Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-17

1URnn CAN LOADS OF CATTLE
FROM CHICAGO, SHIPPED TO A
CATTLE COUNTRY.
ABoUT COZ AUBIN's FRIENDS.
MANAGER FINSTER HAS RENTED
THE OPERA HOUSE FOR An
OTHER YEAR.

WESTON, w. Va, March 16.-Mrs. 8. A
Steele is the guest of her sister at Mounds
Wills.
Miss Mamie K~oblegard left "Wednesday
for Denver, Colo, to be at the bedside
of her sick sister, Mrs. B. A. Kobe
gard.
DR.. A. H. Kunst had the misfortune to
lose his pocketbook containing some
money, his railroad pass, and some valu-
able papers.
Mrs. DR.. Newton, of B~uckhannon, will
accompany Miss Sallie Ralston to Texas
They leave next Monday. instead OF last
Monday, as the Register had it
Benjamin McMann, an oil man from OIL
City, Pa, died at the Phoenix Hotel Wed
nesday afternoon with blood poisoning.
What do you think of this! Three car
loads Of cattle were shipped here from
Chicago and sold to our butchers one day
this week? We are now in an oil, and not
q farming country, you know.
Weston has in MI. M. c. Osborn. Of the
western Union telegraph office, a mana
xer who is as official looking as he is
agreeable and accommodating, and don't
you IIluh SOilc vi AN oAAS -
he is real handsome. Mr.. Osborn is from
Pittsburg, and also an oil man. Possibly
that accounts for the nice things that are
being said about him.
DR.. w. w. Reynolds will spend Sunday
With Clarksburg friends.
The report from the bedside of General
3. A. Lightburn is hat he is no better.
"A friend once a friend always Why
did not Col. Aubin's friends stick to him
while in the hour CT need? Those who
dined and wined with him at his banquet,
should have answered the Colonel and his
wife's telegraphic appeal for help. One
OF the kilograms read, albert and l are
In serious trouble. Telegraph III twenty
i've dollars" The messages were dated
Pittsburg.
DR.. George Snyder was in Wheeling dur
ing the week, on business. q.
Mrs. r. L. linn has been quite i'll the
past week.
Miss Pearl Malone, after two weeks rest,
Is again at her post of duty at the tele-
phone exchange.
Travelling Engineer Duffy, Of the B. &
o.. railroad, was here during the week.
H. w. Lightburn was called to his old
home Wednesday on account of the SER
GUS illness of his father.
1t comes from good authority that the
B. & O.. railroad is now in the hands OF
the PENNSYLVANIA system
The public schools will close about the
last of April with appropriate exercises
tc ha ofvap Of tho npara I.,,,ua
Oil mep report that the roads through
out the county are in a worse condition
than at any time during The winter.
Karl Kunst was up from C~larksburg
and spent part of the wsck at home on
account &C not feeling well.
Will Tracy, of Clarksburg, spends sum
days with the family here.
Hon. w. w. Brannon is attending a
session of the Board of Pardons at
Moundsville.
Mrs. Kaplan and two children, who
have been visiting her sister at Baltimore,
for the past two weeks, returned to Wes-
ton Monday.
Our streets and alleys got into another
'scrape" this week.
The auction store which has been here
for several months has been moved to
Grafton.
T.. o. Watkins, of this place, has pur-
chased the Racket stare at Grafton.
Guy Wilkinson spent Sunday with his
parents at Bridgeport.
The new decorated windows nave all
been placed in the Catholic church. They
are very beautiful.
Mr.. Charles O'Hara has been confined
to his bed with rheumatism the past week.
Mrs. Simon Young was unable to teach
school this week on account of sickness.
Mrs. John Roane is in Wheeling at a
hospital, where she will undergo an oper-
alton in the next two weeks.
II. l.. Scrafford, general superintendent
and manager of the Eureka Pipe Line
Co., was here during the week, looking
after the interests of the company.
Mr.. George Galmish n newly welded
bride have returned from their wedding
tour and are stopping at the Bailey
House.
II. w. Birdsell, the right of way man.
ager of the Eureka Pipe Line Company,
came in from the field Thursday to spend
q day or two.
Clarence l.. Hare, private secretary of
Supt. of Construction Coope, of the Pipe
Lin Company, left us Thursday. He
goes to Morgantown, where he will work
in the same capacity.
1t is said that owing to the bad roads
the greater part of the laborers in the
oil fields will be laid off for a while.
The Misses Bickel, of Parkersburg. are
mere, the guests of their brother.
The show-soing people will be glad to
hear that Manager Finster has rented the
Opera House for another year. He has
peen giving us good shows, and will now
De In a better position than ever to please
the people, which seems to be his aim.
For the lenten season the American Girl
drew a fair house Friday night.
F1tz d Webster's "A Breezy Time" are
with us Monday night next. They were
mere before and need no introduction.
Charley Boob has gone to Illinois "a
attend the funeral of his father.
Mrs. Plus Levi has returned from the
visit to her old home.
word comes from Parkersbure of tins
serious Illness of Mrs. Flora Camden.
The Mutual Oil. Gas & Coal COMPANY
have elected the following officers: Jack.
son Arnold, ]. w. Ross, ]. H. Edwards
+. G. Alfred, David SNYDER r prov.