Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
MoUNDsvILLE.

Master Stanley Wilson is visiting
friends at Glen Easton.
J. c. Bardall is home from an ex-
tensive tour in the west.
Miss Rosa Dennany, of WeIlsturg,
is spending a few days with friends
here.
Dad Whitley was fined S1.00 and costs
by the mayor yesterday for being
drunk on the streets Monday.
The carpenters of this place have Sc
cured their charter and completed
their organization yesterday evening.
R. Guy Dorsey has gone to ST.
Mary's where he will exhibit the ORR
entail dancers at the street fair.
M. ]. Ransom, who is employed by
the Pressed Steel Car Co., of Pitts
burg, arrived at his home here yester-
day.
The compliments against the o. R.
R. R. Co. will be heard by Mayor Park
inson this morning, the case having
been continued from Monday.
Mr.. and Mrss. W. N. Bonar, their
children and grandchildren are attend
ing reunion of the Bonar family at
the home of Mrs. Mary Bonar, on Bow
man ridge to-day.
Thos. Cats returned from California
where he recently located, on Tuesday
morning. He is looking after the bus
mess interests of the firm of Cats &
Gray, during the illness of G. f. Gray.
Frank Watkins, fireman on the 3. &
0. engine 1906, fell from the top of
the tender and sustained very serious
injuries. He was taken to the Rey-
nolds Memorial hospital, where he is
being cared for by the company.
The long expected excursion got
away yesterday at 8 o'clock. Between
two and three hundred persons were
on board the boat when she left the
wharf here, and others were expected
to join them at Bellaire, Benwood and
Wheeling.
Yesterday was very quiet day in
Moundsville. Nothing of especial I'M
portance occuerred. In the afternoon
the G.. A. R., w. R. c., Sons of Veter-
ans, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, K. G. E., eX-sol-
diers of the war with Spain, the diff
erent Sunday schools and Boohers In.
dian Chargers formed in line and
marched from Seventh street to the
cemetery, where each organization laid
a floral Offering on the graves of their
| deceased members. The firing squads
of the G. A. r. and Company NJ, LIST
w. Va. Infantry fired volleys over the
graves of ex-soldiers. The NJ. E. choir
furnished some music especially pre-
pared for the occasion. About two
thousand persons were at the ceme-
terry.
From Supt. Williams annual report
of the Moundsville schools, we note
the following: Enumeration 1,546; en-
rollment 1,147; average daily attend
ance $50; cases hardness 1,349; neither
absent nor tardy Al. The enumeration
in 1883 was S7S, showing an increase
of 666, and the enrolment was $40
| showing an increase of SIT, or little
more than double in twelve years
Where the old eight roomed school
building stood a new sixteen room
building now stands, besides a rev
| lOQl lOOuu III IAlC La Va NdA "
so that the people of Moundsville have
every reason to be proud of their
| schools.
Robert Kemple was given a hearing
last night before Squire Pierce upon
| two warrants sworn out by Frank Tig-
! glebeck. One was peace warrant. and
the other charged Kemple with carry
| ing a revolver On the former charge
Kemple was required to give bond in
| the sum of 800 conditional for his
good behavior for one year. On the
second charge he was discharged be.
cause it appeared that he had beer
| tried for that before Mayor Parkinson
Frank Tigglebeck, who is manager OF
| the Hess, Lemon & Co. meat market
emphatically denies the reports thai
have been put in circulation about his
having sustained improper relation.
with Robt Kemple's wife, and say:
that Kemple has offered to drop tho
matter for $500 and that it is simply &
| case of attempted blackmail.-Echo.
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