Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-06-05
Published Every Thursday
Town and Country.
WHEAT has headed.

Town and Country.
WHEAT has headed.
JUNE, the month of roses.
CHERRIES are tur-Ing, and the bire
are gathering them in.
THE next teachers examination wi
be held at st. Clsirsyille on the 21sI ins
The premium list for the coming s
Clzirsyille fair is printed in this paper
LET Hs have a strawberry festival
Some one speak up. but not all at once
ALICE CRAIG. aged so years, of Mar
tins Ferry, died very suddenly on las
Friday.
TIE Jefferson county grand jury di,
not fiud a single indictment at its reeen
session.
THE next stock sale of the county as
sociztion on the fair grounds to-day
Thursday.
FARMERS report their crops Ia pros
porous condition, and look forward to ,
big harvest.
THROUGH trains from Bellairs t
GAINESVILLE are now being run over tn,
B.. z. 81 c. road.
THOMAS PYLE, of Coleraip, is about Il
put up the Jumbo barn. 1t will require
140 men to raise it.
Tar Bellaire street car company haI
purchased three new cars, which go OF
their road this week.
TICKETS for St. Clsirsville. via the
Northern r. R.. are now sold at the G. 4
p. depot in Martins Ferry.
"A NEW catalogue has been printed FOL
the NJ. E. 5. S. library. which shows thert
are 344 volumes in the library.
THE contract for the erection of a new
school building in District No. IA, Mead
tp-, has been let TO Barney Crow.
RKv. J. j. MCCARRoLL, Of Martins
Ferry, has received a call to the First
Presbyterian church at McKeesport, Pa
The people of Mt. Pleasant are again
talking pike. ard seem to be in earnest
IN their endeavors to get out OF the mud
THE Guernsey county Democrats will
bold their convention for tie nomination
Of county ticket, at Cambridge, on the
28d inst.
TIE address 10 the Bellaire gradual
ing class will be delivered 10y Snperin-
tsudent Mertz, of the Steubenville public
schouls.
THE commencement exercises at
Franklin college, New Athens. will oc-
eur on the 26th inst. There are seven
graduates.
On Monday of last week. during fhe
wind storm, the strawberry box manu-
factory of l. n. Vail, of BarnesyiIle. was
blown down.
AT the dedication of the new Disci-
Is, collection was taken, and debt or
9l,400 liquidated.
In some parts of the county ground
squirrels are reported to be very numer-
Gus, and are eating up the corn as fast rs
It is put into the ground.
The first of the season of the home
grown strawbeI ries ut Barnesyille, were
>on sale in that town Wednesday of last
week, at so cents per quart.
THE HEcommencement exercises at Hope
dale Normal college will occur On June
goth. The entertainment of the societies
will occuI the same evening.
TIE Ohio Press says that James John
con, of Steubenville, has purchased sew
sral Thousand pounds of new wool at
from 25 to so cents per pound.
WIN. MELLoTT. respected citizen of
The vicinity of Glencoe. died Wednesday
Of last week, aged IS years. He had re-
sided in Belmont county since 1908.
THE Occasional" is the title of hi
weekly publication. which is to be issued
by George w. Doyle and James Alexsn-
der. during the summer. Subscription,
10 cents.
OHIO City Lodge K of P, of Martins
Ferry, celebrated its anniversary on
Friday evening. Delegations froIn Bel
isire, Bridgeport and Wheeling were in
attendance.
THE argument in the Scott law test
case was concluded last Thursday. The
three days before the time for paying the
taxes under the law.
OF the donations received at Bridge
port during the flood. was one of $500
from New Philadelphia, which was re-
cently returned, the relief committee
net having found use for it.
The June meeting of the Eastern
Ohio Horticultural Society, to be held on
she BxrBesville fair grounds, promises to
be the most interesting and successful
one ever held by the society.
JACOB FRALINeER, of Bellaire, had
decided to quit the saloon business, but
Kept on selling after the time for the
Ecets law taxes, and will now have to
pay the 5000 whether he stops or not.
HoLLiNGswoRTH received 11S votes
60 Richards 32 in the Congressional pri-
mary at Mt. Pleasant, which shows the
popularity of Harrison's favorite at the
home of the late Hon. J. I. Updegraff.
THE frost on Wednesday night of last
week done considerable damage to the
corr. fruit and vegetables on low ground,
In Eastern Ohio. Western Pennsylvania,
and West Va. Ice formed in some To-
ealities.
SEVERAL of the Bellaire factories are
obliged to shut down part of the time on
account of scarcity of water. The new
water works are not in operation yet,
occasioned by delay in getting part Of
the machinery.
R. B. PATTON, ESQ, of Short Greek
-. Harrison county. recently graduated
from Princeton College and Theological
Seminary, will spend the coming year
In Germany, and take a special course
In some German university.
The Guernsey county grand jury last
Thursday reported ~ indictments. prin-
scipally for violation of the liquor laws.
Both Maple and Johnson, who have lust
finished Jail sentences, have been indict-
cd again. Sheriff McGill was again in
'dicted for lienency to prisoners.