The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-04
Oakdat Station, Jan. 90, lS'
MARTINS FERRY.


Tho New Opera lIOuse-PerSOnRl Gossip
Industrial Items.
Measels are prevalent.
Council tomorrow night.
Rev. Father Mattingly leaves to day
for Columbus.
Miss Maggie haywood, who has been
so III, is a little better.
A successful revival is in progress at
the A. NJ. Z. Church.
Robert Stewart returned on Friday
from trip to Letart Falls.
Rev. DR.. sedgwick, is holding a sue.
cessful revival at Bnrr's Mills.
Mrs. Anna Miskell still continues very
low at her home on Third street.
The Buckeye glass works and Benwood
blast furnace will resume to-day.
Edward Mausburger will erect resi-.
dence on Hickory street in the spring,
Mrs. William Owens, who has been
on the sick list for several days, is better,
Will A. Miller, of the Opera House, is
painting scenery for the Brilliant Opera
House.
L. Krauter has purchased the Vanpelt
farm, near town, and will move on 1t in
the spring.
The masquerade ball to DO given by
the Maennerchor this week promises to
be grand Success.
The Young Mems Christian AsSoCia.
ton will not DO organized till after the
State convention at Toledo this month.
Miss Minnie Cox entertained her
young friends very pleasantly on Friday
evening at her home in the Third ward
Mayor Mitchell offers a reward Of $25
for the arrest and conviction Of persons
guilty ofbreaking or detaCing .he street
lamps.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Company, has purchased tho property OF
Thomas ]. Smith, Frank Milligan, Mrs.
Patton and the Goodhue heirs at Don.
James Murdaugh, IN old resident OF
this county, will remove to Springfield,
No., in the spring. His farm will join
the farm Of John p. Mitchell, who went
10 Missouri a few years ago.
On Friday evening the old Arcadian
Club entertained the Social Club at the
homo Of Mrs. James A. Gray. The en-.
tertainment was one Of the most pleas.
ant affairs ever given in tho city.
Tho physicians here have recommend.
cd that all persons who have not been
vaCCinated should be at once, as there
Is smallpox In several counties In this
State, aud Martins Ferry may not escape
the dread disease.
Mrs. Williamson, who lives near the
Walnut Grove, met with painful, al.
though not serious accident Saturday
afternoon. While cleaning n window her
foot slipped, causing her to fall with her
arm through the glass, cutting IN ugly
cash. Medical assistance was sum.
moned and five stitches were required
TO close tho wound.
The Evolutionary entertainment at tho
Opera House on Saturday night was
well attended. Miss Thompson has
clear, rich voice, and her graceful and
dlgniGed stage appearance and the
charming manner In which she renders
her selections assure for her welcome
wherever she appears. Her repertoire
comprises about twenty lmpersonations
Of public speakers and lecturers and SO.
leCtionS from standard authors.
Work will DO commenced on tho new
Opera House block us soon after the
contract Is let as possible. The build.
Ing will be three stories high, built OF
brick, and measuring eighty.seven by
slxty.elyht feet. The building will DO
pTnanehted with CarlyBlo brick and
probably tho front will 10 OF the same
material, with mansard roof covered
with ornamental slate, and having
dorner windows. On tho first floor
there vi 10 iourstore rooms eighty feet
deep. On the second will be tie Opera
House, tho Interior OF which Wilt DO
sixty-six By sixty feet, with parquGt aud
gallery, There will he folding opera
chairs IN tho parquet and In two rows In
the gallery, Back Of these two rows will
10 benches. There will 10 raised seats
In the parquet and gallery, five inches
IN the former and six and on0.half In
tho latter. Tho ceiling will DO twenty.
five feet and the BLage will measure
twenty-five by sixty feet, Tho capacity
Of the stage will DO equal 10 tho one In
tho Wheeling Opera House. The par.
quot and gallery will seat 702 persons,
The main entrance, five feet wide, will
10 OH Fourth street, Tho gallery On.
trance will 10 by u hanging stairway In
the alley, measuring Ave iOOt In width.
There Will 10 two exits. The orchestra
will measure seven by eight iC0t. The
Opera House will DO wainsOoated, fin.
ishBd In ABt.class style and elegantly
decorated, ThB rigging loft oyer tue
stage will 10 ioFty.iOur feet In height.
An sight'iOot hall will extend through !