Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-17
About TIE HOTELS,
Yesterdays List Of the More PrOmi-
nent Arrivals.
DR.. Probst, of the Ohio State Board
Of Hea tn, Here-The Chat o. the
Corridirs and Offices.

A travelling representative of an
Eastern wholesale house was talking
last night at one of the hotels about the
means used by the Eastern merchants
nowadays to sell their goods both in
wholesale and retail lines, and remark
ed that he found the merchants here a
little behind those of the East in this
respect. He said: You will find that
many of the leading retail stores of the
East are adopting the method of giving
a prize to their customers after the
purchase by them of certain amount,
and they do this for the purpose of get
ting cash payment for their goods and
increasing trade by this method of adj
verifying. They do not look upon it
as being anything but legitimate, and
it is successful. Some wholesale mer-
chants are also working off their goods
in this way in certain lines"
McLure-D. B. Sewall, Boston; J. P.
Johnson, Pittsburg; c. S. Barr Pitts
burg; w. o. Lee, Detroit Mich; J. NJ.
Weeks, New York: Paul Lohngen,
Hamilton, o.; L. E. Moorehead, st.
Louis; j. Taleman, Chicago; J. Waugh,
Washington, Pa; JOS Whitaker, Phil
aeelphia; w. S. Porter, Belvider, ILL.,;
G. Il. Morgan and wife, Warrington.
Said travelling man last evening:
The material for the foundation Of
most newspaper ghost stories is Sc
cured in novel way. at least to a con-
siderable extent, nowadays. The
newspapers making a speciality of them
in the large cities employ a special man
for this purpose. The men so employ
ed go through the country hunt
ing out the most remote set
dement's, ancient buildings and
graveyards. They also make the
acquaintance of peculiar old people and
the county clerk, and from these
sources get facts or ideas for the foun-
dations of their yarns | have met one
or two of these specialists in my time,
and they can cook up some ghoulish
"reminiscences upon occasion. l sup
pose there is a distinct demand for this
sort of thing, of course, but it appears
to me it shows perverted literary
taste"
st. Charles-Thomas Dixon, Parkers-
burg; G. d. Slower, Sistersville; Geo. j.
Stevens, Titusville, Pa; w. NJ. Haddox
and sister, Friendly; E. P. Arlington,
Gallipolis, o.
Stamm-J. H. Mccoy and J. n Titus
and family, Sistersville; J. NJ. Muney,
Wind Ridge; ]. J. McMann, st. Joe,
Mo-; P J. Townsell, Washington, Pa.
S. c.. Moore, Proctor; ]. W. Heating,
Pittsburg; Joseph Post, Salem.
DR.. c. G. Probst, Secretary Of the
Ohio State Board of Health; A. M. Saw
age, Warren, O.; and Edward Strous-
berry, of Cincinnati, the two latter
prominent insurance men, were at the
Mcclure last night.
There was an exciting game of seven
rounds of checkers at the Brunswick,
last evening, between Thomas Harvey
and Allen Young. Four games to the
credit of Harvey, and three to Mr..
Young.
Speaking about suicides" said
guest at one of the city hotels, last even
ing. Il notice that many of them occur
at hotels or other public places, and l
am convinced that the reason is that
they are in most cases single persons
with no families or domestic relations,
and when trouble or dependency over
takes them they have no place to go
where the surroundings would tend to
lift the gloom from their minds, and as
a result they get insane for the time
being and put an end to their lives.
True it is that men with families often
take such means to be through with
life, but in a majority of those cases
you will find that long trouble or some
very sudden grief has diseased their
minds more than for mere temporary
period. Men, nowadays should be mar
ried and have homes of their own, and
be in them as much as possible"
Behler-J. F. Partridge, Parkersburg;
NJ. c.. Hogan. Sistersville; J. l.. Johnson,
Wasp, w Va; j. f. Hogan, Cleveland;
Hugh Mearns, Pittsburg.
WindsOr-C. II. Franklin, Newark, ";
D. L. Cobb, Louisville, Ky; Will l..
Coe Porterfield, o.; c. Kossuth Book,
Bradford, Pa; ]. L. Mott, New York
City: f. r. Metcalf, Toledo, o.; J: S.
Grove. Philadelphia; c. H. Schaefer,
Cincinnati, o.
"Say. there must be considerable
rake-off in your business inquiringly
suggested one guest to another at the
Mcclure. last evening. Eyes, you see
get paid for what know, but my reg
ular salary is light" was the answer.
Brunswick-W. S. Meredith, Fair
mont; J. R. Robinson, Littleton; f. };
Brennan. Chicago; James Nolan and
H. MILLER, Dillonvale, o.; E. II. Parsons,
Alexandria, Va.
Mr.. Jos. Guggenheimer, very popu-
lar travelling man, representing the firm
of Morris Neuburger & Son, clothiers'
of Philadelphia, is in the city calling on
his trade.