Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-11
SMALL TALA
minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PIthily Told

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tatoes at the Fair.
ATTENTION is called to the announce
ment OF Prof. julius Hoose in another
column of this issue,
COLONEL JOHN SUPLER, OF the East
End, had a pumpkin at the State Fair
which took the second prize.
SEVERAL young ladies Of the Eighth
ward will give dance tonight at Alert
Hall, on South Jacob street.
CHARLES OBERMAN, the saloonist OF
Thirty.third ana Jacob streets, gave all
who applied last night free refresh
ments.
SATURDAY afternoon thieves entered
the yard of Charles Driehorst, on South
Market street, and stole two aprons and
some soap.
IMPROVEMENTS aud additions to
Axiom Hall are about completed. The
janltor's new residence will be moved
into this week.
MARY A. HAMILTON yesterday quail
fed as the executor Of the will OF John
A. Hamilton, deceased. Bond, $1,000;
no surety required.
A MEETING will be held this evening
at the Fourth Street NJ. Z. Church,
at which officers of the Union Epworth
League will be chosen.
THE Linsly Institute reopened yes
terday with an enrolment OF ll6 pu-
pills, the largest In the history OF the in
Stitutlon on opening day.
HENRY Roy was arrested by officer
Herbert, last night for dsorderly con-
duct. Fatty" DriIler was arrested by
Officer Daum for the same offense.
A. Redmcn, Jr., of sixteenth street,
had his fGce and one eye badly bruised
yesterday morning, by flash at his
worE in the employ OF TrImble &c Lutz.
SOUTH SIDE and East Wheeling So.
clety people to the number Of about
twenty-five couples will go to Wheeling
Park tomorrow afternoon for an out
ing.
IN the Criminal Court, yesterday, in
the case of the State v. 5. YockOwski,
alias S. Meajiski. charged with grand
larceny, there was a verdict OF not
guilty.
SOME Of the many friends of James
Bier, the East End fisherman, have
presented him with as fine Louisiana
bamboo fishing pole as has ever been
seen in the city.
PEOPLE out the motor line says mos
quitos are terrible out that way. They
can get through screens or anything
else put in their way. They are said TO
be fully as bad there as in the city.
WILLIAM and Annie Gore were arrest
ed by Constable Blocker, yesterday, on
a charge of drunkenness, and being
taken before Justice Ankle. were sent
to Jail in default Of a fne Of one dollar
and costs.
ONE of the scarcest things in the city
now is the oil OF pennyroyal. All the
druggists say that they have had the
greatest rush they ever had for the oil,
as it is alleged that it will keep the
mosquitoes away.
JOHN EMG, Of Twenty-fourth street,
is getting up bicycle club. He has
thirty-five signers. and II fifty are
secured the elegant wheels are TO cost
500 each. Eight OF the bikes arrived
yesterday, and are beauties.
THE City Board OF Equalization and
Appeals met yesterday morning, and
after comparing the assessors books,
referred three First ward petitions to
a sub Committee. The Committee will
take up the Second ward this morning.
NEXT Sunday, the w. e. L. Z. will
run an excursion to Canton, Meyers
Lake, Zoar and other places in Ohio.
Many are arranging to go from this
city. The train will leave the depot at
1870 a. m. and will return the same
night.
AT last evenings Martins Ferry
Council meeting the ordinance granting
permission to the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railway to construct track along
the river was amended in several par
ticulars, and was then passed TO third
reading.
DAN LAURENT, the South Side man
who escaped Saturday night while mem
tally unbalanced. and who was caught
by officer Carney east OF Triadelphia
and returned home, had another bad
turn last night, and about midnight
was taken TO the City Hall and locked
up.
PEOPLE out CaIdwell's run are clam
oring for a fire alarm box, and they need
it. The last box out the run is at the
La Belle pottery. There was fire out
the run few days ago, and they had to
come clear to the pottery TO send in the
alarm. The placing Of new box out
there may save big fire.
w. T. HENRY, Of Baltimore, Md, the
Supreme Secretary of the lodge of the
Shield Of Honor OF this country, will be
In the city this week, and on Friday
night will be at the meeting OF Zane
Lodge No. l, at Odd Fellows Hall. He
will make an address, and the Shield
who stays away will miss a treat.
LAST night an interesting meeting
was held at the Zane-street NJ. E.
church. The meeting was the last with
the pastor, Rev. J. Enge, before Con-
ference, which convenes at Charleston
tomorrow. Rev. Ehgle will leave for
Charleston to-day. His congregation
unanimously want him back to Wheel
Ing.
COMPLAINTS are again heard Of the
persons who haul shavings from the
South Side planning mills. They load
their wagons too full, and the result is
that the pavements are Uttered. When
3 woman has swept her pavement and
then q wagon comes along and scatters
shavings on it, 1t naturally makes her
angry.
JACK ARMSTRONG, widely known in
this city, being the chief car inspector
at the Union depot, and later working
in the same capacity OF the w. L. E.
at Steubenville, has accepted position