Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-21

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trouble.
: Spencer houses are all filed and more
=, are in course of construction. The town
| grows all the while.-Spencer Bulletin.
! It's an uninteresting issue of the Richie
| Gazette that has no mention Of candi-
date for Congress in that district.-Wes-
: ton Democrat.
Clarksburg is fast becoming a city
/ Seven robberies IN one night shows the
old town is getting there at lively
rate.-Weston Democrat.
Warden Haddox has had&nore than H.
900 bulbs planted In the flower beds in and
outside the walls and IS hopeful of salts
I factory results in the spring Mounds
Vile Herald's Prison Notes
In the history of the worlds wars Adj
miral Schley presents the only instance OF
a commander subjected to the humiliation
Of Il courtmartial, although IL is called a
board of inquiry for winning a battle
Parkersburg Sentinel
In a newspaper card a Ceredo woman
thus thanks an insurance company for the
prompt payment of her claim: April
29th my husband took out an accident pol
icy, and in less than a month was acct
dentally drowned l consider It good in
Vestment Cricket.
George r. Borror. of Pansy, was around
a nd Of Xsit
pin" that tipped the scales at thirty-two
ounces. 1t is the largest by some odds
that has ever come to this office and, we
believe, the largest we have ever seen-
Grant County Press.
j. f. Alley returned the other day from
the big well on the Lewis and Alley land
near Alkaline. Mr.. Alley says it is impos-
sble to tell just what the well will do
when completed, but that $50 barrels per
day is certainly very conservative esti-
mate. and it may double or even thriebblc
that.-MoundsYille Herald.
The State geological survey has finished
it's field work for the season. The notes
taken during the summer will now be
transferred to paper and shortly the re-
suits of the work will begin to appear.
Much of value to the people of the State
has been learned and this will be given
them just as rapidly as possible.--Point
Pleasant Register.
The traction line W the river is pro-
crossing rapidly and it will not be long
until the cars will be running from Par
kersburg to Wiliamstown. The grading
is done for more than half the distance,
and the poles and ties are being delivered
along the line. The contractors are MAX
ing the most of this good weather, and are
Fastening the work with all possible
speed. 1t will not be long now until Mari
eta Will have communication with the
outside Notwithstanding Sentinel.
The Home for Incurables is not the only
State institution that is going to the dogs
as rapidly as possible under the disreput-
able form of management that seems to
be taking hold of affairs under the pres
cnt State administration. Following the
recent exposure of the payment of cam
paign obligations out of the State treas
urY-legalized theft, so to speak the fol
lowing item shows how things are drift
ing:
The Farmont Index, in a two column
editorial. gives the facts as to the present
condition of tho Normal School of that
city. This has been the leading Normal
of the State for years, but Governor
Whites board of regents turned out all
the Democratic teachers and organized
the school strictly on political lines, with
the result that this year it has an enroll
ment of only ten more pupils than the
Shepherdstown Normal School, and two
thirds of them are kids that could not get
into the city high school. That is one of
the blessings of introducing Republican
politics into the educational institutions
of the State.-Parkersburg Sentinel.