The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-25
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Secretary Roy Benton Nayior will
attend the land show at Pittsburr
within few days to secure space
for the Wheeling exhibits that will
be shown there.
An excellent mems meeting was
addressed at the Y. NJ c. A. yester-
day afternoon by Rev. w. f. Allen. OF
the stone church OF Elm Grove.
Pleasing music was rendered.
Plans for new concrete walk
along the side of the bridge over
Caldwelrs Run will be submitted to
the Board of Control mis- week by
CITY Engineer Cooke. The walk is a
needed improvement.
Failing from a Wheeling traction
car Saturday evening while going TO
his home in Martins Ferry. William
Groetzinger. a teamster employed at
the Reymann Brewing Company. was
rendered unconscious. He was badly.
but not seriously. injured.
Captain Ellison. the genial pAeer
or the Greenland. and one OF the bst
known rivermen on the Ohio. is ar
ranging TO go TO South America.
where he has secured a position on
one OF the rubber boats along the
waterways OF Brazil.
C. w. Bente. r. Reister. George
Schramm have been named as dele
gates TO represent the local society
at the convention of the German.
American National Alliance. The con.
vention will be held next month at
Washington.
City Treasurer Johnson and his as.
sistants are engaged in getting out
tax statements for 1911. AS usual. a
two per cent. discount will be allowed
on all bills paid before November |.
owing 10 the work of the board OF
equalization. many residents will find
their taxes slightly higher than last
year.
DR.. Ernest Lyon, former American
minister 10 Liberia. and now Liberian
consul general, with headquarters at
baltimore. will deliver a lecture in
simpson VI. +. church in this city. on
Wednesday evening. He will deal
WIN conditions on the west coast OF
Africa.
In police court. Saturday. Biddy
Welsh. released only on Friday. was
sent back TO the works for thirty
days. Harry Coliff and ]. +. Conlev.
drunk and disordeTly. arrested by
Schultz. s. and costs each Dan Girls.
well. Martins Ferry. drunk. 81 and
costs. Charles Moore. drunk. 81 and
costs. Willie Watts. too drunk. held
over for Monday.
A white horse belonging TO Ike
Smith. the colored expressman. was
taken sick on Fourteenth street. he
tween Jacob and Woods. on Saturday
afternoon about > o'clock, and fell TO
the pavement 4 veterinary surgeon
was summoned. but nothing could be
done for the animal. and it died short
ly before o'clock The carcas was
taken to the fertilizer plant.
The veteran speed superintendent
OF the West Virginia State Fair.
Colonel Robert Anderson. has re-
turned from Clarksburg. where he at
tended the fair. Colonel Anderson
states that Elkins. despite the fact
that there are five other fairs in the !
vicinity this week. secured an excel
lent bunch OF horses. Columbus.
Washington. Pa. and Hagerstown.
Md, race this week.
Louis Conrad. an aged shoe cob
bier. who has been in feeble health
Tor the past several months, Is said
TO have taken from his leather bottom
ed chair cool $4,000 in bills. when
he was permitted to 70 to his shop
by his physician recently. II is said
that when the elderly man entered the
shop he took a knife and ripped
hole in the bottom of the chair. and
then pulled out a roll OF greenbacks
larger than his fist.
The first general meeting Of the !
year was held by the Womens clubs
OF Wheeling. in the assembly room OF
the Wheeling board of trade on Sat !
urdsy afternoon az ? O'Clock. After |
short business session and the distri. I
button or the year book. Dr. Clara
sullivan rendered two solos The /
meeting was addressed by r. r. Nay !
Tor andthe Rev. Charles H. Robinson. |
ID. ~. the latter emphasizing the good !
that women can do in civic service 10
city. referring 10 what the women /
Of Seattle and other cities have done