Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-13
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
CAMP meetings are going on.
TIE small boy is commencing to count
the days ustii school opens.
PREPARATIONS are being made to sink
another gas well at Bethel.
ABOUT 100000 bushels of coal went
down the Ohio river last week.
THE fine new house of Judge Huff, in.
the east end, is nearing completion.
SOME of our people will attend the
camp meeting at Cadiz, on Sunday.
A LARGE amount of tobacco is coming
ipto Bellsire over the B., z. & c. road.
IT will be of no use to 60 to Burr's
Mills camp Oh Sunday-the gates will be
closed.
THOMAS MCKELvEY, of Belmont
Ridge. fell from load of hay, and broke
his arm.
OLIVER CLARK, a highly respected
eolored man of Martins Ferry. died On
Saturday.
PITTSBURGH parties will sink well
for oil and gas, on the Robinson farm,
west of Bellaire.
THE new furnace at the Enterprise
window glass works, Bellaire, was com
pleted last week.
The Kidd Bros coal works. on the
c.. L. & W. road, continue to be worked
to their full capacity.
The warnest day of this year so far.
day in 's2, 's3 and 's4.
The fellow who spends all his ener-
gies to have good time," usually has
bad time of it, after all.
THE rain last Friday, was the cause
for the indefinite postponement Of the
ME- sabbath School picnic.
ST. CLAIRsvILLE will be we'll repre-
sented at Burr's camp meeting on Friday
of this week, Children's Day.
THIRTY workmen were discharged
from the B. & o. shops in Wheeling one
day last week, to reduce force.
JAMES 7. KELLY, of the Bellairs First
National Bank, is executor of Squire
James Kelsey, lately deceased.
The B., z. & c. railroad had its water
supply cut off in Bsllaire Friday, for
failure to pay for that commodity.
THE proposed regatta at GAINESVILLE
has been postponed, as satisfactory rates
could not be arranged with the railroads.
THERE was no strike at the coal works
near Bridgeport, the men, with few ex-
ceptions, continuing work at the reduce
tion.
THE Prohibitionists have arranged for
party camp meeting in the grove at
MartiR's Ferry, at date to be mentioned
later.
in Bellaire on the 10th inst, to elect
officers, and fix the winter price for min
ing coal.
HENRY He'll, the Bellaire Kid, was
matched for $500 boat race with Jake
Teemer. of Allegheny, but the latter
backed out.
fJACK O'HARA, of Bellaire, was brought
up last week to do $50 worth of labor on
the public works, under the superinten'
QcuCg vi SOlUys
MOsT all the village Mayors issued
prOclamations for a suspension on last
Saturday. The Mayor of St Clairsville
didn't think it necessary.
A PICNIC party of young folks from
the Louisville vicinity, broke bread and
cake in Ault's grove Saturday noon, and
took supper at the National.
.THK body of Albert Otto, the Martins
Ferry lad drowned while bathing, was
found in the river at Bellaire on Friday
and taken home for interment.
A. r. PHILLIPS, mail agent en- the B
Z. Il G. road, from Bellaire to GAINESVILLE
last week received notice to retire, K
make room for Democratic partisan.
LAST week, Mrs. Anna Cowen pre-
sented her daughter Ella, with a fin,
Kranich & Bach piano, from the vel
known music house of Banner, of Whee
ling.
THE Barnesville District Fair will b
held August 25, 26, 81 and 2S, and tn
outlook is favorable for good Fair. w
acknowledge receipt of the usual pres
courtesies.
MISS LAURA GREENLEE, aged 20, al
estimable young lady, died Thursda
evening, at her home near Quincy, frou
consumption. She was the daughter O
Wm. Greenlee, who died about a mont
ago.
THE party of young men who went I
Armstrong; Mills on fishing excursion
broke camp at the end Of the second da,
Their experience was not of the best;
was freeze the first night, flood the sec
ond, and then disgust.
A MINER named Brown, at Bridgepor
claims the patent fer the stationary nj
used in connecting rails on railroad
He has sued the Lake Shore road fl
damages at $500 per mile. for using Il
nut without paying the royalty.
THE Wheeling Intelligencer of Frids
had the following item: "Mr. and MI
Oscar Seeley will leave New York f
home to-day. They went there to ha,
Mrs. Seeley's eyes operated upon. H
left eye is entirely gone, but she hop
to recover the use of the right one"