Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-07
BRIDGEPORT.

As Decoration Day is rapidly rolling
around the people OF town are inquiring
what is to be the nature OF the memorial
exercises on this great day devoted to our
! honored dead. The relief corps about town
nave been losing no time in regard to this,
but have steadfastly kept on the move.
They have appointed committees who met
during the past week and decided that
with the corps namely, the American Me-
chanics and Branum Post would consoli-
date. In the morning they are to march 70
Weeks cemetery and decorate the graves;
In the afternoon they will go TO Llnwoo
and decorate, after which memorial eAer-
cises of an appropriate nature will be held.
Hon. C.. l.. Weems, Of ST. Glars
vile, has been asked to make
an address. It was thought early In the
winter that by Decoration Day we would
have a soldiers monument in Linwood
cemetery TO dedicate. But as tune mas
rolled around we find very little accom-
plished in that line. There is a movement
on foot to give a big Fourth OF Jnly picnic
and devote the proceeds toward the monu-
ment fund. The members OF the posts are
discouraged at the little interest tnat is
displayed toward this project. and think
If the citizens would take the matter tnem-
selves and do some individual work that IT
WOulQ NOT DC lOuR OCAOLC h0 NC0NA
| erected 10 our dead heroes.
Yesterday Squire w. II. Howells had
three young boys, Fred McConaughy, Ben
Stuff and Harry Church, before him, on o
charge of stealing flowers from Robert
Atchison's lawn in Kirkwood. After a
careful review of the case, Church plead
guilty. admitting that he had stolen the
llacs and had given them TO the other
boys. AS no proof could be brought
against the other two, they were dis
missed, and young Church was fined one
dollar andscosts.
The Masons will go to BellaiIe to-mor-
row evening, where they will attend a
meeting n inspect the WORK or a new
turn home the same evening on a special
train.
Work on the street railway is still ad'
vancing rapidly. The men have Pike
street dug up through TO the West End.
The site for the new power house has
been selected on the right hand sine OF the
road, this side OF West Wheeling. The
site is said to be above high water mark.
The work on the new bridge is attract
ing quite O. crowd around the river Ia that
vicinity. One section Of the back bridge
IS uncovered and a portion Of the sidewalk
removed, compelling pedestrians to take
the wagon road for d short distance.
The cautata given at the M. u. church
last Thursday and Friday evenings proved
Ia every way to be a great success. me
committee ia charge will realize about $50,
which will 20 toward the building fund Of
their new church.
A colored convict escaped the st.
Clairsville Jail one day during the past
week, and had gotten as far as Etnaville
where Officer Conway arrested him on
orders from Jailer Harris. He was held
at the Jail In the City Building until yes.
terday, when deputies came down and
took him back again.
The Chautauqua Circle will met at the
residence of Miss Matte Smith on Tues
day evening.
Clairsyille, where she will spend a few
days.
Mrs. John Scott and daughter left yes
terday for Iona and other points through
the West. She will be gone several
months.
j. c, Dent is able to be out again after a
severe illness,
Mrs. Ryan and daughter Burnice, are
visiting friends at St~eubenville.
viii Smith and wife, of Mingo, will
spend Sunday with friends in town.
Rev. Meek, Of Irondale, is calling on
friends here.
Miss Bess Morrow, Of New Athens, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph Lafferty.
Miss Annie Clarke returned yesterday
from a visit to friends at Kelsey.
Mrs. Alice Mcclure is In Sistersville Wis
ting friends.
Arthur Morgan, E. Menser, Oliver
Menser and Benjamin Jones were ar
raigned before Squire Clark last even
ing on q charge Of assault and battery TO
James Grimminger, Of Etnayille. After
a hearing the Squire dismissed Morgan
and Ed Menser, the evidence against
them not being sufficient to prove them
guilty. The other W men were held over
to await a hearing sometime during the
coming week.