Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-02-05
Town and Country.

FARMERS ars commencing to get ready
for their spring work.
THE steel works at Bellaire started up
last week in full force.
AN effort is being made to sink gas
well at Armstrong; Mills.
THE ice men have had no reason to
complain of this winter weather.
A sHREwD business man says that "the
time to advertise is all the time"
THE present winter is said to have
been very hard on growing wheat.
A SUCCESSFUL revival is in progress
in tue NJ. Z. church at Barnesville.
IT will be Probate Judge CASTOR and
ex-Judge Cochran after next Monday.
The scarlet fever, which ragged in
Somerset tp., has assumed milder form.
keep in the middle of the road" has
beeu popular song during the past
week.
MANY people are opposed to skating
Kinks; the craze might be Oh something
worse.
BARNEsvILLE is to have y second
sk4.tiDg rink, to be erected by Wheeling
parties.
PRANK FERREL has sold his farm near
Warnock, William Fulton being the
purchaser
THE Union glass works at Martins
Ferry, shut down last week for an In
definite period.
MARGARET Brown, of Somert0n, IA
BiIlaiiy known as grandmother Brown,
died last week.
The ladies of CoalbroUk church, Neff s
Siding, will give a paper bag social this,
thursday evening.
BELMONT COUNTY has 81 postotfices,
three OF which nave been established
within the past year.
THE protracted meeting at the Hen-
DIR, sburg Nj. E. church bias closed. There
we're about % accessloDs.
THE Cambridge JEFF. says the National
pike IN that county is a cross between a
turnpike and mud road
The Bellaire council, at its meeting
last week, agreed to let the public square,
Miss NORA E. SPEER, formerly of
Somerton, was married at Portland, Ind
on Jan. 18th, to Isaac B. Littell, Esq.
APPLICANTS for the postofics at Bel.
mont, are having their claims aired
through cards in the BarDesville papers.
IT is said that Wheeling is to have a
daily paper to be devoted entirely TO
skating rink news. Where will it end ?
SOME of the home dramatic talent of
Flushing are talking of putting Julius
Caesar" on the boards in the near future.
Il. SCOTT, a Bellaire coal miner, had
his shoulder blade broken and his back
injured, by a mass of coal falling in on
him.
THE next meeting of the Eastern Ohio
Horticultural Society will be held at
Barnesville on Saturday evening of this
week.
A SUCCESSFUL revival is in progress il
the Martins Ferry NJ. E. church. A
large number have united with the
church.
THERE seems to be virulent attack
of western fever at SomeTton. Several
families will leave that neighborhood il
the spring.
E. II. LOCKWOOD died at Bellaire last
Friday from typhoid fever. His daugh
ter did few days before from the
same disease.
JOHN WILSON. Frank and Will Bow
man and Will Bone, of Ma tins Ferry
have the contract for erecting the skat
ing rink here.
A C. PATTERSON, who emigratet
from Louisville 10 Kansas seven yeaI
ago, is on a visit among his old Belmon
county friends.
The Belmont Stove Co, at Martin
Ferry, elected board of directors las
week. l. w. Gopdy is President, and {
E. Irwin, Secretary.
MRS. A. link has been elected Pres
dent of the Ladies' Benevolent Associa
tion at Martins Ferry. The associatio
realized SS6.42 by a benefit at the ska
ing rink.
MACHINE poetry on roller skating
all the go now. Our machine has bee
brought ont of the rellar and oiled, an
will be ready to grind when the rink heI
is erected.
JAMES KERR and Lavosier Spence.
Martins Ferry, are at Columbus. IL b
half of the demonstrators against II
passage. in the Senate. OF the wat,
works bili
LEWIS BAKER. ESQ. late of the Whe
ling Register. and his son Lewis, ar
Harry Black. the city editor under "
Baker, left Wheeling last week for
Paul, Minn., to take charge of the Glob