Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-14


General News From Orr Belmont
County NeiEhbor.
George Mccarthy spent Sunday with
his family at Brilliant.
A large number of both young and
old attended the ball game at Wheel
Ing park yesterday afternoon.
Harry Sanders has returned from
Parkersburg and has accepted posi-
ton at George and Pickett's cafe.
Marcus Wallace has accepted po-
sition at Dankworth & Ney's phar-
macy, and will commence his duties
to-day.
e. G. Phillips, Thomas Jackley and
Will Jackley, who have positions in
GAINESVILLE, spent Sunday with their
parents.
Herman Orrison, the popular street
car conductor, has resigned his posi-
ton with the company and accepted
a position with the B. G. o. railroad
as fireman.
The Mechanics festival drew large
crowd Saturday night and the mem
bers fully demonstrated that they were
fully capable of taking care Of large
crowd and fully entertaining them.
Heatherington band has been en-
ployed to play for the Martins Ferry
tournament. This popular band is
quits favOrite with the above towns
people and the boys will 90 all they
can to keep UP their good reputation.
Allan Brenford Porterfelu and Miss
poccip Cbanbard xIyi1I hQ n, rrind We'd
nesday at the First Methodist Epis-
copal parsonage by Rev. Simmons
This announcement will be quite a
surprise to their many friends. Both
are popular young people Of the city,
John Kilgore, who was fatally in
jured at the steel plant last week,
died yesterday morning at< 5 o'clock
from the blow received from flying
piece of steel watch the workmen
were blasting. He was young man
and had large number of friends
in this city. He leaves a wife and
one child to mourn his loss. Mr.. Kill
gore was a member of hose company
No. 2, and meeting Of the fire COM
panies will be held tonight at city
hall to make arrangements for at
tending the funeral in a body. The
funeral will occur Tuesday at o'clock
and the interment will be made at
Rose Hill cemetery.
G. H. Dankworth, the popular news
dealer, has in his window a copy of
the Wheeling Tri-Weekly Gazette, the
date being Monday morning, October
IA, 1889. The editor of the Gazette
was John M. McCreary. The front
page is principally devoted to adver-
Using, the principal ones being J. J.
Riley and S. Rice. Each advertise a
large number of barrels of whisky and
groceries. The S. Thompson Tobacco
Company also occupy considerable
space, and the wording of the adver-
tisements is quite odd compared with
to-day. The mayor of the city at that
time was Moses w. Chapline The
old paper attracts much attention.
At $50 o'clock yesterday morning
Miss Ada Buckingham, who has been
sick about three months, bid good
bye to her loving parents and passed
quietly away into the great beyond.
She was the only child of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. F. Buckingham, and her call
came just as she was becoming a
woman at the age of eighteen. Miss
buckingham was a remarkably bright
young lady, and one who with her
modest ways won a host of friends,
who deeply feel her loss in their midst
and extend their sympathy to the be-
reaved parents. The remains will be
taken to their former home, Calais.
Monroe county, to-day at IL O'Clock.
over the B., q. & c., where the funeral
services will be held.