Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-04
Town and Country.
THE last week of school.

THE last week of school.
A NEW saloon at Belmont was started
recently.
ONLY one more month until the
ge-lorious Fourth.
Potato. BUGS are reported to be very
plenty and active.
MEMORIAL DAY was observed at Bel
mont for the first time.
THE Hendrysburgh brass band has
just received new instruments.
THE school board of Bellaire has made
levy of mills for the next year.
A NUMBER of men are at work in Mar
tins Ferry on the Ohio Valley Railroad
switch.
THE summer hat for ladies reminds
one of mound of hay struck struck by
blizzard.
The prospect is for big crop of
Strawberries at Barnesville, and won
derful stories will soon be told.
JOHN HINES, aged 10, of near Barnes
Vile, fell from fence, breaking both
bones of his arm.
RoMANzA HoGUE, of near Louisville,
shipped this spring 675 barrels of apples,
for which he got good prices.
BARNEsvILLE council after investing a
surplus of its funds in bonds, found out it
was illegal, and undid the matter.
ANDREW RoEDER, of Bellaire, has
been elected Noble Grand Arch of the
Grand Grove of Ohio. w. A. o. D.
The Somerton Anti-Whisky and To-
bacco Association is the name of young
mems organization in that village.
M. KINsLEY, who has been teach
ing the Glencoe schools. has gone to Mt.
Union, to take course in the college
there.
THE miners at the Belmont coal works,
Bellaire, went to work last Thursday, at
the reduction. They get 2 cents per
busbel.
burgh has extended a unanimous call to
Rev. VIM. Todd, of MorristowD, to be-
come their pastor.
IT is stated that the bulk of the stock
in the ElSon glass works is toe change
hands, and the same to start operations
Immediately thereafter.
THE B. & O. has been appraised for
taxation at $4,000 per mile, main line i;
$4,000 per mile, for sidings; $4,000 for
rolling stock, and $50 for tools, etc.
THE Enterprise says the farmers in
the vicinity of Barnesville will plant a
large acreage of buckwhest, as a partial
compensation for the loss of the wheat
crop.
AT the recent meeting of the Bishops
in ST. Louis, the time for holding the
Eastern Ohio Conference was fixed for
September H.. at GAINESVILLE, Bishop
Foster to preside.
BURKETT. of Wheeling. defeated Dob
bins, of Martins Ferry, in the closest
and most exciting three-mile skating
race ever seen ia Wheeling, on last
Thursday evening.
THE tax levy for the next year in
Barnesville will be 1917 mills-township
purposes, u mills, township board of
education, mills; Barnesville schools,
81 mills; corporation, 3 mills.
IT is now said that John N. Eberle,
the Miltonsburg marble man, did not
commit suicide in New York, as has
been stated, but that be has gone to No
va Scotia to enter business.
THE school board at Barnesville, last
week reduced the salaries of teachers in
some of the rooms. 1t is not always
saving to get cheap teachers or, for that
matter, cheap employees of any kind.
The Noble county grand jury found
but two indictments, both for liquor law
the Cambridge Democrat, by the editor
of the Caldwell Press, charging libel, was
ignored.
OwEsNEY JOHNSON, a miner at Steu+
benvilIe, began suit Friday against the
p, C. & st. l.. Railroad, claiming $1,000
damages, for being forcibly removed
from train, by which he was injured
about the head.
On Tuesday afternoon of last week,
there was water spout at Hogs run,
near POwhatan. The water arose almost
instantly some ten feet, and overfiowsd
the River road, piling debris miscellane+
ously. No serious damage was done.
A COMIC and fancy dress mask carni-
val will be held at the ALEXANDRA rink
on Saturday evening. Valuable prizes
will be given for the most fancy and
comic costumes, both lady and gentle
man, which are on exhibition at McMil-
lan's jewelry store.
THE Capital City rink will close for
the season on Saturday evening with a
fancy dress carnival-nO masks. A
handsome prize will be given the most
graceful lady skater with gentleman es-
cort. The skating folks of town report
a most pleasant time at this rink on
Tuesday evening.
THE Bellaire Tribune tells of a phe-
nomena that occurred in that vicinity OF
Wednesday morning of laat week. II
says that "there was quite fall of fine
white particles that looked like fine
snow, but when rubbed with the finger
on hat or clothing made q mark like
chalk. 1t fell in nearly all parts of the
city, and in quantity almost sufficient to
cover the crown or rim of ones hat"