Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-02-10
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
MONDAY. FEB. 10. 1906
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

noon at o'cloct.
Friday night lot of fellows ran
sacked the tenants premises on the
farm of Harry Cogswell, just east of
the city. They took flour, meal, Il new
carpet, a saddle, a lantern and some
trace chains. From Enoch johnson.
who lives near by, the thieves took a
lot of sausage, two turkeys and brass
kettle. A, man in the neighborhood
saw some people making, for Duck
Creek near the pike bridge, and thinks
probably they were the thieves, and
that they loaded their booty into u
skiff. Y - .se.
. Thomas McCary, a machinist in the
employ of the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company at Sistersville, was found
dead in bed Saturday morning last,
The cause was in all proba bility, heart
disease. McCary was from Olean, N.
", and was 80 years of age.
Officer Henry Posey arrested Henry
Posey, who lives up the pike, Saturday
and locked him up for drunkenness
The regular meetinN of Lobdell
Cycling Club will be held this evening
at seven o'clock, instead of eight, the
regular hour, in order to allow all
members desiring to do so to attend
the performance of Faust" at the
Auditorium.
The Henry Knock property
on Second street was sold Saturday to
Mr. Eickelberry, this city, for $4,000.
Guyton & Henning were the agents of
the sale.
Mrs. II. N. CURTIS, Mrs. A. D. Fol
lett, Mrs j. D. Cadwallader and Mrs.
Clara Putnam, this city, and Mrs. L.
M. Skinner, Parkersburg, will leave
Wednesday for New York. Mrs.
Curtis goes to take a postgraduate
course, and the other ladies go for
pleasure-a two weeks stay.
Treasurer G. j. Lund will in a
short time erect fine house just be.
low his present home on upper Fourth
street, and will occupy the new house.
Mrs. Edward Nye has broken
ground for a new house, on Second
street two doors below Scanned.
The stage of water on the marks
here last night was 1876 feet and fall
ing slowly. The Lorena arrived down
from Pittsburg and left for GAINESVILLE
The Virginia was down from Pittsbure
and the Columbia up from Parkersburg
Mrs. David Ross and two children
who haye been visiting relatives here
left Saturday for their home at Chic
ago.
Mrs. j. D. Lashley, West Side, il
seriously i'll.
Carl Farson, of the College, spen
Sunday at his home in Belpre.
In Common Pleas Court Nelli,
Belle Teters filed her petition for di
vorce from Frederic Teters on the
ground of failure to provide.
Mr.. Rheinerman, of Columbus, is il
| Vic Clly, OilC uCoU VI 4'lhI ILL
William C. Cain sold on Saturda,
morning his house on upper Thir'
street to William p. Ellis. The pric
paid was $1,000 Mr.. Ellis will TAX,
possession April 1st.
The Silver Star Fishing Club viii
give grand masquerade ball on tn
evening of Tuesday, February 18th, a
the l. 0. O. f. hall, West Side. Th
well known ability of the Silver Sta
boys to handle an entertainment O
this kind insures delightful evening
to all who attend.
1t is with pleasure that we an
nounce the fact that the Chair Comp
any will begin today to work thei
force full ten-hour days.
Mr.. r. j. Lockwood, of Pittsbarg
spent Sunday in this city with hi
family.
w. G. Barthalow, came down iron
Columbus Saturday to spend Sunda.
with his family.
Wheeling lays claim to the oldes
steamboatman on western waters nov
in active service. He is Captain Joh
X. Booth. of the Wheeling Parkers
burg packet Liberty, whose perform
ances in battling with the ice this win
ter has earned for him the title c
"The Ice King" Captain Booth
past the seyenty-fye-year mark, but
as active as the average man of fift
and bids fair to remain in the harnes
for years to come. The captain ha
been steamboating since his boyhood
almost uninterruptedly, and durin
the war was the owner of several fin
packets and barge line on the lowe
river. Through business associate
pertidy he was compelled to make
new start at the foot of the ladde
after the war and has since done all hi
steamboating in lines out of Wheeling
Coach Manley, of the College foot
ball team, returned Sunday evenin
from Colum bus To which citU he wen