Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-10-01
Town and Country.
The first of October.

STATE ana county 6locClOn on Ino loIl
The cider crab crop is simply immens,
WE have been having beautiful fal
weather.
BELLAIRE young men will organize
bicycle club.
THE city fatherS meet in regular ses
sion next Monday evening.
THE farmers are now engaged in cut
ting up the immense crop of corn.
THE children at Bruce and neighbor
hood are having a siege Of measles.
CIDER will be plenty this year, and
eourting country girls will be popular.
BARNUH's show in Wheeling yester
kay. drew tolerably well from this place
SIXTY scholars are receiving instruc
tions in German in the Bellaire schools
THE c., L. & W. road is selling excur
sion tickets to the Uhrichsville Fair this
week.
TWENTY SEVEN new nail machines
were added to the Martins Ferry mill:
last week.
THE dander-raising season of putting
up stoves and jointing pipes is with US
once more.
JOHN MCCORMICK, of Bellaire, fell
from a roof he was timing, and was
badly hurt.
FIRE damaged Hoffman's coal works,
Bellaire, last week, but the loss was not
very great.
OUR business houses are receiving
their new goods. Advertisers do the
selling-try it.
The B., 2. & C. road is bringing large
quantities of tobacco into market, from
Monroe couRty.
PEOPLE are now preparing to CON-
plain of the cold winter, as they did of
the hot summer.
A CENSUS of all surviving soldiers and
sailors is being taken. Each district is
TO be canVassed.
The schools at Maynard are held now
in, the new building, recently completed
by Edwards Bros.
FRIENDS Yea<Iy Meeting is being held
this week, at Saltwater church, one mile
east of Barnes vile.
JAMES FALLEN and John Long are
the new policemen in the second and
third wards, Bellaire.
last two issues of the CHRONICLE was
away above the supply.
WE now have six saloons in st. Clairs
ville-a gain of one, and are ahead OF
Flushing in that respect.
JOHN SMITH, B. & o. brakeman, had
his hand crushed between the bumpers
at Lewis Mills, last week.
DURING the Conference week al
Barnesville, "a sermons were delivered,
and II anniversary addresses.
THERE seems to be no prospects of
the Barnesville window glass works
starting up for some time to come.
A NEW counterfeit $40 certificate ha:
made its appearance. People who han
die money had better look out for it.
ABOUT seventy persons went from
here on Wednesday, by way of the Nor
thern R. R., to Wheeling on business.
DAILY exchanges say there was par
tial eclipse of the moon early Thursday
morning, but we did not get up to see it
A GREAT political meeting will be helt
at CadiZ-tO-day, to be addressed by Hons
BENZ. Butterworth and Johu a. Bing
ham.
ANDREW ALEXANDER, ESQ, is taking
the annual enumeration of ST. ClairsVillt
special school district, for school pur'
poses.
THE 81 900 worth of limestone put OF
the Warnock pike by the township trus
trees. has greatly improved that thor
Oughfare.
THE wife of Rev. W. B. Long, pasto
of the South Bellaire Church of God
died Thursday quite suddenly, after |
long illness.
SCHooLEY JONES, of Bsrnesville, diet
last week from typhoid fever. He wa
young man, and leaves a wife and TIVE
small children.
JOHN BAUaH, who lost an arm ant
sustained other serious injuries in re
cent b. & o. collision, has sued that roa(
for S30,OO0 damages.
A LARGE crowd gathered at the En-
terprise works, Bellaire, last week, to Sc
glass made. 1t was novelty in Bellaire
the strike had lasted so long.
A BIG runner imposed on the Wheel
ing sports one night last week, passing
himself off for Sullivan. 1t was badI
sold gang when the joke became known
LUCIA, aged two years, daughter o
George McConahey, of Martins Ferry
died on Sunday of last week. We prin
an obituary poem in another column G
this paper.
A COMMITTEE of Bellaire citizens ap
peared before the Wheeling council las
week with a protest against that cit
throwing garbage, night soil, etc., int
the river. The Committee of Health d
Wheeling we're authorized to find ou
filth below the Bellaire bridge.
His Own Choice.
ED. CHRONICLE notice in your a
ticle on court house proceedings, that j
r. J. Alexander's remarks he stated tha
THAT by an ungrateful people of Be
mont county, Capt. Robert ThompsC
died in the county Inhrmary." l a
happy to state to the people of my o
home that this is not the case. Fro
the mouth of the old Captain Ito q
father. he fought for the privilege
living and dying in an independe
home, and would not live any 9th
way, unless he had wealth and famil
His pension and his independent hon
were sufficient to make him perfect
contented with the lot that an Allwi
Providence had made for him. With
due respect for my old friend, r. J. 1