Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-06


tins Ferry will purchase lot, and erecI
church.
n TUNNEL HILL, near Bellaire, has or,
gsnized a Union sunday school. with
$50 members.
), IT has Deen glorious "Springtime
agreeable, however.
n The law firm of Rees & Hoff has been
dissolved: the individual law cards of
these gentlemen appear in this paper.
: THE helpers and shearmeE of the Et-
na guide mill, Martins Ferry, are out on
. a strike for an advance of l5 per cent. in
n wages.
DIED.-Sherman J. Baggs, son of A. J.
Baggs, died on Tuesday afternoon at l O'Clock
t D. m, aged - years. Funeral on Thursday at
: / 30 p. IN. Friends of the family are invited.
E GEO. HARNUNG, ESQ, the superintend-
ent OF the construction of the Martin $
Ferry water works, arrived in that place
on Saturday, and is looking over the
grounds.
THE county commissioners will sell at
public sale on June 10, S25,000 court
house bonds = fifteen bonds of $1,000
each, and twenty bonds of $500 each, all
payable in 1892.
THERE are good many people who
borrow the CHRONICLE every week, to
read the local news, who ought to be
manly enough to subscribe for it-Only
two dollars year.
PHILIP LUCAS, of Atkinsville, Owen
county, Ind, brother of Mrs. Joshua
Worley, of this place, died last Sabbath,
!, aged 81. He was formerly of this coun-
ty, having removed to Indiana in 1864.
A GAY GIRL from Portland, Ohio,
named Belle Williams, got Oh drunk
in Martins Ferry, Monday, aud made
the air ring with new and picturesque
oaths, until she was landed in the lookup.
The Bridgeport school board have en-
ployed Miss Annie Faris, of Bellaire,
vice Miss Maggie Enlow, resigned, and
w. R. Butcher, of St. Clairsvilie, vice J.
w. Fowler, resigned, for the ensuing
year.
The Normal school to be taught at
Centerville, by Rev. W. A. Williams will
begin on May 81, and continue fifteen
weeks. At the close of the term, the
county examiners will Eold a teachers
examination.
First National Bank of this place, on
Tuesday, a semi-annual dividend of )
per cent. was declared. and 1000 was
carried to the surplus fund. First Ma
tional stock is not bad investment.
DRUMMoND PosT G. A. R. has taken
the preliminary steps for the proper OBJ
servance of Memorial Day in st. Clars-
vile. The Post will attend divine SER
vice at the Presbyterian church on Sab
bath, May 80, and on Monday will deco
rate the soldiers graves.
NEXT Sunday, May 9,there will be the Sd
quarterly meeting services at the Meth
odist church of this place. Love feast at /
9 80 a. m. Preaching at II o'clock, fol- /
lowed by the Sacramental service; Rev. /
Payne will also preach in the evening. t
Quarterly conference at 8 a. %. Monday. c
MARRIAGE licenses were issued bv !;
Probate Judge CASTOR during the week =
ending Tuesday, as follows: ;
Joseph R Miller and Lucy WPstlake.
James o Cochran and Della Merritt.
VIM Walters and Emma F Sailer.
RObt w Wood and Lille Lyle.
HOPE CoMMANDERY No. g. K. T.. at q
their stated conclave in this place, Tues r
day evening, ,nducted E Orr, of Bridge /
port, ThOS Burtoft and Andrew Tolmie, n
jr, of Bellaire, into the mysteries of
knighthood. X A number of Sir Knights =
from other localities, among them J ;
Purnell, Bellaire, Ezra McC onnell, Flush
ing, r HI List and Geo Dreamer, Wheel ,
ing, l. W IngIebright, of Martins Ferry, e,
and others, were present.
The proprletors of Ely's Cream Balm do t
not claim il to be cure~al, but sure remedy [
for catarrh, colds In the head and hay fever;
it is not a liquid or snuff, but is easily ap>
piled with the finger; it gives relief at once;
price SOC. | have had nasal cstarrh for ten
years so bad that there were great sores in my
nose, and one place was eaten through; | got
Ely's Cream Balm; two bottles did the work;
my nose and head is we'll; feel like another {
man-C s McMilien, Sibley, jackson county, {
Mo. sect Il
PROBATE JUDGE GAsToN, on Saturday, ap>
pointed Supt II. l.. Peck, of the Bsrnesville
schools, member of the board of school eX>
amlners for Belmont county, for a term of \
three years, vice Joseph Henderson, whose
term expired May 1. MIR. Peck has had eX~ {
tensive experience in the management of pub
lie schools, and will bring, to the discharge I
of his duties as examiner, lively apprecis
tion of the needs of our common schools. No
better selection could have been made.
MRS. ISABELLA HAMILTON, mother of t
Mrs. w. b. Gilmore, of this place, fell
while going down the steps from the
back porch of their residence, on Tues
day morning, and fractured the fore arm
just above the wrist joint. Just as Mrs. 6
Fl. was coming down the steps Mr.. Gil
more started to pass up with bucket of
water, and when she fell, was caught by
Mr. Gilmore, and her arm striking the
rim of the bucket, was broken. Mrs. H.,
who is quite an old lady, has had consid-
erable experience with broken arms. this
same arm having been twice before fTac- s
tured DR.. A II. Hewetson reduced the
fracture.
WORK on the new court house has :
been progressing rapidly during the re-
cent favorable weather, and within the
next week the masonry and brick work, :
outside and inside walls, will be CON- ;
pleted to the top of the second stO-
ry. Twelve stone masons and brick +
layers are employed on the building
Contractor McClain has added to his
effective working force ten+horse q
power upright engine, which furnishes
the power to hoist material quickly .
where it is needed for the work. The
building is beginning to show up in
masSiveness and architectural beauty,
and Contractor McClain is aS proud of it :
as woman with new spring bonnet.
THE May meeting Of the .Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society ofthe M. E.
church, will be held at the house of Mrs.
Thomas Fawcett, Friday evening, May
7th, at ~ o'clock. This meeting is held
at the call of Mrs. Bishop Clark and Mrs.