Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-01
BELLAIRE LETTER.
BELLAIRE, O., June %, 1875

Bellaire, being young, canLot OF
older town. Ever since the weather
would admit of such a thing pic-nics
and festivals have follow ed fetes and
excursion in rapid disorder, with balls
and socials interSpersed at irregular in
tervals for the sake of variety. The
most enjoyable of all these entertain
ments was the donation party and
.tete cLdnspetre given at the residence of
Rev. w. NJ. CASTOR, pastor of the Pres
byterian church of this city, on last
Friday evening. A large assemblage
gathered to enjoy themselves, and to
help their genial friend and faithful
minister enjoy himself, in both of
which objects they succeeded admira-
bly,. Mr.. CASTOR was made the rccip-
lent of purse of 500 90, gift from the
congregation at large, and of several
other gifts from Individual members
of the church or friends of the pastor.
The citizens of Gravel Hill and the cit
izens of Benwood also presented hand.
some tokens of their respect and eS-
TEEN. J. B. Smith, Esq, did the hon
orS of the presentation in neat and
happy style, and Mr.. CASTOR replied
for himself and wife.
On the same evening the ladies oi
the M. E. Church held a Strawberry
Festival in the basement of their
church, at which some fifty odd dollars
was netted. Socially this affair was
also quite enjoyable, although the eX.
treme heat of the room prevented its
being as much so as it might at another
time.
At the recent Gravel Hill Sabbath
School benefit festival the handsome
sum of $6S 20 was cleared.
BASE BALL.-We have not been in
the habit of blowing much about Oul
bail clubs, but we think they deserve
a little blow now for beating a Wheel.
ing club two to one on last Saturday.
The Clipper Club of this city and the
Atlantics of Wheeling played the best
game that has come off in these parts
this season on that day. The score
stood 10 runs to in favor of the Clip.
pers. Vachel Williams, of this place,
was the umpire; n. Degans, scorer,
and the time of game was l hour and
4 minutes.
Our public schools closed last Friday
with three cheers and tiger by both
BOYS and girls for the retiring princi-
pal, A. W. Melville. The teachers
have all been retained with the excep-
ton of the teacher of No. s. Mr.. Mel
vile, whose time had expired, leaves
universally lamented; although there
can be no doubt that Mr.. A. P. White,
who has been elected as his successor,
will acceptably ill the position. The
vacation lasts until some time in Sep
tember.
Street cars are an assured fact for
Bellaire at last. Ere this is in type
the contract for the laying and equip
ping of the road will probably be
awarded, and as soon as practicable
thereafter work will be begun upon it,
and pushed rapidly to completion.
For the present the road will extend
from the B. & o. r. r. bridge on Union
street to Benson's Ferry, at the ex-
treme northern end of the city corpora
ton. The impetus the success of the
project has given to city Improvement
all along the line is already noticeable,
and will be ere long still more plain.
The Big Injun' excitement of the
week has been the elopement fiasco of
a Wheeling couple, Miss Emma Sny-
der and Mr.. Henry Ebert. About a
month ago. more or less, Miss Snyder
was riding on :, street car of which
MIR, Ebert was conductor, and she be-
came quite favorably impressed with
him, and being an impulsive young
lady, wrote him note requesting him
to call upon her. From this little be-
the affair progressed, through
stages of more and of less interest until
il eliminated in the young lady's being
locked in her room. From there she
escaped by means of the window, and