Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-07
Town and Country.


Town and Country.
BUTTER and eggs are scarce.
IT'S the last month of summer.
BARNEsvILLE is talking up watel
works.
IT is said that the grape crop will b,
immense.
The season of the torch and trans
parency is upon US.
CAMP meeting at Burr's Mills com
Aencss next Tuesday.
ATTEND the stock sale on the Fair
Grounds to-day. Thursday.
AN Irish Blaine and Logan club has
been organized in Bellaire.
THE sunfower, in all its majestic Oscar
Wilde loveliusss, is in bloom.
THRssHING machines arenow pouring
cut golden stream of grain.
ANEW Catholic church is to be erected
e near Temperanceville this fall.
The merchants of Martins Ferry have
rganized 4 protective association.
CRYSTAL Cornet is the name of C. E
Hughes new band at Martins Ferry.
THE postoffics at the Wheeling Creek
coal works west Of Bridgeport is named
~Drill."
MRS. NANCY GILL, of Mt. Olivet. died
last Thursday. from consumption. aged
. 70 years.
PROF. Tony WHITE is billed for ball
loon ascension on trapeZe ut the Barnes
willie Fair.
DINING cars are now attached to the
east bound fast trains on the B. s. O., at
Barnesyille.
THE Moundsville camp meeting OPEN
Ing has been postponed from the 9th to
the 10th inst.
JOHN C. ISRAEL, of Ki,kwood tp.,
cut forty-nine tons of hay from thirteen
acres. Next.
A COMPANY to sink test wells for gas
has been organized in Bellaire and terri
tory selected.
THE Republicans of Steubenville are
building headquarters for their Blaine
club 5oxl00 feet.
A SEA turtle. weighing 500 pounds, is
on exhibition at the Bellaire summer
garden this week.
ONLY one week more OF the glass
house vacation, and the fishing Camps
will be abandoned.
A UNIFORMED escort Cleveland and
Hendricks club of 80 members has been
organized in Bellaire.
GAINESVILLE WAS gruRbling last
week because their gas gave out. and
left them in darkness.
THE dry weather cut the blackberry
crop short off in this vicinity. The rains
came too late for any good.
FRED. MUHLEMAN, of Bellaire, has u
patent on an adjustable stand, and wants
to make fortune out of it.
The farmers are invited to send us in
Items concerning the amount OF wheat
they threshed to the acre, sc.
A DERRICK is being erected to bore for
oil, at Wallace's dam, near st. Clairsville
Junction, on McMahons creek.
The Jefferson iron works at Steuben. .
vile has commenced the manufacture Of
steel nails, getting the steel from Pitts
bHrgh.
DR.. S. D. MARTIN, of Cadiz, removed
last week to Pleasant Grove, in this
county, where he will have charge of
the hotel.
THE fruit prospect throughout the
country has been considerably lessened
in the past two weeks, by severe local
wind storms.
AN ordinance to issue $4,000 for the
cemetery hill road, was read the first
time in Bellaire Council, at their meet
ing last week. so
A COMPANY of Bsllaire gentlemen
talk of purchasing grove in this county
in which to erect summer residences for
their families.
A LEAP year picnic is to be be held
down the narrow guage road to-day, and
will be attended by large number OF
ct. Clairsville folks.
THE August meeting Of the Eastern
Ohio Horticultural Society was held on
Saturday, at Quaker City. Subject
Diseases of Animals"
THE Flushing coal works have stopped
for an indefinite period, owing to lack
of demand for coal. The miners are
hunting work elsewhere.
A NEW glass company, for the manu-
facture of ornamental glass ware has
been organized in Bellaire, and = new
thrse-pot furnace is being erected.
CHARLES DURANT, ~whiDe digging .
well at High Ridge, was seriously hur
Tuesday of last week, by sledge ham
mer falling into the well, striking hin
on the head.
IT is not often that there is July
rise in the river, but there was sun
clent one last week to float 7,000,00(
bushels Of coal from Pittsburgh to tn,
market below. n
If the weather is good, there will b,
an immense crowd at the Dutch" r0
union and harvest home picnic FRIDAY
The st. Clairsyille band has been engages
for the occasion.
On Monday. the stockholders of tb
Buckeye glass works at Martins Ferry
elected directors as follows: ]. i
Adams, j. M. Brown, Henry Hellini
james Kerr, A. ID. Seamon, w. b. Simp
son and j. F. Miller The board organ
lied by the election of A. ID. Seamor
President, and j. f. Miller, Secretary.