Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-12
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
FRIDAY. JUNE ~, 1905
Personal AMI LOCAL.

dell's rim factory, at the Athletic
grounds Thursday afternoon, resulted
in the defeat of the Marietta nine by a
score of IA to2 The game was poorly
played throughout and many of the
spectators were disgusted with it. AL
most the entire strength of the old
Lobdell team was removed by the res
ignation of the FIVE men who will go on
the paid team.
"A special meeting of Council was
held Thursday evening and'a franchise
for additional railroad track facilities
for the benefit of the new boiler works
was granted. The, action will meet
the approval of the general public
"A. w. Humphrey, the promoter and
owner of the new electric light plant
at Beverly, was in the city on business
Thursday. Mr.. Humphrey, who de-
serves much credit for his nerve and
enterprise in establishing the plant,
has sold half interest in the business
to Mr.. Henry Funk, of Chester Hill.
Considerable excitement was raised
in our town the other day by the arri-
val of the Marietta Torpedo wagon,
loaded with nitro-glycerine on its way
to the oil we'll across the river. Some
of the people were greatly excited
when the wagon stopped in town and
swore vengeance if the man who had
the wagon in charge did not hustle out
of town.-Sentinel.
Harry Gloukner was returned to
the penitentiary on Thursday.
H. H. Grim, of Urichsville, o., has
accepted position as travelling sales
man for the Diamond Pants Company
and began his work this week. Mr..
Grim is an experienced and affable
gentleman and becomes a Mariettian
with good recommendation.
Pitcher Reynolds, of the new Ma
rietta base ball team, leaves for Hunt
ington today on two days visit to
relatives.
Lew Caste, of the Pomeroy Found
ry, has invented. a water cycle, which
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constructed on the plan of regular
wheel, rudder substituting the front
wheel, and wheel on the plan of a
steamboat wheel in the rear, and the
whole resting on two canoes.-Pome-
roy Telegraph.
"A dispatch from Columbus, dated
June 10th, says: G. B. Pierce, an
Athens lawyer, filed a petition in the
Supreme Court tonight, asking for a
writ of mandamus to compel the Audi
tor of Athens county to pay the bills to
the amount of 81, 500 for work done on
contracts entered into under the Ath.
ems road law, recently declared uncon.
stitutional by the Supreme Court
Suits will shortly be brought to test
the validity of contracts amounting tc
500, 600, entered into under the law
mentioned, on which no work has yet
been done.
Mr.. c. NJ. Cottrell, who for a mum
ber of years was, employed at j. w
Kelley's Carriage Works of this city
has accepted position as foreman il
the Smith Department of the Logar
ECarriage Co. at Parkersburg. Mr. Cot
trell is first class mechanic, and the
Logan Carriage Co. has done well t,
secure his services. Having spent thu
most of his life in carriage shop, h
is we'll qualified to fill any position il
his line of work. He leaves Mariettf
5 with the best wishes of host o
friends.
The little six-year-old daughter o
< Mr.. Isaac Creighton, Fifth street, wa
), taken sick Thursday morning with tn
measles.
To those persons who have not re
Gently seen the work that has so ia
been done on the new boiler work
plant the condition of things out ther
will be genuine surprise. The mai
building is to be perfect giant in siz
and is now we'll under roof.
Attend the benefit performance c
Pinafore Saturday night. Admission
25 and 35 cents.
Prof. E. S. Cox, of Belpre, who
spending few days in this city, ha
recently been chosen by the Univers
ties of Cincinnati and Chicago, to cor
duct a course of University Extensio
lectures during the coming year. Thi
is, of course, very iattering tribut
to Prof. Cox's wide culture. He is ais
the president of the State Psycholog
cal Society and will address that bod
at a meeting which will be held tn
first week in July.-[Chillicothe New
81 -7Mr,sand Mrs. Isaac Atkinson. wh
have been in Gallipolis the past te
~ days, returned home Wednesday,, -
~ Capt. Homer McClintock. Trave
il il ling Correspondent of the Oil City De
rick, and General Field Man, is in I'll
o;tu opd will work IN tha local 4