Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-20
SMALL TALK.
Events Of Interest In Polite Circles In This
City and State.


City and State.
There were very few strangers in
the city yesterday.
Match bicycle race at the Island
base ball park tonight.
There were a great many winter
wraps noticeable on the streets last
night.
There were nine cases on the doc
ket for police court this morning at
midnight.
The September term. Of the United
State Court opens in this city this
morning.
Don't throw away that straw hat.
There will be opportunities for wear
ing it yet this fall.
The attendance at Wheeling and
Mozart parks yesterday was the small
est of the summer.
"A young daughter Of E. A. Moore,
of the South Side, had fall yesterday
and sustained a bad cut on the head.
-Ex-Officer Charles Och will have an
opening at his place next Thursday
evening. Music by Mayors orchestra.
The foot ball players are practic-
ing daily, and the Wheeling Tigers
promise to be stronger this fall than
ever before.
John Manley, young man, had a
fell from a bicycle on the base ball
track yesterday afternoon and cut his
head badly.
Criminal Court will meet this
morning, and the grand jury will prob
ably be in session after its ten days
adjournment
Musical people are manifesting an
interest in the efforts to bring Re-
menji the famous yiolinist, to this city
for concert.
The Top mill is running. AL
though the blast furnace is being re-
put in operation.
Races between male riders will fol-
low the match bicycle race at the ISL
and base ball park. They will proba-
bly, be given next week.
The laying of the new tracks for
the street railway on the Island has
been completed. The new rail is a big
Improvement over the old.
A large Newfoundland dog run
over on South Market street yesterday
afternoon, breaking one of its hind
legs. The animal was carried home by
its owner.
The new parochial school building
of the congregation of the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception, has been
completed and the school will open for
the fall term this morning.
The o'clock young mems meet
ing at the Y. M. c. A. yesterday after
noon was we'll attended. A very in
teresting address was made by the
Rev. Mr.. Littell, of Indianapolis.
Wheeling people were treated to
another phase of the peculiar weather
incident to this climate and locality
yesterday. 1t was cold, damp and dis
agreeable, and a drilling rain fell dur
ing almost the entire day.
1t is announced that arrangements
have been completed for bringing the
Marine Band, of Chicago, to this city
for two concerts. The band will stop
here en- route to the Pittsburg exposi-
ton, where it will fill an engagement.
Billy Williams, the veteran min
strel, who is making his home in
Wheeling, has kindly consented to ar
range an entertainment to be given
within the next two months for the
benefit of the Orphans Home at Elm
Grove. u
The hearing of the fourteen tramps
who undertook to run a Baltimore &
Ohio freight train in defiance of the
crew Saturday morning, will take place
to-day before Justice Fitzpatrick. The
hearing will probably be conducted in
the jail office.
The Aber Nits Social and Bowling
Club, of the South Side, was reorgan-
lied yesterday afternoon Col. H. L..
Walthers was elected president; H. w.
Kilver, secretary; F. C. Shredder,
treasurer; \ John Shredder, captain;
Joseph Brahler, assistant captain.
Yesterday afternoon as a man
alighted from south bound electric
car at the car barns, he was knocked
down by bicycle, but fortunately es-
capped injury. The rider of the wheel
was thrown off and in saving himself
from injury broke the handle bar in
several pieces by twisting them in his
grasp.
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