Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-08
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly anu
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PithiIY Told.
THE oyster this year is unusually
small.
SEATS go on sale this morning Tor Gill
mOre's concert.
The Preimus Dancing Cluo WIN give
select hop at Franzheim's Hail. thlS e'e-
ming. Killmyer will play.
THE Kingfsher Climb will give oance
at Turner Hall Friday, Dec. 49,
d. KLE1NER, the South Side basket
maker. has q fine line of holiday baskets
THE meeting of the Water Board, to have
met last night, was postponed unUl4 "
day.
MARY GREEN, who was arrested oy Ine
police Sunday night for disturbances, was
taken before Justice Phillips yesterday
who sent her to jail for year.
No WORK was done on the stone bridge
Yesterday, the high water interfering Win
the masons.
THE Island approach to the new Back
river bridge, which is all filed ground, Is
sinking badly in places.
THE Andrew Welsh who was lined py
Justice Jos. Ankle, for wife beating, IS noV
the man of that name who WORKS aV Une
Hobbs glass factory.
THE Sistersville oil field is booming.
| Many new wells are going down and loUs
! of oil is coming up. A Standard Oh Com
pany line will be laid from the held.
If ONE can get enough of them, the new
| two dollar Window silver ceruhcateS,
which are Just out, would make nice
Christmas present They are artistic.
REV. Jos. LEE, of the Wesley M h.
Church. preached an interesting sermon on
| Sunday morning TO the Knights OF the
Mystic Chain, who attended in body.
MISS FANNIE BRADY, teacher at the
Fifth Ward School, accidentally burned
| her hands quite severely on THURSDAY
| She will be unable to attend school 1or
awhile
THE Wheeling Wheelmen's Club room,
on Thirty-third street, has been fitted up In
| a handsome manner, and is now quite an
attractive and coy place for the members
to spend their evenings.
The tickets for the Linsly ball, when
| will be held in the armory on the 2Sd inst,
| are now on sale and can be procured from
any of the following boys: Jos. Speidel,
Jr., Leo Brilles, Will McLain.
A TELEGRAM was received frem Phila-
| dclphia Sunday by the family of Mr.. w. s.
/ Meek that his wife must come on imme-
| diately 20 the bedside of her husband, VINO
is confined in the Pennsylvania hospital.
ATTENTION is called to w. j. Lukens'
| holiday novelties, diamonds and watches.
| This enterprising jeweler has the finest line
! Of opera glasses ever brought to the CITY,
| Examine his stock before purchasing else
where.
! TIE river is rising, as result OF the re-
cent rains. and the past two days has been
| full of tow boats ascending with empty
! barges. They will be able to make sec
ond outing this month, thus giving our
southern points good winter supply OF
fuel.
CLERK THos. f. THoNER yesterday re-
ceiyed q communication from Paris, ad-
dressed to "A'Monsieur le Conservatism
de Ia Bibliotheque a'Municipale, Wheel
ing, Virginia de rQuest, Estats Unis:" "
Thomas thinks Of pastiRg the new title IN
his hat.
THE festival and bazaar given by the
Dorcas Society, of the Third Presbyterian
Church, was brought to successful close
last night. The attendance was all that
| could be desired, and the sales were quite
large A handsome sum was realized on
the affair,
PROFESSOR Hicks gives the following
OUTLOOK LOT the weather OF GuIs WeSh AN
equinox of Mercury on the 9th insured
much thick cloudiness, with tendency to
heavy sleet, especially during the storm
period running from the 9th to the 10th. a
sweeping cold wave will follow. Pre-
pare"
SUNDAY morning Rev. T. J. Mcclure, D,
D., pastor of the United Presbyterian
church, held communion services. This
event was notable from the fact that it was
the 16Sth communion held by DR.. Mcclure
since his connection with this church, and
| il was the last one in the forty second year
of his pastorate. DR. Mcclure has never
missed one communion in his forty-two
| years pastorate.