Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-17

curbing and paving their sidewalks.
A city official stated yesterday that
Upper Benwood citizens presented a
petition to Council last spring asking
that the streets in their part of the
city be paved, and that as soon as they
had learned that Council was willing
to grant the improvements on the con-
dition that the North Benwood citi-
zens stand the expense of the curbing
and paving of the sidewalks, presented
another petition, which rescinded the
first petition.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Quinn will leave
to-day for Rowelsburg, w. Va, where
they will be the guests of Mr.. Quinn S
parents.
Mrs. Louis Bechtel and son, Harry,
of Benwood Junction, will depart dur
ing the coming week for Cincinnati,
Ohio, at which city they will be the
guests of friends.
Early Davis, of Grafton, was in the
city yesterday, a guest at the Tourists
Hotel at the Junction.
Tim Grogan's saloon at the Junction,
is undergoing extensive repairs and
improvements.
Mrs. Estep and Mrs. Turner, of Cen
trail Benwood, have departed for Balti-
more, Md, having been called to that
city on account of the serious illness
of Mrs. Estep's sister, Mrs Sarah
Christopher.
Misses Jane and Annie Murphy, of
Benwood Junction, win spend to-mor-
row as the guests of friends at Pitts
burg.
Lem Garrison and family, of Ben
wood Junction, will leave during the
coming week for Old Hundred, to visit
friends.
Will Bonner. of Cameron, spent
Thursday in the city and registered
at the Union House at the Junction.
John Burkley has purchased a lot of
ground at Benwood Junction, on which
he intends to have a new dwelling house
erected some time during the spring.
large new boarding house is being
erected at the Junction for Mrs. Muir
ply.
Rev. Father McMenamin spent yes
terday at Dillonvale, Ohio, as the guest
of friends.
Commandery No. PSI, Knights Of ST..
John, will hold a special meeting at
their hall tomorrow afternoon at one
o'clock sharp. A number of important
business matters are to be transacted.
The employees of the steel department
of the Wheeling iron and steel works
will hold meeting tonight at the City
Hall for the purpose of considering the
new scale to govern their wages, as has
been offered by the company. AS is
generally known, the men have asked
the company for an advance in wages
of over eleven per cent on an average,
but the scale, as offered to the men,
grants an increase in wages of ten per
cent on an average. There is cOnsid-
cradle speculation as to how the men
will treat the compromise, but it may
be stated with assurance that the mat
tier will be settled with satisfaction to
all parties concerned therein.
Shortly before midnight Thursday
night fire broke out in David G..
Keenan's blacksmith shop, in Upper
Benwood. The blaze was discovered
by Officer Fisher and was quickly ex-
tinguished by bucket brigade. The
loss was small The officer gained en-
trance to the building by kicking the
door in, but after doing so discovered
that the door had not been locked. Mr..
Keenan, stated that he locked the door
of the shop before returned to his
home, and is of the opinion that the
fire was the work of incendiaries.
Quite a number of Benwood citizens
have subscribed for stock in the new
telephone company, whose lines will
run through Moundsville, McMechen,
Benwood and Bellaire and be connected
with the Handle line, at Mounds
Vile and me Ohio Valley line at Bell
aire. A Bellaire man, who is at the
head of the new company, stated yes
terday that the line will be extended to
Wheeling. The forming of the new
telephone company was exclusively
chronicled in the Register several days
ago.
Owing to the fact that a syndicate
is after the present electric light COM
pany. a number of citizens may take
steps which will lead to the purchase OF
the electric light plant by the city or
the forming of new electric light COM
! pany.
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