Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-09
BELLAIRK.

The twin daughters of ]. B. White died
ut Portsmouth this week.
'Reddy'' Williams has signed with the
Allegheny club.
Muth is prscticipg daily for the coming
boat race.
The photographers have their hands full
since they reduced prices.
No one knows when the nail works will
90 on.
Very little wool is changing hands in
this county.
Bellaire school teachers do not attend
the institutes held in various parts Of the
county.
The U. P. Church social at Joseph Glenn
ents' will be held this evening.
The @. & P. pay Car was in town yester-
ay.
There are two letters in the posto flee
for Chas. E. Little.
The passenger train that took the glass
workers to Findlay was chartered entire
by the Bellaire Goblet Works.
Some of the old wooden water mains on
Rose Hill are bursting of late.
The improvements being made by
Blum Bros. are quite extensive.
Harry Steel, of this city, joined Stoves
ten-cent circus.
Milton Lewis, the GAINESVILLE giant, was
in town yesterday.
Andrew Mcclellan, injured his crippled
leg while ont fishing the other day, and
cannot use his artificial leg.
Chicken thieves are annoying farmers
II ;af
being caught by Frank Nelson the other
night. The night prowler ives so fright
sned that he dropped nice silver-plated
revolver.
Thomas Maloney purchased four lots in
Barnard's addition for ST., $50.
The Seals ball club beat the Quicksteps,
of Wheeling, on the Island Tuesday.
The /. and A. Luchs ball club played
the Shamrocks on Wheeling Island yester-
day afternoon.
The new ''gags" in neckties are start
ling. The latest is You pull down the
body of the tie and on a small piece OF
pssteboard read the words: "Oh come off"
Lizzie Turner was surprised by her
friends on Tuesday evening at her home
on Rose Hill.
George X. Leasure has been appointed
executor Of the will of the late Caroline
Leasnre.
Joel Strahl, as administrator of Louisa
StraughaD, will offer at public sale at City
Hall, on Saturday, 101 shares of stock of
Belmont Glass Works.
The steamer Bellaire upset couple of
fishermen at the lower landing yesterday.
Both men got severe ducking, but man
aged to get safely out of the river.
Charles Edmunds was member Of the
Wage Conference Committee of the Flint
Glass Workers Union. Charles was in
town yesterday visiting his mother.
Some of our workmen who are at Mas
sllon are suffering with the ague.
The Windsor Hotel sells tickets for the
Ohio River railroad.
Two plain DRINKS paid their fines yes
terday.
Miss Nellie Jennings was supposed to be
fatally i'll last evening.
A number of new pensions have been
granted to old soldiers in Bellaire.
Kate Castleton, in her new play, has
Elysian Theatre for this season.
Henry Hell will give number of pre-
miums on poultry OF the street fair.
Two lower town chaps engaged in O fight
and were arrested.
That nsw G. & P. depot is not looming
up very fast.
When You are asked to give premiums
for the strait fair do it like man. The
fair is about the only thing ever given by
the citjzeus of the city
The resolution of George W. Ycst,
member of the School Board, providing
that the new town clock be started on CEN
trail standard time, is q good one. The
time should have been changed long since,
No one who is acquainted with the new
time will offer any objections. Central
standard time would certainly be con-
venieDee to all.
Mr.. Robert Chisholm, popular and
widely known Cleveland and PittSburg
passenger engineer, died about four o'clock
yesterday afternoon, of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Chisholm has been in the employ OF
the Pennsylvania Company for thirty
four years, and was greatly esteemed.
A second attempt was made last night
to organize colored Harrison and Morton
club, at the City Hall, but as only six
colored men put in IN appearance, the
thing wss fizzle. Somrhow or other, the
colored men don't take kindly to the no
ti0n.