Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-08-09

| N0lurdA gas was snort Tor the drst time
In some weeks on Friday. Repairs were
made on the main, which necessitated the
shutting OF of the supply for several hours
Marion Seals Is serving as assistant
superintendent of the B.. Z. & @. railroad.
Thornton & Booth have quite number
OF buyers out in the country purchasing
wool
The attractions that viii appear at the
Elysian Theatre in September are: Flor
ence Bindlay, in 1.-THE Paw Train.,' on
September Cd; s'Boy Tramp on the 10th ;
Bunch of Keys on the17th: Maud Gran
ger on the 18th, and Little Nugget on
the 2Sth.
Thee. & P. runs another excursion to
Pittsburg on the 18th Quite large
crowd went up TO the Smoky City" to
see the Last Days of Pompeii."
| The @. & P. employees received their
months wages yesterday.
A little daughter of Miles Carnes has
been quite sick for some days
Spangler Post has secured enough money
TO defray the expenses of the District
camp ire OF the G.. A. r., which will be
held in about three weeks.
The pump at the city buildings never
supports more than one tin cup at time
and on hot days thirsty individuals swarm
about the pump and wait until the solitary
cup goes the rounds. Can't some one sup
ply the institution with drinking cupsi
Even some made from American tin would
do.
Chicken thieves have transferred the
base of operations from the west TO the
sokth of town. This fact may be account
ed for by the proximity Of camp grounds.
The ministers must be provided for at any
cost.
The Electric Light Fishing club is hav-
ing good time in camp at Armstrong;
Mills.
Samuel Crow, the painter, has erected
residence at Avondale.
The new band below town made nice
sum out Of the picnic on Thursday at Nor
toms Grove.
A big, tall fellow with blue coat and
red nose entered Will Heil's meat shop in
the First ward and carried OF a silver
watch. Mr.. He'll saw the fellow depart
and missed his ticker soon afterward.
John Lawman talks of starting a barber
shop in Benwood.
Mrs. Ed Yost has returned from Stuben-
vile where she was the guest OF her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Baugh
Misses Laura and Daisy Baugh accompan-
led Mrs. Yost home and will visit here Tor
some days.
A circulation library is to be strated
here. A solicitor is hunting subscribers.
One plain drunk paid out at Mayors
Court yesterday.
Owing to leak in the water main, the
electric light plant was unable to run two
nights last week.
Camp meeting begins at Moons Grove
to-day. The B. & o. will give a on cent
rate, good until tomorrow. The camp Will
last over three Sundays.
A brass band from here will accompany
the excursion to Chippewa Lake to-day on
the c., L. & w. railroad.
A marriage license has been granted to
John w. Hammond and Miss Ella Brown.
Several crowds from here visited the
Moundsville camp grounds last week.
ceiviug repairs.
Private advices are to the effect that
Frank Mack is seriously contemplating
taking the stump for Mckinley.
The wage question of the bottle workers
is settled, but the flint glass workers are
still uncertain when they Will go TO work:
One of the partners in the ice firm OF
Grouse & Co. has sold out.
The campaign clubs that have been or
ganized in this city are doing well and are
increasing the already large membership.
Some of the glass workers from the
boom towns, who have been here visiting,
to their places OF work last
week.
Bit Collins is an enthusiastic Corbet
man and thinks he is the coming prize
fighter Of the world.
The little daughter Of H. S. Temple, who !
was given bed-bug poison in mistake for
medicine, is getting along all right.
Superintendent Jones, Of the public
schools, will be home in few days.
The B. & o. gives excursion rates to
Mountain Lake Park until August ~. ,,y at I
The not proceeds Of the camn ~
Ernst Br SpOr q this city, plastered the
new M. E. Church at Glencoe.
CHM & Co., school book publishers, OF
Roston. have their agents all over the |
county looking after their interests.
THE third excursion to the seashore Will
occur on August IL.
Warnock young folks are preparing TO
present border drama.
Will Parks will be home from the East
this week.
The new school book law did not cut
much figure with the publishers. The dis
count to the trade was 163S per cent. 10
Boards of Education it will be 20 per cent,
a drop of S1 per cent. School books VIII
he about u to 10 per cent. cheaper than
formerly, all expenses considered.
Thirty cars were required to carry away
the material that was used for drilling by
the Standard Oil Company at Glencoe.
John w. Myers farm, one of the finest
in this section, was sold at Sherln's sale
yesterday.
Marshal Sheppard arrested the chap who
stole Will Heil's watch. He was assessed
$25 and costs and sent to jail for ten days
by the Mayor -
Henry Day sold the horses Of McMillin
Bros. the late firm Of contractors, at pub
lie sale on the race track yesterday after
Isaac Blum has rented the residence Of
Miss Libbie Carroll, on North Belmont
street.
James Fitton will do the PLUMBING Tor
the new Memorial Hall at lronton. Tnls
will be big job.