Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-10
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
STRAWBERRY short cake is popular.
SoMERToN will organize G. A. r
Post.
HARVEST promises to be very early
this year.
FLUSHING wants her corporate limits
extended.
The Wheeling police made 1O4 arrests
during May.
CIRCUIT COURT commences in this
place next Tuesday,
The Bellaire schools close this week
for the summer vacation.
THE Flushing schools closed Friday,
for the summer vacation.
THERE are prospects for plenty of
raspberries and blackbeIries.
A FEW clips of wool in Coshocton
county, have been sold at 80 cents.
JUDGE COCHRAN, of Martins Ferry,
reports first. with a 2H ounce strawberry.
The Flushing Advertiser will here
after be published weekly-On Saturday.
The Salvation Army has rented bar
racks in Bellaire, and opened up Thurs
day.
BURR's MILLS camp meeting will be
conducted this year as last-no big Sun.
day.
BRIDGEPORT citizens are petitioning
fer flag men at the various railroad cross
ings.
MRS. NORA WILLIAMS, of Martins
Ferry; died ON Friday, from cOnsump-
tion.
"NoT SATISFIED" was the motto of
the class graduated at Bridgeport. last
week.
JUPITER, bright and brilliant, is to be
seen in the western skies during this
month.
Rev. DAVID UPDEeRAFF, of Mt Pleas
ant, found 450 cut worms in four hills
of corn.
THE new structures erected in Barnes
vile last year, are valued for taxation
at $2.S5O.
The offensive bone factory at West
Wheeling was removed last week, by an
incendiary.
CHILDREN's DAY will be appropriately
observed by the NJ. E. Sabbath School,
next Sunday.
IT will be the same this year as in the
past-no celebration of the Fourth in
st. Clairsville.
THE squirrels legal protection expir-
ing June 1, the nimrods have been out in
force the past week.
RHoDERICK LINN, a prominent color
ed man, died recently at his home on
Captina, aged so years.
MoRRIsTowN is to have paper, under
the management of Rev. Weaver, to be
devoted to church affairs.
A GOOD many sheep are still wearing
their wuolly coats, but this week will
about finish up the shearing.
ROBERT VANHoRN, of Belmont, died
on Monday of last week, after long
illness from stomach disease.
A COLT belonging to John Hanna, of
New Athens, had an eye knocked out by
hail stone, in the recent storm.
GEORGE DUNCAN, an employe at Bar
nard's mines, Bellaire, had leg badly
broken by falling stone, Thursday.
THIS Thursday evening, Col Jake
Kemple lectures in City Hall, Bellaire,
on the Eccentric People of Bellaire."
WORK has commenced on the new
brick moulding room, at Spence, Baggs
& Co.'s stove foundry, Martins Ferry.
REV. DENNY, of the Bible Society, is
canvassing Union tp., and when it is
completed, be will finish this township.
TIE Bellaire commencement occurs on
Friday evening of this week. An adj
mission fee of ten cents will be charged.
BY the aid Of a glass, the new court
house at this place can be seen from the
tower of DIR. j. E. Barricklow's residence,
at Flushing.
NEXT Saturday the Bellaire board of
education will elect their teachers for
next year. Their total levy for the en-
suing year is 6.66 mills.
THE town has been we'll supplied with
berries and cherries the past week--doz-
ems of dealers coming in daily. The
fruit is plenty and excellent.
THE Baptist church at Rock Hill has
secured part of the time of Rev. Boyd
of Antrim, and will have preaching the
second Sunday of each month.
THEODORE NEFF, of York tp., raised
astalk of rhubarb thirty inches in length
and seven inches in diameter. The leaf
around the outer edge measured % feet
THE Martins Ferry humane society
just organized, is officered as follows
Rev. Samuel Boyd. president; W. H
Wood, secretary; w. n. Holiday, treas
urer.
CALEB MERCER, of Batesville bs:
gone to New York to see about the al
legged fortune, said to be due the Mercer
heirs. Several of the heirs reside II
this county.
FORTY of the probationers were bap
tiZed by Rev Hissom, at the Belmont
E church, on Sunday morning of las
week, and in the afternoon, about tn,
same number were baptized at Burri
Mills. 1t is said that nearly all of tht
240 probatieners received last winter OF
Rev Hissom's Circuit, will be taken int
P.,I ho rahip