Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-28
BURLINGTON.

Doctor E. j.. Hawthorne has returned
home from New Mexico, where he had
been for several months for the benefit
of his health. While the doctor has
not been fully restored to perfect
health, he is much improved and feels
greatly encouraged.
A Washington man has brought
suit for divorce from his wife because
she sleeps with razor under her Pill
low. She will offer no explanation for
this eccentric habit, and refuses to give
one when asked. This poor man is to
be pitied and not blamed, for two is
company and three is crowd.
Miss Annie Buoy spent Tuesday
among Wheeling friends.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, IS
known as one of the most indefatigable
workers in Congress. He not only
watches the proceedings of the Senate
every minute of the meetings, to dis
cover any irregularity in the way OF
doing business, but he does an ehorm-
Gus amount of work for his constitu-
ents. He is known as a most demo-
cratic man, and a short time ago sur
prised the employees in the Senate fold
ing room by appearing in their midst,
taking off his coat and helping to get
quantity of documents ready for mail
ing. The Senator worked with energy
until he saw the job completed. After
which he put on his coat and left the
building. Such men as Mr.. Cockrell
will always prosper.
George B. Coss is on the sick list.
A four year-old Lad who is a member
of a we'll known colored family, had
been trained to believe in the deep
water form of baptism. This is believ-
ed to be the reason why he was trying
to plunge the hous ehold cat into a
bucket of water. The animal resisted.
1t howled and scratched, and clawed,
and used violent language. Finally the
boy, with his hands covered with
scretches and with tears in his eyes,
gave it UP. Darn you," he said, go
an be Methods if you want tot"
Mrs. w. B. Lewis is no better.
Miss Lena Kuckuck is convalescing.
Mrs. G. HysaH is slightly indisposed.
Mrs John Hahn is on the mend
Mrs. John Kehrer is still confined to
her room.
A well known young man at a coun-
try school near here asked his teacher
If he could take a shorter course of
study. He was under the impression
that he did not have time or inclination
for the regular studies. "Well," said
the teacher, "that depends upon what
you desire to make of yourself. When
God wants to make an oak he takes a
hundred years to develop it, but when
he wants to make pumpkin he COM
pletes it in less than six months"
Mrs. Maggie Fulton is visiting the
family of Mrs. J. Livingston, at
Friendly, w. Va.
r. M Hill, formerly a resident of
Sharon, Pa, but now of Wheeling, w.
Va, was here on Monday shaking
hands with old friends.
The Tilton farm, near Deep Run, was
appraised on Monday by Louis Scheele,
]. e. Reynolds and J. G. Gray. The
farm contained LOG acres, and was ap-
praised at $500
Herbert Lewis, formerly of this
place, but who is at present engaged in
the restaurant business at Ellwood
City, Pa, is reported as being very
sick. Mr.. Lewis is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. b. Lewis, of Glenn's Run.
Mrs. Emma Meeker is quite sick at
her home on Glenn's Run.
Charles Mercer has returned from a
trip through Jefferson county, Ohio.
Charley says the girls in Jefferson are
better looking than they are in Bel
mont. Besides, they seem more af-
fectionate, when it comes to kissing.
They don't hesitate long enough to find
J, al nr
a kissing bug.
A little low, heavy set man, who look
ed to be near relative OF Tom Thumb,
got on a W., B. & M. f. street car the
other day and came over to our town.
The little man was in a great glee for
talking, and was airing his opinion on
the high hat subject. He said that he
had been deprived Of barl's of fun, as
well as being f1immed out of many a
25 cent piece as an admission fee to a
back seat in a hall or school house,
where he could sit and see-not the
show that had been advertised, but the
birds and flowers that ladies would ex-
hibit on their six-story hats. The lit
tie man says the best way to rid the
high hats from public gatherings would
be to return to the old custom of seat
ing the women and men on different
sides of the church or hail. but with
the proviso that all women who are
willing to take off their hats or wear
small ones, be permitted to sit with the
men. The little man says that the
remedy would be an easy one, and the
cure would be certain.
James Mcdonald is still filling the
position as mate on the big towboat
Joseph B. Williams. Mr.. Mcdonald is
one of the best steamboatmen that
Pittsburg has, and more sociable man
than jim never lived.
Mrs. w. Delany is convalescing after
an attack of the grip.
Pilots Boles and Dippold took the Joe
Williams from here to Pittsburg on her
last up trip, and Douds and Dippold
will pilot the boat through TO New Or
leans. The Williams will have over
forty coal boats from Louisville.
John Fulton, of Martins Ferry, was
in town this week.
George Romick, the new yardmaster
for the C. & P Company, at Mingo
Junction, is getting along fine, and likes
his position all right up there.
The bell that was in use many years
ago on the famous old packet called the
City of Wheeling, Of which the old
citizens will remember its clear tone
when calling passengers to the wharf
for the down stream trip, is now doing