Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-24
TERRA ALTA.

TERRA ALTA, w. Va, September
23.-Miss Nora Welch is visiting rela-
tives at Piedmont.
Mrs, O. G. Crane, wife of Cashier
Crane, of the Terra Alta Bank, has gone
to Davis to visit friends for short
time.
Prof. and Mrs. w. S. Bousell and lit
tile son, of Marietta, o., are visiting
| Mrs. Bousell's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hardy, on Washington street.
Mr. X. e. Burke, one of Preston
county's most prosperous young far
mers, is out on the B. & 0. this week in
the interest of the Englehart WOODEN
mills of Guseman, this county.
Train dispatcher Chas. WEIGH and
family, of Cumberland, are moving in
to the zoty property on Main street.
Mr.. WEIGH, who is well and favorably
known all over the B. & O., is now
located permanently at Terra Alta.
The ladies of the M. E. church, as
sisted by the Young Ladies d. ID. Cir
Gle, of the same church, served supper
! last evening at the residence OF Mrs.
Rebecca Feather, on State street.
Quite a neat sum was realized.
Prof. w. F. Shober, of South Beth
lehem, Pa, wAo has been a visitor to
Terra tia for several summers past,
has purchased of NJ. NJ Shahan forty
acres of land, lying near and including
well known Mount Pisgah,' one OF our
most beautiful spots of high ground,
and which is a favorite resort or tour
lists. The professor will erect a resi-
dence on the Mount, and will spend his
summers at Terra Alta.
Miss Kate Sisler and Miss Hattie
White, of Terra Alta, and Miss Belle
Stemple, of near Aurora, received no
tice Friday morning that they were sue
cessful in passing the State teachers
examination, and that their certificates
will be issued in few days. All three
of these charming young ladies are
| leaders in educational circles and
prominent teachers of the county.
An Italian known to Terra Alta by
the name of Tony" was killed We'd
nesday afternoon at Corinth, two miles
| east of here, by fall of slate While
at work in the msaes of the Oakland
| Coal and Coal Company. The fun
eral occurred on Thursday. TONY"
made frequent trips to Terra Alta and
was generally liked.
Mrs. Walton Miller and little daugh-
! ter, Helen, Mrs. Thum and Mrs. A. b.
Fleming, all of Fairmont, and who oc-
cupied Fern Top Cottage during the
! past season, have returned to their
homes.
Lieutenant W. J. White, of the 44th
U. S. Volunteer Infantry, now being
! formed at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., was
| in Terra Alta Thursday for the pur-
pose of enlisting recruits.
The U. B. conference at Huntington
last week, among other changes in APP
pointment, sends to Terra Alta Rev.
D. w. Cunningham in place of Rev.
A. H. Reese, who goes to ParkersDurg.
| Terra Altans learn with great regret
that Rev. Reese is to leave this sec
ton.
Charles Smith, who resides near the
old tannery, about seven miles from
here, was seriously wounded by the ex-
plosion of a shot gun, while out hunt
ing last Saturday afternoon, and his
recovery is considered doubtful by the
physicians. The young man was in the
act of shooting squirrel, when the
gun burst, blowing a part of the lock
and the hammer clear through the
| frontal bone. Smith was a private in
Co. H, I'd w. Va. Regiment.
! Mrs. Sarah H. Tippett, aged nearly 81
years, died at the home of her daugh-
| ter in Newark, o., Saturday last, and
on Monday was brought to Terra Al
ia for burial. The funeral occurred
at 1920 o'clock from the residence of
Mr.. and Mis-. W. T. White, on Main
street, the services being conducted by
Rev. T. T. Brown, pastor of the Terra
! Alta Presbyterian church, and the in
terment was in the Terra Alta Gene
terry. Deceased was the widow of j.
w. Tippett, who died many years ago
at this place and who remains were in
tered in the Terra Alta cemetery.
Tippett was the mother of Mrs. Ellen
Bach and Mrs. Emma McMullen, OF
Newark, O., ard Henry N. Tippett, of
Homer, o.
Early frosts and unusual cold have
sent most of our city guests home
ward bound. At Lakewood hotel the
Misses Rhodes, of Wheeling, yet re-
main, and at Sunset Hall a party of six
or seven are enjoying the autumn sea-
son. With the party are Hon. and Mrs.
H. l.. Hall, of Washington, d. G. Mr..
Hall is an eX-consul to Spain, and both
he and his wife are leading society
people of the National Capital. Also
with them is Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley, of
Michigan, two very popular young peo-
pie VINO have been spending the sum-
mer at the seashore and who stopped
off here while en- route home. They
are related to Mr. and Mrs. Hall.