Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
BEN WOOD.

Commandery No. 231, Knights of st.
John, will hold a regular meeting at their
hall this afternoon at one o'clock, sharp.
for the purpose of transacting important
business.
1t pays to have your prescriptions filled
at Gates's drug store.
William Garvey, Of Main street, has re-
turned home from a seven weeks pleas
ant visit with friends at Columbus, Ohio.
Joseph Burns will tender a trolley party
to a number of friends on April list.
August Hape, of Water street, attended
the banquet held on Friday night by the
Bellaire.
Miss Sophia Swartz is able to be out
again, after having been confined to her
home on Main street for several days past,
quite i'll.
Mrs. Jacob Clayton, of Main street, is a
guest of her mother at Braddock, Pa.
The pupils of the 0aStSaL school are
practicing at present on a orama, consist
ing of three acts, which will be presented
some time in the near future for the ben
eft of the Central School library. The
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quite an amusing nature. Prof. c. E. Car
rigan and Miss Edith Morgan will enact
the leading roles, and about twenty of the
older Central School scholars are included
in the cast.
The condition of Will Porterfield. for
merly of this city, now of Moundsville,
who has been lying quite i'll at Haskinss
hospital at Wheeling, was much improved
yesterday.
Miss Leoti Gates, of Powhatan. Ohio.
spent yesterday in the city as a guest at
the home of her brother, o. O. Gates, the
Main street druggist.
The ladies and gentlemen of the congre-
cation of st. Johns church have com
pleted all arrangements for their musical
and literary entertainment to be given
next Thursday evening at St. Johns hall.
The affair promises to be very largely at
| tended by the members and their friends.
F. Charles Peter, head official of the
architectural department of the Pabst
Brewing Company, of Milwaukee, Wis.
will arrive in the city tomorrow for the
purpose of adjusting matters, relative to
the awarding of contracts for the various
kinds of work on the new brick building
to be put up on the old Harttong grounds
on Main street, by the Pabst Brewing
Company.
Willard Bowers has resigned his position
as barber at Allie Chapman's tonsorial
parlor, and will depart tomorrow for
Warrington, w. Va, where he will accept
a similar position.
Jacob Lafferty, of Proctor, Ohio. while
proceeding along the path on the north
side of Boggs' run yesterday afternoon
about three O'Clock, slipped and fell over
the ban at a point a short distance east
of Marshall street, alight.ng heavily in
the run below. The bed Of the run at this
point is covered with sharp pointed stones,
and as a result Mr.. Lafferty had his
hands painfully cut and his head badly
bruised. Louis Walker, who was nearby
at the time, succeeded in releasing the
man from his position in the run. Mr..
Lafferty was on his way to the house
of his son, Thomas Lafferty, who resides
out Boggs's rum, when the accident befell
him. AS he was unable to walk on ac-
count of the severe shaking up he re-
ceived, he was conveyed to his destina-
ton in a wagon, belonging to Louis Rider,
a farmer, of Boggs's run.
Deputy Sheriff Porterfield, of Mounds
Vile, was in the city yesterday.