Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-06
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.

The Chesapeake and. Potomac long
distance telephone company have all
their poles erected to and through
Piedmont. They will have two offices
here, one in the Town Hall drug store
and one in the Kenny House. The
| lines will be strung at once and then
Piedmont will have telephone connec-
ton with the east, west, south and
| north. The rate will be 81 for five
| minutes talk during the day and so
cents at night.
A new Methodist church is being
built at Mabie, Randolph county.
The Baltimore and Ohio passenger
| freight depot at Piedmont is being
thoroughly renovated and repaired.
The engine, boiler and machinery Of
| the West Virginia Building Company
will be sold by the receivers Saturday,
August 18th.
The Town Council, of Piedmont, will
at its next meeting, adopt an ordinance
regulating the length of time railroads
can block the street crossings, and to
prevent trainmen making running
switches over same. something badly
needed.
Contractors Right G Klencke, of
Piedmont, and VIM. A. Liller, of Key
ser, this week finished the erection of
five large double tenement houses at
West Virginia Central Junction, a
small suburb of Piedmont. for the
Davis Coal and Coke Company, which
owns a large number of tenement
houses and does a very large coal and
| merchantile business there. This COM
pany expects to erect additional
houses there for their employees.
Mr.. Liller has just built several dwell
ing houses for this company at Thorn
as, Tucker county, where they own al
most the entire town.
The Blaine Coal Company has be-
gun work on the new coal plant at Dill
lie, Mineral county, W. Va, where the
former lumber plant of Hench, Drum
gold & Shull was located. and expect
to begin shipping coal by the first of
September.
The Broderick property, at Oakland,
Md, was purchased at public sale by
Attorney DeWarren Reynolds, of Cum
berland, for $1,000.
The employees of the Maryland Coal
Company, New Central Coal Company,
| Georges Creek Coal and Iron Com
pany, and the Consolidation Coal Com
pany of Georges reek, Nd, met this
week and appointed five delegates to
represent each company il a confer
ence to be held at Homecoming, Md,
with those in charge of the several
companies regarding the amount paid
for mining coal The men want an
increase. Everything is done orderly
and 80 excitement prevails, and
strike is not at all likely.
1t is reported that the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad is having considerable
trouble to secure enough firemen to
keep their engines going, and that
about thirty firemen have quit the
past few days, on account of the hot
weather and hard work, owing to the
heavy trains hauled. Many others
have been suspended for cause. The
men say the work is more than they
can do, or are willing to do for the
money, so they throw up their job
There were SS,521 tons of coal Ship
ped the past week from the Georges
Creek region, and 22,336 tons of coal
and ,4,92S tons of coke from the West
Virginia Central region. The coal
trade is good with nearly all mines in
above regions.
For years there have been no empty
houses in this town, but owing to Cum
berland driving the new pulp and pa
per mills to Covington, Va, there are
a number empty now, and quite num-
Der advertised for sale. Yet Cumber-
land destructionists keep up the same
howl against the pulp mill which is To-
Gated in the same county
VIM. I. Sigler's box factory is kept
very busy supplying boxes in which to
ship United States postal cards from
the factory here.