Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-07
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthily Told.

in readiness.
AueUsr MEYERS, of the Eighth ward, is
serving as an extraman on the police force.
ME. LAILY was arrested by Officer
Creighton last night for selling on Sunday.
series of protracted meetings will
begin at the Disciples Church on Wednes-
day night.
THERE were twenty-five cases on the
docket for this mornings Police Court, al
| Z O'Clock last evening.
Miss JENNIE SMITH, the well known
evangelist, will be at the Fourth Street
Methodist Church this evening.
Miss BERTHA LEPPHARDT, Of Martins
Ferry, daughter Of William Lepphardt,
died last evening about 10 o'clock.
ISLAND Democrats should remember the
| meeting called for the wigwam for this
evening. There should be large attend
ance.
ACCORDING 10 the reports of the srchi-
tects and contractors, the prospects Tor
plenty of work in the way OF repairs ana
new buildings are very encouraging Tor the
coming season.
TIE distance between Wheeling and
| Waynesburg is IS miles, as ascertalned Oy
the surveyors now running preliminary
| line for the proposed Wheeling and Con-
nellsville Railroad.
The Sons Of Veterans will give bean
| bake and entertainment tonight at u. A.
| r. Hall. A fine programme has been pre-
pared. The Women's Relief Corps Will
! render their assistance.
The West Wheeling Literary Society
met Friday night and elected the following
officers: President, William A. Tate; Vice
| President, Charles Vicinity; Secretary.
Mrs. Kate Moore; Treasurer, Mrs. Jennie
! Purdy.
CHIEF MCNICHoL went over 70 Martin S
| Ferry, Yesterday, TO assist in Identifying
/ John Moore, the man charged with the
| burglary of II. G.. GOulding's residence.
The suspect was held in 300 bail.
MARCH weather is certainly taking some
very queer freaks. Apparently the e!e.
ments are getting in shape for kind OF
general revolution, for no less than four
! storms agitated the atmosphere last week.
Tue members of the Y. NJ. c. A. Musical
Club are George Otto, banjo; Frank
| Miller, banjo; Fred. Conrad, banjo; Walter
/ Vardy, mandolin Edward Schepf, man
| dolin; VIM. Miller, guitar, and Kent Boyd,
| guitar
! AT the coming minstrel entertainment TO
] be given by the Elks, one OF the great feat-
! ures will be a mock initiation scene which
will be elaborate In scenic and histrionic
detail, and which will create great loads OF
merriment.
No concert will be given in the Y. NJ. c.
! 4. course this moath The course will
! close on Tuesday evening, April 9Th, with
! the Schubert Male Quartette. The concert
! will be given at the hall, for the reason
that the Opera House could not be had
/ that night.
REV. Mr.. TREY, Of the Baptist Church,
| preached quite an interesting discourse,
| last night, taking his text from the 36th
| chapter of Ezekiel, Both verse, and sermon
| iZng on the taking Of new heart, one
| that meant closer relations with the intn-
| tie God. The sermon was eloquent and To
the point.
Col L. F. COPELAND will lecture at the
! Association building Thursday evening,
| March L. He will lecture on "Snobs and
! snobbery," which is a commingling OF
| sterling facts and suggestive humor that
will certainly entertain and instruct his
audience Seats will be reserved at the
building Monday morning, the lith, at a.
| VI.
The Wheeling Press club is now com
| fortably enscOnced in its new quarters IN
/ lUt Kelly DOCK. III a lew udN Lht NAhA
| will have one Of the haudsomest rooms IN
| the city. Negotiations are now on foot
wi tn Mr. Frank Hennig 10 tender the club
| a benefit on the occasion OF his visit here
| in few weeks, and it is likely that salts
factory arrangements will be made.
GEORGE BOTTLES, of Martins Ferry
known TO the sports as "Tidy," got on an
| other Of his lively jGmborees last night
| He went to his home in the Third Ward,
and taking a chair in his hand proceeded "a
smash the windows and glass doors, aud
then raised havoc with the family general
". Officers soon arrived on the scene,
however, and he was taken to the lookup
MEMBERS Of the Reception Committee
are on duty at the Y. Nj. &. a. building on
the evenings Of March az follows: Tues
day, l, Is and %, Thos. Lawson and ChaS
q. Hall; Thursday, 3, II and 81, A. II
Sisson and Will McAdams; Friday, and
Is. VIM. Doulin and Raymond Seabrght
Monday, and n, Samuel Harper and
Chas II. Wheeler; Tuesday, and %
! Gee. Stephan and Caldwell Noise; Thurs
dav. 10 and "a, O. p. Mckee and w. b
! Mckee; Friday, II and %, Remick Truxel
and VIM. Klieves; Monday, IA and IS
Joseph Parker and Joshua Buckley.
TIE following is the programme for the
meeting of the Belmont County Medical
Society will be held in Bridgeport to-mor-
row. Address of the retiring President
DR.. B. O. Williams. Address of the Presi
dent elect. subject The benefit OF organi
cations, and the duty Of the profession OF
our county, to sustain and advance the in
terests of the Belmont Medical Society
DR.. A. H Hewetson. Lacerations OF
Prineum, DIR. William Estep. Discussion
opened by DR. John Cooke. Report OF
Section on Therapeutics and Materit
Medica," DR.. d. w. Long. Report Of cases
THE fve-mile handicap cross. country
run that was to take place on Washington
Birthday, was postponed on account Of the
unsatisfactory condition Of tho roads. The
run will take place Friday afternoon, the
18th. The contestants will start from the
Wheeling Park entrance ct o'clock sharp
the objective point being the Y. NJ. 9, a
building, Twentieth street entrance. judges
will be stationed along the route, and al
contestants falling 10 report will be barred
out The three handsome medals which
are on exhibition will be awarded TO thC
men securing first, second and third places
Entries will close Wednesday evening, the
10TH.
THE Lenten season has its effect on the
people at market. IL brings change into
the trade OF the market 10 some extent
The fish dealers have all they can do anC
the butchers are enjoying a sort Of holiday
The most notable change in the marke
during the past week is the return of th'
flower dealers, who ventured 10 place thu
product of their hot houses on sale Satur
day. They consider the winter as substan
italy ended since February was to-
cloudy for the grounding to see his shadow
and the color of the goose bone, which the,
hung up when they retired last fall, la
cleared. They say there may be snap o.
two, but expect no cold weather TO last an,
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