Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-17
BELLAIRE.
General News From the Metropolis
of Belmont County.

of Belmont County.
The Mechanics convened yesterday at
10 a. m. in adjourned session, with State
Councillor Harry Oldacre presiding.
After roll call the report of the COM
mittee on officers reports was read,
and as the committee acted favorably
and commended the officers reports,
it was adopted without dissenting
| voice. A. H. Clark gave very fiatter-
ing address to the order on the success
full year just closed. The address was
well received by the delegates and
members present, and everybody felt
happier in the o. U. A. NJ. than for
years.
The business of the present session
being concluded. the new officers-elect
were installed by ex-National Repre-
sentative A. Porterfield, assisted by
National Representative 0. w. Baum
as marshal, as follows:
S. c., w. H. Wyant, OF Canton; S. "
c., H. c. Kemple. of Bellaire; S. C.
Secretary, W. R. Knaub, of Dayton; S.
C. Treasurer, t. w Arbuckle. of East
Liverpool; &C. Ind, Geo. Shepley, Of
Mt Vernon; S. c. Elk, c. P. Goodman,
of Lockland; S. c. l. P, Thomas Rick
ct, of East Liverpool; S. c. o. P, Chas.
Lyburger. of GAINESVILLE; S. c. Chaplain,
J. H. Fowler, of Warren.
The American Advocate, published
once a month in Wheeling by State
Councillor Secretary of West Virginia
w. T. Mitchell was made the Official
organ for the Ohio o. U. A. NJ.
A vote Of thanks was rendered Ply
mouth Council for their kind and
courteous treatment of delegates while
| in the city.
The council adjourned to meet in
Coshocton, O., the third Tuesday in
May, 1901, at 10 a. m.
Auditor NJ. Aldredge was in the city
yesterday on business.
A. L. Bumgarner, of st. Clairsville,
was in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Shane, of Waynsburg, O.,
is in the city visiting her husband.
~. Mccormick, who has been quite
sick for several weeks, is much i'm
proved.
Thomas Hamilton was fined So and
costs yesterday for not complying with
the sanitary law.
Parks & Co. have sold the William
Hume property on Guernsey street to
Chas. w. Wise Consideration, $1,000
The Office of w. F. Boyd's produce
store was entered by burglars Tuesday
night. They failed to find any money
and left without doing any damage,
except disarranging some papers.
Bellaire now has few peddlers, and
the list will grow smaller. as it is the
/ highest licensed city in Eastern Ohio.
A tax of three dollars a day is more
( than the average vender can afford TO
pay. 1t is said some members of
/ Council are anxious to repeal the pres
ent ordinance on account of shutting
off considerable revenue from the
city.
Last evening at the NJ. E. parsonage,
/ MIR. Allen Brentford Porterfeld and
/ Miss Bessie Shepherd were united in
marriage by Rev. Simons The at
/ tendants were Mr.. G. w Porterfield
and Miss Alice Steel. After the cere-
mony the happy couple and attend
ants repaired to their new home on
Harrison street, in the Fourth ward,
/ Wn6I6 sum pluOuo WSuullS supper
awaited them. All the immediate
friends of the couple were there to
congratulate them. Both are popular
young people of the city, and their
many friends extend their best wishes.
The base ball game between the
| Belmont and Union street clubs was not
a bowling success. Only five innings
were played, and with the score s to
in favor of Belmont street, the Union
street boys quit on account Of a de-
cision of Umpire Kelley. and the game
was given to the Belmont street team.
I Minnehan and Fish pitched for Bel
mont, and Nelson was in the box for
Union. Bippus again distinguished
himself as a player. There is now
much rivalry between the teams, and
another game will likely be played in
the near future, and considerable
/ Yonpav will no Nyaoad on the result