Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-10
LIQUOR LICENSE QUESTION
At SisterSville Again Before the Tyler
County Court.


and 1t Is Reported the Cru
saders" are with the Applicants.
A Pleasant Social Function-Mis-
cenaneous News.
Sistersville. w. Va, July 9.-The
license question is up before the
Tyler Counyt Court again at this ses-
sion, which convened at Middlebourne
yesterday morning. "A short time ago
| it will be remembered there was
! crusade organized against the speak
easies" which abound in this place, by
! the ministers, with Rev. T. A. Ander-
son at the head. After making the pro-
prietors of the saloons considerable
trouble and apparently doing no per-
ceptible good, the unpopular business
was suddenly dropped for some reason.
| Since the crusaders stopped their pro-
| secutions the saloons have been run
ming more openly than ever before.
Something over a year ago the old
/ Council issued permits 10 a number OF
/ persons engaged in the liquor traffic,
and they went before the County Court
/ and asked that license be granted
I them. but that body could not see the
matter in the same light as the other
I parties, and the licenses were not
/ granted. When the present Council
went into power the saloon men again
went before them and the permits vera
again issued, but heretofore they have
been unable to get license on account
| of the antagOnism of the crusaders.
gv,Fo or JiVpn
to the Register correspondent yester-
day afternoon that the ministers and
/ others connected with the crusade had
/ finally decided that the best thing to
/ do was to allow the restaurants and
/ hotels to have license if the County
! Court would grant 1t to them. AT least
/ il is known that the crusade lawyer Is
/ at Middlebourne, and il was town talk
| here Yesterday that he had been sent
there to help the applicants to secure
| license if possible A large number Of
the saloonists and their lawyers went
ont to Middlebourne yesterday 70 be
! present at the opening Of the court and
/ 10 be on hand in case their business
came before the Court
There is little bit of quiet work go
/
\ trying to have the county court refuse
all applications except those of the hotel
men. When this phase of the matter
! became known yesterday afternoon
! there was some very strong talk in
dulged in by the restaurant men and
others who have applications in for IL
| cense. 1t was not thought last night
that the county court would do any
thing in the matter before to-day or to-
morrow.
A very enjoyable affair yesterday was
| the stag dinner given by popular and
genial Joseph Magner, the local repre-
! sentative of DAWN & Mcclure, at his
| office on Elizabeth street. The affair
was in honor of the hosts twenty-frst
! birthday and there were about
ten intimate friends present to
| partake Of the repast which was
! composed of all the delicacies
Of the season. Those present re
port having the greatest time of their
! lives and say they would not have
missed it under any circumstances.
The receipts of the Mellon Pipe
" y
TO be Alps barrels, and those Of the
! Eureka Pipe Line Company to be H.
| 597 barrels, making total OF 15,125
| barrels received at the two stations
from the field during the "a hours. De-
| spite the many new wells being brought
in the production of the field is gradu-
ally falling off and 1t is claimed that the
production is about 5000 barrels less
! than 1t was at this time last year.
Mr.. H.W. Wilson, of Wheeling, presi-
dent of the Kelly Oil Company, was in
the city Yesterday looking after his in
! terests in this field. The Keely Compa-
nv have some very good territory on the
Ohio side and they are making arrange
ments to have it drilled. They have
about closed a contract with a we'll
known contractor of this city to put
down a we'll on the Calebaugh farm,
near the Freeden well.
The new three-story brick building
and business house being erected on
Tpper Wells street by Miss Eliza Stew
art. the milliner is rapidly nearing
completion and will be ready for occu-
| 9ancy some time during the coming
month. When completed it will be one
Of the handsomest buildings in that
| part Of the city.
Mr.. Frank Chapman, the handsome
md popular town sergeant, returned
| -esterday from a trip to Pennsylvania,
where he had been visiting friends for
few days.
1t is currently reported that there
| will be one or two weddings in high
life within the next few weeks, for
| which no cards have been issued as
vet. The persons most interested are
very popular young people and their
| friends will be surprised TO hear OF
| .heir approaching nuptials. The names
# the principals will be announced In
few days.
Capt. Bob McEldowney, a prominent
Wetzel county attorney; Fred Brown
and John Smith, well-known oil men,
nd Dewey Potts, popular young mer-
hant all of New Martinsville were in
he city yesterday on business.
The street paving is moving along
very slowly for some reason and at the
| present rate it will be some time yet
before Wells street is completed. The
curb is being set now between Pike and
elizabeth streets, and it is possible
hey will commence laying bricks this
week sometime.