Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-30
PERSONAL MENTION.

] HENRY MEYER, WHO has OtcH dt lIOule
recuperating during the past month, re,
turned TO Chicago on Tuesday.
u. PATTERSON, Esq, Principal of the
Steubenville High School, was in town on
Friday. Mr.. Patterson is native Of this
county.
Mrs. REV. J. H. HOLLNGSHEAD re-
turned last week from Twinsburg, and
her daughter, Miss Mary, went to spend
season with her invalid sister, Mrs.
Stewart, who is convalescing.
Mrs. REBECCA HEATON. of this place,
and her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Smith, of
Bellaire. were among the passengers on
the Andes for Cincinnati on Tuesday.
EX-AUDITOR DARRAH and wife spent
Sunday with relatives in st. Clairsville.
Mrs SARAH WEST AsKEw, of Kansas
City, Mo-, is visiting friends in st. Clairs-
vile.
Miss NELLIE MOORE, of Defiance, o.,
has been engaged for the Institute, es-
pecially to give instruction in Primary
Work.
Miss ADDIE STEDMAN entertained a
number of her young friends at the resi-
dence of her uncle, Marshal Doyle, on
Monday evening An enjoyable time
is reported.
Mrs. MCCONNELL and her grand
daughters, Eva Giffen and BERTHE Hughes,
of Bridgeport, are on visit among st.
Clairsville friends this week.
Mr.. JOHN DUBOIS and wife returned
from an extended visit to Southern Cali
fOrnia, Monday. Mrs. DIS health, we re-
gret to learn, was not materially bene-
fitted by the trip.
SARAH, wife of Thomas Nicholson,
died at her home in Bellaire on Monday,
after long illness, aged 10 years.
HENRY HELLING, prominent citizen
of Martins Ferry, died on Monday from
a complication of diseases from which he
suffered for several months, aged 81 years
He was a native of Germany, and came
to Martins Ferry poor boy in 1S47. He
has for a number of years been a heavy
operator in the coal business, and accu-
mulated large amount of property. He
was public spirited citizen, encouraging
with his means nearly every enterprise
which has contributed to the growth and
prosperity of his locality Four SONS and
one daughter survive him. His funeral
occurred on Wednesday.
AT the Republican Convention in JEFF
fersOn county on Saturday delegates were
selected to the State Convention and in
structed for John c. Brown for State
Treasurer, and the following county
ticket was nominated: Representative,
Col. G. W. Clancy; Auditor, Alfred c.
Blackburn; Treasurer, Hugh 5. Cable;
Sheriff, Henry Opperman; Recorder.
Jacob Hull; Commissioner. John Under
wood; Coroner, J. NJ. Starr.
THOMAS MALONE, of this place, has
received notice that he had been granted
a pension. Mr. Malone has been in very
poor health for years, growing out of eX
posure while in the service. Owing to
the fact that very few of his comrades
survive, it was difficult for him to secure
the necessary proof, but the Department
has been thoroughly satisfied that his
claim was deserving and just, and there
fore allowed it.
REPORT of the Pleasant Grove School,
No. 9, Richland township. The follow
ing pupils were neither absent nor tardy
at any time in the month, beginning
April 29 and ending May "a, 1889:
Rosa, Effie, and Mary Hutchison, Ada
Robson, Eta Rusk, Blaine Clipp, John
Gummere, Hezekiah and Charlesworth
Hughes, and Fred Robson. No. tardy
marks, II; monthly enrolment, 4S; aver
age daily attendance, 3S15; per cent of
attendance 80.
WE have number of subscribers on
our books who, by their actions, indicate
an opinion that we can afford to send the
paper to them year after year for nothing
They are mistaken in their judgment
and would do well to call around and pay
what they owe u.s. Besides, there are
some right-minded people who are ex-
tremely careless in the matter of paying
the printer.
A CURIOUS freak of nature was discOv-
cred in Quaker City the other day. Miss
Maude, daughter of James Barlow. Oh
going into her fathers garden discovered
on an apple tree a remarkable kind of
fruit-a full blown rose. 1t was a very
pretty specimen of the flowery kingdom.
A few years ago we learn that a rose was
gathered from the same tree-Indepell-
dent.
THE Probate Judge issued marriage Ii
censes during the week ending Tuesday,
as follows;
John W. RunyOn and Lille Greeneltch.
David B. McClintock and Irene Dunn.
VIM. X. Duaway and Mary E. Brad
ford
Anton Rindour and Ann Bower.
Elias j. Lawrence and Agnes L. Smith
0. Ellsworth Penn and Birdie NJ. Acton.
THE repairs on the school house of
District No. 6, in this township, injured
by the recent storm, have been completed,
and the school re-Opened on Monday. Mr..
John A. Neff, of the Township Board,
who superintended the work, is entitled
to the thanks of the district for pushing
it to an early completion.
ANTON LAROCHE, of Bellaire, jumped
off moving Cleveland and Pittsburgh
train at Martins Ferry, Saturday, and in
his evolutions one of his feet was caught
under the wheels, resulting in the partial
loss of his great toe and three others, and
he was otherwise considerably bruised.
a DIVORCE has been granted in our