The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-01-04
NEWS BRIEFS

This evening DR.. c. II. Robinson,
of the First United Presbyterian
church, will conduct the Bible classes
at the Y. NJ. c. A. The life of Paul
has been completed. and the next
phase that will be taken up will be his
letters.
The glee club of the Y. NJ. {. A..
held a rehearsal under the direction
of Prof. Walter G.. Brown. last even
ing, at the association building.
Traffic on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad was delayed several hours
yesterday when a large landslide COW
cred h b. a. o. racks neal Board
Tree, on the main line. Several trains
were detoured over the Short Line.
via New Martinsville.
Revival meetings are being ,eld
by the Salvation Army. commencing
Sunday evening, and several people
have been converted. Army leaders
from out of the city are assisting the
local army in the services.
Arrangements are being made by
the Columbia Club TO produce the
Three Twins" the latter part OF This
month, by the dramatic society of
the club.
Large numbers of the Wheeling
college and university students are
leaving the city daily.
The two-eyar-old daughter of j.
keesor, OF Fifth street. who swallowed
strychnine. Saturday evening, is i'm
proving rapidly and was removed from
h North Wheeling hospital to her
home.
1t has been learned that the New
York Central Railroad has made the
freight route through the local ter
minal, used for the movement OF grain
last fall. permanent. The New York
Central line has been trying to reach
Wheeling for several years, and owing
TO the network of roads in the Wheel
ing district il has been held up.
The engraved direction names
carved under the new letter drops in
the face of the marble slab at the
postofhce have been filed with gold
leaf. adding an artistic touch to the
I convenient slots for mailing letters to
the various sections OF the unit
Engineer w. Francis Hyde and his
assistants %re-opened the winter term
OF the Wheeling social centers last
night in the Union school building.
with a fairly large audience. including
a number of adults.
About a score Of progressive farm
ers of Ohio and Brooke counties left
over the b. & o. yesterday from the
local station TO attend farmers week
meeting at Morgantown. in connection
with the county agents convention of
West Virginia.
Federal war taxes are being re-
ceived al the local internal revenue
Office. which are being made. as last
year, in semi-annual payments.
thermometers in the business sec
ton az mid-afternoon. yesterday. regis
tered an average Of 40 degrees. which
Is considered warm for this season.
- w. Crabbe. state superintendent
or the West Virginia A~ntl-Saloon league
was IN the city yesterday on his way
from Chester 10 his home in Charleston
The superintendent expressed himself
as hlshly pleased with enforcement OF
the law generally.
-Ihe discount period on water bills
has been extended for a few DAYS NV
The city Treasurer W. :. McEIroy. Ac-
cnrding 10 the treasurer. collections dur
ing the discount period were greater
IMAM any former similar period.
"A derrick Cnrouto from Vcrmont
10 wheeling is lost and
the work on tho new Pollock memorial
monument is held up. Al the granite
10 Do used IN the construction OF m,
smart has bon delivered on the ground.
All of the mills In the Wheeling dis
trict that laid of for the holidays re-
summed operations ye~-erday.
-Mtmhers ~ the Thomson Mems club
VIII meet in the Thomson NJ. T.. church
mis- evening FOR the regular monthly
session.
William Roger. son Of Joe Recer Of
Pooretown. sustained a fractured arm
sunday when he fclf near his home.
Dealers in the East End are indus
iFlouriN cutting each others throats by
selling bread at cut prices Housewives
are getting the zpoiis Of war.
-Feorge w. kossuth. local photorra-
rher. declares that there is a great re-