The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-21
BETHANY >prr.S.
Incidents OF tho bay nnd SOME OF tho Fec.
pis Who Were In Attendance.

Incidents of tho bay nnd some OF tho Fec.
pir who Wero IN Attendance.
Frederick Counsclman, Of Brooke
county, has been a: about every com.
nenccment for Gity.four years.
There were Isl students this year aud
fully as many arc expected noxt year.
The session OF 1S95-99 opens September
23rd.
The commencement performances
this year were generally oil q high order.
Tho orations OF Mr.. W. D. Turner aud
Mr.. Arglyle Campbell were noteworthy.
The Bethany Alumni Association mo,
at three o'clock in tho afternoon and
| spent Il few hours very enIoyably. There
was q large attendance OF old graduates
of the college.
Mrs. Woolery, widow OF e1-Prcsident
Woolery. and two children, were in at
tendance at tho commencement. Her
husband died at Bethany, greatly
lamented. in 1889.
The commencement wound up with q
lawn iete or the college campus last
evening. at which, among other attrac-
tiou,, Mrs. Ridge again favored tho COL
!~egiaus with n solo or two.
Phillips Hall, under the management
OF Mr.. L G. Mcfarland, will DO opened
on July ], for the reception OF summer
boardcrs. This ia a quiet place where
many Wheeling people 20 each summer.
The absence Of Prof. Oscar SSlmiedel,
on leave for a years travel and s~ojourn
in Germany, is much regretted by the
students. lie is really a brilliant man
in his department and very popular at
bethany.
The Bethany region is suffering for
luck OF rain. Wheat will scarcely DO 4
half crop. and grass is no account ut all.
Tho corn and potatoes arc all right, az
yet, but oats will be very poor. Apples
will be abundant
Mrs. o. S. TAYLOR. Of Wheeling. has
educated two daughters at Bethany,
the younger one graduating yesterday
With credit to herself. Tho family
have made their home In tho village for
several years past.
There was q presidents lcvce Mt the
"Ileights" at Bethany last night, lasting
from 0 until II o'clock. All tho visiting
friends OF the institution remaining over
after tho commencement proceedings,
were expected TO DO present.
Miss Manic Mendel daughter of Mr..
John Mendel, OF Baumor & Co.'S, this
city), who graduated last year, is teach
ing very uc~ceptably in Hancock county.
| She is a sister OF Mrs. Dr.. Tcner, OF Elm
Grove, who graduated several years ago.
President Hugh McDiarmid, as his
name implies, is very much OF n Scotch.
man in appearance aud ma~nnerism, aud
i'm presses one cs 4 careful aud con.
scientious man. Ills remarks arc &C.
vercly unadorned by any pretense OF
rhetoric.
The mothcr Of Senator-eloct E.lkins
wa. n well known member oil the re.
ligious denomination with which the
college is identified. Her homo wa at
Westport, No., now a part Of Kansas
| City, and tho senator vas brought up
in That faith.
The commencement programme s
were voted to DO the shabbiest speci-
mems OF the art typographical over seen
at u commencement IN tho history Of
tho college, and the catalogues handed
out to the public at the same time were
like unto them.
Two OF tho Miss pattorsons, and the
Miss llowells, OF Elm Grove, accom-.
panied by Mrs. Eta Laughlin Fleiscll-
mann, wcro among the guests at tho
"Ranch" hotol. Miss Julia Savage, Of
Richland township, was n guest at Mrs.
V. c. Thompson's.
Some boys camo down from Pitts.
burgl to tho commencement on Di.
| cycles. Their route was via Hickory,
Middlctown and Mt llokc, (say forty
| miles) and thcy made it, up hill md
down, in eight hours, which was not
bad for hot weather.
Judge John \. Campbell, OF Hancock
| county, is ono OF tho members Of tho
| board who scrutinizes judiciaIlv and
conscientiously every important propo.
sitlon brought before it, aud who ovor
| olso becomes excited the Judge is always
as calm and impertnrbablo as n May
mummy
"Class day" exercises took place on
Wednesday undor tho Wide sproading
ORANGES OF two trODs Ia maple aud clm)
that had been planted by two classes
away back In the ~aiXlics, boloro tho ora.
tors and ossayists OF this year were
thought OF, and yet nobody could tell us
anght OF tho memorable occasion. Such
IL famo.
There woro many visiting callers n,
tho old Campbell homestcutl ut tho east
ond oi tho village, whore tho venerable
widow Of tho lato Bishop Campbell still
resides In her ninoty.third year. Among
tho guests mt the old mansion wore Mrs,
Governor Hunt aud daughter, Of Colo.
rndo. now OF Washington City. Mrs.
Thompson, OF Louisville, Ky, anddaurh.
tor, keep house for Mrs. Campbell IN tho
absence Of Mrs. Barclay. tho vito OF tho
American consul NJ Tangior, q sca port