Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-08
KINGwOOD.


KrNGwooD. w. Va, May Mrs. w. M.
o Dawson aud son, Daniel, spent last
Sunday ia the country, visiting Mrs. Benz.
Mrs. Jacob Welch, of Albrights, left
Monday afternoon for Baltimore. She eX-
poets 10 go into q hospital aud see II she
cannot be cured. She has not walked for
I'D OF 10 vesrs.
a. IS. Munroe and wife were at Wheeling
this week, Mr.. NJ. going TO attend the ses-
sion of the I. o. h. NJ, and his wife to
ylsit relatives.
DIR. Harugan and James McGrew, grand
son of Hon. u. G. McGrew, of this place,
both of MOrgantOwn, were on our streets
last Saturday.
The members Of the NJ. r. church voted
unanimously i'm favor of closing The Worlds
Fair grounds on Sunday and against the
sale Of beer o. intONlcants upon the Fair
grounds, and pctitioned Congress through
our Representatives and Senators to vote
tOwithhold further appropriations unless
the above was complied with. SO far, this,
perhaps, was All right, but a threat or boy
colt was added on saying il the Congress-
men failed to do as the petition prayed,
then the petitioners would vote and work
AGAINST them. The latter clause should
have been left of.
The County Commissioners at a special
session held Monday and Tuesday, for that
purpose. after considerable talk passed an
order abandoning the county road from
Rowelsburg 10 New Trowbridge Ferry, in
compliance TO a petition gotten up by the
BriCry Mountain Lumber Co. The COM
pauv agree, in consideration of the ahan-
donment 10 build railroad on the old road
bed
DR.. NJ. s. Bryte, OF Bruceton, was on
our streets Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Ida Spahr'S subscription school
o0ened Monday with q good attendance.
The time for the opening Of the Masonic
Lodge 90 tlis place, was liked for the 23d
of May, instead OF the 18th, as l wrote you
lastweex.
James W. Flynn has his new house about
ready % occupy.
Ne see 0y sups sent 10 physicians that
the State Medical Society meets at Clarks-
burg the 25th, 25th and 27th insts.
IL was quite a sight 10 see the mountain
fires Sunday night, and gave the young
people good excuses for being out late.
Several hres were started during the day,
and the nigh wind spread them rapidly,
the people living in that region saved their
residences and Out-buildings by firing
against the fire, that is, starting fire in
front of the OncOming fire, and directing it
around their premises, IN this way prevent
iGg great loss Of property.
c. T. Mickey left Monday TO take in the
meeting of the l. 0. r. NJ at Wheeling,
and 10 visit other points.
Miss Minnie Allen returned on Monday
ana left Wednesday, in company with her
mother, for their new home at Elkins.
MesSrs. StOrer and Younger, Of the
Bviery Mountain Lumber Company, were
here Monday before the County Commits
sioners, with petitions asking for the right
10 run q railroad down Cheat river on the
County road bed.
MIR. Maursn,a copyist in the dispatcher's
Office az Grafton, gave our town a flying
visit Monday.
Mrs. Ola Sharp, Of independence, is
visiting the home Of her parents at Al
br GIT, this week.
j. Ain Martin, our County Clerk, has
devised a novel ballot-bOx, 10 meet the re
Quirements Of the new law. 4 metal door
with a piece of weUd the thickness of the
wood in the box, held 10 the metal by a
knob on the upper surface OF the metal.
The door closed. haSp on which two
locks can be put when the OailOting IS done
the knob IS pushed, which carries the I'M
der or wooden door over the slot through
which the ballots are put; spring pushes
up and lastenS this inside door. thereby fill
ing up the SLOT, and the slot cannot be
NAc-NO NAs-oAe JUN AuthS octuS taken Oh.
IL IS very simple yet Ingenious contriv-
arce and viii meet ali the requirements of
the new law.
One Of our "blo0dsn came in from the
couDtry the other night singing:
''Thc saddest time I ever SAW
Was when / called upon her pa:
~ hear was warm, the wind was raw
BIS voice was rough-a crow could cav
An answer softer than his 'n-a-w'
Fol-dc-rol de-riddle-de-ra,
Evidently he had been rejected by the
fair ones father, or else the "Ra- ta-ta-ta,
b00m-de-ragn had struck in on him.
A biz reception WIS given Thursday
evening by Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Z. Stone, in