Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-29
OLA P0DlIDA.
Chat ard Comment Upon Various
Matters.
Some of the Things Talked About
aud Heard Of During a Skirmish
For News on a Dull Day.

The local drop in the mercury in the
twenty-four hours ending at midnight
last night. from 70 to 40 degrees, was
naturally feit considerably BY the folks
who ran around Thanksg giving Day with
their summer clothes on. but still our
share OF the Western blizzard was very
moderate one indeed. when the situation
during the past three days in the North
west is carefully enGuired into. For In
stance, on Thanksgiving Day, at Battle
ford, y. w. T., It registered % degrees be-
low zero Calgary 20 below, Edmonton l6
below, Medicine Hat JIG below, Que APP
pelle 10 below, and so on. At many points
in the Western States, on Friday, the
thermometer ranged from five below zaro
10 zero, and there was from one to two
feet o: snow over hundreds OF thousands
OF square miles. This ,ras q decided
touch of winter, and Wheeling people may
VOL congratulate themselves that they
1.-Two outside the path OF the blizzard.
Capt Asa Booth. now Of the United
States snag boat Woodruff, came back on
his boat yesterday from New CumOer-
land, Where he went a day or two ago TO
remove sunken barge. and will lay over
here until Monday. Captain Booth says
no viii retire from the river. and is partic-
ulariy glad 20 end his long period Of SER
vice on the inland waters on such q fine
craft as the Woodruff. he has never had
an accident in an tho thirty-seven years
Of his river career. He speaks in the
highest terms OF Captain Christian, cf Ike
Woodruff. and his crew. and says they
are entirely competent for the very re-
spoasible service eNacted of them. Every
body IN Wheeling viii rejoice at Captain
Booths success in the oil business. He
viii pay q visit TO his big well on Monday.
'The public criticism. often heard that
our street electric lights are off in candle
power very seriously is not we'll founded"
said Gas Trustee Buchanan, yesterday.
The lamps We're lately inspected. and the
expert who made the test stated that
Wheeling was one of the best lighted
cities in the country. We use a fine grade
Of carbons and the lights are all right.
as any competent authority will testify"
ct remember the Welsbach light fifteen
years ago. before 70 came into common
USE said Thomas Z. Lewis. when it's
origin6tors were trying to organize Q
Company and We're begging FOR capital 10
60 into il. At that time $500 invested IN
stock would have meant a small fortune.
Tt shows We all have poor Judgment at
times"
eve broke the blast furnace record
again this week. said Manager Frank
Crockard, of the Riverside. last evening.
eve turned out three hundred and seven
tons. to-day which IS top notch"
To-day the twenty-ffth anniversary Of
st. Johns German church VIII Dee cele-
brated with a rather elaborate programme.
The church is really much older than the
term "twenty-ffth anniversary implies
that merely expressing the term the con-
Eresauon has Wershipped I'm the present
edidce az Market ana Seventeenth street
The church was really organized I'm 1894
under the name Of the German Protestant
st. James church. and the first church
was erected I'm 1896 on Eighteenth street.
There the congregation worshiuped until
1859. The first pastor Of which the Reg
lister has n record was Rev. c.. c.. Stub
ben. from 1916 10 1S4S. lie was followed
by Revs. Zimmerman, EroeEer. Wet
testroehm, Helfer. Berger Engelmaun.
Eberhard. Graft Nschi Bonner, Lorch
Tuendaling. Voss and Scha0ranck. which
brings us TO the comparatively recent time
OF 1850. Rev Eisenlober was the predeces-
sor of Rev William Uhert, the present
eloquent and popular pastom
Thomas II. Clark, q well known colorel
man. of No. 10l5 Eo6 street. has received