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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1891
Page
6
Local society notes describe an evening on the Philipa-Tronis excursion and a May procession of weddings and receptions. The June social scene, fashion shifts, and ring choices are highlighted alongside quiet nuptials, parties, theatre plans, and visiting relatives visiting in Wheeling and nearby towns.
Daily Chronicle item notes social visits and travel plans among residents. Ova Housted heads to Brilliant Washington with numerous names from Cleveland Allegheny and Wellsburg listed as visitors and hosts, plus local trips to Marietta and Fostoria and a business move by Edward M. Hoermans to buy the Preston County Journal in Kingwood.
A local division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will organize in this city this afternoon at the K of P hall Chapline and Twenty sixth streets at 1 80. Engineers from B C roads will form a new division with about fifty members and several from the Ohio River road. Pittsburg’s 8 S Brown Division No 870 will muster in. A special two coach train will bring two hundred to two hundred fifty visiting engineers from multiple cities. They will stay at Hotel Bebler and hear brief addresses by Mayor Seabright and other members. Evening session possible and Wheeling Park reception tomorrow with dancing bowling and other amusements.
A busy social snippet lists Steuben and South C residents, Pittsburg visitors at the St Charles, and electric commission tours in Chicago. Denver resident R E Hall writes of altitude, while M C Acheson from Washington pauses in Wheeling. Several arrivals and stays at McLure Windsor and Behler, including Miss M OConnor and Miss Henderson, with marriages and departures noted.
The issue notes officers installed for Local Division No. 1 A.O.U.W. including President M. F. Bailey and Recording Secretary M. J. Ford, with a list of trustees and committee members at the city hall last Friday night. It also covers a near drowning rescue at the river by George Rose, a Huntington Army of West Virginia reunion planning meeting, and a note on peddler license concerns from the Clarkburg News with a local card from W. S. Buchanan disputing a court injunction related to Roberts' disinfectant.
William Coss, long time First ward resident, recently received over 100 dollars in back pension. He celebrated at an old shanty with companions, bought whisky, then three young men Dan Mack Tom Finton Hugh White joined, cash and a watch were stolen, money lost, and White released for lack of evidence. Police arrested Mack and White. Marshal Westwood pursues Piston. G D Fishing Club plans a Belmont Park picnic with a fare and seating at 9 and 4.
A man identified as Marshall Conaway, about 23, glassworker of Martin's Ferry, was killed near Bellaire stock yards after a freight train struck him while he may have been fleeing a passenger train. Eyewitnesses say the shocking scene remained visible for some time as his body was torn by wheels. He left a wife and two children visiting in Quincy, Ohio.
In Wheeling Friday the Second Turn defeated the First 8 to 3 with key plays by Joe Ebeling on the mound Tom Armor catching and Reason Bogard batting hard. Borwood Athletics set to meet Red Lions at Benwood Junction grounds amid expectations of a close game.
Dennis Dowmieg of Waterbury Vermont recalls enduring twenty eight years of skin affliction and debt while seeking relief. He notes a healer treatment named Cellerms Rememorrs provided lasting relief, compares his condition to a baby's skin, and mentions prior doctors' discouraging opinions and a book titled How to Cure Skin Diseases.
An old tradeCARD touts cures for skin, scalp and blood conditions with external remedies. It promotes Soar Ravout and Cotionar products from the Porras Crimmica Comronatiax of Boston, claiming quick relief and age-related skin issues alongside pain-killing plaster claims.
A fragmentary obituary page notes funeral services at the residence and interment details. It lists several deaths with ages and locations including July entries for Caldwell, Laird, Flemming, Hornbrook, Warnapeldt, Branstroop, Troll, and Marrer with varying ages and funeral times in 1891 to 1901.
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