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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1896
Page
9
A lengthy agricultural dispatch reports weather and crop conditions with focus on spring wheat prospects across regions. It cites planted areas, yield estimates, price ranges, and marks temperate variability influencing production, noting tentative national totals and the need for government action to address uncertain outcomes.
Extensive list of residents and visitors across Wheeling and surrounding areas. Notable names include Mrs Clenl of East Bed, Mrs Sthe Buca Matler, Newhart of Secanud coheed, Wy Tueteuhweh, Grime afr Tobe T Martin, Miss Irene Sheats of Glatin W Va, and Mrs Amal Junin. Reports mention visiting friends, church and community events, and travel to Cleveland and North Wheeling for weeks of stays.
The city is abuzz with brief notes from police and civic events. Officers dealt with drunkenness, a man injured at a brewery, and a stream of minor arrests as citizens prepare for Fourth of July activities and local society gatherings.
Special to the Register Sistersville W Va June 20 the new school building at Hill and Main Streets costing 30000 was dedicated today by the lodge A F and A M assisted by city secret societies and visiting Masons and knights from Wheeling Parkersburg Grafton Moundsville Cameron St Marys New Martinsville Marietta and New Matamoras The city was decorated throughout The parade started at 2 30.
Bellaire Tribune reports Glencoe nine miles from Bellaire buzzing as oil men gather to watch the Stittwell drill. At five feet in the sand the well overflowed and oil quantity increases with progress. Local optimism grows that deeper targets may yield richer production, reviving interest after earlier shallow finds.
A large parade on Brown Betty street featured Heatherington Band Bellaire and local lodges with J.T. Jones Hose Company among others. Hon C. Long and Col Robert White spoke post ceremonies as flowers piled on the cornerstone. About 600 people attended, Wheeling contingent came by train, Sistersville touted as a growing hub despite outside claims of decline.
A sequence of obituary notices from June dates detailing multiple deaths and funerals. Entries include Robertson Stewart infant, Bernard Relily aged 4 months 2 weeks, Van Colvin infant, Money Bremer infant, and Annie Glenn aged 15 years 1 month. Interments listed at Zion cemetery and local chapels with service times and addresses.
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