Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-09

"Snakehunter' base ball team Of Bar
bour county in doing up the Elkins.
| The Crystal Ice Co. are putting down
| an artesian well near their plant.
| DR.. E. III. Turner of Morgantown.
has been in town during the week on
| business.
! Adam Hehnert returned Thursday
| from a visit to friends in Piedmont.
The appointment of Clark Lewellen
| for the eastern district and o. o. Nor
| row for the western district. as asses
sors, has given general satisfaction.
Mrs. ]. G. Wittmyer, of Newburg.
| was in the city Friday. She was en-
route TO Clarksburg to visit friends and
relatives.
Hon. w. R. d. Dent was at Clarks-
burg on legal business Friday
| Mrs. Helen V. Gather and daughter,
| Miss May, returned to-day from an ex-
tended visit to her son, Henry, at Ell
i Paso, Texas. While there Mrs. Gather
| visited in Mexico.
Will Shaffer, foreman of the B. & o.
tin shop. accompanied by his family,
| went to Preston county Wednesday TO
visit relatives.
Misses Mary Jenkins and Grace Blue
were at Wheeling Sunday.
Harry Clayton, superintendent Of the
Fairmont glass works, was circulating
| among his many Grafton friends Fri
| day.
Miss Cecil Peters, of Fairmont, spent
i the Fourth here the guest of relatives.
Claude Jarvis and sister, Miss Anna,
! of Philadelphia. were visiting their
O-I l,,ri ing
week.
W. B. Outright, of Clarksburg, was
/ in town Friday and Saturday.
Grafton Lodge No. sos, B. p. o. Elks,
are preparing to have big time In
| Grafton about the middle OF August.
A. G. Fields big Ministries will be one
| OF the features of the evening, the pro-
ceeds for the benefit of Grafton Lodge.
| A banquet will be spread.
The Fourth of July passed of very
quietly in Grafton. The Park I'M
proyement Co. had a big picnic at the
! park, at which there was an immense
| crowd. Dancing and other innocent
| amusements were engaged in until late
| at night About fifteen hundred tickets
were sold at the ticket Office here
Miss Grace Kennedy was visiting
| friends at Beverly on the Fourth.
| The LenoX soap people are working
the town with their advertising scheme
| and are decorating quite a number OF
| the store windows very deliberately.
John T. Walter, of Philippi, was in
town Wednesday.
| A. B. Murphy John Duckworth and
| Ellis Murphy of Wicklow, were in town
| the Fourth.
S. j. Helm and son Neil spent the
Fourth in Parkersburg, visiting rela-
tives.
Miss Maude Probst, of Weston, is the
| guest of her sister. Mrs. S. NJ. Hard
| man, on Latrobe street.
Ed. Wilson, of Philippi, formerly
connector with the Walters Tannery at
that place, has resigned his position
and will take charge of the Evans tan
merry at Fetterman.
| j. G. Miller, of Thornton, returned
| this week from visit to Pittsburg.
Edward Rapp, of Clarksburg, was a
| business visitor to Grafton this week
! Mrs. Frank Baton. Of Rowlesburg
| is visiting Mr. Batton's mother, on
| Main street.
l.. C. Painter this week bought from
| l.. Addison the Main street property
| known as the Virginia House, and viii
| in the near future remove his boarding
house to that building.
George Allen, of Springfield, Ohio, Is
| visiting friends in town.
Mrs Capt. Chadwick of Morgantown
is a guest at Senator T. E. Davis's.
Mrs. Tabitha Baton, Of East Main
| street, returned Friday from visit tc
| Keyser relatives and friends.
| J. S. Milligan, of Wheeling, general
agent of the National Life insurance
Company, of Montpelier, VT, was in
| the city Saturday.
B. NJ. Yeager. of Warrington, has been
in town several days on business.
Claude E. Vincent, Frank Martin
Elmis Gaskin and George Smith, mem
bers of the Grafton band, left Tuesday
for Bellaire, Ohio, where they have
secured positions with the Donahue &
| Martin circus as musicians.
The Crystal Ice Company has put
two more ice wagons on for the town
trade for the months Of July and Au-
gust in order to accommodate theli
largely increasing trade.
Harry d. Payne, Of Charleston, has &C.
cepted a position as fireman on the