The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-21
MAIirIN,s NEIlIiY.


AAhIA tAhh AAHNfalH ~ hNN AhhANAH6 wy
Across tue River
Eight hundred people Witnessed tho
handicap watermelon race on Hanover
street last evening At 7 o'clock, and all
enjoyed it, The race was for cOloTod
boys only and the handicap limit %
yards. Tho start was made at First
street and the finish in front OF tho st,
Clair hotel. The starters wor0 Harry
Chessill aud Bert krim, and Thoo
Keller and James Gather judges. The
only scratch men vera James Hamil-
ton, Al Davis and Ernest Bronson.
The handicaps were Ross Pearl, yNrds (;
Roy White, Will skinner, Arthur Bron.
son aud George Jackson, each 10 yards ,
Ed Lewis, % yRrds; David Linder and
James Logan, 30 yards; Luther Gibson,
40 yards; Ralph bronson and Charles
Parker, 45 yNrds, and Joseph Coleman,
81 yards.
The start was q good one and perfect.
~ fair Hamilton lost his shoe aud had
puncture in crossing Second street and
fell out. The runners punched when
half way up the Hanover street grade
Earnest Branson and Al. Davis passed
the others in front OF Lash's iowelry
store. Ernest Bransou reached the
limit ten yards ahead aud got the larg.
est melon anu dollar bill fastened to a
stick on the melon. Al. Davis was see.
ond, Jackson third. Under fourth, iol.
lowed by A. and 4. Branson, Gibson,
Parker, White, Coleman and Logan,
each OF whom got melon. The largest
melon weighed thirty pounds aud was
donated By Harry Chessell and Hey.
ward Long. The other mclons were
donated By Ellis Lash, II. Williams,
william Griffith, DR.. J. W. Darrah. T.
J. Couoway, I. II. Hcslop, Howard
Selby aud Harry Grayson.
Several Martins Ferry men talk OF
entering in the field day exercises OF the
East Liverpool Y. NJ. Z. A. on Septem.
Der b. 1t il possible that one or two
will he in tho p. A. Z. contest at Pits
burgh, September ..
Il. +. ferris, manager Of tho Western
Union Telegraph office, has been grant.
cd u vacation OF three weeks, commenc.
ing tomorrow, and with his vito will
spend tho time at Cleveland aud in the
east.
Captain Thomas Moore, OF TiltonvilIO,
who was reCoutly hurt by falling from
tho Wheeling & Lake Erie trcstIo At
Portland and supposed to have been
dangerously injured, is conva!cscng.
W. 5. Ellifritz will start his 100 barrel.
a.day hydraulic cider press to-day. lie
will make cider for the farmers, and ex.
poets to turn out fully 1000 barrels dur
ing the season.
II. II. RatcliG, Miss Alice UpdcgraA
Mrs Edith KensiO and Mrs. Carrie
Lupton. Of Mt, Pleasant, were in Mar.
tins Ferry Yesterday.
Tho suit Of House & Hermann vs. II.
L. PrioslOr on writ OF replovin before
Squire Howell yesterday was decided in
favor Of tho tormer.
Rev. and Mrs. H. y. Campbell, OF
Altoona, Pa, arc visiting tho latter =
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James a. Gray.
Last night Lewis Frick celebrated the
twontv.hIth anniversary Of tho battle OF
Wars.la.Tour.
Superintendent ". II. Stewart and
wife returned yesterday from visit in
Virginia.
Fremont Romici has taken the pos.
ton OF first mate ON tho steamer II. s.
FriHbee
Mrs. Clement Spidol, Of Wollsvillu,
visited relatives hero yesterday.
G. II, Carpenter returned yesterday
from Chicago.
Mrs. Aug. KRAFT left yesterday for
Germany.