Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-03
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.
A Collection of Small Events OF
Each Passing Dag.

There were five cases on the docket
last night for this mornings session of
police court.
The Board of County Commission
ers will meet this morning in regular
monthly session.
-Auctioneer Greer has sold the Boil
ing property on Fourteenth street to
C. F. Brandfass for $3.50.
The Marine club will give their
first masquerade ball and cake walk at
Pythian Castle December 18th.
The firemen at the Chemical hose
house desire to return thanks to Uncle
Ben" Jacobs for a gift of a handsome
whip.
The National Telephone Company
is making rapid progress in its work of
constructing the underground conduits
for its system.
The Nom de Plume club will enter
tain at Armory hail. Bellaire, O., on
Thursday evening, December 9Th, 1900.
Music by Prof Killmeyer.
The first of a series of winter night
concerts by the Opera House Orchestra
will be given at the Arion hall Thurs
day evening of this week.
The annual meeting of stockholders
of the Wheeling Park Association will
be held tonight in the offices of the
German Fire Insurance Company.
The annual meeting of stockholders
of the West Virginia Exposition and
State Fair Association will be held De-
cember 18th In the rooms of the Ger
mania Half Dollar Savings Bank.
The funeral of Mrs George Law
son, who died at Wellsville, O., will
take place this afternoon from her
mothers residence, No. 1908 Byron
street. The remains will be buried IN
the Peninsula cemetery.
The Board of County Commission
ers, at to-day's session will elect coun-
ty engineers. George Bordeaux and
Hazlett Freeze, the present incumbents,
are both candidates for reelection, but
it is understood will have opposition.
"A still alarm last night called the
Chemical engine to the residence or
Mr.. o. ". Heiskell on Chapline street.
A wash stand in a sleeping room was
burning, and the origin of the blaze
could not be discovered. The flames
were extinguished with buckets of
water.
The Hissom damage suit will be
on trial in the Circuit Court this morn
ing. DR.. Hissom will probably go on the
stand for the completion of his cross
examination. The plaintiffs case will
not be concluded before Wednesday,
and the present week will not
see the end of the trial.
The ashes of the relict of Capt. j.
K. Booth. of Welcome, West Va, were
expressed from Washington in a metal
cylinder (about four inches in dame
ter and seven inches in length, and
weighing four pounds, to the relatives
of the deceased, and inferred in the
family burial ground alongside OF her
husbands grave.
The services at the First Baptist
church yesterday were very interest
ing. 1t was rally day, and the exercises
were of an appropriate character. AT
the morning service the sermon was
preached by the Rev. A. }. Trey, for
mer pastor, now stationed at Warren,
Pa. The pulpit was occupied at night
by the Rev. j. L. McCutcheon, of Nor
gantown, another former pastor or
the church. Large audiences attended
all the services.
The Thanksgiving donations to
the Children's Home were the largest
in a number Of years. 1t required
eight wagons to transport all the sacks
to the Home, and this does not include
the cash contributions, which will
amount to a considerable sum in the
aggregate The collections at the First
and Second Presbyterian churches and
the United Presbyterian church aggre-
gated $73.3S. The Thanksgiving sack
offering has been custom for twenty