Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-09
host in his usually charming manner.
conducting himself with such ease and
grace as is possessed sby few people
many years his junior.
BELLAIRE NOTES.

Attorney j. B. Smith. of Belmont
street, who has been lying quite i'll of
complicated diseases for some days past,
is considerably improved.
| James Bard, arrested on the charge
of assault and battery, committed upon
raigned before Mayor Isaac Freese yes
terday morning and was fined S. and
costs for the offense. Bard being I'M
able to remit the fine was taken to the
county Jail at st. Clairsville in charge
of Marshal James S. Johnson, Jester
day afternoon.
Edward Moore, of this city, formerly
manager of the old Elysian Theatre, is
now at Scio, Ohio where he is man
aging an opera house.
John Strobel, of the Third ward, will
depart to-day for Scio. at which city
he will take charge of his new duties
as a member of the police force.
Thomas W. Hayes, OF Anderson, Ind,
is in the city, a guest at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clements of the
Fourth ward.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Pyles, who have
been visiting at the home CT Mr.. and
| Mrs. Radabaugh, of Rose Hill, departed
yesterday for their home at Written,
! Iowa, via B. & o. road.
A party composed of Frederick iris
tran travelling passenger agent for the
Wabash Railroad Company; Carl Fish
er, travelling passenger agent for the
Hooking Valley Railroad Company,
and James Smith, travelling passenger
agent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad
| Company, were guests yesterday Of
J. F. Sherry, city passenger ticket agent
for the B. & @. Railroad Company,
while in the city on business.
Mike Newell, of the Third ward, left
yesterday via B. & o. road, for Muncie,
Ind. where he will assume charge of
his new duties as an employe of one of
the glass factories.
The Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of the First Presbyterian Church
will hold meeting this evening at
the home of Miss Lucy Anderson.
A lecture will be delivered by Rev.
J. Bell Neff, of Erie, Pa, on the SUBJ
iect of Luck and Pluck" at the First
NJ. E. Church on Thursday evening,
March 18th.
At the regular meeting of the Board
of Education, held Tuesday evening,
the library committee were empowered
to purchase new books and the text
books committee authorized to pro-
vide a few microscopic botanical sets
for the High school laboratory. Bills,
amounting to $2,213.66 were ordered
paid; the spring vacation was limited
to one week, beginning March 31st,
and closing April 10th; the President
was appointed to act in conjunction
with the commencement committee;
the clerk was instructed to notify the
Bell Telephone Company to remove
their apparatus from the Central school
house building upon the expiration OF
the present contract on May LIST, 1899,
and the monthly financial statement OF
the clerk was perused and placed on
file. The reports of other committees
having been submitted, were received.
Rev. Father Werhle, rector of st.
70 cnG6GnlV l
and tainted while performing his du-
ties at the devotional service, held at
the church Tuesday night. DR.. D. w.
Boone and another physician were
Immediately summoned and after the
necessary medical aid had been rem
dered, Father Werhle regained con-
seriousness. His condition yesterday
was somewhat improved, but it Will
be some days before he will be able
to resume charge of his duties.
At the reception rendered the Twen-
tieth Century Club Tuesday night by
Misses Minnie Colts and Maria Glenn
ents, the progressive euchre contest re-
suited in the gentleman's club prize, a
silver nail brush, being captured by
Mr.. James Dubois, and the lady's club
prize. a handsome picture, being won
by Miss Lura Dickens. The first visi-
tors prize, a comb, fell to Mr.. John
Fish. and the consolation prize, let
ter opener, was carried off by Miss
Minnie Lehman.
David C. West, of Neffs, Belmont
county, who served during the late
Spanish-American war, as a member
of the Corps Reserve, an Ambulance
Company, U. S. A, has made appli-
cation for a pension through Squire
| Frank S. Mason, the Pension Attorney
of this city. Mr.. West contracted
rheumatism while in the service.
Chandler w. Carroll, who served
during the civil war as a captain of
Company X, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, has been granted an origi-
nal pension of s12 per month from
November list, 1898, through the efforts
of Pension Attorney Mason, of this
| city. Mr.. Carroll resides at st. Glars