Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-24
Town and Country.

Legal BLANKS OF all klnQS,
Some to TIE CHRONICLE ofiee.l
BRUSH fires are now in order, and are
noticed every night.
THE fishermen are now catching
suckers and bad colds.
ONLY six days more and the reign OF
the oyster will be at an end.
THE next Harrison county fair viii be
heled in Cadiz, October l, 2 and 8.
The coal works at Flushing give em-
ployment to about one hundred hands
G.E. HILLS has been appointed chief
engineer of the Barnesviile fire depart
ment.
Next Sunday will be the Goth ami
versary of the order of Odd Fellows in
America.
JAMES HART, of Belmont, will soon
begin the erection of a large wool house
fu that place.
JOHN A. LASH, a Wheeling jeweler,
will open a branch store in Martins
Ferry May lst.
The base bail men of Bellaire will
hire a professional pitcher and catcher
for this season.
THE Heatberington brass band, of
Bsllaire, will hold a fair and festival on
Jure 9th and 7th.
SUNSHINE and shadow are still play
ing at hide and seek. A little more OF
the former, please.
ONLY five or six weeks more until the
long vacation, and the small boy is
counting the days.
THE new marshal of Bellaire will en-
deavor to enforce the ordinance closing
the saloons ut IL p. 10.
BELLAIRE is expecting large number
of Druids in that city, during the fair to
be held May 20. 81 and %.
AT Flushing they are holding prize
spellings, the proceeds to go to buying a
carpet for the NJ. Z. church.
The Pleasant Hill dramatic club are
making arrangements TO repeat their re-
cent entertainment at Harrisville.
THE Republican Congressional Con-
vention of this district will have 1853
delegates, one more than the last one.
A GOOD many sheep are reported to
have died in Wayne township recently.
from various causes-princlpally dogs.
CAMBRIDGE would not vote for new
town hall, but they seem to De in earnest
in their effort to secure glass works.
THE LaBelle glass works at Bridge
port will not start up before August, as
they want TO close out stock on hand.
ICR CREAM is now on the bill of fare
st the restaurants. The straw hat is
also making its appearance, but eau
siously.
JOHN W. MOORE, for thirty years b.
& o. conductor, and well known in this
locality, has opened restaurant in COL
pmbus.
AT Warnock last Saturday evening,
the lyceum wrestled with the question
"Was the act in passing the county seat
bill justp"
A NEW engine on the c., L. & W. road,
has been named "Wm. Alexander" in
honor of the gentleman of that name in
Bridgeport.
MRS. RHoDk WILSON, wife of William
Wilson, of near Morristown. died on
Sunday of last week, from consumption,
aged 81 years.
HENS may be backward at times SO
far as eggs are concerned, but they never
fail to come to the scratch when the
garden is made.
THE young ladies of the Barnesville
Missionary Society have decided to pre-
sent the drama, Past Redemption" or
Friday evening, April 25th.
The flint glass workers will stop worl
on the 18th Of June for six weeks, 81
said the association at its meeting ii
Pittsburgh last Wednesday.
THIEVES entered the grocery Of Misse,
r. and E. stephens, at East Richland, OF
Tuesday night of last week, and carried
off small amount of groceries.
The high school commencement ex
ercises this spring in Bridgeport. will b'
held in the Presbyterian church on Ma.
22d. There will be five graduates.
J. B. BUTLER is converting the woo
house next to his residence into dwell
ing house. which will be ready for occu
pancy by the middle of Dext month.
DUNLAP & KILeoRE. of New Athens
have purchased from Will. Handlan, 0
wheeling, the handsome grey stallion
"Mambrino Eagle" for $1,000.
The directors of the Barnesville glas
works held meeting last week, and de
cided to start the new furnace at onct
if suitable employees could be obtained.
W. w. SCoLFs has been elected Presi
dent of the Barnesyiile Y. NJ. c. A; I
Howard, Vice President: p. Plumb
Secretary. and Clarence Smith. treasures
2 SOME enterprising news gatbeser sen
a telegram to the Pittsburgh Dispstc
this week that a cyclone had struck s
Clairsville, inficting great damage
the court house, school house and othe
buildings. Wouldn't be have come
little nearer the mark if he had name
she other place instead of ST. Clairsyille
-Barnesyille Saturday News.