Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-16
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
WEDNESDAY, DEC. le, Iese
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

Mrs. Mary Packer, of Beverly, is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. w. NJ.
Dearth, West Side.
The time of Common PleasCourt was
occupied Tuesday with the oil case of
Gill VS.. Yester. The testimony was all |
taken and Court adjourned to today.
Clerk of Courts McVay rcceived'
Tuesday from the attorneys OF Mande-
vile and others, who were defendants |
in the suit brought Diarca Dye, the
sum OF s570l, being the amount of
Judgment, with interest and costs,
awarded to the plaintiff. This is the
end Of the case, the Supreme Court
having affirmed the decision of Judge
Sibley.
The concert last evening at the
Harmar Congregational church given
by the II, L. Theis Club was well at
tended considering the inclement
weather and was musical treat.
In Common Pleas Court Tuesday
suit was filed by Nye and Amber,
Trustees, to foreclose IL mortgage
against the Marietta Street Railway
Company.
| --Sheriff-elect McCallister was
''sworn in" by Clerk McVay Tuesday
and will assume the duties of his office
on. the first Monday in January, AS
the Commissioners do not meet again
before that date Mr.. McCallister pre-
sented his bond in the sum of 5000,
which was approved, at 0the session
last week.
in Probate Court Tuesday a mar
riage license was issued to Robert A.
Norris, of Woodsfeld, and Julia Moore,
of New Matamoras.
The report reached Marietta Tues
day of a serious accident which befell
Mr.. G. S. King near Stafford. While
hunting his gun exploded, lacerating
his right arm in a frightful manner and
necessitating amputation.
The balance of the machinery and
equipment of the Marietta Electric
Company is expected to arrive at any
time within few days and the buzz of
Tie trolley will soon be grateful
sound on the streets, Long may she
buzz
Mrs. C. W. Uolz has just received
an elegant and well selected stock of
cut glass for Christmas trade. See it.
1t is definitely settled that the new
Ohio.West Virginia baseball league
will be composed of but four clubs
Marietta, Parkersburg, ZanesYille and
Canal Dover. The Marietta manage
ment are actively ut work after players
and part of the personnel of the home
team will be announced in q few days.
fourteen tramps were locked up
by the police during Monday night,
ten of them having been taken from
Cisler's BRICK yard, which has come to
be sort OF Mecca for the Wandering
Willies, on account of the warmth to
be obtained.
The remains of Mr.. Charles Ser
geant who died Of stomach trouble at
Ravenswood, were brought to his old
home at Belrre Tuesday Tor burial
The funeral was conducted by the Odd
Fellows Lodge, Of which he was Il
member.
The time during which quails may
be killed in Ohio expired Tuesday, the
18th.
The cold rain of Tuesday night,
4, I'll, f,l
forciblc hint as to what we may expect
from now on at the hands of Old Win
ter.
Mrs. j. f. Peters has returned home
from East Liverpool where she was
called several days ago by the death oi
her brother, Jacob Il. King.
L, p. Dunsmore, an aged resident OF
Fairfield, died on Monday. He was in
his S7th year.
Mrs. Charles II. Shaefer has re
turned from visit with relatives ir
Marietta. She was accompanied by
her sister, Mrs Lynn Germ, and the
latter's daughter, Miss Ettie, who will
visit Mrs. Schaefer until after Christ
mas. Jim Shay, OF Marietta, was il
the city last night on his way to RitchiC
county to locate well on the j. D
Lacy farm on Bonds creek. The loca
tion is a rank wild cat and is about tiv
miles south of the Hebron tield.-Park
ersburg Journal.
The sixteenth annual meeting o
the Ohio Music Teachers association
win be held in Delaware, OHIO, Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, Decem
Der 2S, 20 and so.
The Sheriff-elcct of Union county,
Mr.. Robinson, spent S115,5O for election
expenses, which was s15.5 30 more thaI
he was allowed to spend under the Gar
field Law, and now he is defendant il
a suit to prevent him taking the Office
Mr.. J.. c. Deming, of Watertown
was in the city Tuesday enroute t
Tampa, Florida, where he will spen