Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-18
Town and Country.

clocks at Barnesville.
A BICYCLE club will be organized in
Bellaire the coming spring.
THE next season base ball campaign is
opening-also the circuses.f
THE dry goods clerks in Bellaire want
the stores to close at 6 p. N.
The LaBelle glass works. Bridgeport,
Is turning Ost some fine colOred ware.
The spring like weather makes the
busy housewife think of house cleaning.
The Ballaire Catholics hold their
church fair from March to 9, elusive.
HENRY S. BARNES has been appointed
chief of the Barnesville fire department
THE Bellaire Independent makes
call for mud shoes, for street use in that
city.
MANY persons are complaining of
colds and sore throat. Take care of the
feet.
DAVID HUMPHREY has purchased the
Crossley farm, near Flushing, at S34 per
acre.
M. Y. RUsK has purchased the inter+
est of James Smith, in the store at Fair
point.
THE Beilaire steel works went on
Thursday, after shut down of several
weeks.
THERE are nine daily passenger trains
each way, between Martins Ferry and
Bellaire.
TEE Barnesville public and school liz
brary has been closed on account of lack
of funds.
Two BELLAIRE men are rebuilding
the Niagara rink, for third interest in
the same.
TIE Mayor of GAINESVILLE did S47.3O
worth of business for the city during
last month.
Mrs. L. w. BAILEY, of Martins Ferry,
was severely injured Friday, by falling
down stairs.
In BarnesviHe, Prof. J. R. Carothers
is teaching large class in penmanship
every evening.
THE net proceeds of the bazaar by the
ladies of the N. E. church at Bellaire,
were SSf4.29.
THE Belmont Gas & Oil Co. have their
well down about 1,200 feet. They will
go LOO feet.
A GRAND circular fox hunt will take
place in Kirkwood and Union tps., on
February goth.
A NUMBER of Martins Ferry capital
lists are forming company to manufac-
ture wire nails.
Mr.. JOSEPH MILLER, aged about so
years, was buried at Semerton, on Mon
day of last week.
The cav of the crow and the blue
bird whistle have been heard. Spring
will come again.
A. L. SACKETT, school teacher of Rock
Hill, and well known here, is down with
the typhoid fever.
SQUIRRELS are protected by law until
the first of June. under penalty of fine
and imprisonment.
THE Bellaire salesladies are joining
the K. of L., aHd the stores will be re-
Quested to close early.
BURKETT beat Shuttleworth first two
heats last Thursday, and is the Ohio
Valley roller champion.
SAM. JONES says that progressive eu-
c6re is progressing toward hell at the
rate of a mile a minute.
WIN. STANTON, of GAINESVILLE, tells
the Enterprise that the recent cold snap
killed all the peach buds.
JAKE KEMPLE, of Wheeling, will lee
ture in Bellaire for the G.. A. R., on
Baked Beans and Bigotry."
Rev. HIssoM closed his meeting at
Belmont with 20 accessions, and has be-
gun meeting at Burr's Mills.
FLUSHING township comes to the front
with three candidates for Recorder, be-
fore the Republican convention.
SINCE the resumption of work in the
glass houses and rolling mills at Martins
Ferry, the vacant houses are filling up.
DURING the thaw. the brick pavements
were on the 1sdal 'see=saw,' with their
hidden shower baths for shoes and stock
ings.
W. E. CUNNINGHAM, aged 65, died at
the residence of bis daughter, Mrs. T. W.
MellOtt, at Glencoe, on Wednesday of
last week.
IT seems one ground hog stayed out,
and be was run over and killed on the
c., L. & w. road near Bridgeport, on
Thursday.
"THE Cudgel" will be the name of a
little daily paper printed during the
Catholic church fair in Bellaire. from
March to 9.
THERE will be two eclipses of the sun
in March. One on the 5th. and the other
on the 2eth. They are partial in the
United States.
THE $4,000 Martins Ferry water
works bonds have at last been disposed
of to a Cleveland firm, and work will
commence at once.
DUMP" SHERMAN, formerly of Bel
laire, has lately been held to court at
Idaho Springs, Colorado. for drawing a
revolver on another gambler
CANDIDATES for county offices need
not be in so much hurry this year. The
fall election has been set back one month
from October to November.
THE Bridgeport K. of P. will give a
concert Friday evening, the occasion be-
ing of their 22d anniversary. This lodge
is hourishing, having 127 members.
WILSON B. NAYLoR. died at his home
in Bellaire On Wednesday, from COM
pication of diseases, aged 81 years. A
wife and two children are bereft in his
death.
THE first of a series of papers by E. P
Roe, entitled "The Home Acre." will be
published in the next number of Har-
pers Magazine. Mr.. Roe gives many
useful suggestions for improving the
grounds of suburban and country dwell
isgs.