Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-25

Mrs. Howard Hlpkins leaves to-da.
for Chicago
R. T. Ong returned last evening
from Smithneld.
p. Dougherty was in Pittsburg yes.
terday on business.
H. A. Marshall is visiting friends a.
Cadiz for a few days.
Milton Myers has accepted a posi-
ton in mill at GAINESVILLE.
Carl, young son of Edward Mean.
inch, is very low with lung fever.
Mrs. Delbert Cox and two sisters are
spending few days at Camp Rest.
P. Miller, who has been sick for sew
eral days, was some improved yester-
day.
Frank Faust, of st. Clairsville, is
visiting the family Of H. Humphrey
vile.
Mrs. S. F. Dean and daughter Nellie
spent yesterday with friends at Bril-
liant.
The Daily and Sunday Register can
always be found on sale at the City
News Stand.
: Misses Lena Ulrich and Ida Ferang
have returned from a weeks stay at
Epworth Park.
The Aetna-Standard has now four
teen of it's eighteen mills on and all
working steadily.
Louis Prick and wife and F. H. Eick
and wife will leave Sunday for Mack
lnac to spend several weeks.
Fletcher Barrett and family started
yesterday TO drive out to Canton, where
they will spend several days.
There will be a special meeting of
Council this evening and some very
important matters will come up be-
lore the meeting
The West Virginia Glass Company
through their grounds. 1t was done
so thoroughly that one cannot even
walk through.
J. E. Lewis and J. w. Lewis, the
latter a brother of Charles Lewis, who
have been visiting here for several
weeks will return to their home al
Sedan, Kansas, tomorrow
Julius Bloomenburg, manager of the
Union Opera House, met with bad
fall yesterday while working with
some scenery, but luckily he only sus-
tanned few painful bruises.
The funeral of Hiram Walton took
pace yesterday afternoon and was well
attended. A special choir furnished the
music. Rev. j. T. Morton officiated
The interment was made at Riverview
The special train on the c., L. & w.
railway for Detroit tomorrow for the
Martins Ferry K. of P. and all who
wish to go to Detroit will leave the c.,
l.. & w. depot at II o'clock a. m. city
time, stopping at Hanover and Wash
ington streets. A few state rooms on
the boat can be had by telephoning O..
r. Wood, No "a, Wheeling, to-day.
The Independent Hose Company
wishes it understood by the public that
they will run on Labor Day at the pic
mic grounds, and that the statement in
the Intelligencer that they were hav-
ing trouble about this run was a mis-
take and that there was no truth in it.
The boys will do all they can to make
Labor Day a success, as nearly all are
union men.
One of the small windows of the
Hoge building on the Hanover street
side, which was propped up with a
stick, fell last evening, throwing the
glass on the pavement, where il was
shattered. The glass just missed a
small girl who was passing. The child
might have been seriously injured had
the glass struck her, but she escaped
With only bad scare.
Misses Pearl and Nettie Wolff enter
tanned a large party of their friends
Thursday evening at their home on
Centre street. The evening was very
enJoyably spent by all those in attend
ance, which included a large number
from out of the city. During the even
ing dainty refreshments were served.
The affair was given in honor of their
guests, Misses Cohen, Of Staunton, Va,
Miss Goldman, OF Washington, D. c.,
and Miss Samuels, of New York. The
Misses Steger, of Bellaire, assisted the
Misses Wolff to receive.
The following invitations were sent
out yesterday: you are cordially in
vited to attend a reunion of all the
former teachers and pupils of the
Blachford school district, to be held
September s, 1900, on the school
grounds. Come and review the scenes
of former years. Come and arouse the
memories of earlier years. Come and
take part in this festal day. Come and
goodbye to the old building say"
The committee in charge of the affair
is composed of j. A. McComas, ]. A.
Blackboard, E. w. Read, Misses Grace
Cow and Amanda Jordan The COM
mittee requests all to bring we'll filled
baskets, but no coffee, and TO invite
all old students they may see. The
celebration is a farewell affair to the
old school building, which will soon be
torn down and a new structure erected
In it's place. The former teachers liv-
ing here are Miss Mary Eagleson, Mrs.
E. d. Haughton and DR.. j. NJ. Black
ford.
The date for the Democratic Con-