The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-10
MARTINS FERRY,
Base Ball Gnmes-Tinc PIcnIc-Pcrsounl
and General.

Nhu SNhtAhi'
Miss Rose Barr left yesterday for
Mingo.
Miss Caroline Hogue is visiting friends
in Salem, Ohio.
Miss Emma Cook is confined to her
bed by severe illness.
The Misses Zane, OF the Island, are
visiting relatives here.
j. 7. Hodgens, OF Portland, was in the
city yesterday on business.
Mrs. James Miskel left yesterday for
Smithtield to visit relatives.
Miss Cots, daughter Of Richard Cots,
is visiting relatives in Pittsburgh.
Miss Kate Carmichael is in MIingo, the
guest OF her sister, Mrs. Ross Scott.
Amos Belts is confined to his room
with severe attack of typhoid fever.
Col. G. W. Mitchell, wife and grand
son, are spending the week at Cleveland.
Thomas Mear's new addition to his
key and barrel factory is about COM
pleted.
John Greer and William White are
building new residences in Newland's
addition.
Miss Nora Romick has returned home
from pleasant visit with friends in
Pittsburgh.
Miss Clara Mitchell, of Mt. Pleasant,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. James Smith, Of
Walnut street.
James Theaker, leading G. A. X.
man Of Mt. Pleasant, was on the streets
here yesterday.
A broken casting in one OF the sheet
mills at the .Etna, laid oil number of
hands yesterday.
The Escort marching club will meet
in their hall this evening. A fun at
tendance is desired
The Odd Fellows hall is undergoing
n complete Overhauling, being nicely
painted and papered.
Conductor W. d. Fowler has returned
to his post on the c., l.. 4 W. road, be-
tween here aud Bellaire.
The city has ordered 200 feet OF hose
for the First ward reel. Each carriage
now has 400 feet OF hose.
J. X. Kerr & Son are putting upa new
business house for Mr.. A. L. Krauter,
on Broadway, in the orchard.
Miss Emma Deitz left yesterday for
her home at New Brighton, Pa, after n
pleasant visit with friends here.
DR.. W. II. Hall and wife have return
ed home from Kent, Ohio, where they
have been visiting their parents.
Mrs. Eliza Wilson and daughter, oil
Lazearville, arc visiting Mr.. John Will
son and family, on Fourth street.
Mr.. Joshua Milhouse and wife, of In
diana, are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Waters, on Walnut street.
The damage to the .Etna mill office
windows by the tenement house fire,
some time since, has been repaired.
Miss Campbell, stenographer at the
Laughlin mill, has returned to work,
after visit with relatives in Cambridge.
2. Bruner, OF Wellsville, master OF
transportation on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad, passed through the city
yesterday.
Mr.. James Dutton, former resident
OF this city, now OF Chicago, is here
calling on old friends after an absence OF
nearly thirty years.
Miss Nellie Cleaver, of Mt. Pleasant,
Ohio, passed through the city yesterday
en- route for Steubenville to visit her
aunt, Mrs. Captain Cope.
Mr.. j. W. Buckingham and grand.
daughter, Miss Bee Thomas, will leave
shortly for n trip through the West, to
be gone about two months.
Mr.. Glenn Conoway and Miss Eliza
Elliott were married Wednesday even
ing at the residence OF the brides par
ents, on Washington street, by Rev. Mr.. |
Lewis, of the Welsh Church.
Lebon Riggs, aged II, died ut @ o'clock
Wednesday evening OF consumption, at
his home on Walnut street. The re-
mains will be inferred in Riverview
cemetery ut 10 o'clock this morning.
The City Council Mt their last meeting
ordered the officers to see that strict
observance OF the Sunday laws was made |
hereafter. This will shut out all bakeries, |
confectioneries, milk wagons and Sunday
newspapers.
The hook and ladder truck company
was out prac:icing last evening. The |
boys are able to scale u high building
with their ladders very quickly and |
when they have chance to show their
skill at fire. they will not be found
wanting.
Hon. A. Il. McKelvey, OF st. Glars
vile, ]. NJ. Lewis, Esq, Of GAINESVILLE, |
and General Hurst, OF Columbus, were
in the city this week. They have made
arrangements with the Buckeye and
Northwood Glass companies for exhibits
at the Columbus Centennial,
The Red Stockings were defeated on
the furnace grounds yesterday by the
Bellaire Globes, the score being 8 to 3.
The Reds are certainly playing in hard
luck. The game was q fair one, and
good order was maintained on the
grounds, Paxton was the umpire.
The engine for the new Standard mill
is being put in position. The new plant
will be opened up about September !,
and will employ about one hundred and
fifty hands. Two hundred are now en-.
ployed in the old mill, thus the Standard
Iron Company will employ nearly four
hundred men.
The Standards, OF Wheeling, defeated
the Red Stockings "Wednesday after
noon at the Island ball park by score
OF 6 to 4. Jake Stencil, one OF the
Wheeling League team, ably assisted
the Standards in the game, and insisted
upon playing, while number in each
club objected. He was put on second
base, and when Umpire Chambers, OF
Triadelphia, got II good ready in the