Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-17

| dor 6wo days. She started to doW
/ again Thursday and is now making
| 100 barrels q day. This IL one Of the
| freaks of an oil well, the farmers ali
say and you can't make them believe
| anything else but what they were
holding it back" The Reynolds No.
is good for 800 barrels or more, the
Mullady No. 4 Is a well in the Gordon
The Summers No. 2 is making %
barrels a day. A few miles below the
famous Copley gusher the pipe line
| going to the Sand Fork pump station
| suddenly broke with the line full OF
| oil, with 600 pound pressure. 1t ruined
| quite a number of acres OF land, going
all over the field, doing an immense
amount Of damage.
c.. d. Vassar has been on the sick
| list.
MI. A. r. Weber was quietly mar
ried Tuesday evening to Miss Lille
| Tracy at the home of the bride.
Mr.. H. ]. Cupp returned from Balti-
more Sunday last looking better than
| when he left for the hospital.
Mrs. Scott Museraux returned home
Thursday evening from her visit to
relatives in New York State.
Mrs. ]. A. Barnes left Thursday
morning to visit her parents in Wheel
ing.
Mrs. VIM. White, whom we report
e. seriously i'll last week, has since
died, and was buried in Machpelan
cemetery.
The Carter Oil Company have sent
a lot of men to Braxton county to sur
| render all their leases in that county.
Whether they have decided that the
territory is no good is not known.
R. l.. linn is in Braxton county
working for the Carter Oil Company.
MIR. and Mrs. James CASTOR was
called to Parkersburg Sunday last 10y
a telegram that announced the death
of a Miss Ward, a cousin Of Mr.. Gas
ton.
Mrs. T. P. Wright returned Sunday
last from a visit to her parents at
C~larksburg.
Henry Brannon, Jr., who has been
suffering for the past three weeks with
jaundice, we are glad to say is bet
ter.
Karl Kunst was UP from %Clarksburg
over Sunday last.
DR.. A. ". Nickall is in Baltimore on
business.
An infant child CT Mr.. John Fox
died Friday morning with bowel trou-
bile.
The little girl of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Vanderhoff is threatened with pneu-
monia.
Within the past two years DR.. ]. /.
Warder has lost Two valuable cows by
laundering.
The Young Peoples Society of the
Episcopal Church gave a valentine
party at the home of Mrs. A. Il.
Kunst Thursday night.
Wallace Whitman, who married Miss
Pearl Honaker, and who now reside at
Clarksburg, made two attempts to
commit suicide the past woke.
Hon. Geo. C. Cole has returned from
Charleston.
Ground has been broken for the
erection of the new addition to the
Citizens Bank building on Hogan's
alley.
Hon. VIM. E. Lively is on the sick
list.
LOuI0 AtCDLAut Has ulONSu HUI HIS
new quarters in the Edmiston build
ing.
The Reymann Brewing Company's
saloon, in the same building between
Mcbride and Mike D~augherty's place,
is about ready to open.
Senators j. II. Marcum and w. L.
Ashby, Messrs. H. A. Mcintosh, l.. c.
Williams and Charles NJ. Via, from
the House, composing the investigat-
ing committee sent out by the Legisla-
ture to look into the affairs at the
Hospital, arrived Thursday noon. Just
what they will report will not likely be
made known until they return to Char
lesion. 1t is the belief here among
the Democrats as we'll as the Republi-
cans, that Governor White expects to
make some changes at the institution.
Some claim he virtually said so when
he requested the appointing power of
the board be left to him. One en-
thusiastic Democrat makes the asser-
ton that in his opinion all the ply
sicians with the exception of one will
have to go. Now, who is the one?
All those in sympathy with the We
mans Christian Temperance Union are
requested to he present at the meet
ing to be held tomorrow, Sunday,
afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Baptist
Church, in commemoration of the
heavenly birthday of Miss Francis E.
Willard. The leader of the union, Rev.
L. e. Peters, of Clarksburg, together
with Revs. White and Denton, will de-
liver addresses.
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