Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-21
Town and Country.
CEoouET sets are being planted.

Town and Country.
CRoQUET sets are being planted.
SATURDAY of next week is Memorial
Day.
COMMON pleas court will convene next
Tuesday.
SUMNER hair cuts are getting to bt
fashionable.
THE Martins Ferry carpenters have
organized a union.
t. BENTLEY is erecting a fine new
dwelling at Bruce.
"GoING to hell on Wheels" says an Iii
linois minister of roller skating.
HARD to beat-the old carpet that fig
ures in the house cleaning melees.
The linen duster has put in an appear.
ance-summer must surely be here.
SUPT. PECK will deliver the class ad :
dress at the GAINESVILLE commencement.
VIM MANN, of Martins Ferry, is pre-
pairing to build an addition to his fOun-
dry.
TEE "meerschaum pipe" trickster
worked some Bellaire business men last
week.
THE Glencoe dramatic company will
put a play on the stage some time next
month.
THE Ohio Valley cement works at Bel
laire are turning out about $50 barrels
per day.
The C. & P. depot at Martins Ferry
was enlarged sufficiently last Friday, to
take in new safe.
PROF. 3. F. JONES has been reelected
Superintendent of the Bellaire schools
for the next two years.
THE Barnesville G. A. R. Post will
hold a strawberry festival, to defray
Memorial Day expenses.
WORK is still going on near Crabapple
on the oil we'll Some territory is being
leased in the neighborhood.
DUMP" SHERMAN, formerly of Bel.
laire, is In trouble again at Zanesville,
for selling liquor on Sabbath.
THE G. A. R. Post supper at Bridge
sum for Memorial Day expenses.
Mrs. JOSEPH RENNER, of Barnesville,
died on "Wednesday of last week, from
cancer of the breast, aged 6S years.
ONE of the gas companies boring for
oil and gas near Bellaire, have asked foT
the exclusive right to pipe that city.
EXTENSIVE preparations have been
made for the Bridgeport commencement
which occurs on Thursday of next week
GAINESVILLE council last week in.
vested $4,000 surplus in the corporation
treasury in five per cent. school bond
AN immense benefit is to be given the
striking steel workers in Bellaire rink
on Friday evening. Five bands will be
present.
A WRITER from Louisville says the
farmers Of that vicinity think the wheat
crop not sufficient to seed the ground in
the fall.
1T is estimated that there were 50(
fishers, men and boys, on the banks OF
Wheeling creek, Saturday, between Fair
point and Bridgeport.
A. L. SACKETT, well known here, ha:
been re-employed to teach the Rock Hill
school for mother year. He has proven
successful educator.
SOME of the Bellaire graduating class
who left school on strike, could not re.
sist the thoughts of white dresses and
things, and have returned.
THE Bellaire people turned out well tC
hear Rev. 5. r. FraZier's Yankee il
Japan" on last Thursday evening, anC
were much pleased with the lecture.
THE premium pamphlet for the next
Wheeling Fair is out. The Fair will be
held Sept. 8 to II inclusive. Address
Geo. Hook, Esq, Secretary, for copy.
The graduating class at Barnesvillt
consists of nine members; among then
we notice Dewey Hilles and Misses Lee
Hilles and Nettie Eaton, formerly of thi!
place.
On Wednesday merning of last week
one of the boilers at Smith & Sons mill
Bridgeport, exploded, causing much ex-
citement. Fortunately no person wa
injured.
For SALE.-Early' and late Cabbage
Tomoto and Celery plants, in season, a
ALEXANDER's, north of NJ. E. church
st. Clairsyille, Ohio. 4-30 st.
WEDNESDAY of last week, Drs. Todt
and Wagner, of Bridgeport, amputatec
the right leg of George Moone above tn
knee. He was injured in the Wheeling
Greek coal works. two weeks previous.
TIE funeral of Mrs. Sarah w. Hoptol
occurred from the NJ. E. church here ol
Thursday. Mrs Hopton died at Barnes
vile, from consumption, aged "a year.
She was sister of Mrs. T. S. Evans, Q
this place.
THE scheme to transfer the stock @
the LaBelle glass works, Bridgeport, t
the Cent al, Of Wheeling, on terms print
ed in this paper last week, has failed
Only $50 of the 1000 shares of the La
Belle were agreed to the transfer.
II On Monday cf last week three funeI
ais occurred at Purr's Mills. One G
Frank Swaney. aged 8, who died fror
dipbtheria > the second, an infant of M
and Mrs. Samuel Wilson, and the thirI
: Mrs. Sarah Elliott, aged 72, who die
from malignant cancer of the bowels.