The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-30
MARTINS FERRY.
News Notes and Personals from Our Near
Neighbour,

give q better performance lhah many
travelling companies. They have good
paper. w. /, brown is middle man and
Robert jenkins and II. W. Gnndlpg are
end men. Benjamin Watkins does
song and dance, as also do VIII Gibson
and Bur Watkins, two colored boys,
Ed Fit2simmons Is q specially man,
All OF these are good, The buckeye
Quartette Is great, 1t consists OF Rob-
ert jenkins, treble, II. w. Ganding,
baritone, Frank Souaers, tenor, and
Wilson Purcell, bass,
T~wenty.seven persons united with the
NJ. L, church during the revival the
past week. Yesterday made the fourth
Sunday and 1t still continues, The
church Is crowded nightly and the in
terest Is increasing, Rev, A. w, Butts,
the pastor, is doing excellent work and
will continue the meetings Us long rs
any good can be done, A more SUCCESS
full revival was never held In this
church. Tho longest IN the history Of
tho church lasted for eleven weeks dur
ing tho pastorate Of Rev, Earl D, HolIz.
The mills have almost discontinued
the use OF natural gas, Tho Laughlin
mill Is not using any. At the Etna it
is used only at sheet mills | and 2 and
one anneallng furnace, and at the
Standard it Is used only at n sheet
furnace, tho break down and under the
%galvRnizing pot, None is used in the
new mill here. Manufactured gas APP
pears to be satisfactory.
City Solicitor Pratt told the INTgLLI.
GENcER yesterday that the electric light
case will come up for a hearing when
court meets, and tho injunction will
likely be lnade perpetual on tho ground
that the special act OF the general as
sembly, under which the people voted,
was unconstitutional. Newark is hay.
ing q similar experience.
A change was made in the Sunday
trains on the Wheeling y Lake Erie
railroad yesterday, The S~seubenVtl!e
train, which formerly arrived At $3.50 a.
M, now arrives ut $3.50 p. m, and re-
turns to steubenville at 8;l0 city time.
No change has been made in the main
line Sunday train. The 4;47 train does
not connect for Steubenville.
Tho Terminal Railway Company has
erected a coy depot at the Junction
with a telegraph office in connection.
In the latter will be five wlros, three
Wheeling & Lake Eric, one Terminal,
and one Cleveland, Lorain \ Wheeling.
Considerable business will be done
there.
Anumber Of s%teubenville boys skatod
from that city to Martins Ferry on dif-
ferent days last week and pronounce
the skating excellent as far down as the
sisters" From there down the tom
poraturo seemed warmer and tho leo
had thawed,
Among the attractions booked for the
opera house tho remainder ofthe season
are Yreeland's mlnstrols, February 81;
Charles A. Loder, February IA: "The
Burglar" March. IL; Little Magget,
March 90, and Frank Hennig, May 81.
Mr.. L. Lamens Hamilton, who rec
emily resigned the secretatyship Of tho
Y. NJ. o. A., has accepted u similar
place at Lamenceyille, Pa, near Pitts
burgh, at a higher salary than lie re-
ceived here.
To-day the break down mill at the
Etna will commence making sheet.iron
bars twelve inches wide, i've and one
half inches wider than they have been
making them. The rolls were changed
yesterday.
The Deep Run school house was
crowded to its utmost on Saturday night
ut the meeting Of Washington club, No.
ia L. L. A., to hear q debate on Pro-
lection and FREQ Trade. The former
won.
Mr.. John Hayno says there Is no dis.
agreement between tho committee and
the contractor Of the sewering in the
alley between Fourth and Fifth streets,
as stated in a Sunday paper.
Mr.. Charles Carpenter, Of tho Bel.
mont brick and tile works, has returned
from Louisville, where he attended the
national convention OF brick makers.
Mr.. Charles oslor, OF %Barnesville, was
in town among friends on Sunday and
reports everything moving satisfactorily
on the 'Sun.K Kissed Hills"
The gold watch ratified off by John
Williams, Of Don, was drawn by Charles
Jones, Of Wheeling, with ticket No. 245.
Mrs. Delora Duff is quite sick at her
home on Third street near Fayette. She
was lightweight years old yesterday.
The Buckeye glass works will prob.
ably set pots this week and resume the
early part Of the month.
Morton Myers is still confined to his
home with rheumatism. lie has been
laid up twenty weeks.
Both factories will resume at the
Laughlin mill this morning. Therc is
q fair stock OF nails.
Tho two-woeks-old infant Of Mrs.
schawl, who was buried only last week,
died on Saturday.
Bayless Bros. arc enlarging and i'm
proving their blow Pipe works and tin
shop.
John II. Madden has had his pension
increased from 50 to IS per month.
The thaw has left the payements on
First street in q fearful condition.
Joseph B. Henderson, Of Vanderbilt,
Pa, was home over Sunday.
Edward opolt Is hOre from Little
Rock, Ark,
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