Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-16

OF Die, ana SOlQ Dy all DRUGGISTS
at so cents per package.
and encouraging. For the first time
since it was instituted the various Off
GERS could report the State Council of
Ohio out of debt and with several hum
dred dollars worth of goods on hand.
OF course the brothers all felt good.
Then the delegates from each Council
gave very glowing accounts of the pros
perity of each individual Council. Re-
cess ill / 20 for dinner After roll call
the first order of business was election
of officers. Bro. w. II. Wydnt, of No.
80, Canton, Ohio, was unanimously
elected State Councillor for the next
year. Bro. H. C. Kemple, of No. IL,
Bellaire, was elected Vice Councillor
on the first ballot. Bro w. r. Amant,
of No. 33, Dayton, was unanimously
elected Secretary. Bro. T. H. Arbuckle,
of No. 8, East Liverpool, was elected
Treasurer. Bro. G. E. Stephey, of No.
90, Mt Vernon, was elected Director.
Bro. G P Goodman, of No. 112, of
Lockland, O., was elected Examiner.
Bro. Thomas Pickal, of No. 8, East
Liverpool, was elected Inside Protec-
tor. Bro. James Lyburger of No. 101,
Of GAINESVILLE, was elected Outside Pro-
tector. Bro. J. H. Fowler, of No. 4, of
Warren, was elected Chaplain. Bro.
Harry Oldacre, of No. 4, Warren, was
elected national representative for
three years. Coshocton was selected
as the place of the next session of 1901,
the third Tuesday in May. a number
of changes were made in the laws. At
5 p m. a recess was taken till 8 a. m.
to-day. About fifty delegates were
present and all were taken to the Co
lumbia Theatre last evening, where
they witnessed the cantata Queen Es-
Their. They expect to finish up all their
business by noon to-day. A resolution
was passed by the order allowing Or
ders of fifty members or under to lower
their imitation fee, also to offer prizes
for the lodge securing the most mem
bers of lodges of this number. Also
to give prize to the lodge securing the
largest number of members.
A. j. NcClelland is confined to his
home quite sick.
DR.. J. A. Clarke, of Glencoe, was in
the city yesterday.
Martin Cowen has bought the Wood
bridge property on Gravel Hill.
w. G. Fletcher has bought the Stan
ley Gibbons property on Rose Hill.
Chalmer Trimble, of Powhatan, was
in the city yesterday calling on friends.
Mrs. John Weimer and daughter left
yesterday for Johnstown, Pa, to visit
friends for several days.
Miss Laura Litten, who has been WIS.,
iting friends in the city, has returned
to her home in Moundsville.
The Buckeye Fishing Club has re-
ceived notice that work on their new
boat will be started Immediately.
Mrs. C. H. Strahl left yesterday for
Cincinnati to meet her daughter, Mrs.
L. J. Bashar, of Sedalia, Mo-, who is
on her way to visit her relatives in this
city.
The cantata Queen Esther attracted
large audience last evening at the
Columbia Theatre. The cantata was
we'll rendered, each one doing their
part well.
The Misses Robinson, of Pittsburg,
are the guests of James Tallman and
family, of the Fourth ward. A theatre
party is being arranged for Friday
night in honor of the guests.
The Junior Mechanics fair and festi-
val closed last evening with large at
tendance. About eleven o'clock the
floor was cleared and dancing was in
dulged in for several hours. The affair
has been successful one and the lodge
has made neat sum.
The funeral of John Kilgore was
largely attended yesterday. The fire
department had charge of the remains
and the casket was placed on a reel
appropriately decorated. The reel was
drawn by over one hundred firemen,
lead by Heatherington's band. The
funeral took place from the German
church.
An attempt to rob the Office of Char
les Rosser We s m: de last Saturday
night. An entrance was gained by
forcing the front door, and the thieves
then hunted for valuable but only sue
ceeded in finding few dollars and two
bank books, which they carried off,
The loss was small, but they were
careful to leave no traces Of identity be-
hind them, and no clue as to who the
thieves were has been learned.
One unvarnished drunk plead guilty
to the Mayor yesterday morning, and
when two dollars and cost were said
! he politely asked the whole amount
and paid the sum. Over this mans &C.
tons the Mayor felt so jubilant that
when four young Wheeling boys were
brought in charged with distributing
advertising matter without license, the
| Mayor let them off without fine, as
the ordinance is new and the boys were
| ignorant of such law hoxs had
a fright and soon their
home city.
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