Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-11
SISTERSVILLE.
Special to the Register.

Specldl 10 lle REGISTER.
Sistersville. w. Va, December 10
At rheregular meeting of the city cOun-
ell held last evening the adv.sability Of
making Mr.. j. B. Mccoy a tender of 5000
for the right OF way through his prop
erJy for the extension of Brown Betty
street from Diamond to Charles street,
was discussed and finally a committee
was appointed 20 80 and tender him that
amount. Th!s piece of property has
been In controversy for a long time and
Il was not expected that the money ten
dered would be accepted but it was and
the deal viii be closed up in a couple ot
days
Work was commenced this morning
IN putting up the street signs which
were made some time ago and were 10
have been put up when the houses were
numbered early IN the fall. They are
very neat sign and VIII be of great
benefit to not only strangers who come
into the city but the citizens Of the town
as well. Now, with the street signs up
and the houses numbered the next
thing is to have a free mail delivery,
and if the town grows during the next
year as 10 has during the past il Will
not be a great while until free mail de-
livery VIII be a certainty.
Yesterday evening before closing
hours of the bank another chapter in
the forgery case mentioned yesterday
was brought to light After the fellow
named Jane had left the Office Of Nc
Corm.ck & Morrison he went directly
in-0 The store of Joe BOyers, the hard
ware man, and there presented the
check he had received in part payment
Of the forged check from Mr. McCor-
mick 70 Mr. Bowers and asked him to
cash it. Boyers saw that the check wa9
signed by Mr. Mccormick. and he cash
ed e without any hesitancy. After
banking hours yesterday morning Boy
ers took the check TO the bank and de-
posted 70. 1t remained there until in
the afternoon when It was sent back 10
him with the message that it was no
good. payment having been stopped on
it. What Boyers wants 10 know now IS
whether he is also a victim Of the slick
gentleman who passed the check on Mr..
Mccormick. and also got money from
him. or If ne can recover the money he
advanced on the check Of Mccormick.
Col Jos. Gallaher, a we'll known mer-
chant and prominent Democratic poll
tician of Moundsyille, was in the city
yesterday looking after some oil in
terests ne has in the field
Miss Elizabeth Heatherington, of Bel
laire. secretary of the Heather.ngton
Coal Company arrived in the city this
morning and is Quartered at the Wells.
The cross-arms Of the telephone poles,
the n0n-arrival of which has held the
construction Of the line back for a few
days arrived las. night, and now the
work viii be completed as rapidly as
possible, and e Will only be a short
time until the citizens of the town will
be talking to each other without going
out Of their places of business.
MT and Mrs Warren McCreary. left
this morning for their home in Bradford,
after spending a couple Of weeks in the
city.
A. Hail Fleming. the genial and de-
b0nair travelling salesman for PITTS
burg drug house. was IN The city this
morning calling on trade and tnciden-
tally on several young ladies' Of his ac-
Quain-ance Hail is q handsome, gen
ial. whole-s0uled general good fellow.
and everybody is his friend for life afteV
meeting him once.
This afternoon about four o'clock a
teamster started a fight N one Of the
saloons on Wells street and the police
had a very hard time pulling him. He
had said early in the day that he would
die before he would be taken 20 the
lookup. but Capt. Reedy and Mayor
Whttlcsey finally tied him hand and
feet and hauled him to the lookup. All
the windows n the saloon where the
fight occurred were broken in the melee.
Thursday evening the much talked
of wrestling bout between Dewitt ana
NcNe.rney viii take place at the Bijou
opera house. The match is for SlOo