Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-10
GRAFTON.

place on the 9TH. Mrs. Dent accom-
panied him.
Judge Ice, of Philippi, and Hon. E. D.
Talbot, of Beverly, were legal visitors
to town Wednesday.
Hon. George Caldwell, of Wheeling,
was in town during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Owens attended
the Wheeling Fair Wednesday and
Thursday.
Ohio Valley Fair at Moundsville,
Sept. 10, 10 and IA. Excursion rates on
all railroads.
Ona c.. Jefferys and Miss Lila Love
left Monday on an extended visit to
friends in Philadelphia.
DeMolay Commandery No. IL, K. T.,
held a special conclave Friday night
for the purpose of comforting the sew
eral degrees of the order on three can
didates.
Chas. Wheeler, of independence, was
in town Friday.
Rev. C. l.. Queen, the new pastor OF
the M. p. church, will occupy his pull
pit Sunday morning and evening.
Miss Carrie Watts is visiting friends
and relatives near Evansville.
Miss Lois Rogers returned Friday,
from a visit to friends at Newburg.
Oliver and J. D. Hamilton, OF New
York, were called to town the first of
the week on account of the serious i'll
ness of their father, DR.. ]. NJ. Hamilton.
The family of former B. & o. Supt.
Sheats, will leave Monday for Chicago,
where they will make their future home
Mr.. Sheats having been transferred to
that point several months ago..
L. l.. Loar came home Wednesday
from New York, where he had been
| purchasing his fall and winter stock OF
goods.
VIM. H. Bailey left Wednesday for
Camden-on-the-Cauley to inspect some
lumber purchased for export trade.
There is talk Of the organization
here of a company of National Guard
with DIR. Ellis as captain.
Rev. f. G. w. Ford, of Hundred, was
in town Wednesday and Thursday.
Joe Woodford, Of Elkins, vas in town
Thursday.
John A. Luttrell returned Friday
from a visit to his home in Virginia.
Attorney Melville Peck. Of Philippi,
was a city visitor Friday.
Mrs. A. j. Wilkinson and children re-
turned Wednesday from a visit to her
mother at Bridgeport.
Misses Mary Jenkins and Luck King
and George Rowland were at Wheeling
Wednesday attending the Fair.
Mrs. Mollie Ryan, of the New Bee
Hive, returned Saturday from the east
ern cities, where she had been laying
in her fall and winter stock.
The Fetterman Graded school will
open Monday September 18th. with
Prof. N. +. Kendall as principal, and
Misses Mollie Holt, Lilly Chenoweth
and Florence Jaco assistants.
Minor Fleming, of Webster, was as
sisting the clerks in the Boyles grocery
during the temporary absence OF Luther
Abbott.
Miss Emma Rodgers has accepted a
position in the American Bazaar.
George Rowland, of Parkersburg, is
visiting his aunt, Miss Mary King, on
Washington street.
S. J. Willhile has completed the iron
fence around the Court House.
Live stock owners will be sure to see
much to interest them at the Ohio Val
ley Fair to be held at Moundsville,
Sept. II, 10 and IA, as the exhibits this
year will be much larger and finer than
ever before.
Miss Daisy Dudley and Nora Fahey
have accepted positions with the Hen
erickson Clothing Co.
Hon. VIM. G. Morley, Of Kingwood,
was in town Thursday.
State Superintendent of Schools Rus
sell Trotter, was in town Thursday
attending the teachers examination
held in the school house.
A. Righ9mire will move his family to
Morgantown where his children can
have the advantage of the State Uni
versity.
County Superintendent of Schools w.
P. Phillips, assisted by Clark Gather
md w. Il. Lake, held a teachers exam
nation at the school building Tuesday
and Wednesday. Twenty-Five teachers
were present, fifteen Of whom received
No. l certificates.
G. S. McCafferty, clerk in the main
tenance and way department of the B..
& o., was married Thursday to Miss
Alice Orr. of Fairmont. The wedding
took place at the home of the brides
parents in Fairmont. Mr.. McCafferty
is a popular young man and quite a
number of his friends attended the we'd
ding from here.
The season at the Brinkman Opera
House will open on next Tuesday night
with NJ. B. Leavitt's gorgeous spectae-
ular extravaganza, The Spider and the
Fly"
Sheriff jenkins and B. F. Poe were
at Wheeling Thursday and Friday.
Dan Hall, of P~ittsburg, is clerking
at the Arlington Hotel.
VIM. Spencer, living twelve miles east
OF here near the Preston county line, is
the champion squirrel hunter. He left
home on last Wednesday about 5
o'clock in the morning and returned at
noon of the same day with forty-one
squirrels.
The Town Council at its meeting on
Monday night refused to appoint a po-
liceman to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Policeman Allender,
leaving our town with but three police
men.
c. L. Frank Ellis returned from Bal
timore Thursday.
Col. J. X. Smith, of Fetterman, was in
town Friday.
Lewis d. Phillips, merchant, OF Neel,
was in town Wednesday.
George ana andrew Harden, of Kas-
son, were in town Wednesday.
Victor J. Lucas, Of Philadelphia, a
former Grafton boy, is visiting friends
in town.
James Hickman, of Belington, was at
tending Masonic meeting Monday
night.
Rev. J. H. Flanagan. D. D., will occu-