Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-05
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
DID you try your fortunep
SELECT seed corr while husking.
THANKSGIVING turkeys are being fat
tened.
You can shoot (at) quail this wesl
and next
BARNEsvILLE will "pronouncs" OF
Friday evening.
THE prophets predict no cold weather
until Christmas.
The first snow in this locality, fell or
Friday, October 80.
The farmers are getting their annus
agricultural reports.
As THE evenings grow colder. rink
attendance increases.
The wise turkey has already CONT
menced to roest high.
Now Chill November's surly blasts
make deld and forest bare"
W.R.M. DENNY found only eight fam
lilies in Flushing without the Bible
AN anti-swearing society has been or
ganized in the Bsrnesville high school.
The skating rink at Barnesville OPEN
ed Tuesday evening, with calico car
niyal.
1T is fun to stand in the rain and read
signals, "clear and fair weather" as on
Saturday.
A LOCAL writer from Kennon says
that is an excellent location for good
shoemaker.
THE GAINESVILLE K. of P. Lodge will
celebrate their 18th anniversary Thanks
giving evening.
THE Martins Ferry stove works re>
sumed operations in full on Thursday,
paying old wages.
THE long evenings are hereto spend
them pleasantly and proitsbly, subscribe
for the CHRONICLE.
ELIAS B. LowMAN, of Bellaire, died
on Friday morning, after lengthy ill
ness, aged 81 years.
Hon. W. NJ FARRAR, of Guernsey, is
a candidate for Speaker of the Ohio
HOUSE of Representatives.
A PARTY of Bellaire steel workers
have rented rooms in which to spend So
cial evenings this winter.
T. C. PARKER, of near GAINESVILLE.
raised 16H pound beet, and wants to
if 03p hnot
WHO is responsible for what a man
says when he bites into chestnut con-
txining large, juicy wornP
THE Bellsire ice men, Boneysteel &
breidenstein. have put in steam hoist
or, to fill their ice house this season.
DAVID CoNeER, the brutal wife mur+
derer of Monroe county, was last week
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
JAMES DoBBINs, of Barnesville, on the
21st ult., showed up box of large, lns>
cieus Strawberries, says the Enterprise.
WILMER F. SNIvELY, secretary of the
Belmont glass company Of Bellaire. has
been granted patent for covered glass
dish.
The week commencing on Sabbath
next, will be observed throughout the
civilized world as week Of prayer for
young men.
THE station and store at Quincy were
burglariZed on Thursday night, the bur-
glars realizing but little for their risk
and trouble.
AT q meeting of the directors of the
Barnesville glass works last week, it
was decided to start up at once, and the
fires were lighted.
Hrs Rame is Gardner, and he opened a
new saloon in Barnesville, and to start
1t gave away liquor. The next day he
was fined $25 and costs.
AN apple tree on the Russell farm,
near Hunter, is 9 feet, 10 inches in cir
cumferenee, and Is said to have been
bearing fruit for 81 years. .....
THE Bellaire window glass works
made its first blow last week. All the
window glass houses in the city are now
in operation except the Union.
E. E GORDON, of Morristewn, sold out
his effects on Saturday. 1t is his inten
ton to go to Wheeling and engage in
the sale of musical instruments.
Miss E. E. TAYLOR, of BeIlaire, is on
the program of the next meeting of the
Eastern Ohio Teachers Association, at
Canal Dover, on Nov. 27 and 28.
HARRY RoBERTsHAw, of Martins
Ferry, who has been i'll for about year,
died on Friday, aged "a years. A wife
and an infant child survive him.
SAMUEL MORRISON has entered suit
against the town of Martins Ferry. for
Sl33, which he claims is due him under
q contract as pump repairer for the city.
TEE NC. A, of Bsllaire, last week
elected officsrs'as follows: J. P. Houston,
President; d. l.. Thoburn, Vice Presi.
dent; L. G. Bsttelle, secretary; W. j.
Morrison. treasurer.
TIE ceremony of baptism will be ad
ministered at Darrah's pond, by Rev
Toney. of the A NJ E church. of this
place, at 8 o'clock next Sabbath after
noon.
THE township trustees, at their meet
ing on Saturday, settled up with joseph
A. Roscoe, on his contract for stone on
the Warnock pike. The whole amount
of the work came to S1026.30.
THE coal miners of the Belmont ant
Pittsburgh coal mines. Bellaire. held
meeting last week, and demanded an ad
vance of nc per bushel for mining. Tit
operators refused the demand, and or
dered the men to remove their tools
About two hundred men are affected b.
the strike,