Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-06-17
BELLAIRE LETTER.

BELLAIRE, u, j une ii, 1919.
On the evening of Friday, the 18th
of June, the members of Wallace's
New Cornet Band, of this city, will
hold benefit festival at City Hall, for
the purpose of raising funds to purchase
instruments, and, possibly, uniforms.
At the festival, which promises to be
the amusement sensation of the season
here, a gold-headed cane will be con-
tested for between Thos. H. Morris,
General Soliciting Agent of the c. & P.
r. r. and Capt. r. T. Devries, General
Freight Agent of the B. @. road at
Wheeling, Benwood and Bellaire; and
a fine set of jewelry will be voted t0 a
lady, the candidates for this honor be-
ing Miss Lyde Criswell of the First,
Miss Amanda Merriman of the Second,
and Miss Mary Runion of the Third
Ward. The votes on the cane are
twenty-five cents, and on the jewelry
ten cents each.
MORE FESTIVALS.
On Tuesday Evening of this week
the ladies of the Presbyterian Church
had strawberry festival at their
church. The entertainments given by
the Presbyterian Social Association are
fast coming to be the most enjoyable
assemblages of the kind that our citi-
zens have opportunity to enjoy, and
this was no exception.
The citizens of Gravel Hill evidently
do not intend to let the city proper out
do them in the matter of amusement.
On next Tuesday evening they will
have strawberry festival up there,
and if the slower towners" don't 90 up
they say they will never patronize any
thing off of Gravel Hill again.
The ladies social association of the
NJ. E. Church will have meeting in
their church Thursday evening of this
week.
And the American Citizens of Afri.
can descent, not to be outdone by
their pale-face brethren, are getting up
festival for the benefit of their brass
band. at which a set of gold bracelets
will be voted to one of two dusky bellies.
PERSONAL.
Walter Cowen stopped off few
hours last Friday on his way st. Clairs.
villeward.
w. T.. Thompson, the Musical Com.
poser and Poet was in town ON Friday
and Saturday.
T. J. Satterfeld, Esq, former ticket
agent of the B. & o. road here has been
transferred to the ticket office of the
company at GAINESVILLE, his place here
being supplied by w. LII. Mclaughlin.
The defunct editor of the Bellaire
Standard wants to be City gas inspector.
Those who are acquainted with the
gentleman will readily see what an ap-
propriate position it is for him. If the
gas don't come up to the Standard he
will find it out.
Maj. VIM. G Carman, "poet" and
"U. S. Secret Service Agent'' makes
Bellaire his home now, and Bellaire
don't feel remarkably honored either.
On last Thursday evening Rev.
Hodgson pastor of the M. Z. Church,
united in the holy bonds of wedlock, at
the residence of the Brides parents,
two of the most active and exemplary
among his young members, Mr.. Frank
Powers and Miss Emma Westlake.
They went on brief tour, and the
I blessings of all of the newspaper frater-
nifty went with them, for kind remem.
brances.
THE PROMENADE
which meets with most favor here
seems to be along the track of the C. &
p. r. II. east OF travel Hill. This is
as exclusively the promenade Sunday
afternoons as is the celebrated "BOard
Walk" at ''the City by the Sea-" In-
dian Run and below the Creek also at.
tract numerous pedestrians, while those