Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-08
BEN WOOD.
Meeting of Teachers at Sberrard Yes
terday--- Other Notes of Interest.

The first meeting of She Union Dis
trict Teachers Association at Sherrard,
yesterday, was attended by many of
the members from different points and
was interesting and profitable through
out. The afternoon session was held
at the Allen school house and the eve
ming session at the NJ E. church. The
various papers read showed careful
preparation and were followed by more
or less heated discussions. The exer-
cises were interspersed with some
pleasing and appropriate musical selec-
tons, the choir of the NJ. E. church
assisting. The programme for the oc-
casion was as follows:
AFTERNOON.
What are you doing to develop a
reading habit in your pupils?" Miss
Alta Edwards. Discussion, Miss Blanch
Brown and Miss Ella Campbell. Name
and discuss some of the prominent
moral deficiencies of teachers Martin
Brown. Discussion, Miss Jessie Marsh
and A. A. Bassett GIVE best method
of correcting errors in daily work
pupils" Miss Anna L. McCabe. Dis
cussion, Miss Charlotte Price and Frank
Kiger.
EVENING.
How do you teach geography in the
intermediate grades?" o. B. Hughes.
Discussion. Miss Stella Marsh and Miss
Sadie Baron. What prospects for the
future can we offer our boys in order
to induce them to remain in SCHOOL,
Prof. C. E. Carrigan. Discussion, L. NJ.
Grow, j. T. King and Miss Lena Con-
nor. What is the universal spirit OF
great educafion?' Prof NJ. E. German.
Discussion. Miss Josephine Lander and
S. P. Hicks.
A. Peterson and daugter, Miss Flor
ence, of East Liverpool, o., visited
friends here during the past week.
Mrs. A. l.. Snodgrass has returned
home from pleasant visit with
friends at Cameron.
Mrs. Hugh Thompson and children
have returned to their home at Mingo,
O., after visiting friends here.
Mrs. NJ. F. Morgan has returned from
a trip to points in Ohio.
There is ealk of organizing a dancing
school here during the winter.
Mrs. William Strain is lying serious
ly i'll at her home
1t is likely that the electric light
question will again be discussed by the
proper Council committees tomorrow
evening According TO reports, the
company is DESTROYS Of having the COM
mercial rates for lights added to the
ordinance. while the committees object
TO any tampering with the original or
dinance.
Miss Beulah Smith has been appoint
ed as substitute of the MeMeehen pub
lie school.
Mrs. Jacob Schramm is recovering
from a severe illness.
The Board OF Education has let the
contract for furnishing coal to the
schools to Mcmillan & Allen.
Archibald McGrew. CT the Second
ward. is seriously indisposed.
Miss Hattie Sehutt, of the North End,
is i'll of typhoid fever.
The confectionery of VIM. Fisher has
been purchased by Miss Maggie White
cotton.
Miss Mary Gaughan has returned
home from a visit with friends near
Proctor
The new Allen building. in the North
End. WI be ready for occupancy very
shortly.
VIM. Duffy. of the North End. is suf-
fering from typhoid fever.
The general entertainment committee
Of the NJ. E. church will meet tomorrow
evening for the purpose Of making
definite arrangements for their COM
ing bazaar.
Yesterday was pay day at the River
side coke ovens and the Wheeling steel
plant. and a considerable amount OF
money was distributed among the en-
ployes.
Ferdinand Draginiski. while at work
at the lower mill Friday night, had
three Of his fingers accidentally caught
between pair Of tongs and badly
mashed His injuries were attended by
DR.. Meyers. CT Wheeling.
The pioneer citizens Of the town, in
GLIDING Charles Kerns. Martin Gately,
David O. Evans. John F. Manley. Jas.
Mahood. R. A. Vance. Joseph Mahood
Henry Riddle. Jacob Debold. Louis
Cooke. Jr., Robert Newton. NJ. and W
Deegan, Joseph Taylor, James Smith
and Thomas P. Deegan. are arranging
on an elaborate scale fer hop to be
given at the abst building some time