Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-08
HEIGRB8hROOI.
What Has Been Gong on in Nearby
Towns.
Social Affairs, Happenings And
Events ofLocal Interest Gather
ed BY Register" Reporters
Readable Resume OF
the News.
TERRA ALTA

Terra Alta, W. Va, August IN.
II. Lodge has gone on a trip westward
for the Terra Alta wooden mills.
The Terra Alta base ball club IS
now organized and ready for maten
games. The first game will be played
Saturday week.
Miss Nina Frey has gone to webster
Springs to spend few weeks.
Miss Annie Dickman. of Wheelng'
spent Sunday last as the guest Oh MI
and Mrs. A. c. Crane.
Miss Virgie Rinsrd has returned
from a Wet Of six months or more
with relatives at Bluefeld.
The Copp family. OF Parkers0urg,,
arrived here Thursday morning ana
will spend a month or so at sunset
Hall.
J. Wesley Bishop. President OF the
First National Bank, Of MartlnsOuIs'
is visiting relatives in this section.
B. e o. Conductor John Cart Oh
Keyser, was here Wednesday
VIM. Bishop and family moved Tues-
day. into their new residence on High
street.
SQUIRE Maner jenkins, Grand Keep
er Of Records and Seals Of the knlghIs
of Pythias, came up from PledhlOnl
Thursday on business.
d. 3. McGinnis, a leading citizen OF
Elk Garden. is here visiting MS broth
er. Squire w. A. McGinniS, whose vile
is seriously i'll.
The ROwlesburg base ball club went
to Philfppi yesterday to meet the Buck
harmon team in a match same. The
.ROwlesburg team so far has not IOsI
b game this season.
On Tuesday night Of this week the
hardest storm Of the season struck US
FThe rain came down in torrents lot
-four hours. Cheat river had risen SIX
feet Friday morning
Onute & Larkin VIII move into their
handsome new business house ABOUT
the 18th The new structure IS three
stories high, built Of brick, contains q
handsome store room on the hrst ho0r,
an opera house on the second ana
lodge rooms and Offices on the thlrd.
The building complete cost $4,000.
Mrs. Jos. Graham hostess Of the
Washington House, visited her sister
Mrs. j. A. LenhaTt, al KingwOod, last
week
Constable c. W. FaNcett ard daugh-
ter. Miss Bessie. Cs MngwOOd, were
here on Monday. Dir. FaUcetC came
over on business Conufted with the
assault and battery case at BrCceton.
Sanford Collins, Who so murderOusly
assaulted his wife knd a Mr.. Niemon,
at BrucetOn. this county, last saturday,
is stiu at large. THe county has offer
ed a reward Of 0IfOr ms c2p,ure, The
man escaped into Pennsylvania. Mrs.
Collins and Mr. Niemon are both re-
covering from the Affects of the shots
fired from Collins HvOlyer.
The miners at COTipth, after the riot
OF Mo. night. AN been very quiet
and orderly. althOuam they guard the
mines AID the rOa eading % COTiR1.
They claim thai ID hey weng ON
- -thsu " - Tun.
ere TO go O0C also, but
still at work
Of Baltimore. the great
and temperance lee
one of his very best
Presbyterian church at
Smlday evening Prof.
at Oakland to-day,
Is two lectures on tenn
land is a wet town. has
nd an effort viii be made
lain local option.
HarAesty during the past
racted for two new resi-
at OF j. Will Larkin, in Lar
HON to town, and one for w.
fngton. mine most of the Dun
tm hotel who b will he located on
tfigh street.
Clarence NJ MSsheney, one Of our
most highly respected young men. viii
go to Thomas. w. Va, next week,
where he will engage in business, that
of matchmaker and jeweler.
B. Dewitt is erecting a photograph
gallery on State strs et. next door to his
Jewellery store, and viii have the seme
Ouen in a week or so. He viii be as
sisted for a few weeks by w. c. Shat
fer. the wen known Fairmont ph0tog-
rapher.
Col. John D. Rigg, of the Terra Alta
wooden mills, returned recently from
an extended bUsinesS trip to New
York and other eastern cities. The
genial Colonel came home with his
pockets filed with encouraging orders.
The works Of this company closed
down yesterday to allow of the placing
in the mills of a $1,000 carding ma
chine and a general OverhaUling of all
the machinery. This is the best equip
ped wooden mill in West Virginia.
A large number of our people will
so to-day ON an excursion, the first of
this season. to Oakland.
Mrs. Caldwell and daU inter and Mrs.
Adams. of Wheeling. arrived here Fri
day morning and are registered at Mrs.
Mary WOrthingtOns
Terra Alta has so far no reason to
kick en- hard times. Since spring Of
this year there has been erected six
teen dwelling houses. Seven resi-
dences and one business house is now
in course Of erection.
The Terra Alta Normal School viii
close next Thursday evening. after a
very successful term. The attend
ance this year reached seventy-three.
The school is taught by II. S. Whet-
sell. our present County Superincend-
ent Of Schools. and X. T.. Burke. who
will be our next superintendent.
PIEDMONT