Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-01

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Court against the Bellaire Nail Works,
| claiming SS,SOSS2 and interest from Sep
! TENDER 1859, for gas furnished the works
1.-THE report that the toll collected on the
Bellaire and Wegee pike amounts TO S. per
! day is correct, and the other pixies now I'M
! der course of construction pay quite as
well there should be little difficulty in
keeping them ia trst-class order after they
are completed.
j. a Peddicord, the grocer, will move
out to Klees tomorrow and take charge OF
| the new toll house on the Bellaire and Nc
Mahon's creek pike.
The Farmers Alliance lodges organized
in this county by w. w. Carroll, of
Moundsville, have organized County AL
! lance with the following officers: Presi-
dent, Robert Mckelvey, of Key; Vice
President, Henry Bigger, of Powhatan;
! Secretary, J. II. Denham, Of st. Glars
vile; Treasurer, Theodore Neff, of Bell
aire; Business Agent, j. 0. Mckelvey, Of
Vallsnia: Lecturer, /. p. Myers, of Keyr
| Chaplain, Milton Day, OF Wegee; Steward,
/ Walker Fulton, OF Glencoe; Doorkeeper,
II. G. Meek, Belmont Ridge; Assistant
| Doorkeeper, S A. White, Key.
Warren township has three candidates
for nomination for Recorder on the Demo
cratic county ticket, Joseph n. kennon,
James II. Mcconnell and Anthony Shan
non.
The driving park on the commons is to be
/ put il shape for the season. To make the
necessary preparations a meeting OF the
Association will be held in Central Block,
| Wednesday evening.
/ The County Board of School Examiners
will hold meeting at st. Clairsville next
! Saturday to examine pupils OF the ungrad-
ed country schools who desire TO become
! pupils of the town or city High schools.
The new law places the city and county
pupils on an equality in regard 10 admis
sion to High schools. The school boards
of the respective townships pay the tuition
/ fees.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Belmont Savings and Loan Company
will be held at the Office of the Company
tomorrow evening.
Joe Heatherington will represent Bellaire
Lodge, I. O. o. F., at the State Encamp-
ment at Painsville, o., this week.
Fifteen more of the employees OF the
| Bellaire Stamping Company left for
Harvey, ILL.,, the past week.
Henry k'ilton wentto Ironton, o., yester-
day to finish plumbim contract in that
city.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Bellaire Gas and Electric Company
will be held at the office of the company on
the 2lst inst.
There has been some talk of spice mill
| being erected on the site of Rodefer Bros
old glass factory, in the event of the
Messrs. Rodefer deciding to build their
new factory on the site of the old goblet
factory.
| Belmont county is given eleven delegates
| in the Democratic State convention
| The Board Of Directors of the old Central
Ohio Railroad Company have organized by
electiug j. II. Collins, President; w. n.
| Ijams, Treasurer; p. G. Sneed, Secretary;
| W. T. Thelin, Auditor
John II. Hopkins left yesterday for
| GAINESVILLE to Join Evangelist Van Pelt.
, They will begin work at Beverly, o.
a. r. Barrett, of Demos, was with
| friends in the city yesterday, having fin
| ished a course in the Wheeling Business
| College.
The caliope on the new steamer Iron
! Queen drew big crowd to the river bank
Yesterday, and the man who fingers the
keys returned the compliment by playing
"Shall we gather at the river"
We understand that it is the intention Of
| the Farmers Alliance to receive bids from
the different merchants in this city on the
| lowest per cent profit they will take TO
supply the individual members Of the ALI
ance and their families with such goods as
they desire IL is said the Alliancein West
! Virginia has such an arrangement with a
number of merchants In Wheeling. For
! instance, a contract is made with a clothier
TO sell at a profit Of l0per cent. Each men,
| Der of the Alliance is furnished with a
properly certified card which entities him 10
/ share in the reduced rates given by the
clothier. The clothier is closely watched,
and if tits found that he is practiclng decep-
| ton as 10 the price paid for goods, the con-
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cannot be made with merchants, the ALI
ance may start large general store OF its
own.
A young daughter Of Louis Pelky, OF the
First ward, was buried yesterday.
! After Ed Steger had received notice
| from the Street Commissioner To perform
his two days labor on the streets he was
| presented with fine miniature shovel, &C
! companied by the admonition not to exert
| himself beyond his strength.
The B. & o. carpenters are again making
repairs on the Union street bridge over the
railroad tracks. The old structure has to
be repaired quite frequently.
! Miss ETA McKelvey, of Lewis's Mills,
has been the guest OF Miss Nora Weeks, OF
the Second ward, the past few days.
Mrs Mary Harrison, Of Warnock, seven
enty-seven years of age, has just completed
a bed quilt which contains 10 Sl6 pieces.
| Lee Hall aud family have moved to Glen
| coe, in the hope Of recruiting Mrs. Hairs
health.
Ex-County Commissioner Berry, of Bust
ssburg, was in the city yesterday.
! Wool buyers in this county are Offering
| % cents for unwashed and 70 cents for
washed wool. How much protection is
needed to bring it up 10 the promised 40
| cents per pound!
The Gravel Hill Reading Club held an
! interesting meeting at the home OF Mrs.
! VIM. Wallace Friday evening.
The Anna Mitchell Company will open a
weeks engagement at the Elysian theater
| tomorrow night. Miss Mitchell was form
erly with the w ate Comedy Company, and
! is a general favorite in Bellaire. They play
! popular prices.
The Business Agents OF the Farmers
| Alliance subordinate lodges of the county
met with the Business Agents OF the Coun-
! " Alliance lodge in this city yesterday af-
! ternoon. The conference was secret, but
! il is presumed the meeting was called 20
consult on the matter of purchases, men
! toned in another paragraph OF this letter.
Mrs. John s. Hamilton died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Gill, yester-
! day morning, after lingering illness OF
nervous prostratiou, aged fifty-one years.
! She leaves husband and two children,
| both married.
Spangler Post, G.. A. r., is making pre-
! parstions for Memorial Day There will
! be no parade. The members of the Post
will march from their hall 10 the several
cemeteries, decorate the graves of soldiers.
and return. Exercises similar 10 those Of
last year will likely be held in the evening
at one OF the churches.
HANNIBAL.
HANNIBAL, O., April SO.-Clair O'Neill,
Of Wheeling, spent last Sunday with his