Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-14
Town and Country.
FRUIT trees are in bloom.

FRUIT trees are in bloom.
SATURDAY, May 9, 1885, little snow
fell.
CAMP meetings are already cOmmenc-
ing to announce dates.
CAMBRIDGE wants to put on city airs,
and have daily market,
THE mumps are among the people in
the Bellairs neighbOrhoOd.
THE dandelion has burst forth in all
its glory and magni6cence.
Ice dealers do not like this sort of a
spring, but the coal dealers do.
THE new Hoyle-Jones building at Mar
tins Ferry is going up rapidly.
MARTINS FERRY business men put in
'odd" times pitching horse shoes.
Hon. L. DANFoRD will deliver the
Memorial Day address at Bellaire.
The B., q. s. C. railroad will build a
new depot at Bethel this summer.
ACCORDING to an exchange, this is To-
Gust year-the seventeen year kind.
AFTER this month it will be lawful to
shoot squirrels-it you can find any.
DECORATION DAY and the Fourth of
July both come on Saturday this year.
THE paper hanger and the paint brush
man are active at this seaAon of the year.
TUESDAY of next week, May l9, is the
day set by the Adventists for the world
to end.
FIRES have been more than comforta>
bic during the past week-they were q
necessity.
TIE Bellaire fire wardens have re-
elected George FL. Muth, chief Of the de-
partment.
THE 18th Regiment o. V. 1. will hold
their annual reunion in Cadiz, on Sept
tember II.
THE Bellaire Independent says there
are more saloons in that city now than
ever before.
W. H. HUMPHREvILLE, one Of the old
est residents OF Mt. Pleasant, dropped
dead on the I'd inst.
ANOTHER masked carnival is to be
held in the Capital City rink on Friday
evening of this week.
JOSEPH GREEN, ESQ, has been contin.
ued as Superintendent of the Children s
Home for another year.
JOIN. K. SUTTON and family moved
into their new residence, opposite the
school house. on Saturday.
TIE changes of the moon are now
closely watched by those who plant in
the light and dark of tie moon.
RUSSELL UPDEGRkFF, Martins Ferry
was thrown from his horse upon u pile
of pike stone, sustaining serious injuries
THE Barnesville building association
is winding up its affairs. The shares pay
500 each Oh S7s paid in during six years
past.
1T is estimated that 25 per cent. of the
sheep in the southern part of this county
died during the past winter and early
spring.
FRIDAY evening, Mann's foundry al
Martins Ferry bad a narrow escape from
fire. The roof around the cupola wa.
burned.
ANDREW TAPPERMAN, one of the early
settlers of Eastern Ohio, died at his home
in KirkwOod tp., on the 30th ult., ageC
81 years.
THE c. & P. railroad will not be assess
ed for taxation until May 2Sth. The aud
itors could not agree at their meeting
last week.
AT their meeting last week, the Mar
tins Ferry council discharged all thei
police. and are trying to get along with
out them.
A SLIGHT fire in the Frasier House
Barnesville, on Monday of last week
caused loss of 500, and considerable
excitement.
d. K. DILwoRTH, late Secretary of tn
Martins Ferry stove works, has accept
ed position as Secretary of coke work
at Meyer, Pa.
E. c. BOYD, of Martins Ferry, vii
soon commence the erection of neI
building in that city, at an estimates
cost of $4,000.
NOT one of the eight flint glass house
on the river in this county, which ar
now idle, have paid dividend in th
past two years.
THE B. & o. has put conductors o
their helpers, with the object of guardi
ing against further accidents betwee
GAINESVILLE and Bellaire.
GEORGE W. KING has sold his interes
in the Bellaire Herald to E. NJ, Loci
wood, his former partner, who will her
after conduct the paper.
THE Steubenville Gazette says thel
are seven children In the Jefferson c
Infrmary, who will have to be sent
the Belmont Co. Children's Home.
JAMES FITToN, of BeIlaire Lodge |. [
o. F., will be the representative of Il
Belmont county lodges at the meeting
the Grand Lodge, at GAINESVILLE, MondG
of next week.
THE marriage license law in Pennsy
vania does not take effect until in Il
fall This item is for the benefit of tho
who may want to interview Squi
Mayes at Hardscrabble,