Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-16
Town and Country.
CORN cutting is now on.

NOlA1N toSeAi5 40 NJ" O1'
FARMERS are sowing a large acreage
of wheat.
THE candidates are all at the Smyrna
Fair this week.
THERE are 156 inmates in the Belmont
county infrmary.
WALNUTs, hickory nuts. &C., will also
be plenty this year.
GRAPES are selling at % cents per
bushel at Barnesville.
AARON RAMsEY's new brick house at
Powhatan is about completed.
BELMONT county has 431 pensioners,
who are monthly paid S3,S55.25.
POTATOES are selling at some neigh
boring places at 30 cents per bushel.
THE LaBelle glass works, Bridgeport,
turned on the natural gas last week.
ACCORDING to the almanac, Autumn
does not commence until the 22d inst.
PARENTS were generally purchasing
school supplies, the fore part of the week.
The little folks at Barnesville are
haying a lively time with whooping
cough.
NEXT Monday is regular semi-aDnual
meeting day of township boards of edu>
cation.
Mrs. STITT, mother of Squire William
Stitt, is seriously ill at her home near
Glencoe.
THE creamery at Fairpoint was not
operated this year, but was used as a
dwelling.
The Bellaire papers think their coun-
Gil will grant vote on prohibition, at
an early day.
THE man that stands in the way of
progress, will be run over if he does not
move in time.
SUIT has been brought against several
Bellaire saloon keepers, for selling to
Elmer Good.
ONE week from next Tuesday is the
election on the prohibition question in
st. Clairsville.
THE Barnesville Enterprise has lately
been regaled with strawberries fresh
from the vines.
WHEN man has painted the town
red for several years, his nose takes Cd
the carmine tint.
Mrs. JOHN HINES, of Belaire, died on
Thursday. leaving a husband and six
motherless children.
BARNEsYILLE complains that the B &
o engineers blow their whistles in the
CORPORATION after night.
W. w. ELLIOTT, of Batesville, raised
sunfower 4S inches in circumference,
and weighing pounds.
SEPTEMBER is the season for catarrhs
and bad colds, and more than the aver
age number are afflicted.
THE Democratic judicial convention
is being held to-day in Bellaire. briggs,
of Monroe, will be nominated.
Politics have not yet heated up to
any considerable extent. The candidates
are still busy attending fairs.
A NEW natural gas pipe line has been
put over the river at West Wheeling, to
insure the supply on this side.
THE Barnesville schools started out
last week, with $40 pupils enrolled. The
senior class starts with l3 members.
SEvENTY-Two probationers we're re-
ceived into full membership in the NJ E
church at Barnesville, on Sabbath of last
week.
GEO. SHAFFFR, of Wayne tp., had a
rib broken and was otherwise injured, in
arunaway accident, on Monday of last
week.
IT is said that the first glass made in
Bellaire with the natural gas fuel, is the
brightest and clearest ever made in the
valley.
JOSEPH GREEN and family, formerly
of the Cbildren's Home, have removed tC
Wooster, where their children will be
educated.
AL. KENNEDY, employe of the Bel
laire steel works, was seriously burned
last Wednesday, by molten steel flying
upon him.
d. ]. MCMANNIs, of Glencoe, has beer
appointed assistant ticket agent, in the
Office of the Michigan Central Railroad
at Detroit.
JOSEPH AULT has purchased the 81
acre 1arm, near CenterVllle, which was
owned by Jesse Wilkinson, deceased, fol
$50 per acre.
JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH, of Bellaire
will represent the Bellaire K of L., a
the annual meeting at Richmond, Va
October 1st.
THE council at Martins Ferry ha
passed an ordinance fixing the minimum
fine for Sunday liquor selling, at $50 an,
ten days in Jail.
THE council of Martins Ferry las
week organized as the council of a cit
of the second class, by electing Isaa
Colts, president.
THE long vacation is over, and at moo
time and even tide, the streets are throne
ed with happy faced children on thei
way from school.
If the weather did not change occa
sioDally, there would be no variety i
some peoples conversation. By the way
it rained Friday and Sunday.