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

PIEDMONT, w. Va, August ga
B. Bustany, OF Boston, Mass, and Real
Etate Agent j. D. McCubbin, of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. are endeav-
oring to secure $4,000 acres of land in
Garrett county, Md, about Is miles
from Piedmont, on which to settle a
colony Of 500 families. The land ex-
amined SO far suits them, and II suf-
fcient quantity can be secured in one
body the purchase viii be made at
once. II consumated this will give
that county quite large and suduen
boom. A Bostonian and two gentlemen
Just from England were recently in
speeding wild lands in Randolph coun-
ty, near Pickens.
Herbert Montgomery, of Piedmont,
and Lloyd Houser, of Romney, this
week purchased and took charge of
the Grant County Gazette, of Bayard.
Geo. B. Hartman retiring.
Two of the tramps who assaulted B.
& o. breakman Lloyd Lewis, we're held
for the action of the next grand jury,
which convenes September 5, III default
of $500 bail to answer two changes, as
sault and disturbing religious worship
by soliciting aims while intoxicated.
They were placed in Jail at Keyser.
Fan. F. Collott, Of Elkins, who serv-
ed in the First Regiment Of West Vir-
ginia Volunteers as Captain, and is
now with the regulars. has been ap-
pointed Battalion Adjutant, at salary
of $3.50 per month.
1t is claimed that the Womelsdorff
letters to the Randolph Enterprise,
have been the means of selling thou5-
ands of acres of timber and coal land
on the waters of Roaring creek. in
Randolph and Upshur counties. Few
people realize the good to commun-
ity of a newspaper-even an obscure
one-can do. Help the press.
There is a large crop of buckle
berries on the South of roaring creek,
and several bears are feeding on them.
Sheridan George, who is getting out
cross ties for Col. Mabie on Casady.
Randolph county, has already killed 80
rattlesnakes this season.
The Allegheny Peach Orchard Co.,
incorporated, owns an orchard OF 800
acres seven miles from Piedmont, and
are negotiating for 200 acres more,
which if secured, will be at once clear
ed and planted in peach trees.
A charter has been granted the
Davis Poultry Co., of Davis, for the
purpose of carrying on a poultry busl-
ness.
The Davis Coal and Coke Company
has arranged to build more coke ovens
at Thomas. They have just complet-
ed six large double tenement houses
there and will build a number more.
They are doing an immense building.
Miss Rose Slrlss is at Keyser and
Miss Stella Cowan at Mt Lake Park.
Mrs. Sallie Ross visited Keyser Wed
nesday.
Misses Mamie and Elsie McHenry
have returned from Lancaster, Pa.
Messrs. Lindsay McCandlish, of Bal
timore, and Harvey Heyser and Frank
Bomberger, of Hagerstown, Md, are
guests of Mr.. u. B. McCandlish.
Col. E. E. Brown and Miss Edith
Shultz. of St. Louis, Mo-, have been
visiting Attorney Taylor Morrison and
sister, Miss Edith.
Gen. G. w. Getty is visiting his bro
Their, Mr. J. He. Getty
DR.. D. j. Long is home from Pennsyl-
vania.
Mrs. H. F. Harrison, of Hackensack-
en-, N Y, and Miss Ella Williams, OF
Scranton, Pa, are guests of Mrs. D. f.
Graham and Mrs. G. W. Harrison.
Mrs. w. M. Foulk has returned from
Port Deposit, Md.
Miss Kittie Mcdonald is visiting her
home in Connecticut.
Miss Bessie Hoover has returned to
Baltimore, after visit to Miss Eva
Miller.
Messrs. J. R. Metzger and E. NG
Dinkle, and Misses Anna Mole and CO.
rhine Miller attended Al. G.. Fields
MINISTRIES at Cumberland, Md, Mon
day.
Mrs. D. R. and Misses Lizzie and
Ida Barrett are home from Winches-
ter.
Mrs. w. H. Fredlock and Miss Mollie
Jameson are at Romney.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Smallwood and
daughter, Cora and Edna, and Misses
Emma Conway and Sallie Welton left
| Thursday for Atlantic City.
Miss Stella and Master Alphonsus
| Carney returned to Wheeling Wednes-
| day, after a visit to Mrs. w. F. Mans
| field.
Mrs. Mary Mole, of Wilmington, Del,
| is the guest of her brother, VIM. B.
| Mole, Esq.
Mrs. T. w. Stingley, of Baltimore,
spent Tuesday with Mrs. w. B. Mole.
Mrs. Lula Byrnes and Mr.. VIM. Al
len, Jr., of Chicago, are guests of Mr..
VIM. Allen.
| Miss Florence Gregg has gone on a
visit to Big Timber, Montana.
Mrs. M. l. Swift, Of Nag, Ind, is the
/! guest Of Mrs. G. /. Murphy.
Miss Emma Engle, of Philadelphia,
visited Mrs. U. B. McCandlish this
| week.
| Mr.. Weldon Wooden and sister,
Edith. are guests of Miss Katie Bice.
| Mrs. Mary Rowan has returned home
to Louisville, KY.
Miss Tillie Reilly, Of Wheeling, IS
visiting here.
| DR.. A. F. Wagner is visiting his for
| mer home in Indiana.
Mrs. Clara Vansant, of Annapolis,
Md, is visiting Mrs. John Daddysman.
Miss Estella Hull, of Wheeling, WIS.,
tied Mrs. W. c. Johnson part of this
| week.
Mrs. Geo. Martin, of Cumberland,
was the guest Wednesday Of Mrs.
| John Landstreet.
| Mrs John Stanton, of Chicago, is Wis
| iting relatives here.
| Mr.. Fred w. Seaber made a brief