The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-02
So Years Of Cures.
MARTINS FERRY.
iIAps aud ml,hup' In the Thriving city
Across the River.

iIhps aud MlahHpS In the Thriving Guy
Across the River.
The Buckeye Hose Racing Company,
of Martins Ferry, which takes part in
the races at Tlfin next Wednesday, will
leave on Tuesday and return on Friday,
The races win be under the auspices OF
the Northeastern Fire Association, OF
Ohio, and the prizes for the first day ;
races (Ohio only are 500 and $40. The
| second day Is open to the world, 500 ana
500 Sixteen men will so with the team.
The railroad on which the trip VIII be
made has not been decided. This Will de-
pend on the rate, which will be about -.
The team is practicing regularly, and
successfully, and will probably make
good record. Several friends Will ac-
company the company. 1t is likely that
| the 81 900 worlds championship belt,
won by the Martins Ferry team Mt At
lanta, Ga, will be taken along and eX-
hibIted at Tifiln. Letters from Tifiln
| say that the Martins Ferry company
will draw big crowd.
The teachers OF the Martins Ferry
public schools are entitled to two days
each year to visit other schools, and
| twenty-four of them have decided to
spend next Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday at Pittsburgh. They will SO over
the Pan Handle on Thursday morning,
and return on Saturday, spending
Thursday and Friday visiting the
schools. They will attend the exposl-
ton, and take in other points OF interest
in Pittsburgh, and altogether the trip
Will be a very pleasant one.
Tomorrow will be the second Sunday
for Rev. John II. Morton, the new pastor
of the NJ. y. church, who comes from
Lisbon. Mrs. Morton will arrive the
first of the week. Mr.. Morton was raised
at Falrview, and is well and favorably
known hereabouts. Those who have
heard the Rev. Mr.. Morton like him.
Two former pastors Of the Martins
Ferry NJ. n. church, Rev. DR.. Earl D.
Holta and Rev. Dr. j. w. Robins, are
presiding elders, DR.. Robins the last TO
be appointed.
II all the tickets get on the ballot
there will be eight, as follows: Repub-
can, Democratic, Populist, Gold Demo-
cratic, Prohibition, Liberty, Negro Pro-
| tectlve and one other not named. All
| but the Republican and Democratic
will have to go on by petition, and the
Republican and Democratic tickets will
be the only ones having an emblem, the
| former the eagle and the latter the roos-
| ter
Some OF the corn. cabbage and beets
exhibited at the Harvest Home picnic
are shown at the grocery OF Henry
Wcrnig. Corn stocks thirteen feet high,
grown on the farm Of Charles Helseley,
and bets weighing eight and onehalf
pounds, raised on the farm Of William
Pelt2, are shown.
c. j. Howard and H. b. Armstrong are
men of broad minds. md capable of
graphing with the questions OF leglsla-
ton and they will represent all the peo-
pie Of Belmont county in the legislature.
All who know them like them.
The citizens are asked TO be as econ
omical as possible In the use Of water,
owing TO small break which occurred
at the power house on Thursday. The
chamber which was broken cannot be
replaced for two weeks.
The miners employed at the Dlllonvale
and Long Run mines are out on strike
because the company will not accept
the man elected check welghman by
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