Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14
Town and Country.

Envelopes,
Bill Eeads,
Note Heads.
Letter Heads,
Monthly Statements,
Pamphlets or Book Work,
Legal Blanks of all kinds,
Some to THE CHRONICLE office.
THE glass houses will 60 on Monday,
18th inst.
THE watermelon has made its appear
arce here.
A PARTY of gypsies were in town last
week. telling fortunes.
CAMP meeting at Burr's Mills and also
ut MoHndsville, commenced on Tuesday.
TEACHERS examination in Barnes
vile Thursday and Friday of this week.
THE river towns are reported as unu-
sually healthy for the season of the year.
THE Noble county Prohibitionists have
placed au entire county ticket in the
field.
THE colored folks camp meeting at
Martins Ferry, netted the I'd NJ. E.
church S245.
The Union township Farmers Club
meets at j. A. Atkinson's, on the first
Saturday in September.
MIKE LACY and John Dobbius, of
Martins Ferry, will run a foot race on
Saturday, for 500 side.
ABOUT 300 people from Barnesville
attended the Taylor-Bruce meeting at
Cambridge last Thursday.
The small boy has begun to realize
that the long vacation is nearing an end,
and is making the best of it.
The young mems Blaine club of Bel
laire will be equipped with white helmet
hats, red lanterns and canes.
Miss MARY ANN DENHAM, OF this
vicinity, has made some entries of SUM-
mer fruits at the Wheeling Fair.
THOMAS A. GROVE. of Kirkwood tp..
fhreshed 206 bushels OF wheat from six
acres. 1t was of the Fultz variety.
NEXT to playing base ball, the most
agreeable employment for some people,
is to lay in ths shade and fight flies.
TEE junior Plumed knights of Barnes
willie have ordered uniforms, and will
take part in the coming campaign.
THE Heil-Felsing boat race over the
Bellaire course, Saturday, is the principal
topic of conversation in the river towns.
MISS MARY DENT has been elected
teacher at the Children's Home for the
ensuing year. She was the teacher last
year.
NINE children were taken from the
Infrmary to the Children's Home last
week. They were between the ages Of
two and four.
THE cooperative stove company of
Martins Ferry have purchased site to
erect their buildings on, near the Union
glass works.
THK B. & o. conductor and brakesman
arrested at Cambridge for obstructing
the street, were bound over to court in
the SUN of 800 each.
Ara meeting of the Barnesville school
board last week, Miss Flora Bucking
ham, of Mt. Pleasant, was chosen as a
teacher in their schools.
On Friday and Saturday of this week,
tuC DC4iaAtO O10OOo dnQ LUC 0ldIlCkId
base ball clubs will cross bats on the
Wheeling Island grounds.
THE new stack of the bellaire National
glass works is completed. 1t 10 fourteen
feet higher than the old one, and was
made to accommodate a 10 pct furnace
M. C. EDWARDS, of Maynard. has the
contract for building the new school
house in sub-district No 9. the new dis
trict in Wheeling and Colerain tps, for
$3.50.
A REUNION of the 25th o. V. /. will be
held at Freeport, Wood county, on the
25th of September. A number of Belmont
county soldiers belonged to that regi+
ment.
SOME Bellaire small boys were playing
In freight car when brakesman not
noticing them, closed the door. They
were not discovered until they arrived
at Newark.
MRS. LEE FRED, of GAINESVILLE. died
last week, and WAS buried Wednesday.
aged 68 years, 62 years of which time
she was resident of Belmont and
Barnesville.
WE nave hcAIlOuCd Luc DlR cTOp Oh
Erasshoppers two or three times, but g
walk outside of town limits is worth
taking just to see them. There are bill.
lions of them.
WHEN times are hard and cash hard to
obtain, the foolish man in fit of econ.
omy orders his paper discontinued, to
the discomfort of his whole family: the
wise man cuts off a part of his tobacco OF
whisky, and his family rejoicss.
LESS than three weeks until the ST
Clairsville Fair, which has always had
the reputation of being one of the best
in this section. GAINESVILLE last week iu
this month, st. ClairsvilIe first week in
September, Wheeling second week In
September.
The petition for new school distric,
between Barnesville and Hendrysbure
was decided in faver of the petitioners
and new school house will be built thre,
miles north Of Barnesville, on the land,
OF Hamilton Dyer. The commissioner
were John Workman, of Smith; Jane,
Martin. of Goshen, and a. j. McFarlaad
OF Sc. Ciairsville.