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fO ?t; i? i u?<i?my ' BIG BgPUCTIONS-STONg A THOMAS. FOR YOUR BENEFIT. A NOTHER BIG REDUCTION I i~Y This time in Dress Goods, and an opportunity to purchase a Dress at a saving of 25 to <jp per cent, which is all in your favor. During the Fair week we shall offer extra inducements to purchasers by cutting|the price of every article in the store so low that parties visiting the city from a distance will more than save their railroad fare. At the same time a stock complete in every description from which to make a selection will be shown. Whether wishing to purchase or not, customers will be cheerfully Waited on. Some of our leaders are the following : \ At 20c, 44-lnch Novelty Suiting, - regular price 50c. At 29c, 36-inch Diagonal Suiting, regular price" 40c. At 39c, 36-inch All-wool Cloth, - - - regular price 50c At 36c, 38-inch Jamestown Diagonal Suitings,regular price 45c. At 33c, 40-inch Bedford Cord, ... regular price 50c At 21c, 36-inch Illuminated Serge, - - regular price 25c. At 15 l-2c, 34-inch Novelty Cloth, - - regular price 25c. 60 PARIS ROBES AT $5 85. RETAIL PRICE FROM $10 TO $20. Stone & Thomas. 1020 to 1032 MAIN STREET. 1 1 1 . ' HALF-PRICE SALE-M. J. M'FADDEN. '' LAST WEEK^ROFOUR Half-Price Sale gn&r - . This week positively ends our sale at HALF-PRICE. We still have some of the choicest and best of the bargains and they yvill go this week. This is your last chance. If you want any come at once. 80 cent Pine light Sbirts for ? ? cents. 80 cent Fina Silk Hecktles for '-25 cents. i 28 cent Extra Fine Striped Socks for f Ab&i 28 osot Finest Balbriggan Socks for i2^c. $100 Black French Satteen Shirts for - ? 80 cents. 10 cent 4-ply Linen Collars for ? 8 cents. 28 cent Children's Caps for ? 12J^c. 28 cent Children's Cloth Hats for? - ?? 12^c, 80 cent Children's Hats and Caps for- ? 25 cents. $100 Men's Soft Crash Hats for ? 80 centsi 78 cent Men's Soft Hats for? ? 3%c. ? I>ant Mon'c and Runs' WnrVintf Huns fflf 12 I-2C. <6^ UUUk IUUU U UUU WVJW uvtuixg ??r. ... r ' McFADDEN'S ONE-PRICE STORE, Cheapest Store la Wheeling. ; 1329 aal 1322 Market Street. CLOAKS AND DRESS GOODS-GEO. M. SNOOK & CO. I m jMSTBtBEM ? * ?WITH * Entire New Lines ^g|&SgHBP|S Of Fall and Winter Cloaks, Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Trimmings, _j?w Notions, Underwear, Hosiery, Flanflyini * ne's> Blankets, Furs, Comforts( * linens, Sheetings, Prints and ifiany HSaBBiim^k "other goods pertaining to these reasons. . flHA CLOAKS AND DRESS GOODS I EXCLUSIVE STYLES. 10* Oar offer of $25 00 in gold, as announced last woek, still open for competition. : ; v We note with pleasure that times'are rapidly improving. You oan make ' them itill better by purchasing NOW, purchasing for CASH, purchasing every ' dollar's worth at home, especially from Geo. M. Snook & Co. S| J. S. RHODES & CO. SrtOES?O'KANE ft CO. A REMARKABLE J7 IS uitSale. tfgjfc $5.90 MR?:! Ladies' Serge and Cloth Suits, all [Iff ' ] this season's styles. These Suits \ \\ ' ** 5?' $l0??' ABOVE ALL THE REST Xa > position of preeminence whioh few can occupy. That's onr position. x in ii * i i though, in the ahoe trade, and we hold I QfllOC Mdl IdOvQlQ it by right of undisputed snperlority. LdUlOO rdllUalAulo baffle competltion. That irives onr shoes the feet , ? . n, , to walk away with publlo favor. When In Tans, Navy Blueand Black, it comes to footwear, above all, get the $5, $6 and $8 grades, for There's but one store to get it if yon pay proper consideration to mm ' your feet and your pocketbook. Good CP J I 1 U 1 footwear is the moat comfortable as > well m the moat economical. We ^7 W \mJ a court .in examination of our goods te '* and price*. - O'KANH Cb OO,, K T rt TVl 1- 1113 Mainjstregt_____ I \ n Milllr^ mob t work# yl Ml *IA*VHVW NEATLY AND PROUPTLY EXEC0TKD &G OO. ] AT THE INTKLLKMHOnUOB HOOMi Wfo%M&gwtx. UBmi Hot, at and ai JonrUnnth Itr?t. New AdTertlumuli. Notlaj?T(?Co?l S?U?n-8Hoa4 Put. The wheeling Conservatory of Mailo-Henr: J. Arbenx. School fiodks?H. F. Bahrens. LaCroU China Color*?Bwing Bros. Something New?L ft DiUon 4t Co. School Books?Stanton's Old CUjr Book Store Proclamation?B. P. Caldwell. Mayor. A Handsome Ejrwent?Carle Bros.. A Special luvltttloll?Johu FrledsJL For Sale-Drui 8tore. ATTENTION, UNSLY STUDENTS I Leave yonr measures for Uniforms. Wi ore prepared to make them on akor notice. D. GtJNDLINQ & CO., 34 and 36 Twelfth Street. NEW, NOBBY, USEFUL. Call and examine our handsome line o fail Wooleni,forelgn and domestic and ejn bracing every novelty in medium weight overcoating*, nultlugs and trowserlngM Special attention given to fashionable ge1 up, Fit guaranteed and prices reasonable JaroN Hygiene Underwear again handlet ?allsixe*. Office Coat it, tiroy, Blue, Black neat and comfortable. Bitter .Jackets Brown and Black, unrivaled for warmtl and durability. 100 doten Vast Colored Seamless Half Hose at lOo a pair, Just re celvert. Bent Glove, Elghiule Shirt and I full line of Gents' newest Furnishings. 0. HE88 * SONS', Fashionable Tailors and Gents' Farnish ers, 13*1 and 13j93 Bfarket street, v IF yon cannoe see and need Speotaelei you should call on us and have your eyei tested without charge* We have the finest Instruments and more experience than an; other Optician In the StaM, aud guaranty satisfaction or money refunded. JACOB W. UttUBB. Jeweler and Optician, Corner Twelfth and Market. LOCAL BREVITIES. Mutter* of Minor Moment In and Abou tbe City. Ann the Fair li over. After the neea are done, Tbe (akin will all live la clover With caih from u? tbey bave won; After tbe bone* bare left 01, The bookie* and pool aellen ihare Caah ot which they beruli ui. During tbe fair. The Grand this evening?"A Pair c Kids." Tub schools of Bridgeport and .Etna ville will take to-day at the fair. Opera House this evening?Cbarle Dickson in "Admitted to tbe Bar." A mebtino of the Conncil commltle on scales has been called lor tbli even ing. This is Wheeling day at the Stat Fair and business will be very general ly suspended after noon. Fourteenth street from Main t Water was dug up yesterday for th underground telephone wires. A few more decorations were put on about town yesterday, but they are n6 as general as tbey should be yet. Tuerk was a complete whitewash li the police court yesterday morninf which indicates pretty good orde about town for fair week. Wiluam Scott was locked up yestei day on a charge of disorderly condnci by Officer Watson. He was raising row in a Water street saloon. The ditch for the' new thlrty-incl water main to the reservoir has beei finished on Seventh street aa far at Market. Olerk Hook yesterday admitted t record a deed made September 5, b Herman Steiner to Mary Degro'ote, fc oo *hn TfolvAftnrA addition consideration $5. Next Saturday evening Mayer's bam will give another of its popular fre open air concerU at the public Dulldln square. Thin one will be especially a tractive to old loldiers. The closing performance of "Jus Landed" at the Grand last night d< lighted an audience which packed th theatre to the doors, in spite of the ei cessively warm weather. It is officially announced that th pnddling department of the LaBell milllwiU resume work Monday. Th will give employment to a large numbi of men. Prof. Arbbkz'k Wheeling Conservi tory of Music will open in all depar ments next Monday, with a complel faculty of competent teachers. The ai nouncement appears in the advertisin columns. Billy Mayer's band and orchesti has been secured to play during tt wheelmen's m'eet, and will give thr< concert*, as well as play between raci at the fair grounds on the 19tb and 20t of this month. Says the Stenbenville Oaiitte: Tt Dink Barbara Mandolin Club Sundays in Brilliant, where some excellent mus was rendered. The club will spec next Sunday in Wheeling, where the will play muaic. Last night the hotels were pack* full of people, mainly West Virginian who came to take in the State Fair, list of the people registered at tt difierent houses would somewhat r samble a state directory. A suggestion has been mado that kindergarden school would pay on tl Island. Now that Wheeling ia to ha' one finely equipped school of this kin it is probable that, if the first encceed a second on? on the Garden Spot woul prove very popular. WORLD'S FAT ft TOURISTS. l'eoplo Coining from nwl doing to tl Big Kxhlbltlnu. Mr.-Dad Mrs. Walter Williams are Chicago. County Commissioner H. P. M Gregor is home.. A. F. Miller and wife, of North Ma street, are doing the Fair. Miss Lottie Walton >and her frlen Miss Belle Mozeno, of Allegheny Cit 'left yesterday. J. D. Wilson. and family, of Sho creek, .were in the city yesterday on tl way to tbo Fair. Frank Bachman, Joo Devlin, J< Toufei and Harry Waterhouw are ta ing in the White City. Mr. and Mra. Bendel Rose and Ml Clara Burt, and Misa. Moggie Wilsc left Monday for the World's Fair, tol gone two weeks. B.K. McMechen.D.E. 8talnaker, Jami P. Adams and J. K. McCourtuey r turned vesterday' from a three wesk trip to the lakes and the Fair. Jfr. and Mrs. Melvin Griffith, of Bt timore, Wfio have been the guests Mrs. M. 3. Lnkena. on Nosth Froi street, Island, for the put two week leave to-day for the Fair. Ike Modern Bwoty Thrives - on good* food and snnshln with plenty of exercise In the open al Her form glows with health and h< face blooms with ita beauty. If h system need* the cleansing action of laxative remedy, she met the gent and pleasant- liquid laxative Syrup Figs. ' | . - Geo. M. Shook & Oo.'? styr# will 1 closed Thursday .-afternoon. THE MURDERED OFFICER. > nil Funeral Yaiunlnjr Lnrjelr Attended Relief of 111. Fnmlly. The very Urge number of people whi : attended the funeral of Officer Georg Murphy .at Mnrtln'a tferry yesterday bowed tbe high respect in which h waa held by bla fellow-citizens. Tli r business bouiea all over town and th public schools wero doted by request' c the city council and the proclamatloi of Mayo* Keller. Tbe services wer conducted by Kev. A. W. Botta assittei by a chorua of singers, after which th remaina were laid to rent in the Rivet view cemetery. The Dolice of Bellaire . Bridgeport and llarneaville attende< almoit to a man, and the Wheello police were repreaentsd by Lient. Georjr i Gnus. The murdered officer's late fel low members of the Martin's Ferr. 1 force were the pall bearers. There waa a meeting of citizens las evening at the Martin's Ferry city hat to devise measures to start aJund fo the relief of Officer Mtirphv'a family Theo. Keller was appointed chairman ( and he appointed a committee of fon , cititens out of each ward to take a sub t scrlption list around and make a tboi : ough canvas of the entire city. Tb . family waa left In pretty bad circuit t stances, and it is hoped that this movi . '.it 1 . *1.1 ' meal wi" ream* in a suuswuuai muu a , ABOUT I'KOPLIfl. I Stranffer# In ttaa Cltjr and whoellne Folk Abroad. Dr. and Mrs. P. B, Ogden are in th cltv. , Dr. S. L. 8. Sprogg and wits are bom i from the east. \ Miss Lizzie Conn, of 8teubenvllle, i the guest of friends here. Miss Cora Ratcliffe and Mrs. Harris Watson, of Wheeling, arovisitingfriend in Steubenvilie. Miss Lizzie Eeertor has returned t iier duties as music teacher in the Btec t benrille publiq schools. Miss Lena Honnig has gone to Pltti burgh to take a thorough course in elc cutlon and dramatic art. Prof. John Mullen is in Chicago n tending the anuusl meeting of tb society of dancing teachers. Mrs. Charles Berger, of New Martini (f ville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Georg Mayer, of"Jforth Market street. Charles Thompson, the veil know banker, of Uhrichaville,0.,accomi>snie by bis wife, is in the city taking in tii fair. T ft ftnrna left this morning fo 8 Wheeling, where his horse, Oden, i " entered for this week's races.?SteMiei vUU Star. B Dr. Githen9, a former citizen < * Wheeling, noir a reaidont of Monro county, Ohio, la here on his annui 0 visit to the fair. 8 Mrs. J. W. Kennedy, of Thlrteent street, has returned from a visit to h( t daughter, Mrs. Slnsell, at Oakland, an t to relatives at Charles-Town. . Mrs. John Sweeney nee Bell, of Eli a Grove, W. Va., will live in this plat thia winter while her sons, John an r Tom. attend W. <Sc J. college, saya tt Washington, Pa., Obierver. Mrs. John Dickey and child,. Bout t. College atreet, and Mra. Williiyu Stiv< a and children, of North Main aneet,' ar the gnesta of friends at Wheeling th 1 week.? Wcuhington, Pa., Obt-rvtr. a Master Edgar Fnris, son of J. Ed Fori s of Kansas Olty, who has been vlsitit his.grandparents on the Island, wl 0 leave for his home to-day,'going aa 1 y came, alone- He Is a great traveler U it his age. ; Mra. S. D. Wallace, of Los Angele Cal., ia visiting her mother, Mrs. R. J 1 Freese, at her residence, 61 Fifteent e street. Mrs. Wallace has made hi z home in California for the last ?h t- veara, and this is her first visit horn She ia accompanied by her young so it Edwin" . 3" A Biff Ala Banquet. * 16 Yesterday the Smith Brewing Coi !> nany gave a novel banquet at tt brewery-on Market street. The gues ie were about 160 in number, and we e mainly workmen in the South Side pc Is teries, the LaBello mill and Hobbs glo >r works. A fine bill of fare, with aou dance of the company's cream and atoi aie, wae aiecupseu, sou uitjru woto oc t- ersl complimentary speeches by tl ;o Ruosts anil a genial response by Frei dentLally, of the company. Altogeth g it was an enjoyable affair as one cou wish to ice. a Drinking Water, le A glance through the lens of a troi 18 microscope at the lettlings in the b< !? torn of the water pail would make mai " a good housekeeper shudder with he ror. The innocent littlo wrigglers s. is might find there would be transform! id into dragons, from which, if thoy we ic as large to the naked eye as they soe id through the lens, she would fleo wi ly quaking terror, and she wonld sbrii from zivlng her child water to drii ,d (or it would seem, looking through tl lens, to eat) with masses of vegetab A organisms in it. Water that is boil le is freed from tiring genus. A good flit e. will remove them: Distilling rids t water of them. In all cases of bo? trouble it is impossible to be too cai " ful of the purity of the water given t " patient to arink. It is safer to cool "f by putting U in a sealed bottle in co ?? tact with the ice, than to put ice in as ice itself is often a source of dang from the germs existing in it. The are no better filters made than ou We sell them at $3 each. Barnes & McGregor 18 REMEMBER the Snppar (Iran by t] Indies ot the EtiglUlt Lutheran Church [n Cirnud Army Hall, Friday, September J ,n 1803. c- Strangers and citizens alike shou not fail to seo our Main street windc In displays qt new Fall and Winter Gloa find Dress Goods. * d Gto. M. Shook & Co ? IT IS THE people ^?I? te psiipBESl g AND NOT THE TESTIH0HIA1 SCHOOL CLOTHIN?-THE HUB CLOTHIERS. > ?J ? i Keaay, * | BOYS, ; Ready! r , 'i Again the Junior Army of the Republic _is ready for school. Young America is rampant with enb thusiasm, generated by a ten week's holiday, exi* pects a New Suit or a New Hat The boy's eyes will stick out as large as saucers when they see the great high piles of goodies we've got for their comfort and covering. It's looks that captures the boys, QUHLITY e / that wins the parents. We're solid on both sides. 8 Boys, are not the least bit particular. You must have lt Solid Worth in school clothes or they'll soon come '* to grief. We stand on the shoulders of our achievements of last year and reached for all the improvei. ments. that had been made. ' You won't have to come up after them. H ' WeVe Brought them down to the. same old prices, that's how we progress. It's the quality that ^ gets ahead; the cost stands still. If you don't know just what you want, there is everything here that's i- worth having. Let the stock talk to you. If seeing , 8 is believing, Seeing Will be 3uying in this n case. The arguments of facts are convincing. i THE CREAT WEST Yi~STATE FAIR, Second Only to the World's Exposition if Every Day this Week 1 I 8 ll A hearty invitation is extended to all visitors to ??oa \A/**e?+ \/ifflrm!a'c I aroTAQi* snH ll w.au auu otc vv cot v u khum w DwW. if Only One-Price Clotning House.' Yod will receive a hearty welcome whether you wish to buy n or not Always glad to see you '' ? ? ? ???? HUB, One-Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers, si market and fourteenth streets. fi ? >r ' - f V v 0. ' ' \ _ CREDIT SYSTEM?HOUSE AND HERRMANN. jr ~ re m ^ , . ^ ^ : W n" I 1*1 w |*| 5 : P1CK.UU I : it- ^ ! : | DATES : si- ? *?? ' 7 i . id You want your payments to fall due? >2 , weekly or monthly?decide on how much , ?r- * you can pay?and 'everything will run . # along as smoothly as a car on a greased , "J track. You'll have the use of the 3k it jj Furniture, Carpets, * Mattings, the Refrigerator, , _ ^ . Z ' The Baby Carriage, it g 0 jt ? Stove, &c., jr ' > \ o ire * ra. And we'll have your promise. a _ Under our V id. ; EQUITABLE S : H CREDIT : : SYSTEM : ' . ' * there's no waiting for you to do?no * notes to sign?no limit Nothing but to ^ ^ I select what you want?and do as you # . agree. > | ' ' " ? I House&Herrmann i f ' 1300 MAIN ST. : I ! ? :, -'i.25Ji;3, -A' j