Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-22
BRIDGEPORT.

Events From the Town Across the
Way.
Mrs. Scott Porter is on the sick
list.
John Henderson, was down from
Barton yesterday.
Will briggs is able to be out after
a few days illness.
J. e. Heinlein was in st. Clairsville
yesterday on legal business.
]. E. Little, of Lincoln avenue, IS
confined to his home by illness.
David Costine, of the West End, is
confined to his home with an attack of
typhoid fever.
Bud BEEN has returned to work at
Barton with E. N. Boggs, after two
weeks vacation.
p. J. Gilligan was in town yesterday
distributing catchy advertisements for
Day and Night Tobacco.
Charlie Burke has decided to remain
here, and has accepted position with
Burke & Rehm, butchers.
Sam Brubaker, representing the
Meredith Liquor Co., was In town yes
terday, calling on the trade.
George Werner, who was painfully
injured a few days ago, is able to be
around again on his bicycle.
E. E. Brown and w. L. Glover stop
ped in town yesterday on their way
home from the Moundsville fair.
Marshall Douds was called to the
home of James Pugh yesterday to kill
a vicious dog which had bitten his
boy.
Several of our business houses are
circulating a neat advertisement which
is very instructive for campaign pur-
poses.
All the boys who went to Cambridge,
O., with Jim Jones to work in a tin
mill, have returned home, their mill
having shut down.
Mrs. Rev. Overman, whose husband
was the first German Lutheran min
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friends and relatives.
George Burke, who was called here
by the serious illness of his father,
has returned to Leadville, Col, his
father being decidedly better.
Frank Rice, who is at present en-
ployed with Hen Giles, has accepted
a similar position with John Duga, of
Bellaire, where he will go on the first
of October.
James Marshall, who has been work
ing for H. Woodcock, has embarked in
bushes for himself on Pike street, and
will make a speciality Of roof painting
and repairing.
@. B. Wines, formerly of this town,
now at Newark, O., was in town yes
terday on his way to Gallipolis, O.,
where he will enter the hospital to be
treated for epilepsy.
Two or three days work on the pier
for the C. L. & w. bridge will complete
the same. The contractor Mr. Kinney,
made rapid progress on this work after
he once got the foundation laid.
Infirmary Director Jefferson Brown
will take David son of Thomas Law
son, to the infirmary to-day. Mr.. Law
son Is suffering with consumption.
Charles Alexander was arraigned be-
fore Mayor Neininger yesterday for
being drunk and disorderly. He i'm
mediately began to plead for leniency,
and the mayor, after studying the mat
ter over, gave him a much needed lee
ture, and upon his agreeing not to up
set so much amber fluid in the future,
was turned loose.
Nick, an Austrian section hand on
the c. l.. & w. railroad, whose wife
died about four months ago, became
tired of single life and concluded to
write to Austria for another wife, and
his intended started for this country
and for some cause she was DELAYED In
passage. Nick has been watching all
trains-freight and passenger. Finally
his dear one arrived, and they will be
married in the naar fuf1ira