Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-03-29
sTETBENvILLE.

SrrrREvvuIE. March 2S.-The days OF
registration are over, Friday ana Salur
dav lust passed, having been the tunes st; Seo
apart for the registration OF voters. Inc
ONLY opportunity yet to De anorued 10 any
one who has not fitted himself Tor Young aU
the municipal election to be held on Mon
dov Anril 9Th. will be TO persons removing
from one ward to another. The registrars
and iudges of election meet at O'Clock
saturday evening, April 4th, for the pur-
nose of organization. and if any cert hcate
of removal granted by the Board OF Elec-
TORS is presented at that time the registrars
will enroll the name Of the applicant en-
the hooks and he will be entitled TO vote
in the ward on election day. OF course, IL
is understood that anyone who previously
registered is not required TO DO so thls elec-
ton unless he removes from one Waru 10
another. General registration only occurs
on Presidential years, consequently tnS
next general registration time IN ONO VIII
he in The fall of 1892. Without regard TO
politics, Ohio's registration law is regarded
bv all of favor of far and Impair
tial elections as the best election law in
force anywhere, the Australian system not
excepted.
Steuben Lodge No. l, X. Of p, of this
city. was instituted on March Dist, 1869.
and consequently Saturday OF last week
ushered in its Odd year During these years
il has seen the beginning made in THIS city
spread all over the great State OF ONO I'M
til now there are over 80, 600 brave knights
in the State and nearly 500 lodges, the
State having three representatives IN the
Supreme Lodge of the World, and stand
ing only second in the list of States IN the
Union in point of membership. Steuben
I .b.,- L. will a
ment. being rated as one of the first lodges
in the country in point of finances, men,
bership. etc The semi-annual report Tor
the term ending December 81, 1890, showed
the membership TO be 2S2, and the wealth
of the lodge over $4,000 Since the 1rst
of January ten or twelve new members
have been received into the lodge, and
great confidence is felt that the number
viii be 300 by next May, the time at which
the Grand Lodge holds its next session,
and No | will have three representatives
on its floor instead of two. Wherever
Pvthiauism is known you can hear Steu-
ben Lodge spoken Of as worthy moluer
of the order in Ohio.
The revival meetings are over, and the
result was such that the Christian people
of the city should feel elated over their
success Over 800 persons were converted.
Major Cole and Rev. Jewett received 500
each for their services, and the money was
well spent These two gentlemen vii
begin their work in Bellaire on April otn.
The general opinion in regard TO the
Island Greek oil territory is that the oil
speculators have used the money of small
stockholders to test the field in order to
ascertain Just about where the belt hes,
and that now they will put down wells
of their own and strike The big
gushers-if there are any there to strike.
About the only persons that have made
any money so far out OF the field are the
ones who sold out when matters were
warm.
York
Frank Stewart, son of Rev. L. II.
Stewart, pastor of Hamline NJ. h. church,
is very i'll with typhoid fever.
The venerable Joseph Ingler is i'll at his
home on South Seventh street. Mr., Ingler
is in his ninetieth year
Miss Kate Harden is giving instructions
in shorthand to few pupils at her home
on South Fourth street.
Hon. Thos. McSheehy, of Fremont, o.,
addressed ST. Peters Total Abstinence So
ciety Wednesday evening, at Assembly
Hall. on Market street
DIR. Frank Chapman, of Massillon, is in
the city visiting his sister, Mrs. w. l.. Me
dill.
Dr.J. c. NJ. Floyd, who has been suffer
ing for some time from eryslpelas, is con-
valescing
The banking house of Sherrard, Mooney
X Co. came near having TO suspend ousl-
ness this week on account of the grippe,
James Gregg, Ben Dawson and George
Kells all suffering from ii.