Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-20
Town and Country.
GOOD growing weather.
CHERRIES are beginning to turn.


THIS is the dudes own seasOn-every
thing is fresh and green.
ONLY two weeks more of May, anC
then the squirrel law is up.
A LODGE of the Knights of Labor has
been established at Glencoe.
THE total enrolment of the Barnes.
vile schools this year, is 635.
By its recent festival. the A NJ I
church in Bellaire, netted 1896.
THE walks on the suspension bridge
at Wheeling are to be widened.
THE Ohio State Fair will be held Au~
gust 80 and 81, and Sept. l, ? and 3.
SUTTON Bros, of Glencoe, are raising
and improving their store building.
PROGRAMS, invitations, wedding goods and
visiting cards-late designs at this Office.
THE Fourth of July is coming. Why
not get up a celebration of some kind.
OIL was struck at the Bethel well on
Thursday evening, at depth of 1850
feet.
lhE hOCh I'LL COdl HluSS dIO III dC
tive operation, with about 40 men EN-
ployed.
THE Bellaire street railway company
elected an entire new board of directors
last week.
A FLoURIsHING Good Templars' lodge
has been established at Louisville, with
80 members.
THE chief business with some of the
young folks just now, is hunting four
leaf clOVers.
EVERYTHING will be a little higher
this year, even the bottoms of the straw
berry boxes.
MEMORIAL DAY one week from Sun
day. 1t will be observed on Monday in
St. Clairsville.
A. STEPHENS has quit the saloon busi-
ness at Hendrysburg, and Is manufactur-
ing bed springs.
THE Bellaire police have been newly
equipped with clubs, nippers. &c, at "A
cost of $50 each.
THE ladies Of the BarnesvilIe Presby-
terian church have already announced
strawberry festival.
A COAL company has been organized
at Woodsfeld, and a shaft is being put
down near that place.
THE EtDaville Union Cornet Bands
concert in Bellaire last Thursday even
ing, was a great success.
REV. SEDGwICK, of this county, has
aannntaA u aall fn he Ranticf oh of
Beallsville, Monroe county.
THERE will DO a Sabbath School In
stitute at the Hendrysburg NJ E church,
on next Monday and Tuesday.
JOHN RITZ, of Bellaire, has entered
for the boating regatta at Toronto, given
by Hanlon, to be held June 4.
THE number received on probation in
the NJ E church in this, GAINESVILLE Dis
trict. the past winter, is 1850.
For rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia,
cramp or collie there is no remedy superior to
the genuine DR. Thomas Eclectnc Oil
THE new mayor of Bellaire starts out
well. His report for last month showed
S211.S0 paid into the city treasury.
THE loss on the Crystal window glass
works, recently burned in Bellaire, will
probably go to court for adjustment.
THE C, L & W railroad earned last
year S705,G00; the operating expenses
were S543, ,OOO-net earnings, S212,OOO.
THE German church of BelIaire holds
a fair and festival in the Elysian rink,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week.
THE Richland Tp Board of Education
holds an adjourned meeting on Saturday
afternoon. The levy will be made on
that day.
THE trial of John Wilson, the colored
murderer Of Washington, GUERNSEY
county, will take place at Cambridge, on
May 31st.
A LADY trapeze performer fell from
the trapeze. distance of 80 feet, while
exhibiting in Barnesville, but was not
badly injured.
Two SALOON keepers of GAINESVILLE
were fined S25 and costs last week by
the mayor, for violating the 10 o'clock
closing ordinance.
Ayers Pills are pleaeant, safe and sure,
and excel all other pills in heeling and cura-
tive qualities; they are the best of all purgaN
tives for family use.
Two VALUABLE cows belonging tc
VIM Atkinson, Esq, near Pleasant Grove
were killed by lightning on Friday morn.
ing; they were insured.
Mrs. LIZZIE BAKER, wife of Constable
Irve Baker, of Bellaire, died on Satur-
day. She leaves a husband and three
children to mourn her loss.
THEo HoRNBRooK. for many years &
prominent merchant of Powhatan, i:
now travelling for Hubbard 81 PAUL
wholesale grOcers of Wheeling.
CAPT ED. FISHER, of Wheeling, ha:
been assigned TO the Cambridge Saliva
ton Army Post He is the father o.
Capt. Lydia, of the Barnesville Post.
Hon. j. BURNS, of Dayton, formerl!
superintendent of the st. Clairsvill,
schools, will attend the Harrison County
Teachers Institute at CadiZ, in August
SNOW BALLS will be gone on Decora
tion Day this year, which shows how
far the season is advanced. Usual,
they are just in full bloom on MemOria
Day.
On Wednesday of last week, William
Smith. an employe of Smith & Sons flour
ing mill, Bridgeport, had his thumb ant
fore finger badly lacerated between tw,
wheels.
Young men confined to their busines
through the day, need not go fishing TO
exercise. Let them try couple of hour
before business hours working in tn
garden.
SOME doctors claim that hot waite
will cure anything. One thing is cer
tain, however. and that is, that it vii
cure cat from singing under you
window.
NICK CRIswFLL, the oldest eBginee
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