The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-27
WELLSBURG,
Doinss ofPcoplc In the Brooke Coun-
~ Metropolis.

~ Metropolis.
At the session of county court yester-
the Moundsville. Benwood & Wheeling
Electric Railway Company applied for
4 right of way over the Welsburg and
Bethany turnpike from Wellsburg to
Bethany and Messrs. S. o, PAUL, w,
w. Beall and C. b. OFT asked for the
right of way over the public road be-
tween Wellsburg and Lazearvllle The
Peoples Railway Company, OF Wheel
ing, already had its application In for
right of way over the county road from
iWellsburg to the Ohio county line.
Both the city council and county court
have a surfeit of electric railway prop
ositions. and our people are kept busy
guessing what 1t all means. The court
VIII hear counsel for the several appli-
cantS at to-day's session. 1t Is not like
lly 1t Will grant n franchise TO any com.
pany until the city has taken action on
the various propositions.
Commissioner Thomas Boyd has filed
his report in the Apologize case. He
finds that L. C. Applegate as admins
traitor OF the estate OF Lewis Applegate,
Is indebted to Nina w. AppleEate In
the sum of S7S2 H. and to Margaretta
w. Apologize In the sum of Sl.05i o..
Melvin and Cree as attorneys for the
administrator filed exceptions to the
commissioners report, claiming that
there Is nothing due from him to Mar
Saretta w. Apologize, and that Nina
w. Applegate is Indebted to the ad-
ministrator In the sum of $3.50. .s.-5.
Tomorrow at the residence of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Brown. of Elm Grove, will occur the
marriage of Samuel Jacob. publisher Of
the Welsburg Herald. and Miss Sarah
Brown. After the ceremony the couple
leave for Portland. Oregon. 20 attend
the meeting of the National Editorial
Association. returning TO their future
home in Wellsburg.
The county levy for 1899 has been fix
cd at siXty-iive cents on the 500, an
increase of five cents over last year,
made necessary mainly by reason of
the heavy expense OF the new road be-
tween WellsburS and Beech Bottom
The county debt last year was reduced
SG,914 IS. 1t is stIl ss6.22S 70. but six
years ago was as high as sl4S0OO.
Sunday afternoon occurred the funer-
al OF Robert Moren, which was at
tended by Il large number of old SOL
diers and citizens. The deceased. who
was In his sixty-ninth year. enlisted in
the three months service In 1861, and
afterwards for three years. His father
was veteran of the war of 1872.
L. A. Sheets has been elected dele
gate and Robert Scott alternate to rep
resent the Wcllsburg N. L. church in
the Lay Electoral Conference n;
Jamestown. Pa, in September. to elect
delegates from Pittsburgh conference
to the genera! conference at Chicago
next year.
There will be no public celebration of
the GLORIOUS Fourth" in Wellsburg.
There Will be bicycle races and other
amusemen;s ut Nichols & Matthews
park and In the evening Company G.
National Guard of West Virginia. will
give supper and ball ut the city hall
Our one-armed assessor, Edward NJ.
Smith. had his hand painfully lacerated
by getting 1t caught in 4 rcapng mu-
chine. DR.. Harden dressed II and
found that luckily none of the bones
were broken.
Mrs. Kate Pullcn. nee Hughes, has
been granted divorce from William II.
Pullcn. on the ground of desertion The
couple were married In 1891. but have
not lived together since 1894.
Secretary G w. Russell, Of the
Welsburg Telephone Company, Is in
hicago. attending the meeting of the
independent telephone companies of
the country.
Judge Hcrvey closed the June term OF
circuit court on Saturday and went to
New Cumberland yesterday morning to
open court.
The Holmes property on Main street
has been sold to Mrs. NJ. S. Given, for
$2.S25.
Maynard Kimbcrland Is home from
Scio college.
HUNDREDS of lives saved every
year by having DIR. Thomas Eclcctric
Oh in the house Just when II Is needed.
Cures Group. heals burns, cuts, wounds