Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-21
SMALL TALk
Minor Matters or Interest Briefly and
PithIiy Told.

Minor Matters or Interest Briefly anu
PlthIly Told
THIS is the day of the glass workers
big picnic on the Fair grounds.
one week from to-day. the grocers'
picnic will be held at Mozart Park.
THIS is the day of the picnic at Sell
bert's, to be given by ST. Johns Church.
THERE was one case in Police Court
yesterday morning. His Honor let him
go.
THE Council Committees on Finance
and Fire Department are called 20 meet
this evening.
THE bicycle track at Mozart Park
was completed yesterday, and 1t is one
of the finest in this locality.
LAURA De WERE, arrested last even
ing by officer Donovan, was allowed to
go on her promise to leave town.
IRWIN BOWMAN has occupied mis-
handsome new residence, on South
Jacob street, in the Behren 81 Speidel
addition for several days.
THE members OF the Teutonia Sing
ing society will hold special meeting
at the hall at Thirty-third and Jacob
steets next Sunday afternoon.
BIC improvements are being made at
the Market house row, in Behwood.
The houses are to be repaired so that
they will look like new when COM
pleted.
THE coal peddlers Of the South Side
began work again yesterday having
been idle since the beginning OF the
great strike. All the coal yards OF the
South Side are now in operation again.
/, ALL the section men in the employ OF
the w. B. & T. railway went to work
yesterday morning at eight hours a day,
where they formerly made ten hours a
day. They will be paid correspondingly
less.
NEXT Monday the Cold Turkey Fish
ing club, of the South Side, will leave
for its summer outing to Short Creek.
C. c. Boston is manager, DR.. j. r. Man
ley is cook, and Fred Martin is dish
washer.
The civil suit Of Giesey Bros. v.
SamueliShields, for damages, was settled
before Justice Gillespv yesterday on a
basis of $40 for plaintiff. The case was
one where the lowest bidder on job
failed TO get il.
A FINE pug dog belonging to Albert
Auber, the South Side timer, was run
over by the street cars yesterday fore
noon on South Jacob street. Officer
James Minkemyer then shot the dog.
The animal was worth S25.
LAST night at the hall, at Twenty
sixth and Chapline streets, Couer de
Leon Division, K. Of P, held an inter-
esting meeting. 1t was decided to give
q big picnic at Mozart Park on date
in the near future, not arranged for yet
A NUMBER of prominent people OF tide
South Side, composing the John Tucker
fishing club went to Whisky Run
Tuesday where they had one, Of the
most pleasant Of picnics. There were
about twenty couples Of young folks in
the crowd.
EDWARD HoFREUTER and George
Rose, we'll known men OF the South
Side, will leave in the morning for the
Interior OF the State for ground hog
hunting trip. They have beaten the
record for ground hog killing already
once this year, and they want to beat
even 1t.
YESTERDAY evening. off Thirty
eighth street, the boat Of the Nellie
Bly, Fishing Club, newly repaired and
remodeled, was showed into the Ohio.
The boat is now one of the handsomest
along the river. The members of the
club will go the latter part Of this
month for the summers camp at Frank
lin Station, down the river.
THE force of men setting the new
poles of the long distance telephone
company are making good progress in
the work, and are rapidly nearing the
city. The new poles are over fifty feet
high-much longer than the old ones.
A force of twenty-five men are at work,
In three gangs, digging tho post holes,
stringing the wires and setting the
poles. Holes are dug to Pleasant Val
ley, the posts are set as far as Green
wood cemetery, and the wires are being
strung at Triadelphia.
NORTH WHEELING is more active
now than for some time, owing TO the
activity OF the street car company. Ali
the cars of the BenwoOd division now
run TO the ravIne, and they furnish a
seven-minute service. 1t is a great
advantage to the people Of that part of
the city to have the fine service, and
they appreciate 1t. All along the new
tracks In that part OF the city the
company has forces of men at work
laying the pavement, and this work will
ne completed inside of another week.