Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11

han, OF Franklin. will be announced
for the first time. Miss Mehan is the
daughter of ex-Commissioner Owen
Mehan, and is an accomplished and at
tractive young lady. and the prospect
i've groom is prosperous furniture
dealer of the Queen City The host of
friends of the bride to be, in Bellaire,
will be pleased to extend cordial wishes
- participation of the happy event.
A very enjoyable social affair was
the reception given at the home of JOS
eph M. Covert in the Third ward on
Friday evening, complimentary TO his
brother, BENZ. Covert, who left last
midnight for his home at Daleton. o.
There were eight or ten couples pres
ent and excellent refreshments served
at a seasonable hour enhanced the pleas
ant social features of the evening. The
friends made by Mr.. Covert while here
will be pleased to see him return at
any time.
At two o'clock tomorrow the vener-
able Jacob Heatherington, accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Matte A. Kelly,
and granddaughter, Miss Lyde Heath
erington, will leave over the G. & p.
Canada. Among the cities and points
of interest to be visited are Cleveland,
Thousand Islands, Buffalo and Niagara
Falls. The extent and duration of the
trip will depend much upon how well
Mr.. Heatherington' health and
strength endures the travel.
A party of Bellaire people are max
ing arrangements, to spend portion of
the summer in Ireland, where they will
visit scenes of their youth and hunt up
relatives and old acquaintance The
party will be made up of Samuel Nc
Donald, Robert Brown Joseph Glenn
ents and possibly one or two others.
Mr.. Clements will be accompanied by
his wife and son. The party will leave
Bellaire July 1st and expect to leave
s Ireland on the return trip on August
2Sth. The trip is pleasantly antici-
pated by all the persons who are so
fortunately situated as to be able to
enjoy it.
Bellaire has as many dead game
sports as any town of its size in the
Ohio Valley. 1t is likely, however,
that some OF the boys who stuck their
dough on Lanky Bob wish they had
UeGu IllUIe CUnS6IfdllNt JOuully wall,
however, of the Globe, is not one of
this class, and when the wires licked
off the eleventh round Friday night he
was a thousand to twelve hundred dol
lars better off than when the fight be-
gan less than an hour previous. This
is the biggest winning that has been
reported and perhaps the only one
here, as most of the talent was with
ha fox ~ TA1,n NHaCo ff,.ar
Reece RosssS, Martin Gary and Robert
Dunlap who were at the ringside, are
understood to have all been Fitzsim-
mons men. The quartette arrived
home last evening somewhat disap-
pointed over the results.
Yesterday evening a couple of color
ed boys named Austin and Oscar Car
ter, from Washington, Pa, gave an
exhibition on taut rope stretched
from the Belmont House to Meals liv-
cry stable, on Main street. The boys
make q business of travelling over the
country giving open air exhibitions
and get their pay by passing around
the hat. Some of their tricks upon
the rope and the trapeze are very
clever.
Epworth Park has gotten to be a
popular resort with Bellaire people,
and quite number have already begun
their weekly pilgrimage to its cool
shades to spend quiet and restful
Sunday. The excursion rates and the
arrangement to have the trains stop
at the Park is attracting not few mat
way and a good crowd went out yes
terday to stay over Sunday or longer.
AS is mentioned elsewhere in to-
days Register, w. c. Stewart, Jr., who
has just returned from New York. an
nounces that the work upon the big
improvement at the National Enamel
ing plant will be commenced immedi-
ately. Tomorrow the work will be
initiated by removing the cottage on
the B. & o. property east of the plant,
to the opposite side of Thirty-third
street. This job will be done under the
supervision of the local management,
but the construction of the new build
ings Will be let to contractors within
the next ten days. The enlargement of
the plant upon the lines first made
public is now assured.
Children's Day will be observed at
several of the churches to-day. At the
First Presbyterian Church, at $50 the
programme and order of worship pre-
scribed by the Presbyterian Board of
Managers will be observed. 1t consists
of hymns, responsive readings, etc.
The Methodists have also prepared a
programme for s o'clock in the even
ing, which is as follows:
song ........... School
Prayer ............ Rev. o. w. Holmes
Song-"Violets" 80. Primary Glass
Recitation ......... Leah Lancaster
Recitation .......... Eugene Walters
ng-"Gladsome Days. Quartette
Recitation ............ Pauline Ewing
Songs Swinging" ...... Quartette
Solo-"Hid in the Lily's Bell"
..............-.... May HlpkinS
Recitation ............ Ethel McHenry
Song-"Buds of Promise" Primary Glass
Recitation ................ Pearl He'll
recitation .......... Bertha Alderman
6ong-"Jesus Saves Every Child
..........C. Hoffman, E. McHenry
Recitation ........... Wilma Strahl
Recitation ........-...... Clara Vale
solo-" Beautiful Summer Day"
Anna ParkS
Recitation ........... Minnie Newhart