first mile of the National pike west
of town is about filled.
Mr.. S. Cochran, of the Eagle Paint Com
pany, of Pittsburg, was in the city yester-
day.
Yesterday crowd of FIVE men cOngre-
gated in front of a Bridgeport drug store,
and all of them thinking themselves rather
heavy, counted up their weight and found
that they weighed in bulk |, 125 pounds,
an average of 225 pounds each.
! Bridgeport Lodge of the X. of p. is per-
haps in the most fiourishing condition Of
any lodge in the vicinity TheynOw have
rs members and are taking in an average
of four new ones ut each meeting They
have $1,000 in the treasury and eOntem-
plate the erection of lodge building.
Miss Kate Cook is in FairpOint, o., visit
ing friends.
Miss Lizzie Clayton, POstmistress at
Warrington, W. Va, is the guest Of ]. c.
Dent.
Mr.. Thomas Gent has had his residence
OH Jequette street raised and a story built
under it.
L. c. Leeeh is laid up with sore hand,
the result of cut received at his work IN
his cooper shop.
The subject of the sermon in the Pres
, byterian Church tomorrow morning Will
. be: Sabbath Dissertation" In the even
: ing the fourth of the series of sermons on
''The Bible"
! Yesterday morning Samuel Teller wa:
, fined 81 and costs for drunkenness and Al
Ian Phillips s. and costs for disorder.
; True Friendship Lodge, G. u. o. orc.
2 regarding the gold watch that was to ID