Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-26
MARTINS FERRY.

| JdlueS nOUDluS leIL TOT Ld0eSVllIo last
evening.
Mrs. j. w. Darrah is visiting friends
ait Freeport, Pa.
John F. Kyne returned last evening
from New Martinsyille.
E. ]. A. Drennen returned last eve
ming from Ann Arbor, Mich.
Will Hobbs, Jr, leaves to-day for
Chicago to spend several days.
Mrs. Ella Bishop has returned from
a weeks visit at Epworth Park.
Charles K Williams left yesterday
for Chicago to spend his vacation.
The owl Club" broke camp yester-
day after having four weeks pleasant
outing.
Frank Hopkins left last evening for
Steubenville to spend Sunday with
friends.
Misses Laura and Nellie Jump left
yesterday for visit with friends at
Newark
James Blinco, who has been quite
| sick with rheumatism, is able to be
about again.
Jos. Pennington and Henry Stilwell
returned last evening from the New
Martfnsville fair.
Brady Williams has resigned his
position at New Martinsville and will
return to his home.
The township trustees met last eve
ming at Bridgeport to go over the
books with the treasurer.
Phillip Littig, of Baltimore, who has
been the guest of Mrs. w. H. Hobbs,
returned home yesterday.
Mrs. A. j. Van Pelt and Mrs. R. T.
Murdoch have left for a visit with
friends at Hartford City, Ind.
In the case of Devaney VS. Walsh,
for the sum of $63, the jury awarded
verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of
SIT.
Frank Newbauer and Martin Glitchs
will leave this morning for Milwaukee,
where they have secured positions in
the Pabst brewery
Prof Herbert Cappo, of Louisville,
who is the guest of Rev. Tilock, will
sing at both services to-day. Prof.
Cappo is said to have very fine voice.
Miss Laura Helling has accepted
position with the Geo. R. Taylor Co.,
of Wheeling, and will be pleased to
meet her friends there after this date.
w. B. Francis has been selected as
one of the board of examiners for the
city board of education. His selection
is a most excellent one and will give
satisfaction.
The Republican Glee Club will meet
this afternoon at the Episcopal Church,
where they will hold a rehearsal.
When did political glee clubs start to
meet on Sunday, and in a church?
Only about two members of the G.
A. R. from here will attend the en-
campment at Chicago, they being Robt.
Lewis and Isaac Lewis. There will be
none of the Mother Mckinley Circle at
tend
Gideon's MINISTRIES and the Nashville
Students will open the Star Theater on
September LIST. The management Of
the theater is to be congratulated on
securing such first class attraction
for the opening night
The Wheeling street railway will
soon make some decided Improvements
in this city. They will take up all the
old rails on the old Bellaire line and
replace them with new 80-pound rails.
This will add much to the comfort of
the travelling public and make a much
better line.
1t is hoped by the good people and
all others, that a certain city official
who leaves town on Sunday to get his
drinks and is so dead set against sa-
looms, will stay at home to-day and
remain sober, as the occurrence is be-
coming common and is a bad example
for reform.
A report was circulated yesterday
afternoon that the members of local
union No. u, Ohio Valley Lodge of
Tin Workers, had met and ordered a
strike. The officers of this lodge ask
that this report be denied, as that sub
iect was not brought up at their meet
ing, also that they met for another
purpose. The report soon was all over
town. but the members are at loss to
know who started it.
The city of Martins Ferry is rather
dull, and it can well be said money is
scarce, and owing to this shortage
many business men are suffering. as
they carry these workers out of work.
The main cause is the closing down OF
the Laughlin tin mill One grocery
man stated yesterday that his cash col
lections had fell back over $500 a week
for the last three weeks One can
readily see how handicapped these
merchants are. A falling off of 81 600
a month in cash means something.
and then there is no guarantee of its
payment. Many business houses are
in the same condition, but prosperity
still exists.
Internal Revenue Collector Theo.
Keller is hustler when it comes to
one violating the United States law.
1t makes no difference where their
place is he always finds them. Yester-
day afternoon he stopped off at the old
Rainey coal works, and after looking
lover the situation he discovered sober