Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-14

lZ3d INTO local unlOni tne proper alu
necessary officers being elected. There are
about thirty five members in the new or
ganizstion, and the meeting was an en-.
thusastic one.
A meeting of the Western Association OF
Flint Vial and Bot.le-mskers was held
Tuesday at the Burnet House, Cincinnati,
with President ]. S. Hamilton, OF Pitts
burg, in the chair, and F. j. Park, CT this
city, as Secretary. There were present J.
T. GOrsuch, of the Kearns-Gorsuch Glass
Company, Zlnesville; W. Eliot Smith,
Alton, Ill; and representatives frOm Bell
aire (Ohiol Bottle Company; North
Wheeling Glass Company, Wheeling,
W. Va W. McOullv & Co, Pittsburg;
Thos. Wiehtman & Co, ]. T. and A. II.
HamiltoD, w. II. Hamilton q Co, Pitts
burg; Maring, Hart & Co., BeIlaire. 0lio;
Hemingway Glass Company, Muncie, Ind.
The meeting was called to take action
on an increase in the cost of raw material.
After a brief discussion it was decided to
advance the price in finished goods to equal
the change in the fret named.
All departments, including the factory,
muck-mill and furnace, at the Belmont are
on full this week. The new water tank,
which was mentioned couple..of weeks ago
as in process of construction, has just been
completed. 1t has q capacity Of 90 600
cubic feet.
B. Fisher & Sons foundry is running
full with plenty Of orders. The stove trade
is reported good.
The Warwick Pottery is working to good
trade. A splendid line of fancy work Of
beautiful design ia being manufactured
and will be put on the market in the course
OF few weeks.
The Centre Foundry ia doing a good
trade on job work and is enjoying pIos-
pcrous growing business.
Mr.. II. l. Wheat has accepted posi-
tion as travelling salesman for the Wheel
ing Pottery. His trade covers the West
aud North west. He starts cut at once.
A. J. Sweeney & Son have just booked
an order for a new engine, 1890 for Cap
tain John Porter, for his Esg'e Brick
Works at New Cumberland, w Va. This
firm is also very busy finishing up work
that has accumulated.
Contract work still comes in on Wilson
& Dunlevy at their lumber yards and
planning mill. Late az il Is in the season,
three new contracts for hOuses have Just
been taken, two Of which were for F.
Schwertfagcr good run Of other work
is also on hand.
A movement ia ON foot among the pot
terry workmen OF Est Liverpool, to organ
ia into the American Federation of Labor.
The Trades Assembly recently organized
up there already includes about 500 work
men,
Several boys in the Fourth ward, Bell
aire, have built on vacant lot in TIA.
ward a glass fnInlcs identical with the
bottle works furnace, flues sni all COM
plele, says the Tribune. TGeir intention
is to blow bottles as sOon Is the sheds are
built.
Tire Bellaire Bottle Company has about
concluded the lease Of the Il ma glass fac
tory with view Of operating the same.
The workmen Of the Bsllaire Nail Fac
tory are somewhat. discouraged. There
was prospect of getting 10 work when
the boiler explosion wrecked things 30
that the mill boilers are ueed in operating
the furnace, and the wOrkmen have be- |
gun 10 feel that it is so late in the year
they will not get to work before January, |
if then.-Beilaire Independent
The Standard is running again in full,
after the breakage of lsst week.
i. W. Wells, Wheeling architect, wss
in the city to-day under direction of j. II.
Hobbs, President Of the Ohio Valley Clay
Company, examining the Pot Works with
q view to eDlarging and otherwise improv-
ing the building to accommodate iIcrees
ing Understandable Gazette
1hs Thanksgiving Proclaim alton.
Following is the full text of the Thanks
giving proclamation issued by Governor
WilsOD;-
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
CHARLESTON, Nov. II, 1889.
Conforming to the established cust0m,
the President of the United States, By pro-
clsmstioD, has set apart Thursday, the
2Sth day Of November inst, ss q day Of
thanksgiving aud prayer.
Now, therefore, l, Z W. Wilson, Gcv-
ernor of the State of West Virginia, do
earnestly recommend tha. the people OF our
State, ahstainiDg from all secular employ
ments, do reyerently appropriate that day
in grateful remembrance of the mercies of
God, and in charitable deeis for the poor
and sffl cted.
In witreas whereof, I have bereunto set
my hand and caused TO be tffixed the l. a.
SeGl Of the State, at Charleston, this 11th
dsy Of November, in the year OF Oar Lord
one thousand, eight hundred and eighty
nine, and Of the State the twsnty-seventh.
W