Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-30
MOUNDSVILLE.

yesterday.
Tim Grow, of Second street, has
accepted a position with the Fostoria
Glass Company.
Missa, Bess Ewing and Kate
Humphrey returned yesterday from a
visit to friends at Leatherwood.
Miss Mary Slender, OF New Mar
tinsville, was the guest OF friends here
yesterday, stopping for an hour or so
waiting on the train for Fairmont.
II. d. Kennedy, OF Wheeling, was
here yesterday.
Miss Anna Howard returned to her
home at Wheeling yesterday, after a
visit with her cousin, Miss Nora How
ard, of Tomlinson avenue.
A. @. Whitaker, OF Woodland, was
in the city yesterday.
A marriage license was issued at
the county clerks Office yesterday to
Charles Kerby, aged q, of Cameron,
and Anna Arena Chambers, aged II,
of McMechen.
The will of the late Mary McAllister,
of McMechen, was admitted to probate
in the county clerks office yesterday.
The members of the Ladies' Sewing
Society of the M E. church will hold
strawberry festival in the Court
House yard on June 10th. This will
be the first out of door social given
this season, and being given at the
Court House it will be sure to be well
patronized.
Miss Cora Parkinson has returned
from visit to friends at Cambridge,
Ohio.
A session of Police Court was held
yesterday morning, and Mayor Par
kinson disposed of three cases. Mark
German, painter, John Jackman and
William Travis plead guilty to the
charge of appearing ON the streets
Sunday in an intoxicated condition.
They were fined S. and costs, but only
German paid. The other two went
sent to Jail for 80 days.
Mrs. Beam and daughter, Miss Mat
tie, of Pittsburg, are visiting relatives
on Third street.
To-day being a legal holiday, the
Court House offices, banks, and, in fact,
almost every business house in the
city will be closed. The hours at the
postoffice will be from s to 10 a. m.
and from to D. m.
Charles Potts will take his position
as one of the police officers on next
Thursday.
Phil A. Shafer, who has a position
on an engineering corps in Pennsyl-
vania, spent Sunday here. Yesterday
he left, accompanied by his wife, for
the town he is now located in.
II 3
wood, was here yesterday.
Decoration Day will be very fit
tingly observed in this city to-day.
The members OF the G. A. R. and
company M have arranged for a big
street demonstration which is sched-
uled to take place at 1:30. The parade
is to form at the Court House square
and all organizations of the city are
expected to participate in it. The
members of the two above organiza-
lions will be provided with guns from
the penitentiary, and two firing squads
have been organized. At the ceme-
teries the graves will be decorated,
as is customary, and after that the
main exercises are over. At night
however, the Epworth League will hold
The window frames for the new post
Office building were placed in position
yesterday. The plastering, however, is
not entirely finished, but the work in
that direction is being pushed very
rapidly. The fixtures for the Office will
be shipped from Indianapolis, Ind,
about the 10th of June, which will
be in ample time for the opening of the
office on July LIST.
1t is reported that as soon as Coun-
Gilman Clayton sends his resignation as
member of Council that Fred KEN
pie will be selected in his place. Mr..
Clayton has moved to Jewett, Ohio,
where he has position in the car
shops. So far he has not given up his
residence here, and may possibly not
resign his seat in Council.
Sunday base ball is a dead letter in
this city from this time on. Last Sun
day the P. Daughtery Club, of Martin S
Ferry, came here to play a local nine.
The game was to have been played on
the Fair Grounds, but the sheriff put
stop to it. The complaint was made
by number Of the citizens of the
town, otherwise the boys would have
been allowed to play as in the past.
Riggs and Kull have secured the cons
tract for the drilling of two artesian
water wells for McMechen parties.
John c.. Devine, of Wheeling, was
here yesterday.
Joseph Stillwell, of the Third Ward,
is confined to his home on account of
sickness.
Miss Mary McCombs has returned
from visit with Wheeling friends.
Mayor ]. w. Yoho, of Cameron, was
here yesterday.
A warrant was sworn out yesterday
by the wife of Riley Moss charging
him with assault with intent to kill.
Moss has just completed a sentence In
the Ohio penitentiary and arrived
home last Sunday. His wife is the
daughter OF S. S. Lucas, and he wanted
her to live with him. She refused. and
he drew a revolver saying that he
would kill her unless she complied with
his request. She put him off with some
pretext and last evening swore out the
warrant for his arrest. Justice Pierce
made out the papers. but so far Moss
has not been apprehended.
The County Court at the special ses-
sion last SATURDAY. granted liquor IL
censes to J. R. Johnston and Frank
Callahan. The next regular session of
the Court will be held the third Tues
dav in July.
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