The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-25
HARRY '. ARkLE|
DIES SUDDENV
EDITOR OF WHEELING REGIS
STRICKEN ILL ON STEEL
BRIDGE SATURDAY
Funeral Services In Home Tu
Morning and Requiem High M1
in st. JosePh's Cathedral.

Harry Vincent Arkle, editor.
Wheeling Register and one q
most brilliant and widely known
papermen in West Virginia, die
denly Saturday afternoon on the
bridge, enroute from his home
Virginia apartments, on South
street, Island, to the Register
He was taken i'll shortly a
o'clock, while walking with his
and sank to the walk. He wa
ried into the dollhouse by >pSlz:azSss
and restoratives were given him
fore a physician arrived he was
Death was due to heart disease.
had been i'll for the past two y
but continued at his daily duties.
ferlng much but complaining littl
Mr.. Ankle was not only a brill
newspaper man but he possesse
to him who knew him professionally
and socially. He was a gifted news
paperman, and this fact he exempt
fled for the many years be was on thu
Wheeling papers. He will be missed
by the fraternity as we'll as by thu
reading public. He was always thu
same cool, pleasant and congenial mar
that won and kept host of friends
He had the good faculty Of seeing TIT
good In his co-workers and not theil
shortcomings.
Mr.. Ankle spent the best OF his year!
in newspaper work. He rose rapidly
He was born in South Wheeling in MAY
1870, and was in his forty-scrcnth year
V. and Barbara (Habig) Ankle. He wa:
graduated from the Richie school Ir
1885. later taking course in loca
commercial college. followed by his be
coming associated with his father in thu
painting and thinning contracting bust
ness and was In charge of the uptown
shop for few years. In the fall o.
1880 he was employed by the Register
as collector for two years, and thcr
Joined the writing staff Of that paper
covering Benwod and South Wheeling
That was when there were few tele
phones in this community and tina
beat" was difficult to properly cover
Later he worked In the city proper anc
subsequently became city editor H,
resigned in 1903 to accept similar
position with the Wheeling Intelligencer
The year following he returned to thu
death Of P. s. Anshutz he became editor
and editorial writer of the Register
which position he occupied at the tim,
of his death. For seven years until 191:
Bureau and accompanied the Pittsburgh
National League team to Hot Springs
Ark. each spring to it's training camp.
Mr.. Ankle married Miss Emma Brill
or this city. in 1912. who survives, as dc
two brothers: Edward A. Ankle, editor
of the wheeling Telegraph and Robcr
4. Ankle Of the John Becker and com
pany. South Wheeling jewelers.. Hi:
brother. Joseph NJ Ankle. died last wear
Mr.. Ankle was a member of the Church
Of the immaculate Conception in earl,
life and during tho past few years hac
been affiliated with st. Joseph's cathn
dral. He was member Of no fratcrna
organizations. He was president oil
Ritchie School Alumni association anG
was the first president of the WhccIinr
Press club.
Funeral Tuesday Morning.
Brief funeral services will be hell
in the family home at SIS o'clock
Tuesday morning. followed with r.
qulenr high mass at 8 o'clock in St
Joseph's Cathedral with interment in
Mt. Calvary cemetery. The pail
bearers will be selected today.