Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-11
Town and Country.

seven days during January.
The Bellaire tin stores will close a
7;So p a.. except on Saturday.
Mrs. BENZ. DAVIS died at her HON.
in Martins Ferry on Thursday.
THE b. & O. has put up over i, 200 tons
Of ice in its buildings at Bellaire.
THF lightning rod swindlers are abroad
in the land. Watch out for them.
PROF. GoUDY has organized a singing
class of thirty members al Jacobsburg
NEXT Sabbath is St. Valentines day
but the pesteffice will be besieged on
Saturday.
ONLY ten special delivery letters were
received at the Bellaire postoffice during
January.
JACOB RoDEFER, of Bellaire, had a
fine milk COW to freeze to death, one night
last week.
MRS. MARY WATKINS, of BelIaira, fell
on the icy sidewalk Thursday, breaking
her wrist.
LOUIS SMITH has received verdict
against the b z. & c. for SII555, wages
rs engineer.
The Bellaire Liberty Hose Co. celsr
brates its 18th anniversary on February
22, in dance.
IT is about time for the wisescre to
look at fruit bud, and tell as the crop
will be failure.
BE ssre to see Fowler & Drummond's
famous Rockford Shoes; perfect it and
wear guaranteed.
FLUSHING children are wrestling with
siege OF chicken pox, cutting down the
attendance at school.
The ice men laid in an additional sup
ply last week, and now want warm
weather to market it.
THERE is much sickness among the
GAINESVILLE school children, principally
colds and sore threats.
ABOUT S25 was raised by school en-
tertainment at Morristown, to assist the
school library project.
WEST WHEELING wants q voting pre-
cinct in that place. The voters there
have to go to Bellaire.
SIX deaths in little town like West
Wheeling. during January, is surely a
very large proportion.
JERRY WALLER, near Cambridge,
claims that his butter paddle was made
by George Washington.
THE plasterers of Bellaire met last
week aud adopted a scale of prices for
the coming seasons work.
The different fire companies of Bel
laire are contesting for trumpet, bene-
6t of the Catholic church.
A MIND CURE" physician, Madame
Barnard. formerly of Washington City,
has located at Cambridge.
Miss ADA PIPER has been forced to
resign as assistant postmaster at Barnes
vile, on account of i'll health.
A SNEAK thief took pane of glass
from the Jacobsburg school house, went
in and stole the teachers clock.
AN addition of two story brick build
ing, containing six rooms. is to be made
to the Albert House, GAINESVILLE.
ED. TRorT, of Barnesville, brakeman
on the B. & O., had leg broken in the
accident near GAINESVILLE, last week.
REvIvALs are going on in almost ev
cry town and community in this county,
and many are uniting with the church.
Miss ALICE Roscoe has been promot-
ed to principal of the 1st ward school,
Bellaire, vice D. L. Thoburn, resigned.
VALENTINES are blooming there are
nice ones, and also the usual penny in
suits, the latter seeming to predominste.
A FLAG station has been established
on the b. & o.. at Bailey's Mills, about
midway between Bsrnesville and Spen-
GERS.
ALFRED DAMsEL, of Bsrnesville has
brought suit for divorce against his wife,
for willful absence for more than three
years.
THIEVES got about $40 worth of CLOTH
ing from the residence of Joseph Nuns
low. Martins Ferry, last Wednesday
night.
NEXT Monday, the commissioners will
hear the parties interested in the divis-
lou Of Goshen tp. into two election pre-
cincts.
MRS. PHOEBE FOWLER, aged 81, died
at the home of her son in Martins Ferry
on Thursday. The family once resided
in this place.
FOWLER & DRUMAoNp are selling the
unequaled Eugiish Waukenhast Shoe
for "a so; warranted hand-sewed welt,
and best calfskin.
THIRTEEN degrees below zero, said the
thermometer last Friday morning. If
the g. b. did not go back, he must have
been frozen to death.
JOHN ERIsER, Barnesville glass
worker. has bad a successful operation
performed in Pittsburgh, for q tumor
which threatened his sight.
MRS. JOSEPHINE BERRY, Of Bridge
port, accidentally dropped her pocket
book containing $50 into the river, while
crossing the suspension bridge last week,
Wx. BUTTERwoRTH, who lost foot
in b. & o. accident at Belmont last
summer, has been made conductor of the
Cambridge and Wheeling accomnoda-
tion.
THE Barnesville Presbyterian church
raised SIC, in collection for the unfor
tunate at Newburg. W. Va. This was
after the regular collection had beer
taken.
FOWLER & DRUMMoND, Bridgeport
are receiving new goods almost daily
Come, see, buy and take home with you
pair of our Acc infants Shoes, or 81 81
woman's button Shoes.
Mr. JOSEPH HOLMES. of New Athens
says that mercury was lower in the ba
remeter at the approach of the recen
great January storm, than it has beer
at any time in the past 20 years.
In selecting seed corn the main poin
is to have it dried in the fall before Sc
we're frosts have had chance to iDjur
it. The difficulty with much poor see
corn is that it is froZon first and tn