Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-26
HAPPENINGS OF ADAY
GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE

I winter season. Miss Hilda Helmbright
furnished the piano music.
There have been only about three
or four applications for aid from food
sufferers thus far reported to the police,
and seveal Of them are of doubtful
character, to say the least.
st. Marks Day was appropriately
observed at st. Matthews P. e. church,
but there were no services at st. Luke's
and st. Andrews, on account of dam
| ages done by the high water.
The nails and other merchandise
removed from cellars in the jobbing
district and paced on Main and inter-
| secting streets, was yesterday taken
back into the houses of merchants
School was re-opened at the Linsly
Institute yesterday morning. Only
I about one third of the students report
ed Monday or Tuesday on account OF
the flood, and they were dismissed.
The annual State encampment of
| the G.. A. R. and auxiliary orders, to
| have been held in Parkersburg this
week, has been postponed until May
! %, "a, and 25, on account of the food.
| The Intelligencer's reckless jug
! Cling of figures was again in evidence
| yesterday, in it's statement that 1000
subscribers were served via skins. This
it its boss circulation" lie of the
season.
James West, an aged citizen OF Tri-
adelphia, and a plasterer by trade, died
at four clock yesterday morning.
The funeral will take place to-day, and
the interment will be private at Stone
Church.
The annual meeting of stockhold-
ers of the Sistersville Gold Mining
Company will be held at the company's
office ,No.1400 Chapline street, Thursday,
May 9th, for the election of directors
and transaction of other business.
Two small children, Elsie Selman
and Elmer Wolf, yesterday were sent
to the bakery, but instead wandered
away. The police were notified and
later found them and returned them to
their respective homes on Wilson
street.
All the stock has been subscribed
to the new Dime Savings Bank, which
; is to occupy the present quarters of
the Mutual Savings Bank. The appli
cation for the charter will be forward
ed to the Secretary of State at Charles
ton to-day.
The Second Branch of Council adj
| Journed Tuesday night. The First
Branch adjourned until Friday night
No call for meeting had been left at
police quarters last night. So that it
is probable there will be no meeting
this evening.
Seats can be reserved at the Y. NJ
! c. A. for the lecture by Harry Steele
| Morrison at the Association hall next
Monday evening. He had many start
| ling adventures during his travels and
| he tells them in remarkably enter
! tanning manner.
! Gospel meetings that are being con-
| Quoted at Bartlebaugh Mission at Six
! teenth and Main streets, by Rev. J. j.
! Kline and Mrs. r. G. Kline are very
interesting, and there has been a num-
Der of persons that have accepted
! Christ. Services every evening at 1880
! and Sunday morning at 1890.
-Ex-Secretary of the Water Board
! John L. Shellhase, denies the report
that the old Board is ready to make an
unconditional surrender to the new
The report probably arose from the
fact that the Water Board officials
placed lot of papers belonging to Mr..
| Shellhase, which had been stored in
the vault. out in the corridor of the
building, where they were secured by
Mr.. Shellhase.
AT $50 o'clock yesterday morning
Mrs. Henry Ockerhaus, wife of the ba-
ker living at No. S220S Main street, died
after an illness of some time. She was
As years of age, and is survived by four
children. She had host of friends
who will mourn her death, and will
sympathize with the bereaved family
Arrangements for the funeral have not
yet been made.
e. B. Dawson. son of DR.. z. e.
! Dawson, of Wilsonburg, has been ap-
pointed druggist for the asylum at
| Weston and assumed the duties of his
office Monday last. Mr.. Dawson grad
/ uated at SEQ with high honors and
made a reputation for himself as first
class pharmacist while with Geiger's
Elite Drug Store at Wheeling, where
he was employed at the time of his
appointment. He is loyal young Re-
publican and his many Harrison coun-
| ty friends are glad to see him thus
honored-Clarksburg Telegram.
Bob Speers who amused him