Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-30
BENWOOD.

BENWOOD.
Private consumers have no difficulty
now in securing coal. II is gotten
from BelIaire and is delivered at the
residences for eight cents a busheE
which is very reasonable, considering
the conditions, Fear OF coal famine
has passed away.
Yesterday afternoon there was an In
teresting game on the bridge grounds.
The players were the Cooke Blues and
the McMechen club. Tne sFore was 10
10 S ia favor of the Blues. Currans ADD
O'Bierue was the battery for the Blues.
oliver Marshall, arrested at Littleton
for jumping a board bill there Of $500,
is ct the lookup. He owes the money
70 John Bssett, the boarding house
man. III Marshall does not settle the
bill be will be taken 20 MoundSville jail.
A number Of persons Of this place
made a lO, of nbise and created general
disturbance OC'Ferry street last Monday
night about 10 o'clock. Many com
plants were heard from citizens by rea-
son Of it Yesterday.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of the NJ. f.
church vii. give an "OId WOmen'S En-
tertainment" at the church, next Sauur-
day evening. Prot. Martin, OF Wheel
Ing, will be there With his Stereoptican
Views.
The old soldiers will meet this morn
ing at the City Hall at o'clock. They
will march To body 20 MCMechen
cemetery headed by martial music,
where the heroes grave will be deco
rated.
c. c. Smith engineer, Of Wheeling,
aud others in the new street railway
were here Yesterday looking over the
proposed route and selecting a way 10
cross the p. ~ O. tracks in town.
There are a number OF strong Akin
son men mere, and 10 is stated that his
followers have the best party workers.
Politics To the Republican Compression
al race are becoming heated.
A child OF VIM. Barlow died last Mon
day night, aged three years, of whOop.
ing cough. The remains will be buried
this morning down the river
Mrs. j. Howard Holt, Of Moundsville,
aud Miss BARTLETT, Of West Milford, w.
Va, were guests Of Mrs. L. II. Meighen
yesterday.
Jesse Johnson, VIM. Hughes and
Murray Miller, bricklayers OF Allie
gheny City, are at work at the River
side.
A fishing club, with Willie Goldman
as captain, left here last Monday for a
down river trip, to be gone six weeks,
Prois. Barton and Peabody's singing
class will meet at the home OF Mrs.
Eva Edwards, next Monday evening.
A crowd from here will go to Mounds
vile this evening TO a dance. They will
go in big fOur-hOrse wagon.
W. b. Myers, a we'll known mill man,
left yesterday for his home at Grafton
TO stay Till the mill resumes.
Charles Woojlenweaver is doing some
tall hustling for the Republican nomi-
nation for the Legislature.
The telephone will DO put in at the
City Building this week. 1t will be
kept under lock and key.
Joseph Mahood, Jr., an accommodate
ing son Of the eX-Aayor, will 90 into
the fish business here.
John Ljneberger and John Leach,
delegates % the Pitts6urg League Con-
veutiOn are home.
A number Of persons from here at
tended FOrepaugh'S show at Wheeling,
last Monday.
The Cooke Blues will play 3 Bellaire
team this afternoon, on the Riverside
grounds
The Red Mems picnic at Whitman's
Grove will be the sixteenth OF next
month.
West Beck aud family left yesterday
for Blaine, o., TO visit relatives.
James Mitchell is able to be out, af-
ter an attack OF typhoid fever.
Constable Huggins, of Listleton, was
10 town yesterday on business.
Miss Lucy Burns, OF SJeubenville, is
visiting Mrs. n. Nanceuren.
John Fonner has moved his family
from Wheeling 10 BenwOOd.
The X. OF p. will observe Memorial
day some time next week.
All business houses will be closed at
noon to-day.
The new NJ. E. parsonage is we'll IN
der way.
3. Wilson was in town yesterday.
Edward Anderson is III.
City finances are low.