Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-03
IN BRIEFEsr FORM.
Local Items OF Interest Presented I'm
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South Main street was given a
much needed cleaning yesterday.
The Bader & Maurer stag hotel
building is now up TO the fifth story.
This evening there will be dance
at Bearley's hall in the East End. Prof.
Nolte will play.
Work on the driveway for the
quarter stretch at the fair grounds is
progressing nicely.
The work OF repairing Eor street,
near Twenty eighth street, has been
completed by the city.
Notice is given in another column
of the meeting of the City Board of
Equalization and Appeals.
In police court yesterday morning.
Mrs. Tessie Bolen, was fined for con-
Quoting house of ill-fame.
The indications are that the live
stock show at the coming State Fair
will far surpass all previous records.
A deed conveying lot in Zane sub
division of lot IS. from Emma 5. Logs
ton to O. l.. Zane for $1,000. was re-
corded in Clerk Robertson's office.
Articles of incorporation of the
Walker Oil Company and power of at
torney to j. b. Sommerville were re-
corded in Clerk Robertson's Office yes
terday. =
Arguments on the motion for a
new trial for Mrs. Elizabeth Emblem,
convicted OF renting houses for pur-
poses of prostitution, which were set
for yesterday, We're deferred.
The hook and ladder company was
relieved from duty at the Neibergall
fire yesterday at Z o'clock, and the
Eighth ward company was relieved at
noon, having been on duty nearly eight
hours.
With tomatoes scarce. and pota-
| toes scarce, and watermelons scarce,
and poultry scarce and eggs scarce,
and few other things not very abund-
ant, life has lost many of its attrac-
tons.
The colored people who attended
the picnic given at Wheeling Park
| Thursday, state that there was small
Misunderstanding between some women
but there was no general fight, as stat
ed by an evening paper.
The West Virginia Shorthand Re-
porters Association will hold its third
annual convention in this city next
Saturday. The meetings will be held
at the court house. The Associa-
ton embraces all the shorthand re-
porters in the State.
Thursday evening horse attached
| to buggy standing on Chapline street
near Twenty seventh, and owned by DR..
| J.. N. Refer, scared at a street car and
dashed down street. At CaldwelPs run
the buggy struck wagon and was bad
| ly wrecked. The horse continued on
and was found half an hour later lying
| in hole in field.
Work on the Wheeling Traction
| Company's new barns on the Island has
| been delayed during the past week on
account of the failure Of the crushed
limestone for the foundation to arrive.
| Yesterday, however, car load arrived
at bridgeport and will be at once taken
| to the grounds. 1t has been decided to
build temporary shed on the site of
the old barns at West Wheeling, to be
used until the Island barns are COM
pleted.
| Hicks predicts threatening and
stormy weather for the first week In
| August, with "a warm wave from the
9Th to the 9th, followed by severe
| thunder storms. heavy hail and high
winds. He says these conditions will
be followed by lower temperature, but
| that on the 18th, there will be rise in
the thermometer, with low barometer
and stormy weather from the 18th to
the goth. The month generally. he
says, will be marked by extremes OF
| temperature and storms