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Monroe County Gazette, August 22, 1891
Clarington
Misses Maud Reynolds and Mina Messerly attended camp meeting at Moundsville last Sunday.
Editor W. F. Powell and son and Will Walton were at Chicago last week.
Mrs. Wm. Cochran returned on Sunday evening from a visit to relatives.
Clement Driggs, of Bellaire, came down last Saturday to witness the ignominion defeat of the Woodsfield baseball club at the hands of the Clarington Club.
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Monroe County Gazette, January 28, 1892
Charles Reynolds, who has been at Horton, Kansas, the past six months, returned home last Friday.
Geo. E. Otto, of Toronto, arrived last Sunday on a visit to his many friends here.
Okey Watson, of Woodsfield, spent Sunday with Claringtonites.
They began cutting ice in the creek last Friday, and our iceman, E. Yost, A.E. Michel and George Heil, now have their houses full of good solid six inch ice.
There was preaching in all three of the churches Sunday evening. Rev. Sears occupied the pulpit at the M.E. Church, Rev. Ice at the Disciples Church and Rev. Berges at the German Church.
Jere Burton was at Benwood the first of the week.
Singleton Whetzel spent Sunday with his family in the North End.
Geo. W. Greenle is able to be out again after a protracted struggle with the grip.
James A. Jackson has secured the agency of the Seneca County Mutual Insurance Co., of Tifflin, O., and is prepared to write policies on all classes of real estate.
Ed Manning, of Moundsville, was in town last week, representing the Wheeling Evening News.
Monroe County Gazette, March 10, 1892
The protracted meeting at the M.E. Church is still in progress. The whole town is stirred up, and religion is the sole topic of conversation. About fifteen persons have been converted.
Mary, a three months old daughter of Mrs. Wm. Goodwin, of this place, passed away at eight o'clock last Sunday morning, from the effects of la grippe. The funeral took place at two o'clock Monday. Interred in the Clarington cemetery.
The Democratic township convention was held on Monday. the Republicans held their convention on Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry and Miss Sue Ankrom of Paden's Valley, W.Va., were with relatives here last Saturday.
Last Friday while Master George Franty was "monkey in" with a beef chipper at J.W. Zessiger's grocery he chipped about a quarter of an inch off the end of his thumb.
R. E. Hopper has been laid up at the Baldwin House for the past week with la gripee, but is able to be out again.
George Newhouse had the misfortune to lose his valuable car horse last week. Mr. Newhouse is very unfortunate in this respect.
William David, engineer on the Eliza H., is with his family here this week.
Thad Ward, who has been attending dental college in Kansas City the past winter, is at home again.
Mrs. C. M. Messerly and Miss Low Cochran, who had e been dangerously ill for some time, are improving.
Mrs. Henry Ankrom, of Paden's Valley, and Mrs. V. R. Walton, of this place, went to Wheeling Monday.
Work on the Thompson building is progressing rapidly. The building will be a decided improvement to the place, when completed.