Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-30
Town and Country.

THE days are almost IA hours long.
SPRING wild flowers are out in all theil
beauty.
The country lycsums have closed unit
after harvest
SIX foot step ladder, s1oO, at
30-2t GEPHARTis.
NEW spring millinery made its appear.
ance on Sabbath.
MARTINS FERRY has fifteen doctors
and only two undertskers.
A NEW time schedule will 90 in effect
on the B. & O., on Sunday.
STRAW hats are now ripe, and several
of them have been gathered.
THE forest trees are beginning to pnt
on their summer coats of green.
THE Scott law liquor cases will be
heard in Supreme Court. en- May 10.
WIN. KINNEY, JR., has been appointed
postmaster at Belmont, this county.
THE outlook is FOR an enormous crop
of Strawberries, and BarnesvilIs is happy.
Ice CREAM Freezers, cheap, at Gep+
hart's. 3O-2t
The small boy is already calculating
the number of days until the long vaca-
tion.
GEN. WARNER denies the report that
the Ohio Valley railroad is not to be
built.
THE 10Th of May has been set by the
Adventists, for the end of all things
worldly.
WATER COOLERS, very low, at Gep-
hart's. 430-2t
ARBoR DAY was not celebrated here
this year at all. But few even thought
of it last Friday.
THE annual report of the NJ. E. Sabbath
School al GAINESVILLE, shows an average
attendance of 331.
The nail feeders at Martins Ferry
and Wheeling have formed an in0epen-
dent organization.
CLARK NICKoL and NJ. Y. Rusk are at
work on the necessary buildings for their
creamery at FairpoiDt
Mrs. FANNIE CLARK has received her
commission of re-appointment as post
mistress at Morristown.
L. S. WOODBRIDGE has been reelected
clerk of the Bellaire City Board of Edu
cation, at salary of $l65.
BURNING brush and other litter at
night keeps the surrounding heavens
illuminated at this season.
THE parties who propose getting up
the new directory of Bellaire, propose
numbering the city for $500.
FARMERS plowed considerable by
moon light last week. The won't be
knocked out by late spring.
JOHN K. NORTON died at his home
near Franklin station, on Wednesday OF
last week, after lingering illness.
COUNCIL meets next Monday evening,
when the Mayor will appoint his stand
ing committees for the ensuing year.
THE Guernsey county grand jury last
week returned II true bills, 3 for felony,
and the rest for liqnor law violations.
WIN. HILLEs is President, S. B. Piper,
Secretary, and DR.. Baker, Treasurer, of
the new GAINESVILLE Board of Education.
WIRE CLOTH for window and door
screens, at Gephart's. 30-2t
WE would suggest to our merchants
that they cushion their store boxes, as
they make hard seats for the ornamental
loafer.
THERE seems to be a larger number OF
the old-fashioned birds this spring, than
since the introduction of the English
sparrow.
REV. S. r. FRAZIER will deliver hi
lecture, "a Yankee in Japan" in the
Cadiz opera house, on Tuesday evening
May 18th.
Ice CREAM is in the market, and In,
young man now wants the rink to close
as he cannot stand the double call on hi
exchequer.
DORA FoLeER and Nan Colvin, O
Barnesville, were arrested for stealing
several jugs of liquor from q saloon mar
of that place.
THE rink season is nearly over. A
race for the championship and geld
medal is going on this week at the Capt.
tai City rink.
GEN. WARNER has been requested b.
the graduating class at Franklin College
to deliver the commencement day ora
tion on July l.
THE officers of Chickamauga Camp o.
Sons of Veterans, at Barnesville, were
installed on the night of the 10th inst
Ernest Ely is Captain.
MRS. THEREIN THOMAS, of Bellaire, ha
hrOonht emit nnIar tho A dair Ia anoiDc
Balzer Veneer, a saloonist of that city
claiming $1,000 damages.
AMOS WORKMAN, a highly esteemed
farmer, died at his home near Bellaire
on Tuesday of last week, from conges
tion of the bowels, aged so years.
A LITTLE son of Charles Hanson, o
Martins Ferry, was struck by train ol
Wednesday of last week, and had bi
jaw bone broken on both sides of bi
face.
THE Bellaire Herald says: 1--WE IN
derstand that a company is being forme
for the purpose of purchasing and cor
Quoting the Ohio Valley News at Mar
tins Ferry"
JOHN STAHL, one of the oldest citizen
of Pease tp., died on Thursday morning
at his home about two miles west G
Bridgeport, from softening of the brair
aged 81 years.
An End 10 Bond Seraping.
Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, Ills
says: Having received so much benefit fro
Electric Bitters, feel it my duty to let SUI
fering humanity know it; have had a runui1
sore on my left leg for 8 years; my docto