Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-03
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
THE Fourth of July next.
New potatoes are the newest product
in market.
THE great nailers strike was one yeaI
old On Monday.
CIRCUIT COURT convenes at this place
on Tuesday, 10Th inst.
THE Sunday Register had an illustrat-
ed article on Bellaire.
MoRRIsTowN rejoices in the prospect
of having new bakery.
CONSIDERABLE corn had to be re-plant-
ed in parts of this county.
JUNE came in on Tuesday, aud found
her roses had preceded her.
SCHOOL is out, and the small boy is at
work-on the cherry trees.
THE Bethel Grove A NJ E camp meets
ing will commence on August 9th.
1t was hot and dusty on Monday, but
June came in with coolish wave.
Miss JENNIE SMITH, a noted evaugel-
ist, is doing grand work in Wheeling.
THE city fathers will meet in regular
monthly session, next Monday evening
TIE new Iiqnor law closed fifteen of
Bellaire's saloons, but there are plenty
left.
HoNoRABLY discharged soldiers are
now exempt from road working, in this
state.
Miss EMMA BAUGH, of Bellaire, aged
II years, died on Sunday, from typhoid
fever.
THE brick work on the new G & P de-
pot at Martins Ferry, has been COM
menced.
THE county commissioners were at
Steubenville last week on court house
business.
THIRTY applicants were before the
Bellaire teachers examining board, On
Saturday.
THE annual business meeting of the
Burr's Mills camp managers, was held
on Tuesday.
A SOCIETY for the prevention of crus
city to animals is to be organized at
Barnesvile.
The Bellaire nail factory closed down
on Monday; the steel works will run
another month.
A DRUGGIST at Martins Ferry has
four-legged chicken in alcohol, on exhi
bition at his store.
The miners along the B & o, who
struck against mining coal to ship east,
are all at work again.
The Bellaire A NJ E church has or
ganized White Apron Society. to raise
funds to pay the Indebtedness of the
church.
PROF. W. A. WILLIAMS, of Franklin
college, has accepted a call to the Pres
byterian church of Centeryille, in this
county.
THERE is to be a festival at Loyds-
vile, on next Saturday evening, for the
benefit of the NJ E church. Everybody
invited.
THE tobacco growers in this and neigh
boring counties are preparing to pat out
an extra large crop, with fair prospects
for good yield.
JOHN GATCHTER, a well known Bel
laire barber. died on Friday, from chron-
ic diarrhea aged 26 years. lie leaves a
wife and child.
Hell, of Bellaire, was an easy winner
in his boat race on Saturday, with Rich
ards, of Pennsylvania They will row
again on July 4.
BELLAIRE and Barnesville both deco>
rated on Saturday. Both places had
grand turnOuts, and a lovely day to do
honor to the soldier dead.
Miss ALICE CAMPBELL, an esteemed
young woman. died at her home near
Franklin, on Tuesday of last week, from
consun ption, aged 2S years.
C. C. KELLY is president. George Wal
ters, secretary, and John Dubois. treas
urer, of the Bellaire Society for Preven>
tion of Cruelty to Animals.
WIN. MYERS, aged about 1S years. died
on Sunday. at the home of his father,
Jackson Myers, of Bellaire, after ten
days illuess from typhoid fever.
LEE VICKERs and George Satterth-
waite, of the Loydsville neighborhood.
who recently went to Kansas on pros
pecting tour, have returned. They like
old Belmont county best.
AT the recent meeting of the Great
Council of Red Men of Ohio, at Newark
T. J. Irwin, of Martins Ferry, was set
lected to represent the state at the Grand
Council of the United States.
AT the close of the Martins Ferry
commencement exercises on Friday, Rev
HoltZ. on behalf Of the schools, presents
ed Miss Sue Crumbacker, the retiring
teacher of the high school, with an ele-
CANT gold watch.
GRANT HASTINGS, of Batesville, who
stood second in the competitive examin
alton at Cambridge. for a cadet to West
Point from this district, has been order
ed to that place, TO receive drill for the
final examination to be held this month
The B, Il & C road was appraised fol
taxation as follows: $1,000 per mile fol
the main line: $500 per mile for the sidt
tracks; 800 per mile for rolling stock
and 81 400 for the buildings of the com
pdny III odCn VI lHo OouHlioo tniouSi
which it passes.
THE Richland township trustees, OIL
Saturday viewed the Warnock pike. ant
then decided line fence controversy
They then met in regular monthly ses
sion, The bids for the township under
t4king were opened. and the contrac
awarded to B. R. Johnston for the en-
ling year. The annual levy was fixet
a. u mill for general township purposes
AMI / mill for road in labor. which is l..
of a mill less than the levy for last year