Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-17
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Market street was cleaned yester-

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Market street was cleaned yester-
day.
The employees OF the City Gas
Board and office were paid yesterday.
There will be dance this evening
at Bearley's hall, in the Est End.
Prof Note will play.
The regular young mems meeting
will be held Sunday afternoon at 1
O'Clock at the Y. NJ. C. A.
The Shaffer Lodge A. A. of !. s.
and T. w. OF Bellaire. will give a pic
mic on the eth, at Mozart Park.
Work on the three-story brick
building at Thirty-eighth and Jacob
streets, for August Meyer, is rapidly
nearing completion.
Along about noon yesterday sew
eral people saw Edenwslter. the In
sane man, who Is at large on Chap
line hill
The trolley wire of the w. & e. G.
line broke yesterday afternoon at
Fourteenth and Water streets. Traf-
fie was delayed for short time.
John Heller. one of the victims OF
the accident. Thursday, at the Held
building, was reported yesterday as
doing well, and his recovery was ex-
pected.
"A member of the Linsly Institute
Faculty will be at the school building
from 103 80 to IL 80 a. m. New stu
dents Will be enrolled and courses of
study arranged.
One thousand feet OF hose was re-
ceived by the fire department yes
terday and ii Will be tested at once
There still remains one thousand feet
of the order given some time ago to
be delivered.
Its far cry from these dog days
to the autumnal election OF new Gas
Board, or the reelection of the old
one, but there are indications Of plots
and counter plots In that regard, which
may lead to interesting events.
August. the infant son Of Mr.. and
Mrs August Jepson, of the Eighth
ward, died Thursday afternoon Of
spinal meningitis The funeral will
take place this afternoon at 2.30
o'clock. Interment will be made at Mt.
Zion cemetery.
1t is reported that boy named
PIettyman, of the South Side, had his
foot caught under the wheels OF an cleo
trio railway car on Main street near
the Belmont mill, and severely mashed
yesterday afternoon about o'clock.
The necessary medical aid was rendered
by South Side physician.
The funeral OF Guy Ford. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Serig, will take
place from the family residence on
South Jacob street this afternoon at
2 o'clock. Interment will be at Mt
Zion cemetery. The Rev. Gregory
Bleakly, of the Wesley VI. e. church
will conduct the services.
The contest between the two Boards
of Public Works. with the First
Branch of Council as the contributor
to indefinite continuance, calls for
some immediate and drastic remedy.
As things are going at present the pub
lie is getting the worst OF 1t, and the
city will have its costly share Of trou-
BILE later on.
Our Fourteenth street contempor-
airy, with it's usual accuracy, yesterday
morning in its report of the Board OF
Education, stated that James G. Lewis,
of Valley Grove, had resigned as jani-
tor of the High school. What Mr..
Lewis really did was to resign as
Professor of Botany and Political
Science. A slight difference. Prof.
Lewis has accepted an advanced posi-
ton In an Eastern Normal school.
One OF the interesting events at the
BARRIERS picnic, at Mozart Park, was
a shaving contest. There were six
entrants Carl Grade won the first
prize, SO in gold IN two minutes and
48 seconds; o. J. Dailer, won the
the secnd prize very handsome
BARRIERS outfit complete. in 2:53; Joe
Ruggarber, a pair OF shears and half
dozen razor wipers in 1858. The
slowest time made was minutes and
half. DNjler's friends think that he
would haze come out ahead, IL he had
not got a little nervous and a customer
with a sharp chin and deep dfmple.