Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-02-26
Town and Country.
NEXT Sabbath, March 1st, Spring.

NEXT Sabbath, March 1st, Spring.
A. C. PANCoAsT, of Hunter, will re-
move to Kansas next week.
INGENIOUS small boys are saving uE
empty spools to make roller skates.
BASE ball clubs are already organizing
at Barnesville, for their summer defeats
THIS accounts for it: The almanacs
say spring does not begin until the 2Oth
of March.
NJ. n. MERCER, Bellaire, fell from q
step ladder one day last week, and was
badly burt.
SPANGLER PosT, Bellaire, is getting uI
a colony of old soldiers to locate on Gov
eminent lands.
next week for Nebraska, with the inten.
tion of locating.
The chances now are that the 4th of
March will be cold day, and many pat
riots will be left.
The Bellaire Independent puts it:
"The beautiful snow covers multitude
of filth about town."
The moon fulls at ! / p. m. on the 2sth,
so that we come within an hour OF no
full moon in February.
FROM Decembar 10 to January 10,
Mayor Cooper, of Bellsire, collected
s45.27. fines, licenses, sc.
THE new Democratic Governor of
West Virginia will be ilaugurated at
Wheeling next Wednesday.
A FAT mans race will be the attrac.
ton al the Bridgeport rink this week.
No entry under $50 pounds.
TIE Somerton corRet band will give
two dramatic entertainments Friday and
Saturday evenings of this week.
A SUBSCRIPTION book is being circu-
lated in Bridgeport, to raise funds TO
erect new Presbyterian church.
The locked out glass workers will
have a benefit at the Excelsior rink, at
Martins Ferry, on Saturday evening.
AN opinion is beginning to prevail
that the ground hog is still alive, and
that he saw his shadow on the I'd inst. d.
If we have a good wheat crop this
season, we never want to hear another
word about winter killed wheat. NeYerl
THE Merchants Protective Unions of
Bellaire and neighbOring places will have
their dead beat" list printed in book
form.
TUESDAY night of last week, dogs
completely destroyed flock of sheep
belonging to Wallace McAllister, of
Rock Hill.
The Prohibition political club of Bel
laire has been recognized, with 7. A.
Redefer, President and j. Il. Anderson,
Secretary.
THE revival meetings of the united NJ.
E. congregations in Bellaire are doing
much good, and many are uniting with
the church.
For real cold, last week takes the
bread basket. Mercury hung about zero
all the time. and several mornings was
away belov.
The cylinder head of the engine at the
Laughlin Mill, Martins Ferry, blew out
last Thursday, necessitating weeks
stop for repairs.
J. w. YcsT, architect for our new
court house, is also the architect for the
new court house to be erected at Troy,
in Miami county.
MORE than 200 souls have been con-
verted at the NJ. E. revival at Barnes
vile, and the interest in the meetings
remains unabated.
w. d. BLACKISToN, an old blower, has
been elected manager of the Bellaire
window glass works, to succeed James
Heburn, deceased.
The Cunning skating rink at Barnes
vile has been closed until the differences
can be adjusted with renters in other
parts of the building.
WEDNESDAY of next week is inaugu
ration day. We have not heard that
there will be general outpouring of the
faithful from this place.
In the vicinity of Sewellsville great
many sheep have died recently, from
some unknown disease Some farmers
have lost as high as twenty.
1hE w WHEELING lDIclilsOuCoT VI ldcl
Wednesday. has the following item
Mrs. Oscar Seeley and daughter left for
New York last evening on visit to
relatives"
If thermometer gets through this
winter all right, the peach crop will
surely be safe. Mercury has been run.
ming from one end of the gauge to the
other all winter.
BURGLARS broke into Yingleihg and
RithemIller's meat shop, Martins Ferry
at o'clock Tuesday evening of last
week, while the proprietors were at sup
per, and stole $45.
THE ennabling act, to allow Martin:
Ferry to vote on the water works prop
osition at the coming spring election
passed the Senate last Thursday, by ;
full vote. 1t had already passed th'
House.
Ross JOHNSON, of Rock Hill, while re
turning home from Bellaire one day las
week, was seriously hurt by the horse b,
was riding falling upon him. Late ad
vices are that he is much improved, anC
will be about shortly.