Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-06-19
THE seductive Southern grown water
melon Is putting in an appearance.

A PAPER devoted to the interests OF
the eoloIed race has been started IN
= Wheeling.
THE June rise in the river this year
was small. yet 100000 bushels of coal
passed down.
1t is now proposed to abandon the
gas we'll at Bellaire, and start new one
in another place.
ME-. GRoTzENER's residence at Bridge
port was burglarized on Thursday night
, of $50, watch and some clothing.
SEVERAL of the Masonic brethren of
this place attended the meeting of the
Bridgeport Chapter on Monday evening.
A PosT of the G. A. R. is to be organ
lied at CsdiZ. At a meeting held last
week, 3s names were enrolled for that
purpose.
A FIRE started in the Etna glass
works at Bellaire Sunday morning, but
was extinguished before much damage
was done.
THE shape Of some of the new hats
worn by the girls reminds one of big
corn cob stuck endways in mammoth
slap jack.
JOSH BILLINGS: a man who can sYop
horses or ketch fish and not lie about 1t,
IL just as pious AZ ever men git to be in
this world.
THE entertainment of the Glencoe
dramatic club is highly spoken Of by
those who were in attendance on Thurs
day evening.
A STABLE in the rear of the Carter
House at Bellaire was set on fire last
Friday. but was extinguished without
much damage being done.
WITH the end of the present term, DR..
Vincent sewers his connection as Presi-
dent of Franklin college, at New Athens.
His place will be hard to fill.
Hon. J. D. TAYLOR. ably assisted by
Gems Warner and Goff, made good
| fight for an appropriation for an ice
harbor at Bellaire, but failed.
THE Register says party of twenty
five couples from Wheeling will visit st.
Clairsville and take supper on Friday
evening. They will come on horseback.
AT a meeting of the Bellaire school
board held last Saturday, Supt. Z. 7.
Jones was re-employed AZ salary of
$500; only portion of the other teach
ers were decided upon.
LAST Friday and Saturday were bad
days for picnics, and several were post
poned on account of the raiD-in neigh |
boring towns. There don't seem to be
energy enough in st. Clsirsville to get |
up picnic.
THE Democrats of Ohio county, w.
Va, in convention at Wheeling on Sat |
urday. nominated the following ticket: |
For sheriff, w c. Handlan; clerk of the |
circuit court, John w. Mitchell; recOr-
der, George Hook.
THE Prohibition party of Guernsey
county met at Cambridge Thursday and
placed a full county ticket in nemina
tion, and elected delegates to the State
convention. The ticket will not be
elected this season.
TWELVE thousand dollars of Harrison
county BacadamiZed road bonds, bearing
six per cent. interest. payable in one,
two and three years, will be sold at pub
lie sale at the auditors Office in Cadiz,
on Friday, June 9th.
GEORGE VoLLHARDT. Martins Fer
ry barber, who has wife and three
children. is reported 10 have eloped with
Anna HathOru, cook at Sheeky's res
taurant. They have been gone since
Tuesday of last week.
E. 7. HANLoN and family, formerly of
Barnesville, who recently removed to
Hebron, Nebraska. suffered a loss of
S400 worth of goods, by the burning of
. house they were temporarily occupying
en- Sunday of last week.
REV. ]. NJ. FARRAR was released from
his Harrisville appointment to accept
call from Philadelphia congregation.
His Harrisville friends presented him
with full set of the Cyclopedia Brit
tanIca, valued at Sl60, as parting gift.
A COMMITTEE from the Bellaire Leid-
erkranZ Schuetzen Veiren, arranged on
Sunday for shooting festival, in the
style of the fatherland (Vogelschisson)
to take place in SeIbert's gardens, near
Wheeling, the first three days in Sep
tember.
Mr.. LLOYD KEITH, an old citizen of the
Dora neighborhood, died few days ago.
He was eighty-eight years of age, and
remembered seeing the Capitol at Wash
ington burning, in the war of 1912. He
was an honest and good old man.-En
terprise.
LAST Wednesday, at the trustees
meeting held on the Burr's Mills camp
meeting ground, it was determined to
hold the meeting this year commencing
August 18th and ending August 20th.
The grounds are in good condition, and
several families will summer there.
THE commencement exercises of the
Hopedale Normal college take place to-
morrow, Friday. Following is the pro-
gramme: Salutatory. G. E. Allison;
valedictory, 1. F. Patterson; Grafton,
Man." G. W. Grim; GRAFTON, american
Nationality" W. II. Paul; oration, Con
flict of Life" James Dowden. No honOrs
granted by the institution.
The Masonic Lodge at this place has
been invited to participate in picnic
given on the Path inst, st. Johns Day,
by the Freeport Lodge, in Bear Den
Park. Hon. r. j. Alexander, Rev. John
l. Wilson and others, will furnish the
addresses of the day. Excursion rates
on all trains on the c., L. & w. road have
been secured.
BELLAIRE comes to the front with a
faith cure. Joseph Kilgore, who works
for John Braiden, was cured of cancer
which was taking his life, by the placing
of the fingers of DR.. Bowman, of Som
erset, O., on bis cheek bone and temple,
and telling the patient he must have
faith and he would recover. The Inde-
pendent says this is an actual fact, and
can be vouched for.
VAUDEVILLE AULT, son of George
Ault, of Centervllle, and Miss Flora,
daughter of VIM. Armstrong, of Captina
were married in Pittsburgh in June of
1888, but kept the matter secret. their
nearest friends not even suspecting it,