The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-08
MARTINS FERRY.
A "Dryr suaday-iQueen Estler'' Critics
ed-Afnrket TrNIn, etc.

Mr.. and 3IFs. Dan Reardon, Of Bel.
laire, are visiting here.
Mrs. Howard Hopkins spent last week
with relatives at Bellaire
The Board of Equalization will meet
in the city building this morning.
Mrs. ]. Hague is entertaining Misses
Sadie Devauit and Ada Harris, OF Cteve-
land.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to enter several houses on Friday
night.
About 200 Martins Ferry people took
in the Ironworkers picnic at Beaver on
Saturday.
Service is now held in the Episcopal
church on Sunday evening instead OF
afternoon.
The new badges for. the Jr, o. U.
4. NJ. have arrived. New uniforms
have been ordered.
Emerson Campbell returned yester-
day from Cincinnati and looks as ii the
Porkpopolis agreed with him.
Frank link returned on Saturday
lTOul ClGNGllllNlS NuGIG llC HtpCAASA h4AS
convention OF the undertakers.
The Thurston Brothers will COM
mence putting up the poles for the
Electrical railway thlsmorning.
Superintendent Z. Z. Mannix, OF the
public schools, and his family leave to-
morrow for Dakota to spend the sum
mer,
The fire department has received an
invitation to attend tournament at
Coshocton. The first prize vii! be
500.
A hoy named Vennum had two fingers
mashed on Saturday while playing with
some old gear wheels on the Terminal
railway. =--..s.-.-s..-
I Mr.. Andrew Gottschalk, the hustling
salesman OF the Buckeye Glass Compa-
ny, was seriously hurt by fall at Gin
cinnati last week.
"Reasons for Loving Gods Word"
was the subject Of Rev, Mr., 0 Mera's dis
course at the o'clock meeting in the
Y. NJ. G. A. rooms yesterday.
Tomorrow evening Ohio City Lodge
No. 81, X. Of p, will consider the matter
Of organizing a uniform rank, which has
been in contemplation for some time.
Those who took part in the song tour
nament so creditably will be enter
tanned by the lecture committee OF the
Y. M. G. A. at the association rooms to-
morrow evening.
Recent entertainments in Martins
Ferry have demonstrated the fact that
Martins Ferry has ailarge number OF
excellent vocalists. Few, il any, cities
OF its size have any more.
Rev. E. T. Walker occupied the pulpit
in the Presbyterian church yesterday
morning and evening very acceptably.
The Rev. Mr.. Walker was formerly pas
tor of this church. He is here on his
way from Fort Collins, Colorado, to
Philadelphia, to do evangelical work.
The Terminal Railway Company will
probably run n market train to and
from Wheeling every Saturday morning.
The company will lay q boardwalk from
Hanover street to the Union bridge.
The work OF putting in the switch at the
Fourth street crossing for the Reymann
Brewing Company has been completed.
Thomas Craig, ir., charged with at
tempting to commit q criminal assault
upon Myrtle Brooks, an 11-year-old
daughter OF James Brooks, in Riverview
cemetery last Thursday, was arrested in
Oakland, a suburb. Of Pittsburgh, by
Marshal Samuel Westwood, of Martins
Ferry, and Patrolman Cross, OF Pitts
hurgh, on Friday night. He was
brought to Martins Forty by Westwood
on Saturday, having waived the neces-
sity of q requisition. At the prelim-
mary hearing in the afternoon he
waived IN examination and was bound
over to court in the sum Of 1000.
Rev. l. S. Winters, pastor of the NJ. Z.
church, in his sermon yesterday morn
ing, criticised in severe terms the rem
dition OF Queen Esther at the Martins
Ferry Opera House us means OF
amusement on account OF its Biblical
origin. He said that there is nothing
in scripture that ought to be taken for
amusement and il ought to be used for
the conviction and conversion OF souls
and not for worldly amusements. He
held that ii it is not sin to play
"Queen Esther" it is not sin to pro-
duce the Passion Play. Every church
in the city was represented in the cast,
both Protestant and Catholic, and the
audiences were made up largely of
church-going people. Clergymen were
noticed at both performances.
Despite the rain on Saturday evening,
the Opera House was crowded with an
aDpreciative audience to witness the
second rendition OF -"Queen Esther"
and the people did notmind the drench-
ing they got going to and from the Opera
House. Many persons were unable to
get reserved seats, and finer audience
Is seldom seen hereabouts. All were
we'll pleased with vthe performance,
even those who had attended the night
before. The singing and acting was
better than on Friday night, which was
practically the first full dress rehearsal.
rhi entertainment was the most sue
ccssful ever given in Martins Ferry,
Notwithstanding that only Il few re-
hearsaIs had been held. People were
presen5 both nights from Wheeling,
Bellaira, Bridgeport, st. Clairsville ana
othe: placed. Martins Ferry people
sincerely hope that Mrs.. Williams, Miss
Phillips and Mr.. Day will como again,
This makes the tenth time "Qeuen
Esther" has been presented here,
The Mayor got move on himself on
Saturday night and had every saloon
keeper in Martins Ferry notified that
hereafter the Sunday Law would be
strictly enforced. As n result OF this
step every saloon in the city was closed
tight yesterday, the first time for years,
Il Is said. aud the day vas RS il shoMld