Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-06
Town and Country.
THE field corn is in tassel.
MOSQUITOES are humming.
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MOSQUITOES are humming.
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THERMOMETERS have bad no difficulty
in keeping up.
DAYLIGHT is diminishing at the rate
of minute per day.
W. T. WILCOX has opened a jewelry
store at Burr's Mills.
THE oats harvest is going on in the
rural regions this week. ....
Our exchanges say that counterfeit
quarters are in circulation.
BFLLAIRK is to have a new barber
shop, with lady manipulators.
BELLAIRE is to have concert saloon.
John McDermott is the proprietor.
THE woman's Foreign Missionary So-
ciety have organized a branch at Somer-
ton.
THE GAINESVILLE Enterprise is pros+
pering. They have put in q new power
press.
PROF. 1. N. VAIL, of Barnesville, will
lecture before a teachers institute in
st. Louis.
The 4th ward hose company of Bel
laire is to have a new two story brick
hose house.
HARVEST HOME picnics are adyertis-
ed, but there was not much harvest in
this section.
THE strike at the Wheeling pottery
has been settled, and 200 hands have
gone to work.
Miss KATE Stafford has been chosen
Barnesville schsols.
THE employees of the B. s. O: shops at
Bellaire have been cut down to four
days work per week.
APPLE dunplings now fill the aching
void caused by the disappearance of
strawberry shortcake.
THE Bethel Oil and Gas Co. met last
week, and decided to continue boring to
the depth of 1,700 feet.
C.P. WAH. the Chinese lsundryman
at Bellaire, could not stand the pressure,
and left on the 1st inst.
JIG. TAGGART has secured the Ban
mock school for next winter, being his
fourth year in the place.
ABOUT $500 have been raised at Nor
ristown, to be used in repairing and
identifying the N. E. church.
CAPT. INaLEBRIGHT gives Nartiu'r
Ferry children free ride on his steamer
Climax, on Friday evenings.
MAUD s.. beat her own and all other
previons records at Cleveland on Thurs
day. She went mile in 2:0S%.
MRS. JOHN F. RoDEFER died Satur-
day morning, at her home IN Pultney
Bottom, after lingering illness.
BFLLAIRE purchased a large flag,
draped it in mourning. and placed it on
city hall. in henor of Gen. Grant.
A REUNION of the relatives of Mr.
John Workman will be held at his resi-
deuce at Warnock, on the 20th inst.
NEW ATHENS needs civilizing. Some
of the young ladies still wear the lO0st
Mother Hubbard" as street costume
EIGRT couples of Wheeling's young
folks came out to Belmont's capital or
Thursday evening, and supped at the
National A
YouNa, who was arrested in Mead
tp, for stealing cattle from Henry Day
is now in the county Jail in default Of
500 bail. r-
HENRY Hell. Of Bellaire, has chal
lenged both McNally, of Pittsburgh, ant
Teemer. of McKeesport. for three mil
boat race. $50. = r.-s.sE -4
CLARENCE BURRIs, of Chattanooga
Tenn, is the new manager in charge o
the nail factory of the -LaughliI mill q
Martins Ferry. -r
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Grant monu
ment fund are being received in thi
place by James A. Patterson, agent of th
Western Union. E
FRANCIS MURPHY will be at Bea
Den Park. Freeport, on Sunday an
Monday. August and 10, under the an
spices of the w. c. I. U.
THE Somerton Anti-Whisky and Tt
bacco Association will attend Burr
Mills camp meeting on Temperance Dal
to hear Francis Murphy. -.
THE New Athens ball club come owe
on Saturday and played with the s
Clairsville boys. The score was SS to
in favor of St. Clairsville. 5
RoBT. .SwEED, the colored burglar. wh
robbed the Armstrong house on th
MouDdsville camp grounds, was capture
last week in Columbus.
IT is reported that D. D. Taylor. of tt
Guernsey Times, has quit chewing t.
bscco, and the report says he looks mue
better. He couldn't help it.
THE Secretary of State has issued
certificate of incorporation to the Kic
Bros Mining Co., of Belmont count.
capital stock, $4,000. The principal o
fee is at Bridgeport.
A MAN named Knight a Maynard co
miner. came to town Friday. He wantt
to fight some one, but after paying a I'll
of 81 and costs imposed by Mayor D.
.vies, concluded to 60 home.