Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-12-03
Published Every Thursday
Town and Country.

TEN inches of snow were reported las
week at Jacobsburg.
THERB are great many cases of dipt
liberia in BarnesVille.
THE last month Of 1885 is marching
ou-the year is growing old.
The small boy new looks forward t,
Christmas, for more holidays.
The q. A. R. Post of GAINESVILLE vii
give dramatic entertainment.
EN-. LOCKWOOD, ESQ. editor of th'
Bellaire Herald, is ill with typhoid fever
The city treasury of Bensire is onll
such in name-the funds are exhausted
OLD winter put in full time last week
commencing on Sabbath and never lei
up.
LAST week made the woods look like
real winter, and their solitude was i'm
pressive.
The farmer who has not got the "big
gest ear of corn" is making it up on the
hog story.
A rRoTRACTED meeting will COM
mence at Jscobsburg. the day after
Christmas.
THE enrolment Of the Bellaire public
schools is 1880, an increase over last
year Of 15S.
THE Burr's Mills NJ E. Sabbath School
will give literary entertainment during
the Holidays.
TIE Second NJ. E. church Of Bellaire
has advertised festival for the Gath,
25th and 26th insts.
THE Thanksgiving rafting matches in
Bellaire were stopped by order of His
Honor, the Mayor.
DIPHTHERIA is unusually prevalent in
different parts Of this county, for this
season OF the year.
SOME of the boys who tackled egg .nog
on Thanksgiving, evidently did not un>
derstand the gauge.
SOME of the young ladies and gentle
men of this place will organize pror
Rressive euchre party.
HOLIDAYS are coming, and so are Fow-
Ter & Drummond's immense bargains in
umbrellas and rubber shoes.
TIE boys of st. Johns school, Bellaire,
have formed military company, and
have a competent instructor.
ABOUT December Is, saws the weather
bureau, there will be a severe cold snap.
Now is the time to subscribe.
THE ladies of the Barnesviils Presby+
terian church will hold a Bazaar of Nat
tions on the 18th and 10th insts.
THE Lsughlin Mill, Martins Ferry,
last week had a large force of masons At
work on their new gas furnaces.
A COLLECTION fer the poor was taken
up at the union Thanksgiving services
In Bellaire, amounting to SIs.55.
THE farmers do not like to see the
snow. as it covers plenty of good pasture,
and thus enforces more feeding.
MAYOR COOPER, of Bellaire, collected
fines and licenses to the amount of S7Q.12
frAm October 10 to November u.
ERNEST SCHoEN, BelIaire miner, was
fatally crushed by fall of soapstone in
the nail works bank, on Thursday.
THE school at Franklin, which was
closed on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria, was re-opened last week.
WALTER MCFARLAND, cigar manu>
facturer at Belmont, is working on orr
ders from Kentucky and Tennessee.
THERE were a great many hunters
secured the country on Thanksgiving,
but there is no game in this section.
THE Zephyr heating furnace is new
article to be manufactured by the Watt
Mining Car Wheel Co., of Barnesville.
FOWLER & DRUNMoND, Bridgeport,
Ohio, have just received line of the ia
nous Rockford So shoes. Como and
see it.
THE oil well near Glencoe is going
down, and it will soon be demonstrated
whether there is oil in that neighborhood
or not.
A TOWN clock, to be placed on the
Presbyterian church, will tell the resi-
dents of Bannock and vicinity the time
of day. +
THERE was q good attendance at
church on Thanksgiving day, and Rev
Haskell preached an unusually good dis
course.
T. K. SHELDON, manager of the Bel
Iaire bottle works, has accepted q posi-
tion in Chicago, and will go there JAM
uary 1st.
"SAY, John. where did you get that 9,
cent Flat Plush Tie?" AT Fowler &
Drummend's, Bridgeport, Ohio. They
beat the world"
SHREwD merchants who expect to de
Holiday trade, have already planted
advertisements, from which a crop OF
sales will spring.
GEORGE EDMUNDs, a lad who stole
shoes from Addisons chop in Belaire
was brought here Thursday, to await the
action Of Probate Court.
LAURA HAYS, aged 12 years, daughte
of John W. Hays, of Parnesville, died
on Tuesday of last week, from diphthe
ria. after four days illness.
THERE are about ten suits in Guern.
sey common pleas, growing out of tn,
trouble between the B. & o. and the of:
cials of the city of Cambridge.
BELLAIRE has put $4,000 on he
streets in the past eighteen months, an,
they are still simply awful. There i
talk of paving them next spring.
DR.. d. STRAHL, mention of whose In
f1rmities has been made, has been remoy
ed to the Belmont county infirmary
where he will receive attention.
A COMPLETE assortment of Ties. Muf
flers. Handkerchiefs, Half Hose, Gloves
Collars, Cuffs, Shirts and Underwear. q
Fowler & Drummond's, Bridgeport, o.
THE freight traffic on the c. o. Divis
ion of the b. & o. road for November.
said to have been larger than for an
preceding month in the history of th
road.
CHILDREN's Lace School Shoes at FoV