Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-09
KINGwOOD.
Newsy Notes From the Mountain Town
Personal Points.


Personal Points.
special Correspondence OF the REGISTER.
KINGwooD, w. VA, September T.
Two of the hardest down-pour of rain
this section ever experienced, passed
over here Saturday, the first about 1890
and the other about p. m. The rain
came in sheets, veritable cloud-burst,
accompanied with thunder and light
ming and hail. Some damage to the
buckwheat and corn crops and roads
resulted.
Lawyer H. c. Hyde is out again after
three or four days OF sickness. 1t was
at first thought he was taking typhoid
fever.
Conductor Charles Carroll is seriously
sick with indications for q long spell OF
fever.
Will Smolley, who came home from
Wheeling with fever, is able to be out
Miss Letitia Parks is about we'll again.
John c. Crane, we'll to do farmer
and stock dealer, of near Albrightsville,
who has been so seriously Ill with in
flammatien of the mastoid cells, tym-
panum and glands of the neck Is, we
are glad to note, rapidly improving.
The disease that Mr.. Crane Is suffering
with is the same that killed Roscoe
Conkling.
Court, under J. F. Hoke, is still in
session. The Welch murder case is
docketed for to-day. This is the MUIR
der that was recorded Ia your paper at
the time Of its occurrence, last winter,
in which WEIGH, it is alleged, while
drunk, killed his wife, beating her to
death with a brick.
Miss Flo Martin, daughter OF George
Martin, of Shinnston, OF Mt. Lake
Park, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Hyde,
and Miss Minnie Neff.
Lawyer l. Grant Lazzell, OF Morgan
town, paid Kingwood another of his fly
ing visits, and we understand will soon
marry one of our most accomplished
and beautiful bellies. In the language
of one of our rich widows, we would
say, "Egad, the foreigners are carrying
I off the pick of the beauties"
This same widower will be left with
"Home" alone II he does not soon 10
cate"
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Alter and
daughter Blanche, Mr.. Robt. j. Smith
and wife and sister-in-law, of Cincin-
natl, left for their homes the latter part
of last week, we'll pleased with our
little mountain village. They were
wonderfully recuperated, the ladies
gaining wonderfully in flesh while
here.
It is truly wonderful how all the sum-
mer visitors gain flesh here. II they
are sick when they come, they gener-
ally get we'll and take on flesh more
rapidly than those who come for rest
Pure ozone, accompanied with pure
water, can not be found in greater
quantities in America than in Kingwood
and vicinity.
G. Bruce Burke and L. P. White have
been working like beavers to get out
| hio hoon edition Of tL0ir paper In the
tntoroSt y, 1'orra Alta. 1t will likely
-. s~sGed this week.
Miss Dora Bishoff, of near Albrights-
vile, we understand, win DO married a0
her home, at 9 o'clock a. M, Wednes-
day, September 9, to Mr.. w. w.
Mitchell.
Miss Iona Feather, of GAINESVILLE and
Mr.. Cloyd NJ. Crane will be married the
18th, and cards are out for another
church wedding; Miss Gertie Field, OF
Albrights, and Mr.. Will A. Beavers, a
young merchant of Kingwood, and
Madam Rumor has it that there will be
three more in Kingwood in the near
| future. The preachers are wearing
broad smiles, and better clothes than
uSual