Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-11
Towa and Country.
TIE year 1856 is Marching along.

good.
MAY weather-may be warm or may
be cold.
MEASLES are reported plenty in Union
township.
GOT your garden seed? Need EN-
some day.
YESTERDAY was Ash Wednesday, the
first day of Lent.
MOVING day comes on Thursday, three
weeks from to-day.
FARMERS are busy now getting ready
for the spring work.
BELLAIRE has not had an alarm of
fire for three months.
THREE weeks from next Monday, the
spring elections occur.
THE fruit examiner says the early
cherries are ali right 50 far.
WHEELING business men have organ
lied Chamber of Commerce.
THE motto of the borers for gas at Bel
laire is Gas, OIL, Hades or China
SOMERSET township now has two vot-
WooDsFIELD claims to have two of
the fifteen eagle cents" coined in 1856.
BRIDGEPoRT talks of running main
to Martins Ferry for their water supply.
THE original Babes in the Woods"
troupe is to be reorganized at Bridge
pert.
THE NJ E. church at Martins Ferry
added Ga to its membership, by the Ie>
vival.
BRIDGEPORT council is considering
the matter Of dividing that town into
wards.
THE Bridgeport reading room is TO be
sold. for want of money to cancel its
debts.
THE Somerton skating rink is to be
transfer Led into Salvation Army bar
racks. /
ONLY one arrest in GAINESVILLE for
three weeks. Times must have changed
up there.
AFTER April l, the Barnesville skat+
ing rink will be converted into cigar
factory.
KEMPLE, on "Baked Beans and Bigot>
ry," will held forth in Bellaire, on the
18th inst.
CHARLES o. BROWN, of Barnesville,
passed the State Board of Pharmacy ex-
animation.
S. S. FOREMAN is captain and Joseph
Brill secretary, of the Barnesville BIZ
cycle club.
SEwELLsvILLE schools are closed on
account of measles. Teacher and pupils
have them.
THE Martins Ferry water works bonds
are sold at last, Hayes & Co., of CleVe-
land, purchasers.
BELLAIRE wants two pixies on the
Barnesville plan-one out the creek, the
other to Bridgeport.
Rev. 5. r. FRAZIER delivered his lee
ture on The Yankee in japan" at New
Athens, last evening.
REV. HIssoM is conducting glorious
revival at Burr's Mills. Over so have
united with the church.
Mrs. CAROLINE STUBBs died at her
home near Barnesville, on Monday of
last week, aged so years.
AN agent of r. G. Dunn & Co. was in
Bellaire last week, getting the financial
standing of business men.
The new C. & P. depot at Martins
Ferry will be erected at the intersection
of Second and Water streets
A SoMEBToN writer says they have
more cases of sickness now, than for
any one time for twenty years.
MRS. J. DUNN, of MornstOwn. is suf
fering from a broken collar bone and
couple of ribs, result of recent fall
w. K. RATCLIFF. of Martins Ferry,
will put up a brick stable, in the place
of the one destroyed by fire last week.
THE correspondent from Kennon to
the Enterprise seems wroth because We
mentioned they had the itch over there
WALTER HARDEsTY, aged IS, died at
his home in Barnesyille, Wednesday,
from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy.
THE rebuilding of the Smith gas fur
mace, at the Buckeye glass works, Mar
tins Ferry, was commenced on Monday.
VIM. Nixon, an employe of the Wbee-
ling creek mines, Bridgeport, was badly
crushed Thursday, by fall of sOapStone.
The experimental gas works at Bridge
port blew up last Wednesday. Not much
damage, except to the roof of the build
ing
GEORGE 81. SMITH will erect a. new
twelve room brick dwelling in Martin s
Ferry this season. Exley & Co. have the
contract.
GEORGE BURTON. al aged and well
known citizen OF Goshen tp., died from
the intrmities of age, on Wednesday of
last week.
Mr.. L. SPENCE of Martins Ferry. who
has been confined to his home by illness
for two months, was out for the first time
Oh Thursday.
AN entertainment will be held in Bel
lalre, on Friday and Saturday evenings,
proceeds TO help pay the I'd NJ. E. church
pastors salary.
SEVERAL young men are ready to 90
fishing as soon as the ice is off the creek
The small boy will go as soon as he can
dig few worms.
B. F. DRAKE, Barnesville barber, fol
assaulting one Smith, saloon keeper al
Quaker City, sojourneth in the Cam
bridge Jail, in default of 800 bail.
THEY are beginning to call Sam Jone.
and Sam Small "chureh psalms" If il
were not for the little rule in grammar
they might be called church hims.
The Republican primaries in Bellaire
to elect delegates to municipal and town
ship conventions, will be held OF Satur-
day, and the conventions week later.
THE Democrats of this township will
meet on Saturday, March 27, to Bomin-
ate ticket and the Democrats of tn,
corporation will meet the same evening