Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-08-30
srEUBENvILlE.

SrEuBENvILLE, August 2s-For thepast
two or three months fears we're enteraln-
ed that this city would loselne Of its sead-
lest running industries in tie stove pun
dry of w. l.. Sharp & Son, 1T present 10
Gated on North Fifth street. The estao-
lishment was partially Destroyed by ne,
and the firm concluded to embrace the ,oP-
portunity of securing a location wheretnsy
would have better railroad facilities aIo
save the expense of so chhauling. Gel
E. Sharp has been prospecting all supmf
in search of desirable location, but mas
finally concluded that no place wouh e
better for the business than Steuoen'llle
However, the firm will not rebuild o ny
old site, but have purchased PIT O.
ground AUDITING on the Panhandle raToat
next the Steubenville pottery, and WI
erect entire new buildings on much lar-
ger scale than the old plant. This loquoa
affords all the railroad facilities desirT, az
switches can be run into the worHanc
cars loaded direct. 1t is good news 7 the
people of Steubenville, that this 1ndBtry
will not leave US, as 1t is one OF thepesq
we have, giving employment to prge
number OF men and running constatly
part of the time on double turn.
The saloon keepers of this city and pun
ty are projecting an organization. hey
refuse to divulge the proceedings but
enough is learned to know that the Gect
is self-protection'b by preventing beer fnts
from starting irresponsible men 1.-the
business by taking out the Dow e for
them and furnishing them with beeRnd
whisky to bespaidsf out of the pitts
made. Another object is TO see thf all
persons in the business respect the Ia by
keeping closed on Sunday. Outside othis
city 10 organization has yet been efISed,
except in Toronto.
Hartje Bros have about completeChe
improvements to the Clinton Paper I'LL
that have been under way during the bun
mer, and last Tuesday the mill starte up
in full, including a new machine. he
mill will be run night and day and Joy
sixty-five hands, so that its product Va be
larger than ever before. The outfit vi be
hardware and other heavy papers, eng
with MANILA paper of various weights
The quadrennial enumeration Of mes
for 1891, over twenty-one years OF ye,
shows total for jefferson county Of f7
against 8, 739 in 1887. OF these, 9,l63Are
whites and 3l5 colored.
Councilman Basler and W. S. Wter
have the Joint gravel drive between ter
property on North Fifth street compiled.
The annual Jefferson County FairEill
be held at Smithfeld in September 284
and 25 The premium list is larger tn
ever before, and the fair gives promikOf
being the best held in years.
The Jefferson Iron Works are now pr
ming fuller than for some time. The re
duct is 1900 tons of Bessemer pig, 40
kegs Of nails and about fifty tons Of ste
plate per week. The company empty /
over 800 men.
]. J. Gill returned this week from 8
weeks yachting tour on Lake Erie an
connecting waters.
Mesdames J. H. Dawson and d. Odberl
and Misses Dora Evans, Nan Geisingel
and Grace Sharp this week attended TIL
NJ E. Missionary Convention at Long
Run.
Ed. r. Beatty, Assistant Road Foremal
of engines on the Panhandle betweel
Pittsburg and Dennison, has been prd
NOTED to the position of Road Foreman d
engines on the line between Cincinnati anil
!. Qgansport, with headquarters at RjciI
t tom" wins M be- q Fad 4 u IteFRaSi4ig sc
luck.
Prosecutor Ersking, County Treasure
Coble. Clerk Buckingham, Deputy Sheri
Worries. Judge Mansfield, Judge LindufI
r M. Linton, Sam G.. McCornby, II. Fl
Brown. Vern Mccullough, viii Johnsofl
@, M. Rhodes, Ed. Stephens and Will Tai
cart. are some of the Steubenville peoplI
who took in the Wellsville fair on Thur:I
day and Friday.
R.P. Tilney and family returned thi
week from season spent at the seashord
D-B. Johnson and Art Dougherty al
homo from n hunting and fishing eXcull
sion, to the Muskoka Lake region in Car
ada
Mr. and Mrs. J. r. Andrews, of Sa
Antonio, Tex, are guests OF Mrs. An
drews' mother, Mrs William North, d
South Third street
Hon. ]. Dunbar Is back from an extend
ed Western trip. he is enthusiastic owe
the wonderful crops he saw in the souti
west.
Miss Bessie, daughter Of ]. II. Dawson
graduated at the Chantanqua Literar
and Scientific Circle, at Chantanqua, tn
week with high honors.