Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-10-02
Town and Country.

14th.
Tuesday,
October IA.
October l4-Election Day.
IT is time to lay in your winter coal
THE nights now exceed the days il
length.
PREDICTIONS for hard winter are il
order.
THE Cadiz Fair is being held this week
closing on Friday.
NUTTING excursions will be in order
after the tirst good frost.
@TaE Cadiz campaign drum corps con-
sists of thirteen members.
Gov. HoADLY is booked for speech
at Bellaire on next Monday.
The Mechanics hose company Of Bel.
laire are to have new uniforms.
JAMES MCDONALD, aged As. died ut
Beilaire last Friday, from cramps.
THE West Va. State Fair cleared about
$4,000 over and above all expenses.
A DRENcHINe rain broke up the long
drouth in this vicinity on Saturday and
Sabbath.
Two new comets have just been dis
covered. Well, the evenings are getting
Longer now.
A REPORT has been printed that the
B. & D. railroad will take charge Of the
b., z. & c. road.
AN exchange says: "St. ClairsviIle has
no ire department" A great deal in a
small sentence.
THE Irish Blaine and Logan club of
Bellaire will hold a dance at Turner Hall
tomorrow evening.
WHEN you see the small boy with a
long straw, you may know there 10 q
elder barrel handy.
NEWTON MURDAUGH, of Morristown,
has purchased the mill property of Jos.
Yocum, at Burr's Mills.
THE Hendrysburg dramatic company
has invested their money in lumber for
sidewalks for the town.
THIS is October, and the most impor-
tant election of the campaign occurs one
WcSk iIOm utAG lu0Sudy.
THE corn is about all cut up, and the
yield in this vicinity is better than was
expected some weeks ago.
THE Martins Ferry foundry has shut
down on account of the low river. Could
not get water to run the works.
THE new gas tank at Bellairs will
hold $4,000 feet of gas, which is nearly
three times as large as the old one.
THE council of GAINESVILLE has pur+
chased two Babcock exLinguishers. as u
protection to the city property frsm fire.
AN addition OF 50 acres has been
made to the MorristUwn cemetery. 1t
was purchased of the Taggart Bros, for
$500.
THERE will be, it is said, larger
acreage of wheat soWn in this county
this fall, than for number of years
past
CHARLES JUSTICE, of Bellaire, fell
through an 0.V. trestle Tuesday of last
week and broke his right leg in several
places.
The Agnes Wallace+Villa combina-
tion is filling weeks engagement at
Charley Shays theatre in Wheeling, this
week.
ELIZABETH MCLAIN, a maiden lady
of Pultney tp, died last week and was
buried on Saturday at High Ridge, aged
SO years.
THE island in the river at the upper
end of Bellaire is not an island at pres
ent, the river being totally dry on the
Ohio side.
THE room over Kinks store at Norris
hall, and lodge will be organized at
that place.
IT is now lawful to shoot squirrels
il you can find any that the law breakers
who have been shooting them all sum-
mer, have left.
draped in mourning since last Saturday,
owing to the death of John w. Garrett
the B. & o. President.
TEE Crystal window glass works OF
Bellaire has just made plate 42x72
inches, which is said to be the largest
ever made in that city.
JOHN CRAIG, colored, of Mt. Pleasant
was loading gun Monday of last week,
when it was accidentally discharged
blowing off one side of his face.
AS EVERY one is SO confident, some
thing less than one+half of the peopl,
will have a busy time of it after the
election telling how it was done.
A BAD freight wreck occurred a
Glencoe last Thursday, delaying al
trains for several hours, and scattering
promiscuously large quantity of gro
ceries.
JOHN RITZ and George W. Weisger
Der, both of Wheeling, have articled fo
a boat race for $1,000, to take place or
Saturday, 11th inst, over the Wellsburi
course.
THE Quaker City Independent say
that the fine horse that Gen. Garfielt
rode during the war was raised b,
Joshua Trott, who lives on the pix
north of Somerton.
MRS. LOUISA SMITH, of Barnesvillt
died Friday, 10th ult.. at the advance,
age of 50 years. Mrs. Smith first cam
to Ohio in 1902, when four years of age
and with her parents lived near Union
to ogn. She was the mother of fcurteel
children, but five Of whom survive hel