Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-21
GRAFTON

A Good Column OF Interesting n Tvs Events
Special Correspondents Of ne sunday Register.
GRAFroN, Jnly 2O.-Our farmers are
about done harvesting and generally report
the wheat crop as beyond the average,
while other crops are doing exceedingly
well. with the possible exception Of corn,
which it is thought will be short. Hay
will be abundant and one farmer predicts
will sell for less than so cents per hundred
this fall.
Latrobe street, from the junction Of Main
to the railroad, nss been widened, macad-
amised, curbed and crossings laid, in such
8 way as to elicit praise from those Who
use that thorOughfare. Truly, the world
dc move, and rs an illustration Of this fact
the very people who now commend the
town authorities for getting a move on
themselves were cussin' and sWearin' as
they either tripped on a loose board or went
mp 10 bis shoe tops in mud.
The town council had five more sppica-
tions for license 20 sell liquor at retail IN
der consideration at its regular meeting,
but the bOndsmen were nOn-residents OF
the county and the city fathers refused on
that ground to confirm the same. They
however, gave the applicants time to pre-
pare new bonds aud will no doubt grant
the whole number of applicants the privi-
lege asked and paid for.
Quite number of GraftOn's most fair
daughters, accompanied by as many Of
GrafjOn's most deft Nimrods, went 10 Val
lev Falls Tuesday and divided their time
between dancing and fishing. returning
home late in the evening and showing by
their tired and weary looks that the former
amusement was a complete success while
the fruits of the latter were not visible to
the naked eve.
Editor Schnaufer, OF the Baltimore
Weeker, was in town this week and was
rendered a handsome reception by our
German citizens in the spacious parlOrs Of
Mr.. Geo. Brinkman, on Main street, Mr..
B. doing the honors in his usual happy
style.
Gen. C. ". Brown and Attorney Joseph
Marum are having a desperate tussle with
rheumatism In their lower extrsmities.
Hon. John T. McGraW and sisters,
Misses Rose ard Minnie, together with
Miss Stillwsgon, returned this week from
a pleasant visit to Randolph county.
Judge Ice, Of Phihppi, is in town on
legal business.
Steve Joyce, Of Parkersburg is visiting
his parents on the West Side.
Mr.. William Stanley and wife, nee Miss
Julia DOnohue, have returned home after
having spent their honeymoon in the East
ern cities.
All, the-ei Secretary Hook, Of the State
Fair and Exposition, more paper will have
70 be pat OF the dead walls and more
lithos hung in business places in Grafton,
IS numbers Of people are now thinking
about taking s. few days off when the
'frost is on the pumpkin and the corn is
in the shocs." snd you want to keep the
Expo before their optics
Hice Llughlin accidentally shot himself
through the foot, Thursday, while trying
TO find out whether rat and cat T fls wa
loaded or not, the ball lOdiDg between two
bones in such . way as 10 make 1t danger
ous to attempt removal.
DR.. :. 5 X derrick, prominent young
physician OF Phillip, who has been suffer
ing for the past year with that dread dis
ease, consumption, died at TIE home OF
his parents, near IrOndale, this county,
Thursday. The remains were taken charge
of by the 1 o o F., Of this place. nun
Der Of the members accompanying IT,
corpse to P5iihpi where ne injermen
took place on Fiiiay. The deceased leave
a wife and one child to mourn his untime
ly death.
Mrs. Lizzie Vance is visiting friends il
FsirmOnt
The family Of Mr.. J. n Tregalles have