Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.

ployes to celebrate Labor Day.
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.
R. H.. Whitworth has sold his drug
store in Westernport, Nd, to DR.. ]. b.
Shupe, and will devote all his time to
the American Steam Laundry, Pied
mont. Jacob 8. Jameson will erect
business block on Main street, that
town, into which the drug store will
be moved as soon as the building is
completed.
The Westernport office of the Chesa-
reake and Potomac long distance tel
ephone company will be located in DIR.
Shupe's drug store.
The coal situation remains about the
same. Some of the miners at the EX-
celsior mine of the Piedmont Mining
Company have returned to work.
While there is a feeling of dissatisfac
ton among the Georges Creek region
miners, yet a strike is not likely, as the
miners have learned that it is folly to
strike while the miners of the sur
rounding coal regions continue to
work. Since there are so many mines
nothing can be accomplished by any
one section striking. 1t must be uni
versal strike or nothing.
The coal shipment from the Georges
Creek region aggregated S6,699 tons,
5601 more than same week. last year,
and for the year to date, 2,736,723, an
increase over same period last year
of 152,3S5. During same week Pills
tons of coal and 5,91S of coke were
shipped from the Elk Garden and
Thomas region in West Virginia.
The United States Leather Company
are improving their tannery on New
Creek five miles from Keyser. They
are putting in a new fan, and have let
the contract for seeral dwelling houses
for use of employees, of whom there
are now about 100.
The Allegheny Orchard Co. now
have five adjoining farms on what is
known as the Levels" in Hampshire
county, having just purchased the
farm of A. A. Ginevan. They have
fifty men at work clearing the land
and setting out peach trees. They
now have nearly $4,000 peach trees set
out.
A corps of engineers have about
completed a survey of the Dry Fork
railroad from Horton south to connect
| with the chesapeake & Ohio. This,
when completed, will give the West
Virginia Central Railway connection
at Hendricks with the G. & o.
Herbert Montgomery, of Piedmont,
and Elwood Houser, of Romney, be-
came the owners this week Of the Ga
zette of Bayard, Grant County, G. B.
Hartman retiring.
The Elkins Fair Association has been
chartered with $4,000 capital stock A
| large meadow has been leased from
the Elkins Improvement Company, for
| a period of twenty years Work has
commenced building the race track,
| which will be 80 feet wide and a mile
long. Racing will begin October 18TH
| Mrs. Mary Geisberger offers her ho-
| tel at Thomas for rent, as she desires
| to visit her old home in Switzerland.
1t was the Junior Coal Company
| that moved its new coke oven plant
from Junior, Barbour, county, three
| miles SO as to get into Randolph county
because one of their men was indicted
| for doing necessary labor on Sunday.
| Hon. H. G. Davis and son, John, are
| the sole owners of this company, the
Davis Coal and Coke Company not
owning one cent of its stock.
Another informal meeting Of gentle
men largely interested in the West Vir-
| ginia Central Railway and the Davis
| Coal and Coke Company, was held in
| Baltimore this week, and the question
of consolidating the two companies
| was discussed at some length 1t is
| now almost a certainty that the con-
| solidation will take place, some time
| being required to satisfactorily adjust
minor details. Mr. r. c. Kerens, who
owns little or no coal stock. but a
heavy block of railway shares, appears
| to be the prime mover in the CONSOLE
dation scheme. He IS very wealthy.
The Union Telephone Exchange, OF
Keyser, has been incorporated 1t
owns lines connecting several towns.
and proposes to accept s1.50 per month
for its entire service, while the Gordon
people charge $3.50 for local service.
Eisenberg Bros, of Homecoming. Nd.
have purchased of Daniel AMMAN.
cashier OF the Second National Bank.
of that city, the Daily News building.
Baltimore street, Cumberland. for
$4,000. The building has a front Of
4o12 feet. The Eisenbergs have the
largest store in their section
Since the controversy between Cum
berland and the Luke pulp mill over
the question of pollution of the Poto-
mac river. several houses here have
become vacant and several Others are
offered for sale.