Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
EVENTS OF TIE WEEK.
Interesting Exercises Preceding the Com
mencement Yesterday.

Interesting Exercises Preceding the Conn
mencement Yesterday.
Not less interesting than the Com
mencement exercises were the series OF
entertainments and contests which
took pla during the week.
On Monday evening memorial
service was held in the
chapel. On Tuesday afternoon
a closely contested game OF ball took
place between the college team and the
Martins Fer4y club. The Bethany team
won, in ten inningerSy , = score OF 10
to s. On the following u.t1g, the
two teams again crossed bats, ahG,..
large crowd witnessed the game. The
! college team wiped up the earth with
It's opponents, knocking the sphere all
over the lot at will. The score was
"a to 2. With Dorsie and Wilhelmy,
| formerly a crack Uniontown battery,
the college team is almost invlnclole.
On Tuesday evening, the American
Literary Society gave an entertainment.
| The salutatory was delivered by II.
Moore, of Ohio. 1t was followed by an
Grafton by w. D. Cunningham, OF Penn
sylvania. Earl Wiefly delivered the vale
dictory, and the diplomas were then
presented.
Wednesday the regular class day ex-
ercises took place on the campus. VIM.
Turner, OF West Virginia, won the gold
medal for the greatest number OF vic
/ - In ha fnnr taafQ 'Hha
medal was presented at the CONNIE nee
ment exercises.
THE CLASS DAY EXERCISES
took place on Wednesday afternoon,
aud were oo the whole, very credit
able. Miss Louise Meyers, Of Wheel
ing, was the historian; Robert Patton,
Of Somerset, Pa, the poet; Miss Ina
Bowman, Of Wellsburg, the prophet;
G. C. Johnson, Of Ohio, the orator;
Charles Darsle, OF Kentucky, the
grumbler. J. e. Reeves, OF Kansas,
was junior instructor. The response
was made by J. F. Fooner, Of Ohio.
Wednesday evening the Neotrophian
Literary Society entertainment was
given. Henry Vodry, Of Ohio, deliver
ed the salutatory. J. F. Former, Of
Ohio, made an address upon "Concen-
tratiou." w. d. Brandenburg, Of Ohio,
followed in an excellent grafton. The
valedictory was pronounced by w. R.
CHM ett Of North Carolina.
The NeotrophiAn entertain ment was
followed by the annual banquet OF the
Beta Theta ri fraternity. Covers were
laid for forty-three guests, and an eX-
ceIlent menu was discussed. A. b.
| Creighton officiated as POSTMASTER, aud
responses were made by G. S. Platten-
burg, OF Uniontown, Pa; w. Fl. Brand
enburU, A. r. Hamilton. of Pittsburg,
and Mr.. Jacobs, OF Wellsburg. The
caterer was Mrs. Speidel, Of Wellsburg.
NOTES.
Il Is understood that Pittsburg
college is after the Bethany crack
battery.
Dr. Boone, of New York, who gradu-
ated thirty-eiGht years ago, was present
at the Commencement.
c. S. Addy and Nose Beam, of Pitts
burg, were guests at the Beta Theta Pl
banquet Wednesday evening.
Eugene Hanke, OF this city, gave
several exhibitions upon a tight rope
and lrapeze Wednesday and yesterday.
Mrs. G. D. McGrew, OF Pittsburg,
whose husband is president OF the COL
umbia Oil Company, was visitor yes
terday.
Prof. John A. Majors, OF Morgan
town, and Superintendent w. H. An
derson, Of the Wheeling public schools,
were prominent educators who were
present yesterday.
A. r. Hamilton, of the Pittsburg
| Press, an alumnus of the college, was
present during the exercises OF the
week. Mr.. Hamilton was one OF the
correspondents who accompanied Cox
ey's hobo army on its march to Wash
| ington.
Among the Wheeling visitors were
DR.. E. c. Meyers and wife, John Men
del and wife, Mrs. DR.. Tener, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Claude Buckley, Misses Sue Wright,
Nettie Dobbins, Nora Simpson, holly
Patterson, Mrs. Meyers and daughter
and others.
Alta meeting held By the trustees OF
the college, the resignation Of Prof. g.
w. Ellis, who has filed the Latin chair,
was accepted. The year just closed has
been a very prosperous one, over $50
pupils having been enrolled.