Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-27
Published Every Thursday
Town and Country.
CuouMBERs have come.

1hE olO a.
sheep shearing.
MEMORIAL DAY, and then comes the
glorious Fourth.
BASS are not biting now. as it is the
spawning season.
mo FLOWERS" seems to be general at
the c0mmenceDents.
MARTINS FERRY is to enjoy the BEN
etits of practical plumber.
MRS. REBECCA WILSON died ia Barnes
vile, I4th inst, from measles.
CUT worms and potato bugs are ruin
ing tomato plants in some sections
THE next teachers examination will
be held at MOrristown, on une II.
GAINESVILLE manufactures more sto-
gies than any other town in the state.
SABBATH moraing it looked threaten
ing, but changed into regular summer
day.
THE C, L g. W will convert the rail-
road station at Blaine into a dwelling
house.
TIE merchants hsve set out their
store boxes, and the crop of loafers is
prolific
NATHAN HOLLOWAY and family, of
Flushing, have removed TO New Phils>
delphia.
THE new street lamps were lighted on
Friday evening for the first time-they
are daisies.
The fellows with axes to grind are
around trying to get people to turn their
grindstone.
The Barnesville graduating exercises
will be held Thursday evening of next
week, June Sd.
A GAINESVILLE man seeks notOriety
by writing the Lords Prayer in the space
of silver dime.
TIE strawberry agents are already
focking into Barnesville, and are barter
ing for the crop.
THE Barnesville business men have
organized an early closing movement
~ o'clock is the hour.
BEN DRAKE, of Barnesville, viewed
the inside of the Cambridge Jail, for car
rying concealed weapons.
PROF. T. P. HARRIS and Miss Ella
Whitacre have been engaged TO teach
another year at Somerton.
Rev. DENNY has been selected by the
American Bible Society to canvass COLI
umbus and Franklin county.
THE Women's Relief Corps, of Bellaire,
want Private Dalzell to lecture on June
%, on Letters and Letters"
AN old weather prophet says it will
be dry summer, because the grasshOp-
per put in an early appearance.
GEN. D. A. HoLLINGswoRTH, of Csdiz,
will deliver the Memorial Day address
at Uhrichsville, next Monday.
THE Wheeling Poultry Association
will hold its midsummer meeting in
Barnesville, on the 9th of June.
THE Belmont savings and loan compa-
ny, of Bellaire, declared a ten per cent
dividend on the first years work.
REV. A. E. BRowNLEE has accepted
call to the Martins Ferry . P church,
and will begin his labors July 1st.
PREPARE to "fall in" with the veter>
ans on Monday, and assist in honoring
the memory of the departed heroes.
THE amateur gardener and the neigh
ber's chickens are engaged in the usual
tussie as to who shall run the garden.
On June IL, the ladies of the colored
church of Barnesville, will hold festi>
val, to raise money to pay their pastor.
MRS. BETSY AULT, an aged lady of
Franklin. and mother of David and
Thomas Ault, died on Monday of last
week.
THE natural gas pipe line. to supply
the factories of the river towns, has
about reached the lower end of Martins
Ferry.
WHEELING has made some successful
experiments in crematiOg night soil, and
Bellaire rejoices in prospect for purer
water.
MICHAEL LYNsKEY. of Bellaire. last
week received 81, 100 from the B & o, as
damages to bis property by the railroad
bridge.
IT is said that Hon John A Bingham
will be candidate for Congress in this
district, and that he has so written to
friends.
W. NJ. MEEK, ex-policenan of Bellaire,
being now engaged in the mail service
at Cincinnati, will remove his family to
that place.
THE Monroe Gazette says that the
Belmont Bank at Somerton, will close
up its business, and leave Somerton with
out bank.
The mayer of Bellaire will prosecute
B & o engineers and conductors, who
run trains faster than the law allows, in
the cit, limits.
MRS. ELIZABETH ADAMS, of Bridge
port, in default of $42 fine and costs for
keeping disreputable house, was sent
to Jail last week.
The Second NJ E church camp meet
ing will commence in Walnut Grove,
Martins Ferry, on July "a, and continue
over two Sundays.
FRANK CREwE, of this place. has re-
moved with his family to Cadiz, where
he will engage in business with L W
johnson, the baker.
THE boat race at Bellaire, on Saturday,
between He'll, of that place. and Rich
ards. of Pittsburgh, is expected to draw
large crowd of sportsmen.
On Tuesday, June 8, the annual meet
ing of the Eastern Ohio Horticultural
Society will be held at Bsrnesvile. The
State Society will meet with them.
THE new Fish Commissioner, John
Hofer. of Bellaire, will appoint Marshal
Joe McConnaughey, of Bridgeport, one
of the fish wardens for this county.
]. W. WILSON. ESQ, a former teacher
of this county, has been appointed coun-
ty examiner of schools, of Anderson
county, Kansas, at salary of $500 per
year.