Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-02-26
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
WEDNESDAY. FEB. ae. 1896
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

fortune to fracture his knee-cap while
playing football few months ago.
was walking down stairs in the Col
lege dormitory Tuesday, when he
twisted his leg slightly and received a
second fracture in the same place 1t
is thought an operation for wiring the
pieces of the knee-cap together will
have to be performed.
The hotel registers last night
showed that every room I'M rthe ecity's
hostelries was filed. Among the
guests at the St Cloud and Bellevue
were noticed the names of about a
dozen people from Butler, Pa. 1t is
said all Butler is coming to Marietta.
Miss Julia Barber arrived Iast
night from Charleston W. Va. and is
the guest of Mrs. Douglas Putnam.
The dance given at the I. o. o. f.
Hall, West Side. last night, by the Lob
dell Base Ball Club, was largely at
tended and big success socially.
After viewing the four sites un
der option for the new boiler works
plant Tuesday, the gentleman at the
head of the enterprise expressed them
selves as best pleased with that one
generally known as the water works
block and in all probability it will be
chosen. The gentlemen will be here
for a few days yet
Mr.. Corwin and Prof Schedd have
been trying for the past week to pho
tograph by means Of the X-rays and
have succeeded in procuring a shadow
graph by the use of the Holtz machine,
the electrode being held on the oppo-
site side of the plate and the object
photographed being held between one
of the electrodes and the paste board
cover of the plate holder.
The Steamer Virginia passed down
Tuesday, being the first boat to pass
this point since the recent tie-up. The
Keystone will pass here on her up
trip this morning, having been tied up
at Point Pleasant
Fred Styer and Otto Watkins, the
two lads arrested for assault upon
August Arnold, which assault was in
the nature of hanging and was detail
ed in Tuesdays Leader, were released
on bonds furnished by their fathers
and their hearing set for a. m. this
morning. About Is witnesses have
been subpoenaed.
Miss Maud Guise Thomas and Miss
Edith Mills will leave next Monday for
st. Paul, to visit friends. Miss Mills
will be bridesmaid to Miss Alice
Ketter, nwho is to be married next
week.
DR.. John w. Simpson, this city, is
booked for lecture at Chillicothe,
Marchf2d, for the benefit of INDECENT
schoolgc The Doctors subject
will be the "Bonnie Land of Scotland" "
The "Ancient Metropolis" Chilli
cothe, has got a measles epidemic on
her hands Her schools, because of the
prevalence of the disease, are nearly
depopulated. Out of 463 pupils in the
Primary grades there were present one
day this week but 70.
Miss Jessie Davis is in Cleveland,
the guest of her friend, Miss Hotchlsiss.
Mr.. Charles Z. Streclker left Tues
day morning on business trip to Gin
cinnati.
Mr.. Charles Malster, who is attend
ing Medical College at Philadelphia,
passed through the city Tuesday on
his return to his studies after visit to
relatives at Waterford.
Peter Spindler is home from Gin
cinnati on a visit to his parents.
Miss Mary Heuning left yesterday
for Cleveland, to remain several weeks.
The Chillicothe Driving Park. by
long odds the finest race course in the
State of Ohio, was sold on Monday at
Sheriff's Sale. The place brought
S16,O25. There are 10 acres of ground
in the tract.
Charlie Blume, the Putnam street
jeweler, has shown quite considerable
enterprise in the way he has trimmed
up his store window. A wax woman,
displaying some new kind of gems,
is the central figure, and her beauty
makes quite an impression on the pas
sers-by.
Deputy Marshal w. E. Mason ar
rived oyer the c. & M. last night.
Mrs. Julia Arnold was before
Squire Guyton Tuesday on complaint
of Mrs. Martha Watkins. The case
grew out of the arrest of Fred Styer
and Otto Watkins upon affidavit of
Mrs. Arnold. Mrs. Arnold plead guilty,
and was fined by the, Justice, who
entered into a searching examination
of the affair to determine the grade of
the offense. 1t was shown that Mrs.
Watkins and Mrs. Styer went to Mrs.
Arnold's house Monday evening and
that Mrs. Arnold, under great provoca-
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