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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1894
Page
11
Dull week in Wheeling amid Lent strictures as society abstains from frivolities. Easter fashion returns with sackcloth discarded. Bowling League closes with planned prize distribution. Various meetings, weddings, and clubs host social events, dances, and concerts across churches, clubs, and halls, featuring local bands and prominent residents.
A letter from Wheeling urges repeal of the house to house tax on selling farm produce, condemns hawking fruit in raw form during summer, and calls for city weights and measures inspectors, market guardians, and earnings sharing among city staff to curb unwholesome sale and protect public health. It proposes a city health inspector and regular market reports, and ends with local church notes and letters promoting Sulphur Bitters.
A conference between J. K. Jolly and a workers committee on the Ohio side ended a strike with a compromise. Wages set at fourteen cents hourly under nine hours daily until April 1, then twelve hours daily. Cars to run again today with two extra cars. Mr. Heinlein helped mediate, praising the workers as valuable.
Ticket holders may swap for served seat entries at the box office Tuesday morning without extra cost. No more than ten seats per person. The program includes Newport Gallop, Imperial Ballo, Irish Comedy, The Death Charles J. Brilles, Grand Opera Orchestra selections, duets, recitations, and a Masquerade. No encores allowed.
Residents from Wheeling and nearby towns plan to watch Coxey and his army for Washington in Massillon today. A Bonwood meeting of 25 to 30 men discussed joining the march if it gains momentum from Massillon, though no formal delegation will proceed from this area. Local sentiment supports Coxey’s idea but fears the effort may be a burlesque without a solid turnout.
Weather and river gage notes from March 24 report 12 feet 6 inches in the channel at one point and river levels varying across Morgantown and Greensburg. Local baseball results include Frew base club beating North End Stars 13 to 2, and Society teams planning games and meetings in East Wheeling with notices of future schedules and a baseball convention in March.
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