Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-20
CLARKSBURG.

Clarksburg, w. Va, November 49,
John w. Davis, of Louisville, KY, is
this week the guest of friends.
Mrs. Nathan Golf. Mrs. Richard T.
Lowndes and Miss Hattie Golf are at
the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
John Basel was in MorgantoWn last
Wednesday on legal business.
Miss Ida Raymond entertained the
Ladies' Whist Club last Wednesday ev-
er ng, in honor of her sister, Mrs.
Lieut. Melville Jarvis.
Harrison county boasts of one hun
bred and ffty-three citizens who are
more than 70 years old. Three of the
number have reached ninety, one nine
ty-five This is bold break in giving
matter of history to the public, and
we would not like to be in the shoes of
the Telegram who published their
names, and especially so when the list
of the oldest women of the county ap-
pears We circulate little among the
fair sex and find they are heaping
vengeance against any editor who
would have the courage to do his plain
duty so that gentlemen may know the
ages of their sweethearts.
We regret to hear that likely Mr..
Newton Pugh, brother of our towns
man, Jasper Pugh, will not recover.
Had Clevenger faced him fairly the re-
suit would have been otherwise as Mr.
Pugh is a man capable of defending
himself
Clarksburg is still booming. The
Consumers Ice Company has purchas-
ed from the Clarksburg Planning Mill
Company a beautiful site on the West
Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad, over
looking the West Fork of the Monon-
gahela river, for its plant, which will
have a capacity of from II to 20 tons
a day. This evening c. @. Stout was
awarded the contract of excavating
estimated at 800 cubic yards, and
agrees to complete it within 80 days
Bids will be received for the construc-
ton of the building in which the plant
will be placed within two months.
AS the old city pushes to the front
the young men of the town take time
by the forelock. and with one voice
eXclaim, we must have an athletic
club. Such a project should meet
with the approval of all good citizens,
in that they would have a place of en-
tertainment other than the places of
vice, in a town of this size. 1t is be-
I4CFCQ Tic LlQO viii Dt SdAALCA WIN
a membership of about 100, placed I'M
der the management of our most high
ly respected citizens. Now Wheeling
we don't want to issue a challenge at
this time, but inasmuch as the w. V.
L. foot ball team ANONYMOUSLY defeat
ed Marietta" at Clarksburg, and did
not leave smithereen Of Virginia"
at Charleston, when you do come down
at our invitation we will simply "eat
you up" but promise you after the
score is announced to 0. on that night
we will give you royal banquet; and
when we visit you we will expect a
banquet, but at this time do not con-
cede the score.
Clarksburgers abroad are: 3. w.
Borgess.. Wheeling; Mrs. Geo A. Smith,
Marietta; Mr.. and Mrs. F. Y. Horner,
Weston; Will H. Lewis, Grafton; D.
X Reed. Wheeling; Camden Sommers,
Parkersburg, and Lyle Smith, Cumber-
land.
OF visitors from abroad in the city.
we notice: Hon. Walter Hall, Harris
vile; Lawrence Dana, Parkersburg:
Capt H. r. Smith, Knoxville: Prof. J.
r Trotter. Charleston; Prof. U. S.
Fleming. Fairmont; Rev. and Mrs. L.
E. Peters, Parkersburg; Dr. l. c. White.
Morgantown. and Mrs. Liuet. Jarvis.
of Fort Sheridan, Ill