Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-30
BELLAIRE.
RC&OA0
June lst.

4u6 dDuuaA AlOCliGk NAO
the Belmont Savings and Loan Company
will be held tomorrow evening. ThlS as
ISOLATION has grown 70 be one OF the lead
ing money institutions Of the city and has
enjoyed prudent and judicious manage
ment.
This CITY was visited by a very heavy
thunder storm yesterday morning, which
awakened nearly all our citizens, as the
thunder was terrific.
Thomas J. Dauford, of Crsbapple, this
county, has secured through the influence
Of Hon. Benjamin Butterwor;h, a good
position in the Ohio building at the
Worlds Fair.
Belmont county Democracy loses one Of
its able party workers in the removal OF
ex-AudiJor w. n. Cortland TO Virogue,
Wis. He was considered one OF the best
committee chairmen the county ever had,
and avery genial and e%nterprising gentle
man.
Rev. Earl Cranston, D. D., head OF the
Western Methodist Book Concern, OF Gin
%cinnati, who is spoken Of in connection
with the next Bishopric to be filled, Will
occupy the pulpit at special services to DC
held in the First NJ. E. Church to-dsy.
The object of mis- visit is 70 help tho con-
gregation raise money 10 liquidate the re-
naming Indebtedness on the church build
/ TX dOUlL lNO-kuAAl1 JIG 80
ing having already been secured through
the energetic effort of Rev. Mr.. Chandler
since he came here a few months ago.
The public school entertainment Will
| probably be held next Friday evening.
| Those who have witnessed the rehearsals
think 10 will be equal il not superior TO the
one held a few weeks ago.
The school teachers throughout the State
| will now have a uniform examination, &C.
cording to q new law.
Work Is being pushed rapidly forward
on the electric railway.
Tho Trustees Of the Belmont County
| Children's Home held their regular month
~ meeting at that institution on Thursday.
In the evening the employees of the Home
gave a banquet TO Mr. and Mrs. Peter
| Giffen, the retiring Superintendent and
| MatTon. Mi. Giffen was presented with a
handsome center table, by the employees.
There were present MIR. and Mrs. II.
Roemer, Of this city; Mr.. and Mrs. w. w.
Watt, OF Jacobsburg, and James A. Shep-
herd. The County Commissioners Will at
their meeting this week, in compliance
with the new law, appoint another Demo
cratic Trustee, thus making the Board non
partisan.
Shankland Thornberry is in from Mans
field, O., TO spend the day with friends.
The Columbian Minstrels will give an
other entertainment in this city the last OF
Mas, with q complete change OF pro
gramme.
The PtafHeubach- Brokan wedding Eext
Wednesday will re the largest anair OF
this kind that has been held IN this city for
some time. Over one hundred invitations
have been issued, including one TO each
member of Hackett's brass band, in which
the groom is a leading member. The cere-
mony will take place at the residence OF
James letters, in the Fourth ward.
j. H. Molterand Joe Moore took q run on
their wheels out TO St. Clsirsville on Fri
dav. They returned via Wheeling and met
alot of the boys and report a highly enjoy
able trip.
An enjoyable surprise social vas given
Miss Nellie Motler at the homo OF her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. MOtler, on South
Belmont street, Thursday evening on neT
return from a visit to friends at Manning
ton, w. Va. The evening was spent In
games, music and other amusements, and
refreshments were Served ut q seasonaole
hour. Eighteen couples were present.
A branch union of the League OF Ameri-
can Wheelmen is being formed here, and il
is expected that twelve or fifteen members
will be secured.
The current number Of Scribner's NagI-
zine contains an article by w. D.. Howells,
the well known novelist entitled, "The
Country Printer which possesses a local
interest from the fact that Mr.. Howels
was at one time, in his youth, a resident OF
this city.
Richard Thorpe met with a narrow es
cape from death at the water works pump
ing house. He was working on the ladders
ia the we'll, the rungs OF which are Shiny,
when he slipped and fell, but was caught
~ Fo1l0,-- .ror-p,ap IN TINA RI nrar0ur hic
fall some fifty feet below. The day before
he slipped AZ the same place and fell a
short distance, but fortunately caught
rung of the ladder and saved himself.
Two women in an alley near the B. IL o.
shop tried 70 settle a dispute by scratching
aud pulling each others hair. The agrees
or in the ARRAY was gathered in aud added
IS and costs 10 the city's revenue for the
satisfaction she gained in the combat
The four Georgetown chaps who ere
ated q disturbance in the Second ward
were assessed the usual fine for such work
after spending the night in the city Jail.
Oficer O'Malley gathered in a poor IN.
fortunate who became stupid from imbib'
ing book beer and fell asleep while sitting
on the pavement. He slept out the rest OF
his nap in the city bastile and secured his
fine.
There will be a contest between Mayor
Mahood, of Benwood, and Mayor MCGOWAN,
of this city, for a handsome gold watch al
the Jr. o. U. A. M. festival.
A new lodge, knights of Pythias, will be
organized at WarnOck Tuesday night. A
team win go out from this city to teach the
Country boys how TO sit aStride q goat.
They have fitted up a new neat hall for the
new Warnock lodea
YESTERDAY was unHt for outdoor work,
and many cointry people were in the city.
viii Smith viii go cut TO Canton, H.,
with Day Il Doufherty, to act as time
keepea for the firm.
Fruit are now OF the opinion
that none Of the fruit in this vicinity has
been killed by the freeze and frost Some
of the early cherry and peach buds were in
badlooking shape from the freeze, but the
cloudy cool weather, which followed,
brought them around all night. Had there
been q few days of warm sunshine th(
bnds would have been killed outright
Herman Reece, Of tn First ward, died or
Friday of dropsy, aged sixty-five years
Funeral this morning at IL o'clock. De
ceased leaves several grown children.
Joseph w. Heatherington, the new en-
gineer at the water works power house
has been granted 81, 900 per year salary, tht
same as his predecessor received. Thoma!
Cochran will be retained as fireman.
Our coal miners will this morning lool
anxiously for the news from the confer
ence meeting Of the executive board o
mine workers and the coal operators which
was held al Columbus yesterday.
John A. Gsllaher, Esq, has returned
from St Marys, W. Va
The dispute in regard to the work on tn,
Pultney township pixies, being Improperly
done, is TO De opened again, as meeting i
called for City Hall next Saturday for tht
taxpayers To consider ''how TO proceeC
against the commissioners OF Belmon
county for failing 70 have the work dom