Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-19
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
AZ UNUSUAL AIR OF ACTIVITY IN THE
DIFFERENT LOCAL MILLS.
Brief Items, Personal and Otherwise, From the
Ena-Standard-News Notes From
Other Busy Workshops

The Tiltonville sanitary pottery Is
still in the hands Of the receivers, but
It is thought that before long arrange
ments can be made to have the plant go
on In full again. The works employ
about go men, many OF whom will come
TO this city, IL the works are not started,
TO work in the new sanitary works OF
Wheeling. II the Tiltonville plant
were on, and with the exception OF the
East Liverpool potteries, all the SINH
lar industries along the Ohio Valley
would be on in full.
About all the workmen OF the War
WICK pottery are now employed. The
work yesterday in the intense heat was
very hard Gu the employees so unused to
II, but they stood it well, considering.
All the potterymen of the LaBelle will
be at work this morning. They are all
now concentrated In the LaBelle for the
first time, and the plant is full OF work
men. There will be at work at the La
Belle this morning about $50 employees.
The planning mill OF Wilson & Chap
man, Ia North Wheeling, is Oh In full.
The new building at the State Fair
Grounds is about completed. A large
shipment Of lumber and residence fin
iShlngs was made yesterday to A. j.
Freeland, OF Manniugton. The firm is
fitting up the offices of the South Penn
OIL Company at the same town.
The Joseph Bell Stove and Range
company, OF this city, is having a good
trade. The firm got carload OF stoves
the other day from the plant at Muncie,
Ind. They are busy at the immense
warehouse in this city, and are prepar-
ing to ship 700 stoves from 1t for the
first fall consignment.
They have joke on one OF the La
Belle potterymen. He worked all fore
noon yesterday. In the afternoon he
failed TO report for work. His excuse
was sincere when he said that he had
been idle so long that he forgot to go to
work.
Crowthers & Howe, the South Side
machine firm, has the contract and have
sent an engine and boiler to one Of the
mills OF Flushing, o. A. D. Howe, OF
the firm, has gone there to superintend
the putting them up.
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hey glass works at Toledo, o., and it is
not known when the plant will be
started again. Many Of the workmen
live or have resided in Wheeling.
The greater part OF the Crystal glass
works in Bridgeport IS on. Some OF
the workmen have gotten off TO 20 for
fishing trip. They will have no sum-
mer stop at the plant.
At both the Warwick and La Belle
potteries yesterday, every one of the
old men applied for their positions
which they had before the strike, and
they all got them.
Charles L. Smith, well known work
man OF the Crystal glass works, Bridge
port, will leave next week for a visit to
his grand parents at Benn's Run, this
State.
Robert Sundermau, OF the Wheeling
steel works, had cramps yesterday at
his work. He was very Ill for a time,
but was much better last night.
Local No. ESQ, Of the United Nine
Workers, OF the South Side, will hold an
important meeting at Handlan's hall,
South Side, tonight
Mill men all over the city complained
last night of the great heat at the
plants during the day.
The Laughln mill, Martins Ferry, is
inactive. They are having some trouble
with the coal miners.
No summer stop will be taken at the
Bridgeport bottle works. The factory
Is on in full.
Part of the sheet mill OF the Top mill
is on. The outlook is brighter than for
some time.
The North Wheeling bottle works
are having the summer stop.