Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-17

her home on Fifth street, last evening. Re-
freshments were served, and a very enjoy
able evening was passed. The proceeds
are devoted for the benefit of the M. T..
parsonage fund.
Thieves attempted an entrance into the
residence Of j. Howard Holt the other
night. Mr.. Holt was from home at the
time, aud his wife gave the alarm which
brought the n~eighbors, who trighted the
burglars away.
The brick pavement is laid on Tenth
street over half way from the railroad TO
Lafayette avenue. Had il not been for the
bad weather the whole Of the street would
have been down this week, but the work.
men were compelled to lay OF on account OF
the rain.
Mrs. Ralph Patterson, Of Weston, is the
guest OF her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Charles
Jackson, on Seventh street.
Mrs. O. :. Fream returned yesterday to
her home ia PennsbOrO, after q visit to her
sister, Mrs. Charles Q. Newman.
G.. X. Oldham returned Friday from a
trip down the river, as far as Marietta.
w. w. Burton will commence in a short
time the publication Of a weekly news
paper ia the interest OF the Jr. 0. u. A. NJ.
and all kindred patriotic organizations
throughout the State. The new journal
viii DC a four page paper, and will DO called
Tie American NcUS. Mr.. Burton already
has a good subscription list started.
A number OF our citizens are highly graf
lied over the announcement that the
N0rthwood glass plant OF Martins Ferry.
will likely be moved 70 this place and put
in operation. Since the project was mooted
a number Of gentlemen have taken a wide
interest In 10, int are e-ndeavoring with all
their might 20 make their e%ndeavOrs a sue
cess. The plant would give employment
- about two hundred hands.
Mrs. Hanson Crisweil, who returned
the fore part OF the week from a visit to
her son at Columbus, D., very III, IS able 70
be out again.
Ira NJ. Burchinal and Benjamin Ramsey.
OF Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were the
guests OF J.. W. Burchinal, editor of the
Herald, this week.
W. II. Webster and wife contemplate an
extensive visit % the Mid-Wiuter EXPOSE
tion in California. They are making prep
a~rstions and will likely leave in a short
time 70 be gone till spring.
Mrs. T.. Ii. Blake and Mrs. W. j. Burley
We're ia Wheeling Friday.
j. d. Bruce, representing the Glendale
Coal Company IN this city, is the most
painstakiug c~Oaldealerthe community ever
had, and with such a superior quality or
coal as he is receiving from that company,
makes 10 possible for him 70 please the
most fastidiOus.
the management Of the Opera House
have secured the noted play True Irish
Hearts for Christmas night. The com
pany carries all its own special scenery,
aud will be quite a treat to opera gOers.
A lJtle child of VIM. Drake died last
Monday night and was buried on Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Bruce, of Winohes-
ter, Va, are visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Q. Il. Oldham, on Tenth street.
Paved streets are good enough, and every
brick laid adds 10 the excellency Of that
sort Of an Improvement. But, while the
city lays a square of street TO make it some
better, u is not necessary that II destroy
half a mile of other highway. Every citi-
zen ought TO receive equal treatment. Yet
despite 10 the contractors FOR the city al
most made impossible not only the street
I'm this city but a quarter Of a mile OF
county road by hauling heavy loads OF
gravel over the soft roads along Western
avenue. This was an outrage and tue
county should protect its ways and its cit
liens. These people seem to think that
this road was built for the express pur-
pose Of their destruction. One can pro-
test, if he can do nothing else.