Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-11

DIR. Steele was in Wheeling yester-
day on business.
D. Fruckman is at Round Bottom
assisting his father this week.
Jasper Wilson, county surveyor OF
Franklin district, was city caller yes
terday.
Charles ellis, popular young man
of Sistersville, was in town yesterday
on business.
Abe Jones, late of the Immunes, is
sick at the home of his mother, on
Ninth street.
Miss Essie Fried has accepted po-
sition in I. B. Wilson's music store, on
Seventh street.
Mayor Parkinson was in Wheeling
yesterday comforting with some bright
stars in the 6. o. p.
John Sphar, a prominent farmer OF
Roberts Ridge made the city a bust
ness call yesterday.
A. J. Mcdaniel, engineer at the Fos-
toria glass house, is confined to his
home on Grant avenue sick.
A. ]. Montgomery, of the Ohio River
railroad station at Woodland, was a
DGSIuSSS CdllCl III IOWh yN1eNANHJ
J. w. Hill, an attache Of the South
Penn Oil Company, was in the city
yesterday en- route to New Martins
vile.
George Clark, travelling salesman of
the Isaac Harter Company, of Dayton,
Ohio, was calling on the feed mer-
chants yesterday.
A corps of Federal prisoners were
brought to the penitentiary from
Washington, D. c. The batch consist
ed of seventeen persons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Farmer, of Wheeling
Island, who have been the guests OF
Thomas Hammond on Jefferson ave-
nue., returned home yesterday.
The Y. NJ c. A. of Moundsville held
a very important meeting in the Simp-
son M. f. Church Monday evening
with about a hundred members pres
ent. The organization meets again
next Saturday night TO elect officers,
and full attendance is desired.
The members Of the Fostoria Brass
Band are making arrangements TO give
a fair and festival in the Walker hall
on May I'd, Sd, 4th and 5th. The So
Letting committee, which has already
been appointed, is meeting with great
success, and il looks like the public
sanctions the movement.
The committee appointed to solicit
relics for the Loan Exhibit, which is
to be for the benefit of the G. A. r.,
on April 18th and 26th, are working
diligently and have already great
many articles subscribed. The com
H. lott no ~, "a
rear end OF Wetzel county for sword
which Gen. Lincoln, of Revolutionary
fame, carried at the siege OF York
town.
A corps OF civil engineers commenc-
ed to blaze" the way for the new rail-
road yesterday. They started just
above Big Grave creek and are making
very good progress. This road is an
assured fact and the people of the city
are at loss to know where the Intel
ligencer's proposed road will intercept
the river. There has been a great deal
of talk about the proposed" road, but
the real road has not been spoken Of
very much, as it is a case of say little
and do much" Moundsville is to have
the railroad and il is now under con-
struction, and one of the leading men
of the new enterprise claimed it will
be completed before next Christmas.
A difficulty arose between some OF
the teachers OF our public school and
some of the patrons of the Upper ward.
The difference is that one small child
was about three minutes late and the
teacher sent her back home TO get an
excuse from her mother. The child
was sent back without the excuse.
Then the principal sent her home the
second time, but still the excuse was
not furnished the child A few warm
notes passed between the mother and
teachers and 1t was laid bare 20 the
school board. The board will not
take hand in the fight, so a petition
is in circulation with the full deter
mination OF ousting the board, prin-
cipal and a few teachers. as 1t Is al
legged they are teaching without eyer
being through the county examina-
ton.