Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-16
OTHER BENWOOD NOTES.

Mrs. Lavina Hitchcock, of New Mar
tinsville, has returned to her home after
spending a week in the city as a guest at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Thomas Shep-
pard, wife of Mayor Sheppard, of Main
street.
There was no session of police court yes
terday morning.
Plate mill A., at the Riverside works,
was put off Monday and will remain off
during the week for the purpose of max
ing some repairs and improvements in
the various departments.
Four sections of first-class Maltese
Cross fire-hose, the Bake fabric, having
been purchased by the city from the Gut
ia Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co.,
of New York, has arrived at the city
building. Each section consists of fifty
feet. Eight more sections of ffrst-class
hose, each section TO consist of fifty feet,
having been ordered by the city from two
other hose manufacturing companies, one
in New York and the other in New Jersey,
will be shipped to the city very shorty.
AS has been seen, it Will not be long ere
the town has been provided with twelve
sections of soft, pliabIe hose, each fifty
feet in length, making in all SIX hundred
feet. No place for keeping the fire hose
has been selected by the city officials.
The Riverside blast furnace resumed op-
e~rations last night. after having been Idle
sine Monday, when the entire depart
ment of the large mill was forced to shut
own on account of a shortage of COX
The blast furnace for operations in full
requires a sufficiently large supply of
coke to render in necessary to have
goodly consignments of coke shipped to
the works from various points as add!-
tons to the large quantities of the pro-
duct turned out daily by the Riverside
coke plant. No coke has reached the
Riverside works from other points since
Monday, owing to the fact that railroad
traffic has been considerably crippled by
the heavy snow fall throughout the coun-
try.
William Frazier and Jacob Schramm
have returned home from a brief hunting
expedition in the vicinity of S~hadyside,
Ohio. The brought with them seven rab-
bits.
The Nonpareils, a club composed of a
number Of young society people of this
city and McMechen, have issued invita-
tons for a select hop to be given at the
latter city next Tuesday evening. This
dance, very likely, will be the last social
event of the season to be given by this
popular organization.
Elaborate preparations are being made
by tie pupils OF the lower grades at the
central school building for a literary and
musical entertainment to take place at
the building on W~ashington's birthday.
The affair promises to be largely attended
by the relatives and friends of the schoI-
are.
The water contract was brought up at
the regular meeting of the caty council
held on Tuesday night, but was laid over
until the next meeting. There are very
few members of the council that favor
all the stipulations as set rorth in the con-
tract.
The lecture to have been delivered by
DR.. G. c. Wilding, of Jersey City, n. j.,
at the First NJ. Z. church last night, has
been postponed until a later date. A dis
patch was received by Rev. G. w. Bente,
pastor of the church, yesterday, which
stated that DR.. Wilding would have to
remain at home until the railroads had
been sufficiently cleared of the snow for
traffic.