Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-18
MARTINS FERRY.

about drawn to a close, and before q new
one is commenced some important changes
and improvements should be made, with
view OF facilitating the city's business and
giving a tone of responsibility TO the city
building and some branches Of the city
service. In the first place, the City Hall
should be repaired, a new floor laid and
that part used by the City Council should
be separated from the rest by q substantial
railing, and should be covered with some
respectable covering of carpet or oil-cloth.
The President and Clerk should each b.
furnished with suitable tables, and a re-
porteTs' table should be a feature. Each
Councilman should have o desk and an
easy Office chair for his individual
use, and none but officers allowed inside
the railing. This room should be kept Sc
curely locked except when in actual use by
the persons whose duty it is to use it,
Benches mot common pine slabs, but re-
spectacle hard wood benches) should he
furnished for citizens who care 10 watch
the deliberations of the body. A private
Office, with a safe and desks, should re fur
nished either in the bnildIrg or in some
other convenient place for the Mayor, City
Clerk and Treasurer, and the Clerk esDe-
cially should be paid a sum nearer IN keep.
ing with the amount of work he has to do.
The lower police Office should be made re-
spectacle ard all loaling entirely prohibit
ed. The Jail, floor, walls and ceiling should
be coated with waterproof cement, so that
the interior could he scrubbed With q hose
stream whenever needed, and someone to
act in the capacity of jailer, clerk aud
special policeman should at all times be in
the building. A new police ordinance
should be enacted, which would take the
fees from the officers, a~ndinstead give them
not less than sig 90 per week, and furnish
uniforms of some regulation pattern and
style. Our officers at their present rate of
wages cannot afford TO wesr good clothes,
ana il they could, no regulation uniform
is provided. The force loses much of its
usefulness By not appearing to good adVan-
tage. The taking away Of the fees would
do away with the slurs which
are continually cast at the police
when they try TO do their duty,
aud q salary Of Sl2 a week would
make the place worth having and would
make the securing Of good men possible.
~ ouuulu VIC LlauS ny bAuludnCS TUG ClCdI-
ly defined duty Of either the City Commits
sioner or Marshal, to put q stop to all
street Instructions, such as mounds lett
by plumbers, ash piles by private citizens,
and the o%bstTuCting Of streets in all the
various ways, well known to every citizen
to exist in Martins Ferry. II our mer-
chants have no more self-respect than TO
pile their pavementa fall Of boxes and fill
the cutters with decsyed potatoes, wilted
tUrnips, and rotten cabbage, a IS fine rem
edy should be tried.
The political fight at the coming spring
election is narrowing down TO the Mar
shal's ofie. Nearly all acknowledge that
Hon. NJ. G. Mitchell will be the Mayor,
and all the balance of the Republican
ticket will be elected, except, possibly, the
Marshal. The fight between Mr.. Burns
and Mr.. Woods will be a pretty one, and
it is claimed by all that it will be a very
close one.
The east side of Fifth street is to be
paved from Hanover street north. When
will Fifth street be opened "in q north
wardly direction through the lands of
Joseph Bell" etc, etc?
If the purchasers and sellers OF real
estate in Martins Ferry would make
known the sales and terms it would be o
| stimulant 10 the real estate market.
The spring building boom does not seem
to be a prodigy in the matter of rapid
growth, but nevertheless quite q number
Uf new structures are contemplated. Sam
O~ppenhimer, of Bridgeport, was in the
city the other day, looking for a site for q
| g.. A,Dfnnau hINul- onl ThxsrF... H., sc
Wheeling, Will probable enlarge his build
ing on Hanover street. 1t is reported that
Capt. H. ". Smith will build five large
double brick tenement houses.
A young lady living in the Garden Spot
receives the attention of one Of Martins
Ferry's best known and most popular
young men, and it seems from a little cpl
sode which occurred last week, they are
very dear to each other, and are proud TO
express their affection by means Of cling
ing arms and sundry kisses. On WedneS-
day night the young lover was to call as
usual, and unbeknOWn to himself or the
young lady, another young msu had man.
aged to call Just for a moments talk, con-
corning 3 matter of a purely business
nature with the young lady's father. The
lover was 10 De on hards at T:3O sharp,
but was delayed, At 7:45 the young man
who had business with the father rang the
door bell. The light was turned low in
the hallway, making his personality indis-
tinct on the verands, and in another min
ute q terrible mistake had been made.
The young man stood waiting for the door
to be opened ard soon saw, through the
glass hail door a vision Of feminine beauty,
clad in O tea gown, and wearing
bangs and frizEes. In another
! instant, the door few open, and a pair of
plump arms encireled his neck, q fluffy
head nestled upon his shoulder and warm
breath famed his cheek. She drew her
self closer to him and asked, why dJn't
you kiss me, Lover" The young man did
not lose his presence of mind entirely, but
kissed the young lady, and remarked: ST
didn't come just for this, but I'd as lief
| kiss the danphter "a talk hnsinesa IN the