Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24
Brief News Items.

W. A. Grandstaff and family have re-
turned from a weeks visit to relatives
at Sherrard.
ID. n. Mangold and niece, of New Mar
tinsville, are the guests of relatives in
the Third ward.
The Simms oil well. in Franklin district.
is . TO a depth of 1890 feet. 1t is
about two years since a well was started
at that location and the company has had
a great deal of bad luck. One or two
strings of tools We're lost and the rig has
been Haoved several times.
On next Tuesday the case of the City of
Moundsvile vs.. the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company will be tried before
Mayor Parkinson. 1t is alleged that the
Tenth street crossing was blocked by a
freight train last Tuesday evening for
twenty-five minutes.
A~rchdeacon B. NJ. Spur, who recently
returned from al extended business trip
to New York. brought home some new
ideas which he win put TO practical use
here. one of them is TO establish a place
where the w-asherwomen of the city may
go and for the sum of ten cents have hot
and cold water and other c~onveniences
furnished them! By this plan their work
nay be dane much easier and in one
half the time. The women will thus be
enabled 10 do much more work in a day
and their incomes will be increased III
proportion to the amount of work done.
Another of Mr.. Spurs ideas is to estab-
fish a night OWL or lunch wagon near
the Fostoria glass house. The men em-
ployed on night work viii then have a
place where they may obtain a hot lunch
for a small sum.
Miss May Bauer. of Wheeling. is the
guest of Miss Ada Sheppard, of Morton
avenue.
h heating apparatus in the vaults of
the county clerks office is being improved
by the addition of a large radiator.
S. S. Wilson, of Glen Easton, was in
the city on business yesterday.
Yesterday morning the thermometer
at Dakan & Sivert's store, on Water
street, registered six degrees below zero,
and it was reported that in one or two
places in the city il was eight below. A
thermometer on d houseboat which is
frozen in the ice near Martins mill, in
Dictated twenty-five degrees below zero at
tNf AtShA ~ A1t III tC v mere Sup
ped moving at eight o'clock yesterday
morning.
The two tank furnaces at the glass
house, which have been idle since the hol-
iday shutdown, will go on again to-mor-
row morning. These furnaces going on
will put the entire factory in operation.
Peter King, of the chimney department
of the Fostoria, is the guest of Bellaire
friends to-day.
John Dodd, a well known glass worker.
of Fostoria, Ohio, has accepted a position
in the factory here.
Henry Rozzle, the popular foreman of
the slewer department of the Festorla, is
spending to-day with his family in Wheel
ing.
John Mullen, of Morton avenue. who
has been i'll with pneumonia for several
weeks, is now convalescent.
William Dankner, of the East End. is
visiting relatives in Wheeling to-day.
Joseph Gibson is again at work after
being off a few days with a sprained
shoulder.
John Champion. who is i'll at the Rey-
nelds Memorial Hospital. is said to be i'm
proving,
VAIN super returned yesterday morn
ing from visiting his grandparents, near
Bristoria, Pa. lie reports two cases of
smallpox at Bristoria and all stores,
schools and other public places are closed.
The Octo Oil Company has located a
well on the McCarty farm, on Little Grave
, creek.
Joseph Bruner, of St. Mary's, is here
seeing the sights of the town and Incl
dentally. having a good time.
The fourth number Of he Epworth
League entertainment course viii be given
on next Friday evening. The programme
VIII be rendered by home talent.
Mrs. J. H. Huffman and sitter. Miss
Eva Walton. We're at home TO a number
of friends on Friday afternoon. The par
Tors were tastefully decorated with the
National colors. Progressive euchre and
dominoes were the amusements. The first
euchre prize. pictures of George and Mar
tina Washington, was won by Mrs. J.. d.