Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-05-15
Neighb8rhOOd Notes.

The architect of The Quaker City glass
works expects to have the works ready
for operation by the first of June.
Pinkeye has appeared among the cattle
at Fairview. No animals have died as
yet, however.
A new postoffice will be established
between Fairview and Londonderry in
Guernsey county on July 1st. 1t will be
named Bond, with Smith Ridgeway as
postmaster.
There has not been saloon in Fair
view since the 1st of May.
Peter R. Danford, of Noble county.
raised last year on 3 acres of ground
1880 sticks of tobacco, which netted him
$337 l3.
Barnum's show, white elephant and all,
will be in Wheeling early in June.
Mrs. G. W. Glass, of New Athens, died
very suddenly on Sunday of last week.
Leroy Dennison, of near Caldwell, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. He was
insane.
The Pennyroyal Reunion is to be held
this year in Center Grove, near Fairview,
where it was held last year-dates, Aug.
26 and 81.
B. N. Phillips, of Cadiz, run mile in
3 minutes and 36 seconds on wager.
The Cadiz school commencement oc-
ours on the 23d inst. There are five
members of the graduating class.
Cyrus Shober, for many years promi-
nent member of the Carrollton bar, hung
himself on Monday of last week. He had
lately failed in business.
The Noble county fair will be held at
Sarahsville, October l, 2 and 8.
The Jewett fair will be held Septem-
Der II, IS and 10.
The acreage of wheat in Noble county
is one-fourth less this year than last, but
the crop prospect is better.
The report of the finding of $4,000 in
gold in an old house in Noble county, is
denied by the Republican.
A Caldwell saloon keeper had a man,
whom he suspicioned of being a spy on
his illegal whisky selling, arrested under
the vagrancy act. He was acquitted.
Noble county boasts of veritable her
nit now 80 years old. who has not been
off his farm for a score of years. He used
to be devoted to society, but was crossed
in love.
Gradenhutten has 33 persons between
the ages of go and 80.
Snake stories have commenced in good
style. Read the following from the
Steubenville Gazette: while Will Moss
grove was fishing this morning big rat
tleSnake climbed up his rod from the
water and was upon the point of attack
ing him when Will slew the monster
with one fell sweep of his pocket knife.
Rattlesnakcs will give our hero a wide
berth hereafter.
The Grand Army Post at Uhrichsville
has been named Welsh Post" in honor
of three Welsh boys who sleep in soldiers
graves in the cemetery at that place.
A weather manipulation in Guernsey
county says the average temperature for
April was 1928 degrees; rainfall eli
inches, snow. q inch; clear mornings, 49,
The Cambridge and Washington fairs.
both in the same county, will be held on
the same dates, and will each try to kill
the other, and the result will probably be
the same as the Kilkenny cat fight.
Spence & Allen have on exhibition in
their store room at Senecaville curious
freak of Dame Nature. 1t is tan color
ed lamb which has neither mouth nor
nose. 1t possesses but one eye, and that
occupies the place where the nose should
be. Its ears are on the under side of the
head. In other respects the lamb is per-
feet, being uncommonly large. 1t is cov-
cred with heavy coat of wool mixed
with hair. 1t is dead.-Cambridge jeff.