Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
ST. ClAiaSvILLE.

SIS EVANSVILLE
st. Clairsville, o. January 28.-Ott
Giffen spent Sunday with GAINESVILLE
friends.
H. A. Clark, wife and daughter, of
Wheeling, and Miss Jane Price, OF
Lewisburg, w. Va, were the guests
Monday of Mrs. I. H. Patterson.
George " Brown, cashier OF the First
National Bank, was at Steubenvllle
Tuesday on business.
Miss Maud Terrell is visiting relatives
and friends at Columbus.
Mrs. Samuel Boroff was at Belmont
this week attending the Farmers In
stitute and visiting relatives.
Hon. n. K. Kennon and Clerk L. E.
Emerson left Wednesday on business
trip to Cincinnati.
Miss Helen Cowen, of Cincinnati, ar
rived here Wednesday on a visit to her
father, w. S. Cowen, and other relatives
at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Mitchell, Of Mar
tins Ferry, came out Thursday on a
few days visit with Mrs. Kennon.
Dr. Jepson, of Wheeling, visited
friends in town Thursday.
Mrs. e. e. Booten, of Columbus, who
has been visiting her mother, Mrs. l.
II. Patterson, returned home Thursday.
Mrs. S. B. West, of McMechen, W. Va,
was the guest of Mrs. NJ. j. West, on
Thursday.
Miss Lucy Alexander has gone to
Rockford, H., where she will pursue
her studies in the Illinois Art School.
She was accompanied by her father,
who will be absent over Sunday.
Charles Mcfarland, a late member
Of the Fourth Chic, mustered out last
week, was the guest over Sunday of his
uncle, James McMillen, and other rel
atives. He left Monday for Newport
News, where he expects to enlist in
the navy.
Fire broke out in the Walker build
ing, west OF the Court House, about
four o'clock Thursday morning. The
building was two story frame occu-
pied on the first floor by John f. Cross
lands drug store and by S. G. Christy
as a dwelling on the second floor.
When discovered it was burning brisk
ly in the rear and was beyond control.
Mr.. Christy and family only had time
to escape The fire spread to the ele-
two story brick house occupied by Mr..
Grassland and family. Theodore Ayres
and Warren COWen had their law Off
ces in the west half. They saved most
of their effects and Mr.. Grassland got
out part of his furniture. By hard
work of the bucket brigade the property
Off. Troll, on the west side, and the
Welday property, on the east side,
were saved The whistles of the B. &
Q. engine, electric light plant and pow
er house brought the county people
to our assistance. They were heard
four and five miles away. The roofs
being covered with snow was all that
saved the town, as a heavy wind was
blowing.
Marriage licenses issued since last
report: Samuel Smith and Lulu Coss,
Paul Jancek and Anna Kunstek, Thos.
Wood and Arzie M. Grove, Chas. R.
Criswell and Florence E. Mccoy, Ger
aid d. HenthOrn and Madue M. Mon
roe, Otto Snyder and Flora A. Hose.
The st. CIairsville orchestra fur
nished the music for the Farmers In
stitute at Belmont, Thursday evening.
Congressman Danford, who has been
seriously i'll at Washington, arrived
home Friday and has taken rooms at
the Clarendon. He was accompanied
by his daughter, Miss Carrie, who has
been at his bedside during his sickness
nursing him. Captain Danfords
friends are in hopes that the change
will be beneficial to him.
Will Danford, of Columbus, is visit
ing his father at the Clarendon.
Auditor Aldredge has bought the
Joshua Morley property in the east
end of the First National Bank.
Grace Clark, the little[daughter of
VIM. Clark, formerly of this place, and
granddaughter of T. Z. Clark, died at
the home of her parents on Wheeling
Island Sunday from typhoid pneumon-
ia. Her funeral took place Tuesday
afternoon from the residence of J. i.
Frint, of this place. Interment at NJ.
q. cemetery.
A twelve year old daughter of Mr.
Elliott, who resides east of town on
the McMechen farm, died Thursday
morning of diphtheria. The funeral
took place Friday morning. Interment
at Union cemetery.
Mrs. Retta Fowler, of Toronto, was
here Tuesday attending the funeral of
her niece, Grace Clark.
The young society people of this
place gave a dance at the Hotel Clar-
endOn, Wednesday night.