Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
Happenings OF
GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE.
O o Q o o 0 o o o.
Now they say in mournful numbers
Officc is bur an empty dream,
To hold the job and draw the pay
Are not as easy as they seem.

Now they say in mournful numbers
Office is bur an empty Dream
To hold the job and draw the pay
Are not as easy as they seem.
The courts were not in session yes
terday.
One drunk was on the docket last
night for the Mayors Court.
Grass has been sown In the plots
on the public building square.
-Work on the new county bridge at
Steenrod's is progressing satisfactorily
The Adams Express Office will be
removed after May LIST to No. 1873 Main
street.
Charles Pryor was fined SO and
costs in the Mayors court yesterday
morning.
The law office of Friedman & Srolo-
WITT, on Chapline street, is being reno
waited and papered.
Bowling games last night resulted
as follows: Palmettos, 848, S14, 1853;
Progress, S4S, $40, $40.
The annual field day exercises Of
the Linsly Institute will be held at the
Fair Grounds on May 31st.
Five candidates were initiated at a
meeting of Wheeling lodge, No. %, B.
P. O.. Elks Wednesday night.
The Success Club, of the Elliott
school, held a meeting Wednesday night
at their rooms on Market street.
The annual rifle shoot of the stu
dents of the Linsly will take place at
6teenrod's green on the afternoon of
April 26th.
The masquerade ball of the Single
Tax Club, at Pythian Castle, last night,
wa largely attended and was a com
plete success.
The work Of placing the new stone
stairway on the Fifteenth street side of
the st. Matthews Church has been
about completed.
John Groetsch, aged fifty years,
died yesterday morning at his ON on
the South Side. A widow and three
children survive him.
The parade Of the Mogullians,
which was to have taken place last
might, was postponed on account of the
inclemency of the weather.
Col. Robert White delivered his
lecture on THE Passion Play" to a
large and attentive audience at the
North Street M. r. church last night.
The sympathy of a host Of friends
is extended to Mr.. and Mrs. It. Eick, CT
Martins Ferry, in the death Of their
infant son, which took place last even
ing.
Louis Probe has sold O. C. Statler,
OF the Mcclure House billiard parlor,
one of his handsome Boston bull ter
riers. HE has also sold +. d. Winder
one of them.
Miss Maud Van Horn, of Zane
street, Island, requests us to announce
that she is not the Maud Van Horn
whose marriage was announced in yes
terday's paper. ,
-Shriver Grays Camp of Confederate
Veterans of this city has received cir
cular letters urging attendance at the
eleventh annual reunion in Memphis
the latter part of May.
This afternoon at the old base ball
park the Linsly team will play its first
game Of the season. The uniforms are
steel gray with red trimmings, and
make a very natty appearance.
Geo. e. Boyd, special commissioner,
has fixed Saturday, May 18th, at his
Office, as the time and pace he will con-
slider matters connected with the deter
mination Of the assets and liabilities Of
the Mccoy Shoe Company.
The funeral of Mrs. Martha Thomp-
son will take place from her late resi-
dence in alley Is Saturday morning.
Requiem mass will be celebrated at st.
Joseph's Cathedral, and the remains will
be buried at Mt. Calvary cemetery.
MIR. J. D. Culbertson has leased his
handsome residence On the National
Road to Mr.. w. S. Brady, Of Glendale,
who will occupy it when Mr.. Culhrt-
son removes to Pittsburg, to assume the
duties OF his new position with the Ma
tional Tube Company.
While carelessly handling a revolt
yer, Frank Llewellyn, aged 16, who
lives on Coal street, was shot through
the left hand. The wound was very
. painful, but not dangerous. The neces-
sary medical attention was given by
DR.. s. Il. Spragg, Of the North End.
The Pink Carriers base ball club
will cross bats with the Indians this
coming Sunday afternoon on the Forty
first street grounds. The Pink Carriers
will line up as follows: Butler C, Auber