Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-03
DIp You get April fooled?

DID you get April fooled?
SCHOOL will resume on Monday.
SPRING fever will soon be the prevail.
ing disease.
MARCH went out quite docile like
the believers in old adages have the call.
THE world still mo ses-at least large
portion of it does about this time of the
year.
THERE were 81 applicants for certif-
Gates at the tsachers's examination here
last Saturday.
THE gift concert of the Martins Ferry
G. i. r. Post comes off Thursday and
Friday of this week.
THERE will be an eclipse of the moon
on April 10th, visible in this country,
beginning at l IA a. N.
THE new Enterprise. window glass
works At Bellaire expec. to be making
glass within six weeks.
The public schools of Beliaire omitted
the regular spring vacation, on account
of time lost by the food.
THE slnall boy is out of school this
week. and he is busy angling; the frog,
also, has to keep well hid.
THE primaries throughout the county
seem 10 have been all well attended, and
good tickets are the consequence.
Up to Sunday there had been 81 scces-
sions to the Christian church in Bellaire,
and the meetings are still going on.
THOMAS LAWSON, colorod. formerly
of this place, is the Republican candi-
date for street commissioner of Bridge
port.
On Warren ridge, near Bridgeport, at
the sale of Michael Burris on Wednesday
of last week. seven head of horses bro't
Sl,622.
THE next meeting of the Farmers
Club will be held IN Welday's Hall, Sat
urday. April 5th. Subject for discussion:
Farm Fences" &c.
GEO. W. MCDONALD, aged 80, of Mar
tins Ferry, died on Saturday. E. +.
Wallace, a young man of the same place,
aged %, died on Friday.
5. VI. BENTLEY, the New Athens dry
goods man, started for Philadelphia on
Tuesday. April lst, TO lay in spring
stock of dry goods.
JOHN STILwELL and Miss Mollie Orr,
of Bridgeport, were married vt West
Alexander last Thursday. When boy,
the groom was resident of this place.
THE MasoDs of Bellaire have offered
the Odd Fellows $4,000 Tor their two
lots, corner Belmont and Thirty third
streets, and contemplate erecting new
temple.
THE Quaker City Independent notes
that the health of ex-CommissiOner Loeb
airy is greatly improved. His many
Belmont county friends will be glad to
hear this.
VOTERS should bear in mind that the
Assessor should be THE point in Mon
DAVIS erection. Look over the ticket,
and see if Henry Morgan is not the man
to vote for?
THE Saturday News says that an un-
known "breaking out" is affecting tho
children of Barnesvllle. 1t does not
make them sick, and except disagreea-
BILE itching sensation, there is no disccm-
fort about it.
AT meeting of the stockholders OF
the West Va. Fair Association held last
Saturday, the soliciting committee re-
ported the $4,000 additional stock sub
scribed, and measures will at once be |
taken to hold fair this year as usual.
The Bellaire Democrats have nomina'
ted ID. W Cooper for Mayor; Jack Burke,
John + Kelly, Solicitor; Fred |
Rodewig, Treasurer; John Gallagher.
street commissioner; r. ]. Riley and A.
D. Mellott, School board.
The following citizens ticket was
nominated in Martins Ferry ON Satur
lay: For mayor, NJ. c. Mitchell; marshal
Robert Hanson; clerk, r. I. Alender;
treasurer, j. Z. Irwin; street commits
sioner, Samuel Fisher; cemetery trustee,
NJ. c. Mitchell.
In the st. Clairsville Republican mu'
nicipal convention, the nominations
were all made unanimously except that
1f Marshal, for which place there were
,hree candidates, Robt. Burlington, Abra-
lam Pickard aud James Green. The
irst named was nomina ed on the first
ballot. There were "a votes polled, OF
" hich Burlington got 2S, Green IL, and
Pickard 10. The full ticket is printed in
another column.