Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-05
LOUISVILLE.

| Mrs. Rebecoa Fravil with her daughter Myra
and son Owen, of Philadelphia, Pa, are among
friends in this vicinity. Mrs. Frayi is an ordain-
| ed preacher of the Friends, and came here from
| Iowa, where she had been engaged in preaching.
She addressed the meeting at Plainfield, Sunday
A. C. DanfOrd, south of town, who suffered
severely from the grip over two months ago, and
whose recovery has been slow and unsatisfactory,
| was taken worse on Monday last.
| VIM. Moore and wife moved to Bethany, W. Va,
last week, where he will assist his father in run
ming the hack line from that place to Wellshurg.
John Michiner and wife visited their son Robert
| at Flushing last week.
Oscar Taylor and Miss Lisze Taylor, of Hendrys-
burg, spent Sunday with the family of VIM. Shep-
herd.
John Danford, of Captina, visited his daughter,
Mrs. C. L. MeCeary, several days last week.
H. H. Darrah has been for the past two weeks
engaged north Of st. Cairsyille painting and paper
ing.
Lon Lucas and the Misses Emma WOOdway and
Sadie Gifin, of st. Clairsville, spent Sunday the
guests of Miss Mary Baldwin.
The DemOrest silver medal contest, held in the
church last Saturday evening, was well attended,
the proceeds amounting to $3.50. The speakers
all acquitted themselves admirably, and the efforts
of THE CHRONICLE, A. T. McKelvey, and VIM.
Lee, of UniOntown, were the judges. The medal
or first prize was awarded Miss Mary Baldwin,
while nicely bound volume of poetical works
WAS given as second and third prizes to Misses
Ada Estep and Maud McAllister. The meeting
was conducted by Mrs. Celia Pickering, of East
Richland, President of the w. C. T. U, at that
place. Rev. Petty was present and closed the ex-
ercises with very appropriate remarks, after which
he presented the prizes to the several winners
Owing to sickness one of the speakers, Miss Annie
Williams, was not present. The nine participants
were: Misses Mary Baldwin, Maud McAlster
Flora Michiner, Mary Haines and Ada Estep, and
Masters Warren Michiner, Frank Bentley, John
Lantz and Park Foreman. These young folks are
TO be commended for the interest taken and the
excellence of their work.
On Wednesday evening Of this week Mrs. Anna
Alberts Is to hold meeting in the schOolhOuse
for the purpose of organizing Union here.
We feel constrained TO exclaim with the poet,
40, what tangled web we weave,
When first We practice to deceive"
We refer to our last weeks account OF what was
intended as surprise party at Benz. NJ. Loper's.
Occurring so early in the week, and thinking it
would be stale for this weeks items, and writing
on Monday as we did, why we simply took advant-
age of what seems to be privilege of newspapers
and anticipated the event; but it happened our
anticipations did not "pan out " with the facts,
for we are informed that Miss Minnie had acci-
IDENTIFY gotten an nkling of the affair, and the
der of things was reversed, the crowd being the
party surprised, she having all things in readiness
even to an excellent supper, which was partaken
Of with relish by the guests, as it was near a
mile from town and the entire crowd had walked.
The early part of the evening was very pleasantly
spent in recitatons and the acting of charades;
but after refreshments were served more noisy
games were induged in until after O'Clock, when
the crowd departed for their several homes We
will be more careful about writing up surprises"
and be content to chronicle the event after it has
taken place. NJ.