Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-19


4 Collection Of the snall Evcnts -
Each Fassing D4y.
Dewey week.
The annual masquerade ball Of the
Arion will be given tonight.
There was considerable skating
yesterday On frozen ponds, etc.
The Dewey Day executive commit
tee will hold a meeting tonight.
Officer Bero arrested Tom Cassidy
yesterday for exposure Of person.
If the weather moderates before
Thursday, the present cold spell" will
be regarded as very timely.
The contributions to the fund for
defraying the expenses of Dewey Day
now amount to more than 1880.
Tomorrow night the Mercantile
Club will give the first masquerade
ball in the history of the organization.
The Mckinley saloon building.
corner Chapline and Sixteenth streets.
is handsomely decorated for Dewey
Day.
The Swift & Co. building at Six
teenth and Eon streets. is virtually
completed. and is q very handsome
structure.
The portraits OF Admiral Dewey
which were given free with every copy
of the Sunday Register, were praised
upon all sides.
The remains Of the late Alexander
r. Chapline, who was killed at Ma
Mia, will be inferred at Bethany, w.
Va, to-day at 2 o'clock.
Work will be started this morning
upon the erection OF the stand for the
Dewey Day exercises at the west
front of the City Building.
in another column appears the
proclamation of Mayor Andrew T..
Sweeney, requesting general suspen-
sion of business on Dewey Day.
"A. T. Jones, a Baltimore costumer,
is in the city and is providing make
ups for those who will attend the
Arion and Mercantile Club balls this
week.
Lunch will be served by the ladies
of the Second English Lutheran
Church on Dewey Day, in a store room
on Sixteenth street, between Market
and Main.
Three carloads of pine consigned
to the Dewey Day committee on dec
orations will arrive over the B. & 0.
this morning. The committee will dis
pose of the pine to persons desiring 1t
for decorative purposes at its actual
cost.
Ladies from different South Side
churches will meet at the Third Pres
byterian Church Wednesday afternoon
for the purpose Of %organizing a w. c.
T. u. The meeting will be addressed
by Mrs. N. R. Morrow, the State pres
ident.
The Central school pupils will turn
out in full force on Dewey Day. The
scholars will be in charge Of the fol-
lowing officers: Major, Sherwood Fee;
Captain Co. A. Elmer Kraskroft;
Captain Co. B, James Carney; Cap
tain Co. C, Cecil Fee.
The funeral of the late John JOS
eph kraus, sol of Joseph and Emma
Kraus, took place from the family res
idence on Sixteenth street yesterday
afternoon at one o'clock. Services were
held at the st. Alphonsus Church at
1880 o'clock and the interment was al
Mt. Calvary cemetery. A large num-
Der of the Borrowing relatives and
friends of the deceased attended the
services.
The Emerald Club, of the South
Side, has arranged for a celebration
to be held at the Central Garden Club
house on Dewey Eve" the 21st inst
During the evening dancing and other
social amusements will be in order and
Prof. Killmeyer will furnish the mu-
sic. The organization has secured five
cannon, which they will place at vari-
Gus points ON the hillside near the
club house and fire each five times.