Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-06
Published Every Thursday
Town and Country.
CORN planting.

SOHN plaullISs
A NEW NJ. 2. church is to be erecte
at Belmont.
SPRING suits commenced to bloom co
last Sabbath.
FIRES were very comfortable the frs
days of May.
READ the large new advertisement o
c. Trolls Sons.
THE forest trees have put on tber
green spring suits.
The latest in spring millinery is horse
shoe shaped bonnets.
TEACHERS examination in Bellaire OF
Saturday of this week.
WHITE lilies are blooming now, and
the woods are full of them.
MAYOR Brown. of Bellaire, has issued
a cleaning up proclamation.
BARNEsvILLE people now figure this
seasons berry crop at 100000.
4 UNIFORM rank of the K of p Lodge
is being organized at BarDesville.
FISHING parties are already out select
ing sites for spmmer encampments.
A LoYDSvILLE correspondent reports
many fields of wheat badly winter killed.
A NUMBER of our town people were to
Wheeling on Saturday, to see the circus.
OVER fifty recruits have been muster>
ed into the Salvation Army at Bar0es-
Vile.
PAINTING, cleaning up and improving
generally has been going on for some
time.
W. K. NJ. DENNY, of the American BIZ
BILE Society, is canvassing Union tp., this
week.
MRS. JANE MOSES died in Bellaire on
Thursday, from the effects of a paralytic
stroke.
THE letter carriers of Wheeling ham
died 265.751 pieces of mail matter DUR
ing April.
The ladies of the BarnesvIlle Chris
tian church netted about $50, in their
Easter festival.
WHEN any one goes fishing, he comes
back wet, muddy, and without any de-
sire to go again.
THE difficulty existing in the First
Presbyterian church, BeIlaire, has been
smjcsbly settled.
THE Bellaire council had to borrow
$1,000, to run them until they receive |
taxes in September.
ARBoR DAY was not celebrated in this |
locality; some trees were planted, how |
ever, by individuals.
FINE fishing is reported at the Govern
ment dam. Bridgeport, and local sports
men are enjoying it.
FoR RENT-Furnished room, large; south>
ern expose; one of the pleasantest rooms in
town. Inquire at JEPsoN's. 29-tf
THE Indian show has closed a five |
weeks engagement at Martins Ferry, |
and gone to Bridgeport.
THE work of laying the natural gas
pipes between Martins Ferry and Bel
laire, will soon commence.
LAST Friday was the anniversary of
the Inauguration of George Washington,
first President of the .. 5.
THERE was no rain on Easter. there
fore there will be none for seven consec- |
utive Sundays, says an old saw.
THE new council of Bellaire starts out |
with stringent sanitary measures, and |
show disposition to enforce them.
CHARLES SHAY, former proprietor of |
the Wheeling Academy of Music, will |
build a pavilion theater in Bellaire.
WILSON H. GAsToN, ESQ, who is vis+
itiHg at MorristowD, expects to return |
to Portland, Oregon, about the goth inst.
ARCHITECT YosT was the only one t. |
submit plans and specifications for the |
new children's home, Guernsey county. |
THE Bellaire telephone exchange ex'
poets to branch out to embrace Barnes |
vile and Cambridge during this sum-
mer.
TIE Bellaire Independent thinks that
John Hofer, of that city, will be appoint |
ed one of the Fish Commissioners of |
Ohio.
HIRAM FOWLER. an old resident of
Warren tp, died on Monday of last week,
from rheumatism of the heart, aged IA
years.
BELLAIRE, with a tax valuation of
S2,5S0,0S7, has bonded debt of $1,000
or about cents and mills on each
dollar.
J. S. ORRIsoN has disposed of his prop
erty at Mt. Verno9 KY, and removed to
his fathers farN in Wayne tp., this
county.
The Friends meeting house and
grounds, at Mt. Pleasant, in which year
ly meeting was formerly held, al offer
ed for sale.
THOMAS SToFFEL, the Crabapple pen
man, has written the Lords Prayer twice
in English and once In German, on an
inch square.
Mr.. 7. J. II. TAGGART, former well
known teacher, has been appointed to
ministerial duties in the Northw west Kan
sas Conference.
The editor of the Cambridge Jefferso-
nian calls Mack" of the Barnesville En-
terprise, an old maid. This seems to be
just grounds for libel.
The Bethel oil and gas well reached a
depth of 1.750 feet last week. As tbings
look favorable, the company propose to
60 1000 or 2,200 feet.
THE wrestling match in Bellaire, on
Saturday evening, between O'Grady, of
Scranton. Pa, and Gardner, of Wheeling
was won by the former.
THE Bellaire Daily Independent, a
sprightly local cherub. was seven years
old on Saturday. The Independent is
always at the front in local news.
PALM SHIRTs-The" palm" is the lead
ing dollar shirt We have them both
laundried and unlaundried Sold only by
4-29 2t. JEPsoN & PATTON.
JAMES LEVERAGE, an old man of IS,
committed suicide at Bellaire, Wednes-
day of last week, by taking laudanum
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