Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-14
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BURLINGTON, O., January 13.-Miss
Lena Kuckuck, who is sick with ty-
phoid fever, is on the mend.
William Romick, formerly yard mas
ter at Canton, O., has accepted a sim
liar position with the G. & p. Com
pany, at Mingo Junction. Mr.. Romick
is a brother of Henry Romick. of this
place.
, Mrs. Parrot Jump is on the sick list.
Mr.. Roy Quinn has returned from
a business trip to Cleveland, o.
Mrs. Warren Sackman is suffering
from a complication of diseases.
Section Foreman Mooney has put in
a number of new side-tracks for the
c. & P. Company in the past few
months.
Mrs. S. w. Burns is convalescent.
Anderson Love, of Scotch Ridge, has
the finest lot of chickens that can be
found in the State. Anderson knows
how to raise poultry, and chicken
thieves always take good care to steer
clear of his barnyard, for he has no
mercy on a nan who goes visiting at
night time for the urpose of taking
snap judgment on his fowls.
Farmers coming into town report
much sickness out in the country.
A five months old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Delhi, of Glenn's Run,
which died after several weeks illness.
was buried last Sunday afternoon at
two o'clock, at the family burying
grounds.
A very ugly looking tramp came into
favt~n nn Thf1rcdap and affor +aI1fner q
lady that he had not the price of n
physic about his clothes in which he
could buy an oyster cracker with to
prevent starvation, asked the lady to
get him his dinner. This she refused
to do, but offered him a lunch. He
became very abusive. and made some
ugly threats. when the man of the
house arrived on the scene and threat
ened to start a secondhand shoe store
under the rascal's coat-tails. Here he
took a sneak and left for parts I'M
known.
The name on the side of the big
towboat Joseph B. Williams is just 5s
feet in length. The letters are 40
inches high. The boats wheel is % by
% feet.
Mrs. w. B. Lewis is still improving
slowly.
James Mcdonald, OF Pittsburg, Pa,
has returned to the Smoky City. after
spending several weeks.
E. K. Delaney made a business trip
to Wheeling ON Thursday.
Monday was pay day on the c. G. p.
road.
Tip Fulton has returned home from
the Sistersville oil fields.
Charles Neal Mercer. the champion
clog dancer. and fast walker. former
ly of Brooke county. but now OF Ohio
county, W. Va, and who has so ably
held the championship in the former
county by winning all contests that he
ever engaged in, will give the Ohio
county boys a chance TO test their
metal, either at walking or dancing.
So. first come first served.
The old towboat Grafton has been
rebuilt four times since she first caT1e
out, and when her machinery IS trans
ferred from the old boat to the new.
she comes but under a different name.
From the name OF Grafton she was
changed TO ID. w. Woodward. then 10
Bob Pritchard, and now she is the
T. H. Davis.
Rev. Agner Otis Rockwell. now 81
years old, and the oldest member Of
the Pennsylvania Reformed Synod,
will make his home at Cambridge
Springs for the remainder OF this win
ter, the Town where he was born, that
he may be near his old Sunday school
teacher and schooimates. HIS teacher
was Cyrus Burchard. now 81 years
old. and hisa playrnatss we're Levi
Burchard. now 50 years old; Orlando
Rockwell, 81 years old. Mrs. John GRAY.
81 years old. ana Mrs. Susan Shearer.
80 years old. all Of whom now live at
Cambridge Springs, These aged pei