Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-07
Town and Country.
CORN planting this week.

CORN planting this week.
SHEEP SHEARS, Wilkinson's best, a
Gephart's. 30-2t
WILD flowers are in bloom, and ar
5 being gathered.
THE carpet tack joke is ripe, and il
being passed around.
WIRE CLOTH for window and dOol
screens, at Gephart's. 4 SO-2t
FARMERS make their visits to .towr
very brief at present.
MRS. HOGAN, of Bellaire. last Friday
received Sl.S9S pension money.
NINE cars of export cattle were fed al
the Bellaire yards last Thursday.
THE monotoaous whack of the carpet
beater is heard in the back yards. .
IT was a cool FIRST week in May, and
fires we're pleasant day and evening.
THE Barnesville skating rink will close
for the GUNNER, en- Saturday evening.
WATER COOLERS, very low, at Gep-
harts. 30-2J
THEo. HoRNBRooK, at Powhatan, has
turned his dwelling house into hotel.
ROBERT PoGUE is erecting a new
dwelling on his farm near Louisville.
Miss SADIE MCCLELLAN, of East Rich
land, has large piano class at Maynard.
A NEW postofice is to be established
at Neff s Siding, and will be called Steel.
Ice CREAM Freezers, cheap, at Gep+
hart's. s4a 30-2t
THE Ohio Board of Pharmacy will
hold session at Columbus on next Mon
day. za-
JIMMIE SELLARs, a Bellaire lad, fell
down stairs last Thursdsy, breaking his
arm. - < ~ -
The spring house cleaning is in full
blast, and lunch houses are doing good
business.
THE Steubenyille council has passed an
ordinance licensing skating rinks, at $50
per molth.
The residence of Moses Kline. at Hen
dryshurg, was badly damaged by fire a
Few days ago. .-r~-
WE understand that the new rink here,
when opened. will be with grand mas
querade carnival.
SIX foot step ladder, S1.OO. at
3O-2t GEPHART's.
COMMON pleas court for Monroe coun-
ty convened at Weodsfeld on Tuesday,
Judge Kelly presiding.
JoHN r. ROBINSON, of Bellaire, has
the contract to furnish 1000 feet of curb
ing for Martins Ferry.
The May musical festival at Wheeling
on Saturday of this week. Theo. Thomas
has charge Of the affair.
MRS. URIAH Wiley, of Barnesville,
died on Monday of last week, from con-
sumption, aged 63 years.
A COMPANY of Marietta capitalists
have opened six foot vein of coal at
Captina, and are working it,
A BELLAIRE man is one of the bidders
for the contract to lay natural gas pipes
from Wellsburg to Wheeling.
MRS. OSCAR GREGORY died at her
home in Bridgeport, on Wednesday OF
laat week, from consumption.
J. W. SCOTT and Tom. NJ. Adams, of
Maynard, are on a prospecting tour IN
the West, with a view to locate.
BELMONT county's share of the appor+
tionment made for the support of the
State Sunday School Union is $50.
THOMAS SULLIVAN, prominent farm
or of Somerset tp., died on Monday OF
last week, from paralysis, aged 66 years.
JOHN r. Cow, of Bellaire, has been
m"de the Ohio Valley representative OF
the New York Grockery and Glass Jour-
nal.
TRUssEs, abdominal supporters, sus-
pensory bandages. shoulder Braces
complete assortment at Pattersons' drug
store. 3O-SW.
AFTER q suspension of six months
Flushing Lodge F. s. A. n resumed bu
siness in their new building, on the sSJ
of April. g
THE National Union last week paid to
heirs of the late McGruder Selby, ol
MartiR's Ferry, the 1900 insurance on
his life.
A MRS. BRANNoN was buried in tht
Wegee burying ground last Thursday
who was 81 years of age at the time o.
her death.
PROF, Ed. THOMAS, well known here
has been employed for another year t.
superintend the Clarington, Monroe
county, schools.
On May 9th, an entertainment will bt
given in the town hall. Hendrys ysburg, fol
the purpose of raising funds to complete
paving the town.
Mrs. E. A. PORTER, of Bridgeport
fell down a cellar stairway last Thurs
day, breaking her collar bone, and re-
ceiving other injuries.
Iris said that work will be commences
on the Ohio Valley railroad, near Bel
laire, this week, and that a large force o
hands will be employed.
IT is stated that Rev. DR.. Williams, o
the First M. E. church, Bellaire. has beel
appointed by President Cleveland, to
Chaplaincy in the q. S. Army.
TEE Mingo Junction steel company
with a capital stock of $500, 900, has bee
organized. VIM. II. Holloway, of Bridge
port, is one of the incorporators.
NEVER forget that idleness is ruinou
to youHg people, and give your boys an
girls plenty to do. In the manner
work be reasonable and all will be vel
For SALE-Early and late Cabbag
Tcmoto and Celery plants. in season,
ALFxANDER's, north of NJ. E. churcl
st. Clairsyille, Ohio. 4-3O 3t.
FARMERS interested in the improve
nent of draft horses, will find. durin
the season of 1885, the imported PERCH
ron stallion, Good Hope,2127 $500, MOI
days and Tuesdays at the Livery an
feed stable of Samuel Campbell, S
(i;-ey;lIo n. tho remainder of tt